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Shoppers browse for Black Friday deals at Atlantic Station outdoor mall, Friday, Nov. 28, 2025, in Atlanta, Ga. (AP Photo/Megan Varner)2025-12-01T02:41:54Z NEW YORK (AP) Deals promoted as some of the best of the holiday season are expected to keep people across the United States glued to their computers and smartphones as the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon wraps up on Cyber Monday. Its no secret that buying things online is now a staple of many peoples everyday routines. And year after year, those purchases mount during the gift-giving holiday rush. Experts expect consumers to drive record Cyber Monday spending this year, despite wider economic uncertainty.Adobe Analytics estimates that U.S. shoppers will spend $14.2 billion online Monday, or 6.3% more than in 2024. Spending is expected to peak between the hours of 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. local time, when Adobe expects $16 million to pass through online shopping carts every minute nationwide.U.S. consumers already spent $11.8 billion online for Black Friday, $6.4 billion on Thanksgiving Day and another $11.8 billion over the weekend exceeding Adobes forecasts. Purchases made across Cyber Week the five major shopping days between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday provides a strong indication of how much shoppers are willing to spend for the holidays. AP AUDIO: Cyber Monday caps the post-Thanksgiving shopping marathon in US This could be a record-setting day for online sales. AP correspondent Mike Hempen reports. Cyber Week is off to a strong start, Vivek Pandya, lead analyst at Adobe Digital Insights, said. Discounts are set to remain elevated through Cyber Monday, which we expect will remain the biggest online shopping day of the season and year. Deals on electronics and apparel are expecdted to peak Monday at 30% and 26% off average listed prices, per Adobes latest estimates. But other categories will still continue to see deep discounts including toys, which Adobe expects to reach 27% off listed prices. Meanwhile, software company Salesforce which tracks digital spending from a range of retailers, including grocers estimates Cyber Mondays online sales will total $13.4 billion in the U.S. and $53.7 billion globally. While the amount of money going into online shopping carts is expected to reach new heights Monday, rising retail prices also may contribute to any record sales figures that materialize. Consumers may be buying fewer total items. Experts say tighter budgets are causing many to shop with more precision than in years past such as focusing on a few big ticket purchases, for example, and spreading out what they buy over days of promotions in hopes of getting the most bang for their buck.Businesses and households have watched anxiously for financial impacts from U.S. President Donald Trumps tariffs on foreign imports. Workers in both the public and private sectors are also struggling with anxieties over job security amid both corporate layoffs and the after-effects of the 43-day government shutdown.For the November-December holiday season overall, the National Retail Federation estimates that U.S. shoppers will spend more than $1 trillion for the first time this year. But the rate of growth is slowing with an anticipated increase of 3.7% to 4.2% year over year, compared with 4.3% during last years holiday season. At the same time, credit card debt and delinquencies on other short-term loans have been rising. More and more shoppers are turning to buy now, pay later plans, which allow them to delay payments on holiday decor, gifts and other items. Buy now, pay later loans are expected to drive $20.2 billion in online spending this holiday season, according to Adobe, up 11% from last year. The firm predicted that buy now, pay later loans would pass a new $1 billion milestone on Cyber Monday, the vast majority involving purchases made on mobile devices.Overall, mobile devices have become the dominant shopping platform consumers are turning to for the holidays. Adobe expects smartphones, wearable tech and other handheld electronics to account for 58% of online spending this season.Five years ago, a majority of online purchases were made on desktops.Shopping services powered by artificial intelligence are also expected to play a role in what consumers choose to buy. For Black Friday, Salesforce estimated that AI assistants and digital agents contributed to $14.2 billion of the total $79 billion it said was spent online worldwide. Across the holiday season, hot sellers will include gaming consoles such as the Nintendo Switch 2 and toys-turned-fashion statements like Labubu Dolls, Adobe said. The analytics company anticipates the newest editions of popular consumer electronics including the iPhone 17, Google Pixel 10 and Samsung Galaxy S25 will also see high demand. To many, Cyber Monday is billed as the last call to take advantage of the deepest discounts in the days following Thanksgiving. But its reach has grown over the years.Cyber Monday is two decades old now, dating back to when the National Retail Federation first coined the term in 2005. Today, sales continue to bubble up throughout the week riding on the hype that the industry has built to fuel consumer spending. WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Grantham-Philips is a business reporter who covers trending news for The Associated Press. She is based in New York. twitter mailto

