内容摘要：Former Utah congresswoman Mia Love, who died after battling brain cancer, didn’t emphasize her race during her campaigns, but acknowledged the significance of her election after her 2014 victory. She said her win defied naysayers who had suggested a Black, Republican, Mormon woman couldn’t win a congressional seat in overwhelmingly white Utah.

Former Utah congresswoman Mia Love, who died after battling brain cancer, didn’t emphasize her race during her campaigns, but acknowledged the significance of her election after her 2014 victory. She said her win defied naysayers who had suggested a Black, Republican, Mormon woman couldn’t win a congressional seat in overwhelmingly white Utah.

Follow AP’s war coverage atRussia and Ukraine have no direct peace talks scheduled, the Kremlin said Thursday, nearly a week after their

since shortly after Moscow’s invasion in 2022 and days after U.S. President Donald Trump said they would“There is no concrete agreement about the next meetings,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “They are yet to be agreed upon.”During two hours of talks in Istanbul on May 16, Kyiv and Moscow agreed to exchange 1,000 prisoners of war each, in what would be their

. Apart from that step, the meeting delivered no significant breakthrough.Several months of intensified U.S. and European pressure on the two sides to accept a ceasefire and negotiate a settlement have yielded little progress. Meanwhile, Russia is

to capture more Ukrainian land, Ukrainian government and military analysts say.

Russian and Ukrainian delegations attend talks at the Dolmabache palace, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, May 16, 2025. (Ramil Sitdikov, Sputnik Pool Photo via AP)A woman carries her dog as she walks on a street with pieces of broken glass at the site of a residential building that was damaged after a Russian attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, May 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

“If anyone still doubts Russia wants war to continue — read the news,” Katarina Mathernová wrote on the social network.The debris of intercepted missiles and drones fell in at least six Kyiv city districts. According to the acting head of the city’s military administration, Tymur Tkachenko, six people required medical care after the attack and two fires were sparked in Kyiv’s Solomianskyi district.

The Obolon district, where a residential building was heavily damaged in the attack, was the hardest hit with at least five wounded in the area, the administration said.Yurii Bondarchuk, a local resident, said the air raid siren “started as usual, then the drones started to fly around as they constantly do.” Moments later, he heard a boom and saw shattered glass fly through the air.