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talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations. Ushakov said they also discussed “the idea of raising the level of the direct Russian-Ukrainian negotiations.” Zelenskyy told reporters following the White House meeting that if Russia does “not demonstrate a will to meet, then we will ask the United States to act accordingly.” NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, who attended the White House talks, added in an appearance on Fox News that “if Russia is not playing ball” on direct talks with Ukraine “the United States plus Europe will do more when it comes to tariffs and sanctions”
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against a Louisiana state senator by two residents who claimed she violated their First Amendment rights when she blocked them on the social media platform X, after one made an insulting and vulgar post over abortion laws, and another disagreed with a plan Jacksonto start the school day Andrews with the Lord’s Prayer. New Orleans resident Maya Detiege sued state Sen. Katrina Jackson-Andrews, a Democrat from Monroe, in February 2023, arguing that a post she made was protected political speech and that the senator’s social media account was a public forum subject to First Amendment protection, according to the lawsuit. In blocking users from her account, when the platform was still named Twitter, over a policy disagreement, JacksonAndrews violated Detiege’s constitutional right to free speech, the plaintiff argued. Jackson-Andrews, however, said in court filings that her social media posts didn’t count as official government activity — a view that U.S. District Judge Donald Walter agreed with. Walter said the plaintiffs had not proven Jackson-Andrews “had actual authority to speak on the State’s behalf,” and thus didn’t have the right to sue over constitutional rights violations. The plaintiffs plan to appeal the decision, said Bruce Hamilton, a professor with the Tulane University Law School First Amendment Clinic who is representing the plaintiffs. “We respectfully disagree with the judge’s interpretation of state authority in this case, Hamilton said. “Senator Jackson was clearly using and continues to use her social media platform to speak
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President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House on Monday.
President discusses war with Ukrainian leader, top European officials BY SYLVIE CORBET, SAMYA KULLAB and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he has begun arrangements for a face-to-face meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss a pathway to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The president made the announcement shortly after speaking by phone with Putin on Monday as he hosted Zelenskyy and top European leaders to discuss his push to end the brutal war. The talks came amid a significant measure of trepidation on the continent that Trump is pressing Ukraine to make concessions that will only further em-
bolden Putin. “I called President Putin, and began the arrangements for a meeting, at a location to be determined, between President Putin and President Zelenskyy,” Trump said in a social media post soon after lengthy talks with Zelenskyy and the European leaders ended. “After that meeting takes place, we will have a Trilat, which would be the two Presidents, plus myself. Again, this was a very good, early step for a War that has been going on for almost four years.” It was not clear if Putin has fully signed on to such talks. Russia state news agency Tass cited Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov saying Putin and Trump “spoke in favor” of continuing direct
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James Maseno, of Grandlel, Md., right, takes a selfie with a District of Columbia Army National Guard staff sergeant outside the Union Station in Washington on Monday.
of troops to assist with order. Our capital is a reflection of Governor says about hundreds President Donald Trump’s federal our nation’s respect, beauty, and standards,” Landry said in a state135 soldiers to assist crackdown there. Altogether, the states could more ment on the social media app X. in federal effort than double Trump’s initial deploy- “We cannot allow our cities to be
ment of 800 District of Columbia National Guard members to the city, potentially adding more than Staff writer 1,100 more troops. Gov. Jeff Landry announced Louisiana is sending about 135 members of its National Guard Monday that Louisiana would take to Washington, D.C., joining five part in the effort. “We are a nation of law and other red states that have pledged
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overcome by violence and lawlessness. I am proud to support this mission to return safety and sanity to Washington DC and cities all across our country, including right here in Louisiana.”
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