Indiana Republican House Speaker Todd Huston leaves the podium in the house chamber at the Statehouse, Jan. 8, 2024, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)2025-12-01T05:04:39Z Indiana House members are expected to press forward Monday with redrawing the states congressional districts in Republicans favor, increasing pressure on their defiant counterparts in the GOP-led Senate to meet President Donald Trumps demands.Republicans who control the House have said theres no doubt that redistricting will pass that chamber. But the fate of any proposal remains uncertain in the Senate. Republicans control that chamber, but caucus members have resisted pressure to redistrict for months. Senate leadership recently backed off its previous intentions not to meet at all, agreeing to convene next Monday. However, its still unclear whether enough senators will support a new map. Republicans hold seven of Indianas nine U.S. House seats. Trump and other Republicans want to make the map 9-0 in the GOPs favor, seeking to give the party two extra seats in the 2026 elections that will determine control of the U.S. House. Democrats only need to flip a handful of seats to overcome the Republicans current margin. Indiana House Republicans published a draft of a map Monday morning still featuring nine congressional districts, but with new boundaries designed to oust the states two Democratic U.S. House members. The city of Indianapolis would be split among four congressional districts, a major change to the current map where the city makes up the entirety of the 7th District, which reliably backs Democrats. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on Indianas other current Democratic district is in the states northwest corner near Chicago. The new map would instead group a large portion of Republican counties in northern Indiana with the cities of East Chicago and Gary to make a new 1st Congressional District. Indiana lawmakers have been under mounting pressure from the White House to redistrict, like Republicans in Texas, Ohio and North Carolina have done. To offset the GOP gains, Democrats in California and Virginia have moved to do the same. But some Indiana Republicans have been far more resistant. Republicans in the state Senate rebelled against Republican Gov. Mike Braun in November and said they would not attend a special session he ordered on redistricting. The chambers top Republican, President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, at the time said the Senate did not have the votes. A spokesperson for Brays office did not respond Friday when asked if that is still the case. Meanwhile, Trump attacked Indiana senators on social media, particularly Bray. He swore to endorse primary opponents of defecting senators. A spree of threats and swatting attempts were subsequently made against lawmakers who either said they do not support redistricting or have not taken a stance. At least one lawmaker in favor of redistricting and Braun was also threatened. Last week, the House announced plans to convene in Indianapolis on Monday. All legislative business will be considered beginning next week, including redrawing the states congressional map, House Speaker Todd Huston said in a statement Tuesday. The Indiana Senate, where several lawmakers objected to leaderships refusal to hold a vote, then said members would reconvene Dec. 8. The issue of redrawing Indianas congressional maps mid-cycle has received a lot of attention and is causing strife here in our state, Bray said in a statement Tuesday. He said the Senate will finally decide the matter this month. __Volmert reported from Lansing, Michigan. ISABELLA VOLMERT Volmert covers Michigan government and politics for The Associated Press, with a focus on women in state government. She is based in Lansing. twitter mailto

Luigi Mangione is escorted into Manhattan state court in New York, Sept. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, file)2025-12-01T05:06:14Z NEW YORK (AP) As the first anniversary of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompsons killing looms this week, the man charged in his death will be in court fighting to prevent prosecutors from using evidence they say links him to the crime.Luigi Mangione, 27, is set for hearings starting Monday on his bid to block the Manhattan District Attorneys Office from showing or telling jurors about items seized during his arrest. Those items include a 9 mm handgun that prosecutors say matches the one used in the Dec. 4, 2024, killing and a notebook in which they say Mangione described his intent to wack a health insurance executive.After getting state terrorism charges thrown out in September, Mangiones lawyers are zeroing in on what they say was unconstitutional conduct that tainted his arrest and threatens his right to a fair trial.They contend that the gun and other items should be excluded because police lacked a warrant to search the backpack in which they were found. They also want to suppress some of Mangiones statements to police, such as allegedly giving a false name, because officers started asking questions before telling him he had a right to remain silent. Eliminating the gun and notebook would be critical wins for Mangiones defense and a major setback for prosecutors, depriving them a possible murder weapon and evidence they say points to motive. The Manhattan District Attorneys Office has quoted extensively from Mangiones handwritten diary in court filings, including his praise for Unabomber Ted Kaczynski. