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A senior Russian official says a potential summit between President Trump and Kremlin

leader Vladimir Putin remains on Moscow's agenda.

And Pierce Charles Mainz has more.

In an interview with a Russian policy journal, Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Ripkov,

said the prospect of a new Trump-Putin meeting remained. I wouldn't rule anything out, said

Ripkof, who characterized ongoing dialogue between Washington and Moscow as impressive. Those comments come

amid a new push by President Trump to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine. President

Putin has loosely endorsed Trump's draft plan, which critics say skews heavily in Moscow's

favor. Trump and Putin last met for a hastily scheduled summit in Alaska last August that failed

to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough. Then Trump complained the Russian leader still wasn't ready for

peace and canceled a

potential follow-on meeting last month in Hungary. Charles Mainz, Empire News, Moscow.

The Supreme Court is allowing Texas to use its recently redrawn map of congressional districts for now.

Empires-Hansi Lo Wang reports it's the latest move in the gerrymandering fight

sparked by President Trump to try to keep Republicans in control of the House of Representatives.

A final decision from the Supreme Court may come as soon as Monday. If the court allows Texas to

use a contestant map for the midterm election. Replicans may be able to pick up

five more seats in the U.S. House. A lower court had blocked that map after finding its challengers

are likely to prove in a trial that the map is an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.

That's because multiple top Republican officials made public statements suggesting they passed it

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