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* President Donald Trump could meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week if the Russian leader agrees to also meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a White House official tells NBC News.  * Putin held talks with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow this morning in a last-ditch effort for a ceasefire deal ahead of Friday’s deadline to halt fighting. * Trump signed an executive order today to place an additional 25% tariff on India for its purchases of Russian oil, bringing the combined tariffs imposed by the president on the country to 50%. * Democrats in America’s two biggest blue states are hatching plans to respond in kind to a mid-decade move by Texas to draw a friendlier House map for Republicans. * The Trump administra

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