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on In it, prosecutors say, Mangione mused about rebelling against the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel and said killing an industry executive conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming. Mangione has pleaded not guilty to state and federal murder charges. The state charges carry the possibility of life in prison, while federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Neither trial has been scheduled yet. Mangiones lawyers want to bar evidence from both cases, but this weeks hearings pertain only to the state case. The next hearing in the federal case is scheduled for Jan. 9.Court officials say the hearings beginning Monday could take more than a week. If that holds, Mangione is almost certain to be in court Thursday, which is the anniversary of Thompsons death.Defense lawyer Marc Agnifilo told a judge in an unrelated matter last week that Manhattan prosecutors could call more than two dozen witnesses. Thompson was killed as he walked to a Manhattan hotel for his companys annual investor conference. Surveillance video showed a masked gunman shooting him from behind. Police say delay, deny and depose were written on the ammunition, mimicking a phrase used to describe how insurers avoid paying claims.Mangione, the Ivy League-educated scion of a wealthy Maryland family, was arrested five days later at a McDonalds in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles (about 370 kilometers) west of Manhattan.Prosecutors in the state case have not responded to the defenses written arguments. An officer searching a backpack found with Mangione was heard on a body camera recording saying she was checking to make sure there wasnt a bomb in the bag. His lawyers argue that was an excuse designed to cover up an illegal warrantless search of the backpack.Federal prosecutors, fighting similar claims in their case, have said in court filings that police were justified in searching the backpack to make sure there were no dangerous items. His statements to officers, federal prosecutors said, were made voluntarily and before he was taken into police custody. MICHAEL R. SISAK Sisak is an Associated Press reporter covering law enforcement, courts and prisons. He is based in New York. twitter mailto

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A departure board lists delayed and cancelled flights at O'Hare International Airport, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Adam Schreck)2025-12-01T17:44:03Z PORTLAND, Maine (AP) Black ice, snow showers and fog pestered post-holiday travelers in the Midwest on Monday while the Northeast geared up for its first major snowstorm of the season.More than 8 inches (20.32 centimeters) of snow fell at Chicago OHare International Airport this weekend, setting a record for the highest single calendar day snowfall in November at the airport, according to the National Weather Service. The previous record was set in 1951.About 300 flights into and out of OHare had been canceled by early Sunday evening, while about 1,600 had been delayed, according to the tracking site FlightAware. Dozens remained canceled or delayed there into Monday, and commuting conditions on roads were expected to remain dangerous in some areas well into Monday night.In the Northeast, some parts of northern New England were expecting up to 10 inches (25.4 cm) of snow. A windy, potentially icy storm was headed to the region, and could soak some parts of the six states while piling snow in others, forecasters said. And with plowable snow expected to coat large parts of Pennsylvania, crews began to treat snow lanes along the 565-mile (909-kilometer) Pennsylvania Turnpike system on Monday, said the agencys press secretary, Marissa Orbanek. Vehicle restrictions on the turnpike systems Northeast Extension, from the Lehigh Valley to Clarks Summit, will be imposed at 5 a.m. Tuesday. More than 600 equipment operators and safety workers are available to help clear the turnpikes 2,900 miles (4,667 kilometers) of snow lanes, Orbanek said. The turnpikes winter staffing schedule began in mid-November, and 23 maintenance sheds are staffed around the clock. Stay up to date with the news and the best of AP by following our WhatsApp channel. Follow on We really prepare for snow all year long, Orbanek said. In Chicago, Don Herrian was among the crowds of