President Donald Trump inserted new tensions into peace talks between Ukraine and Russia on Sunday. publicly accuse kyiv leaders of showing “zero gratitude” calling for American support just as American officials in Geneva were working to show a united front.
Trump’s comments on Truth Social came at a delicate time: His administration is pressuring Ukraine to accept a 28-point peace proposal before Thanksgiving, even as there is confusion over the authorship of the plan and Concerns of European allies and American legislators. have raised questions about whose interests it serves.
Senior US officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, met with Ukrainian officials in Geneva this weekend to advance peace talks aimed at ending the war.
After a full day of talks, Rubio told reporters Sunday that “tremendous progress” had been made.
“So, in my personal opinion, we’ve had probably the most productive and meaningful meeting so far in this whole process that we’ve been involved in from the beginning,” he said.
Another U.S. official told NBC News that Rubio, Witkoff and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met with a Ukrainian delegation at the U.S. mission in Geneva. US officials said the discussions were “positive and constructive.”
How a teenage street musician became the face of Kremlin repression
Known by her stage name, Naoko, 18-year-old Diana Loginova gained popularity by performing songs by musicians who have He spoke out against Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.. Inevitably, in a country where almost all forms of dissent have been crushed, Russian authorities quickly took notice.
Naoko was first arrested last month for organizing a “simultaneous mass gathering of citizens” during a performance, which authorities said disturbed public order, and was sentenced to 13 days behind bars. She has since been arrested again twice.
“It appears that Russian authorities want to use Naoko’s persecution, as with many other public cases, to intimidate others,” Dmitrii Anisimov, a human rights activist and spokesman for the protest monitoring group OVD-Info, told NBC News.
Meet the press
The elected mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, stated that He still believes Trump is a “fascist” and a “despot” but who saw their first face-to-face meeting at the White House as an “opportunity” to work together to reduce the cost of living for New Yorkers.
“I still believe everything I’ve said in the past,” he told NBC News’ “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker of his negative comments.
He also talked about his attitude upon arriving at the meeting and why it ended up being so friendly.
“I thought over and over what it would mean for New Yorkers if we could establish a productive relationship that focused on the issues that those New Yorkers stay up late at night thinking about,” rather than continuing to trade barbs, Mamdani said.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was also on the show and said “no” when asked if the United States was in risk of entering recession in 2026 – and that he is confident that Americans will feel economic relief next year from Trump’s tariff agenda and trade deals.
“I am very, very optimistic about 2026. We have laid the foundation for a very strong, non-inflationary growth economy,” Bessent told Welker.
He acknowledged that there is some pressure on the economy in certain sectors such as housing, responding to comments from National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett this month that “we’re starting to see areas of the economy that appear to be in recession.”
“Clearly, housing has been struggling and interest rate-sensitive sectors have been in recession,” Bessent said. He added that the recent government shutdown, which was the longest in history, also affected the economy.
Politics in brief
- Open to a return: President Donald Trump told NBC News he would like to see Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene will resume her political career at some pointdespite their recent disagreement.
- Climate collision: While the rest of the world was at a climate summit, the White House promoted radical proposals to roll back environmental protections and encourage oil drilling.
- Cancer diagnosis: Tatiana Schlossberg, daughter of Caroline Kennedy and Edwin Schlossberg and granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, said in a New Yorker essay that she has terminal cancer.
Elon Musk left the White House, but did not leave politics behind in X
Elon Musk can’t stop Publication on the political fringe..
In recent weeks, Musk, the world’s richest person, used X to post about immigrants in Britain, saying they will cause the country to collapse. He posted about examples of violent crime in Minnesota and South Carolina (where he doesn’t live) and about judges in California and New York who he believes are too lenient. Musk also smeared trans people, complained about crimes committed between blacks and whites, stoked fears about the end of civilization, and shared his thoughts on the race of child actors.
Musk posted about all of those topics and more in a recent month-long period, during which NBC News tracked and analyzed all of his posts to take a deeper look at where he focuses his attention online.
Verstappen wins Formula 1 race in Las Vegas while Norris and Piastri are disqualified
Max Verstappen won the Las Vegas Grand Prix after snatching the lead from championship leader Lando Norris at the start and never looked back.
But in a surprising twist, Norris and fellow McLaren driver Oscar Piastri were then disqualified in the middle of the nightHours after the finish of the race and the podium celebrations, officials found illegal board wear on their cars.
Norris crossed the finish line in second place, ahead of his title rival Piastri, who finished fourth. His disqualification has huge implications for the fight for the world championship with only two more Grand Prix races and a “sprint” remaining in the season.
More sports news:
- ‘Sunday Night Football’: Two of the NFC’s highest scoring teams meet when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers visit the Los Angeles Rams. NBC News covers all the action..
- ‘Pink’ bowl: Rose Lavelle scored in the 80th minute to lift Gotham FC over the Washington Spirit 1-0 and win their second National Women’s Soccer League Championship.
- Rodney Rogers dies: The former Wake Forest star and NBA player for 12 years. was 54.
notable quote
You don’t have infinite nerds.
James Kretchmar, CTO of Akamai’s Cloud Technology Group, on recent Internet outages
It’s not just you: Internet outages severe enough to disrupt everyday services have become more frequent. While there are plenty of finger-pointing to go around, a growing reliance on a handful of major Internet infrastructure companies has caused great disruptionprovoking everything from political pressure to computer memes.
In case you missed it
- Three separate weather systems threaten to cause travel delays across the country as 82 million people are projected to travel for Thanksgiving, according to AAA.
- Over two decades, Ryan Wedding went from a promising snowboarder competing in the Olympics to someone officials say is one of the most violent and ruthless criminals in the worldresponsible for orchestrating murders and running a multi-billion dollar cocaine cartel.
- Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a judge that he violated control of his ankle during his house arrest due to a nervous breakdown and hallucinations caused by a change in your medication.
- Israel, one day later launched airstrikes against Hamas in the latest test of the Gaza ceasefire, said it targeted Hezbollah militants in its First attack in Beirut in months..
- Federal prosecutors said public comments by members of the Trump administration should not prevent the government from continues his case against Luigi Mangione.
- A pocket watch belonging to a couple who died together on the Titanic sold at auction for $2.3 million.
