Efforts are underway to organise a "meaningful" meeting between United States President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the United Nations General Assembly next week. Ukrainian and US diplomatic teams are "actively" working to set up a meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump at the 81st UN General Assembly session in New York, according to press briefing by Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi. Tykhyi said Zelenskyy's visit will include dozens of bilateral negotiations and engagements with US legislators, business leaders and the Ukrainian community in the US. Zelenskyy and Trump last met at the White House in July in a much-anticipated encounter after a heated 2025 televised meeting at the Oval Office ended abruptly, with US Vice President JD Vance calling Zelenskyy "disrespectful" for not thanking the US for its support for Ukraine. As Ukrainian officials were preparing for the UN visit, a Russian drone strike on a bus killed at least five people and injured seven others on Wednesday in the city of Nikopol near the southern Ukraine front line.

The US House of Representatives has agreed to hold billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress for defying a legal summons related to its investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Black, who had business ties to Epstein, did not comply with a subpoena ordering him to appear before the House Oversight Committee earlier this month and share documents related to Epstein. Lawyers for Black, who has sued over the summons, called the contempt move outrageous. After passage of the measure holding Black in contempt, Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said: No-one is above the law. We will continue to seek transparency for the American people and justice for survivors.

Sen. Josh Hawley plans legislation to block AI data centers from using opportunity zones tax breaks, calling the loophole a form of "corporate welfare" for tech giants.

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