travelers at OHare on Sunday, hoping to make it back home after Thanksgiving as hundreds of flights were delayed and canceled following a winter storm in the Great Lakes region. The 76-year-old retiree from Ardmore, Oklahoma, had visited his daughter and her family in Indianapolis. He said his first flight was three hours late, and his connecting flight to Oklahoma City from Chicago was already running another two hours behind.It is what it is, Herrian said. Its congested, but thats expected due to the snow, the delays and the holidays.Roads leading to OHare were packed Sunday with slow-moving vehicles even after the roads had been cleared of snow. Inside, delayed travelers crowded into gate seating areas, restaurants and sports bars to pass the time. Others grabbed spots on the floors of the terminals, snacking, knitting or scrolling their phones.Planes were being de-iced at several airports across the country on Sunday, including at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and MinneapolisSaint Paul International Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.Over 12 inches (about 30 centimeters) of snow had fallen since Saturday in areas close to Lake Michigan. Hundreds of churches in western Michigan told worshippers to stay home or watch services online. In Wisconsin, utility crews worked to restore power to thousands of people. We Energies reported more than 6,000 power outages, with more than half in Milwaukee and South Milwaukee. The airport in Des Moines, Iowa, reopened on the critical travel day after a Delta Connection flight landing from Detroit slid off an icy runway. No injuries were reported, and passengers were transported to the terminal by bus.By early Sunday evening, over 400 flights into and out of Detroit Metro Airport were delayed and over 45 were canceled, according to FlightAware.Elsewhere in Iowa, gusty winds on Sunday were blowing snow back onto roads, extending hazardous travel conditions, the National Weather Service said. We did have areas of Iowa and Illinois that saw over one foot of snow, said meteorologist Andrew Orrison. Over 16 inches (40 centimeters) of snow fell in Fort Dodge, Iowa, according to the National Weather Service. Orrison said snow in the Great Lakes region was tapering off, but the new storm was heading to the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, with up to a foot (30 centimeters) of snow by Tuesday.Its going to be the first snowfall of the season for many of these areas, and its going to be rather significant, Orrison said. The good news is that it does not look like the major cities at this point are going to be looking at any significant snowfall.___Schreck reported from Chicago. Associated Press reporters Jamie Stengle in Dallas and Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and photojournalist Nam Y. Huh in Chicago contributed to this report. PATRICK WHITTLE Whittle is an Associated Press reporter based in Portland, Maine. He focuses on the environment and oceans. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

Texas guard Rori Harmon (3) celebrates the team's win over South Carolina in an NCAA college basketball game in the Players Era tournament in Las Vegas, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)2025-12-01T16:59:48Z Texas moved up to No. 2 behind UConn in The Associated Press Top 25 womens basketball poll on Monday after beating two top teams in a Thanksgiving tournament.The Longhorns topped then-No. 2 South Carolina 66-64 a day after beating then-No. 3 UCLA 76-65 in Las Vegas. It was the first time in the past 25 years that a team has beaten two top three teams in such a short time frame.Texas received 10 first-place votes from a 32-member national media panel. No. 1 UConn garnered the other 22. The Huskies routed Xavier 104-39 to open Big East play. South Carolina fell to third and UCLA was fourth.LSU remained fifth. The Tigers, who havent played a ranked opponent yet, have scored over 100 points in each of their first eight games to set an NCAA record. They broke the mark of six in a row set by the 1981-82 Louisiana Tech team that LSU coach Kim Mulkey played on.Michigan, Maryland, TCU, Oklahoma and Iowa State rounded out the top 10. The Cyclones got a school-record 47-point effort from star post player Audi Crooks to beat Indiana on Sunday. In and outOhio State debuted in this years poll at No. 23 after edging West Virginia last week 83-81. The Buckeyes followed that up with a 98-point win over Niagara, the most points scored in school history and the biggest margin of victory ever for the Buckeyes. N.C. State fell out of the poll. Conference supremacyThe Big Ten matched the Southeastern Conference this week with eight teams ranked after Ohio State entered the Top 25. The Big 12 is next with five and the Atlantic Coast Conference has three. The Big East has one. Games of the weekIts ACC-SEC challenge week with a host of quality matchups between the two power conferences. On Thursday, No. 22 Louisville hosts No. 3 South Carolina; No. 11 North Carolina visits No. 2 Texas; and No. 13 Ole Miss plays No. 18 Notre Dame.___Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP womens college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-womens-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/womens-college-basketball

