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The FBI is adding Missouri's Attorney General to its ranks.

As St. Louis Public Radio's Jason Rosenbaum reports,

Andrew Bailey comes to the investigative agency after a controversial tenure.

Bailey is resigning in September to become the FBI's co-deputy director alongside Dan Bonjino.

After getting appointed as Missouri's Attorney General in 2022, Bailey attracted nationwide controversy after he unsuccessfully sought to bar transgender adults from accessing gender-affirming care.

He's also sought to preserve Missouri's abortion restrictions after voters there passed a constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights.

Bailey is joining the FBI amid a firestorm over its handling of files related to

convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein. For NPR News, I'm Jason Rosenbaum and St. Louis.

President Trump says he started arranging a face-to-face meeting between himself, Ukraine's

President Vladimir Zelensky, and Russian president Vladimir Putin. This comes after the White

House hosted an all-day meeting Monday between Trump Zelensky and the leaders of Europe, where they

discussed Russia's war against Ukraine and their attempts to end the three and a half-year-old conflict.

Trump insisted that during his one-on-one summit Friday in Alaska with Putin, the

groundwork was laid for additional talks. The Alaska summit reinforced my belief that while

difficult pieces within reach, and I believe that in a very significant step, President

Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine, and this is one of the key

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