A live map that tracks frontlines of the war in Ukraine was edited to show a fake Russian advance on the city of Myrnohrad on November 15. The edit coincided with the resolution of a bet on Polymarket, a site where users can bet on anything from basketball games to presidential election and ongoing conflicts. If Russia captured Myrnohrad by the middle of November, then some gamblers would make money. According to the map that Polymarket relies on, they secured the town just before 10:48 UTC on November 15. The bet resolved and then, mysteriously, the map was edited again and the Russian advance vanished.The degenerate gamblers on Polymarket are making money by betting on the outcomes of battles big and small in the war between Ukraine and Russia. To adjudicate the real time exchange of territory in a complicated war, Polymarket uses a map generated by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), a DC-based think tank that monitors conflict around the globe.One of ISWs most famous products is its live map of the war in Ukraine. The think tank updates the map throughout the day based on a number of different factors including on the ground reports. The map is considered the gold standard for reporting on the current front lines of the conflict, so much so that Polymarket uses it to resolve bets on its website.The battle around Myrnohrad has dragged on for weeks and Polymarket has run bets on Russia capturing the site since September. News around the pending battle has generated more than $1 million in trading volume for the Polymarket bet Will Russia capture Myrnohrad. According to Polymarket, this market will resolve to Yes if, according to the ISW map, Russia captures the intersection between Vatutina Vulytsya and Puhachova Vulytsya located in Myrnohrad by December 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM ET. The intersection station will be considered captured if any part of the intersection is shaded red on the ISW map by the resolution date. If the area is not shaded red by December 31, 2025, 11:59 PM ET, the market will resolve to NO. On November 15, just before one of the bets was resolved, someone at ISW edited its map to show that Russia had advanced through the intersection and taken control of it. After the market resolved, the red shading on the map vanished, suggesting someone at ISW editing permissions on the map had tweaked it ahead of the market resolving.According to Polymarkets ledger, the market resolved without dispute and paid out its winnings. Polymarket did not immediately respond to 404 Medias request for a comment about the incident.ISW acknowledged the stealth edit, but did not say if it was made because of the betting markets. It has come to ISWs attention that an unauthorized and unapproved edit to the interactive map of Russias invasion of Ukraine was made on the night of November 15-16 EST. The unauthorized edit was removed before the days normal workflow began on November 16 and did not affect ISW mapping on that or any subsequent day. The edit did not form any part of the assessment of authorized map changes on that or any other day. We apologize to our readers and the users of our maps for this incident, ISW said in a statement on its website.ISW did say it isnt happy that Polymarket is using its map of the war as a gambling resource.ISW is committed to providing trusted, objective assessments of conflicts that pose threats to the United States and its allies and partners to inform decision-makers, journalists, humanitarian organizations, and citizens about devastating wars, the think tank told 404 Media. ISW has become aware that some organizations and individuals are promoting betting on the course of the war in Ukraine and that ISWs maps are being used to adjudicate that betting. ISW strongly disapproves of such activities and strenuously objects to the use of our maps for such purposes, for which we emphatically do not give consent.But ISW cant do anything to stop people from gambling on the outcome of a brutal conflict and the prediction markets are full of gamblers laying money on various aspects of the conflict. Will Russia x Ukraine ceasefire in 2025? has a trading volume of more than $46 million. Polymarket is trending no. Will Russia enter Khatine by December 31? is a smaller bet with a little more than $5,000 in trading volume.Practically every town and city along the frontlines of the war between Russia and Ukraine has a market and gamblers with an interest in geopolitics can get lost in the minutia about the war. To be on the outcome of a war is grotesque. On Polymarket and other predictive gambling sites, millions of dollars trade hands based on the outcomes of battles that kill hundreds of people. It also creates an incentive for the manipulation of the war and data about the war. If someone involved can make extra cash by manipulating a map, they will. Its 2025 and war is still a racket. Humans have just figured out new ways to profit from it.

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Michigan celebrates as they defeat Gonzaga in an NCAA college basketball game in the Players Era tournament in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)2025-12-01T18:02:09Z Michigan jumped to No. 3 in the Associated Press Top 25 mens basketball poll on Monday as rival Michigan State and Iowa State both climbed into the top 10.No. 1 Purdue and No. 2 Arizona remained atop the rankings. The Boilermakers received 40 first-place votes from a 61-person media panel, Arizona got six and Michigan got 15 after its dominating run through the Players Era Championship.Duke and UConn held their positions from last week to round out the top five. Louisville remained No. 6, followed by Michigan State, which moved up four spots and No. 8 Houston, which dropped five places after losing to then-No. 17 Tennessee at Players Era.Michigan made a run to the Sweet 16 in coach Dusty Mays first season a year ago and is looking like a title contender. The Wolverines opened the Las Vegas tournament with a 94-54 win over San Diego State, crushed then-No. 21 Auburn 102-72 and handed Gonzaga coach Mark Few his worst loss in 902 career games with a 101-61 win over the 12th-ranked Zags. Thats three wins by a combined 110 points and four straight wins by at least 20 points, the last two over ranked teams.Today was to put the world on notice that were here to be the best team in the nation and well continue to do that, Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg said after the win over Gonzaga. RisingNo. 17 Vanderbilt had the biggest jump of the week, moving up seven spots after winning the Battle 4 Atlantis title in the Bahamas. No. 10 Iowa State climbed five places after winning three games at the Players Era championship. No. 7 Michigan State moved up four places following lopsided wins over East Carolina and No. 16 North Carolina in the Fort Myers Tip-Off. No. 13 Tennessee also gained four spots after beating Houston and losing to Kansas, which moved back into the poll at No. 21.FallingNo. 23 St. Johns had the biggest drop among teams still in the poll, losing nine places after wrapping losses to Iowa State and Auburn around a win over Baylor at the Players Era.Reigning national champion Florida fell five places to No. 15 after losing to TCU in the Rady Childrens Invitational. No. 12 Alabama dropped four places after losing to Gonzaga in its opener of the Players Era. In and outNo. 21 Kansas returned to the poll after dropping out last week with three wins at the Players Era.No. 24 Southern California is ranked for the first time since the 2023-24 season following three wins in three days to take the Maui Invitational title.UCLA fell out of the poll from No. 18 after losing to California 80-72 in the Empire Classic championship game. North Carolina State dropped out of the poll from No. 23 and didnt receive a single vote following a 1-2 run through the Maui Invitational.Conference watchThe Southeastern Conference had the most teams in the AP Top 25 for the second straight week with seven. The Big 12 matched the Big Ten with six ranked teams, the Big East had two and the West Coast Conference one.___Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here and here (AP News mobile app). AP college basketball: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff shakes hands during their meeting at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on Aug. 6, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)2025-12-01T04:28:25Z Diplomats face an uphill battle to reconcile Russian and Ukrainian red lines as a renewed U.S.-led push to end the war gathers steam, with Ukrainian officials attending talks in the U.S. over the weekend and Washington officials expected in Moscow early this week. U.S. President Donald Trumps peace plan became public last month, sparking alarm that it was too favorable to Moscow. It was revised following talks in Geneva between the U.S. and Ukraine a week ago.Ukraines President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the revised plan could be workable. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it a possible basis for a future peace agreement. Trump said Sunday theres a good chance we can make a deal.Still, officials on both sides indicated a long road ahead as key sticking points over whether Kyiv should cede land to Moscow and how to ensure Ukraines future security appear unresolved. Here is where things stand and what to expect this week: US holds talks with Kyiv then MoscowTrump representatives met the Ukrainian officials over the weekend and plan to meet with the Russians in coming days. Ukraines national security council head Rustem Umerov, the head of Ukraines armed forces Andrii Hnatov, presidential adviser Oleksandr Bevz and others met with U.S. officials for about four hours on Sunday. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the session was productive but more work remains. Umerov praised the U.S. for its support but offered no details. Zelenskyys former chief of staff and former lead negotiator for Ukraine, Andrii Yermak, resigned Friday amid a corruption scandal and is no longer part of the negotiating team. It was only a week ago that Rubio met with Yermak in Geneva, resulting in a revised peace plan. Trump said last week that he would send his envoy Steve Witkoff to Russia. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Monday that Putin will meet Witkoff on Tuesday afternoon. Trump suggested he could eventually meet with Putin and Zelenskyy, but not until there has been more progress.Witkoffs role in the peace efforts came under scrutiny last week following a report that he coached Yuri Ushakov, Putins foreign affairs adviser, on how Russias leader should pitch Trump on the Ukraine peace plan. Both Moscow and Washington downplayed the significance of the revelations. Where the two sides standEager to please Trump, Kyiv and Moscow have ostensibly welcomed the peace plan and the push to end the war. But Russia has continued attacking Ukraine and reiterated its maximalist demands, indicating a deal is still a ways off. Putin implied last week that he will fight as a long as it takes to achieve his goals, saying that he will stop only when Ukrainian troops withdraw from all four Ukrainian regions that Russia illegally annexed in 2022 and still doesnt fully control. If they dont withdraw, well achieve this by force. Thats all, he said.The plan, Putin said, could form the basis for future agreements, but it is in no way final and requires a serious discussion.Zelenskyy has refrained from talking about individual points, opting instead to thank Trump profusely for his efforts and emphasizing the need for Europe whose interests are more closely aligned with Ukraines to be involved. He also has stressed the importance of robust security guarantees for Ukraine. The first version of the plan granted some core Russian demands that Ukraine considers nonstarters, such as ceding land to Moscow that it doesnt yet occupy and renouncing its bid to become a member of NATO. Zelenskyy has said repeatedly that giving up territory is not an option. One of the Ukrainian negotiators, Bevz, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Ukraines president wanted to discuss the territory issue with Trump directly. Yermak then told The Atlantic in an interview on Thursday that Zelenskyy would not sign over the land.Zelenskyy also maintains that NATO membership is the cheapest way to guarantee Ukraines security, and NATOs 32 member countries said last year that Ukraine is on an irreversible path to membership. Since he took office, Trump has made it clear that NATO membership is off the table. Moscow, in turn, has bristled at any suggestion of a Western peacekeeping force on the ground in Ukraine, and stressed that keeping Ukraine out of NATO and NATO out of Ukraine was one of the core goals of the war. Putin seems to have time on his sideZelenskyy, meanwhile, has been under pressure at home.Yermaks resignation was a major blow for Zelenskyy, although neither the president nor Yermak have been accused of wrongdoing by investigators.Russia really wants Ukraine to make mistakes. There wont be mistakes on our side, Zelenskyy said. Our work continues, our struggle continues. We dont have a right not to push it to the end. An activist with Ukraines nongovernmental Anti-Corruption Center, Valeriia Radchenko, said letting go of Yermak was the right decision and would open a window of opportunity for reform. Putin, meanwhile, seeks to project confidence, boasting of Russias advances on the battlefield.The Russian leader feels more confident than ever about the battlefield situation and is convinced that he can wait until Kyiv finally accepts that it cannot win and must negotiate on Russias well-known terms, Tatiana Stanovaya of the Carnegie Russia and Eurasia Center wrote on X. If the Americans can help move things in that direction fine. If not, he knows how to proceed anyway. That is the current Kremlin logic. Europes conundrumNATO and the EU are holding several meetings this week focused on Ukraine.Zelenskyy is holding talks with French President Emmanuel Macro n in Paris on Monday. In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is hosting Ukrainian Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal and EU defense and foreign ministers are gathering to discuss European military support for Ukraine and Europes defense readiness. On Wednesday, NATO foreign ministers will gather again in Brussels. The main issue for the EU right now is what to do with the frozen Russian assets in Belgium that the Trump peace plan in its initial version sought to use for post-war investment in Ukraine. Those funds are central to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyens strategy to ensure continued help for Ukraine while also maintaining pressure on Russia. But Belgiums prime minister is holding out, worried about the legal implications of tapping the frozen assets for Ukraine, the impact that could have on the euro and of Russian retaliation. The diplomacy set in motion by Trumps peace plan painfully exposed Europes weakness, Nigel Gould-Davies of the International Institute for Strategic Studies wrote in a recent commentary. Despite being the main source of Ukraines economic and military support, it is marginal to the diplomacy of the war and has done little more than offer amendments to Americas draft peace plan, Gould-Davies wrote. DASHA LITVINOVA Litvinova is an Associated Press correspondent covering Russia, Belarus, Central Asia and the Caucasus. She is part of the team that covers the Russia-Ukraine war. She has covered Russia and the region for over a decade. twitter mailto RSShttps://feedx.net https://feedx.site

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