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00:00Positive, productive, and promising.

00:03Secretary of State Marco Rubio says the latest U.S.-led talks to end Russia's war in Ukraine just had their best day yet.

00:10Plus, she vanished after cutting off her monitor.

00:13But this morning, the Slenderman attacker is captured.

00:17And from Trump ally to Trump adversary, Marjorie Taylor Greene answers the question, is she running for president?

00:26The stories that matter, clear and credible.

00:30From across the country to around the world, these are your unbiased updates from Straight Arrow News.

00:38I can tell you, I guess, that I feel very optimistic that we can get something done here because we made a tremendous amount of progress today.

00:45Secretary of State Marco Rubio coming out of peace talks with Ukrainian and European officials sounding hopeful,

00:52saying an end to the Russia-Ukraine war may finally be in sight.

00:56Good morning, I'm Craig DeGrelli.

00:58New this morning, U.S. and Ukrainian officials are now discussing whether President Volodymyr Zelensky

01:03could come to the United States this week to try to hammer out the final pieces of a peace deal with Russia.

01:10CBS reports it's part of President Trump's push to get an agreement by Thanksgiving.

01:15This follows a full day of talks in Geneva, Switzerland,

01:17even as President Trump accused Ukraine of showing zero gratitude for American support.

01:23But Rubio described Sunday's session as productive, while offering few details about what, if anything,

01:29would change in Trump's peace plan, or whether Russia would accept those changes.

01:34I'm telling you, today was the most productive day we have had.

01:36She said they were ungrateful earlier.

01:37Well, today, and we've talked to him since, I think he's quite pleased at the reports we've given him about the amount of progress that's been made.

01:44Well, obviously, the Russians get a vote here, right?

01:46So, I mean, look, we began from the early stage of this process with our understanding of the Russian position,

01:53as had been communicated to us in numerous ways.

01:56No matter what we came up with today, obviously, we now have to take what we come up with

02:00if we can reach that agreement with the Ukrainian side to the Russian side.

02:03That's another part of this equation.

02:04As it stands now, the Trump plan would require Ukraine to give up territory,

02:09drop any bid to join NATO, and accept a cap on the size of its military.

02:13Kyiv has repeatedly said it will not give up any land.

02:18Zelensky said before the talks that Ukraine would review every single point of the plan.

02:23And late Sunday, the White House said the Ukrainian delegation affirmed that all their principal concerns,

02:29security guarantees, long-term economic development, infrastructure protection,

02:34freedom of navigation, and political sovereignty, were thoroughly addressed during the meeting.

02:39A high-profile case out of Wisconsin is over this morning.

02:43Police say Morgan Geiser, one of the two girls who stabbed a classmate in 2015

02:47to please the fictional character Slenderman, is back in custody.

02:52Geiser cut off her state-issued monitoring bracelet Saturday night

02:56and walked away from a Madison group home months after a judge granted her

03:00a conditional release from a mental health facility.

03:03She was last seen with an adult companion and sparked a multi-state search this weekend.

03:08Police say they found her late Sunday at a truck stop outside Chicago

03:12and took her into custody without incident.

03:15Geiser was 12 years old when she and a friend lured Peyton Lutner into the woods

03:20and stabbed her 19 times, a crime that shocked the country.

03:24Lutner survived.

03:25Geiser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree homicide

03:28and spent seven years in a secure psychiatric facility before her release.

03:33Police are looking into how she escaped and who might have helped her.

03:36A new war of words this morning between Marjorie Taylor Greene, Time Magazine,

03:41even some of her own colleagues, all just days after she announced she's leaving Congress.

03:47Time reported over the weekend that Greene has privately told allies

03:51she's considering a run for president in 2028.

03:54In a lengthy post on X, Greene fired back, calling the story a complete lie

03:59and insisting she's never planned a White House run, writing,

04:03I'm not the kind of person who is willing to make the deals that must be made

04:07in order to be allowed to have the title.

04:09I'm not motivated by power and titles.

04:12Greene announced on Friday she will resign in January

04:15after a very public break with President Trump.

04:18Asked about that split over the weekend, here's how the president put it.

04:21I said, go your own way, and once I left her, she resigned

04:25because she would never have survived a primary.

04:28But I think she's a nice person.

04:31One of Greene's most vocal critics, Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett,

04:35had this response to Greene stepping down.

04:38You're on the other side of the president for one week,

04:40and you can't take the heat.

04:42Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes,

04:45to not only be on the opposite side of him,

04:47but to have people like her who are constantly fanning the flames of hate

04:52and imagine what those threats look like

04:55when you literally are someone like me.

04:58All of this comes as Greene continues to claim

05:01she faced threats after Trump called her a traitor

05:03for supporting the release of the Epstein files,

05:06and as speculation grows over what she does next, if anything, in politics.

05:11Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani is back in New York

05:14and doubling down on what he said about President Trump,

05:17even after their surprisingly friendly meeting in the Oval Office.

05:21Friday's meeting made headlines,

05:22the two men smiling, laughing, shaking hands,

05:25a far cry from months of insults,

05:28with Trump calling Mamdani a communist,

05:30and Mamdani pledging to Trump-proof New York City.

05:34On Sunday, outside a church in the Bronx,

05:36Mamdani called the meeting productive,

05:38saying both sides focused on the affordability crisis

05:41and what it would take to deliver for New Yorkers.

05:43But on NBC, he defended his previous criticism of the president.

05:48Everything that I've said in the past, I continue to believe,

05:51and that's the thing that I think is important in our politics,

05:54is that we don't shy away from where we have disagreements,

05:56but we understand what it is that brings us to that table.

05:59Because I'm not coming into the Oval Office

06:01to make a point or make a stand.

06:02I'm coming in there to deliver for New Yorkers,

06:04and a few weeks ago, I was asked by a reporter

06:07three words to describe myself.

06:08I said, New York City.

06:10And that's what animated that conversation.

06:11How do we deliver for the people of New York City?

06:13Mamdani says he still believes Trump is a fascist,

06:17but says that didn't stop them from finding common ground

06:20on cost of living, transit, child care, and public safety issues.

06:24He also says he made it clear to the president

06:26New York does not need federal troops,

06:29and that the NYPD can handle public safety.

06:31We could get answers as soon as today about the fate of Obamacare subsidies,

06:37a central fight that dragged out the 43-day government shutdown.

06:41The White House is ready to show its plan.

06:43Multiple outlets, including Politico and CNN,

06:46report President Trump is preparing to roll out a two-year plan

06:50to extend the enhanced ACA subsidies set to expire December 31st.

06:54The announcement could come at any time.

06:57Without action, premiums could double next year,

07:00and millions would lose coverage, according to KFF and the Congressional Budget Office.

07:05The White House framework, still not final,

07:07would add new income caps to qualify for subsidies

07:10and require every enrollee to pay at least something in monthly premiums.

07:15That move targets what Republicans say has been a wave of fraud tied to zero premium plans.

07:21The plan would also push Congress to fund cost-sharing reductions,

07:25lowering out-of-pocket costs,

07:26and give enrollees the option to divert part of their credit

07:30into a health savings account if they choose a lower-tier plan.

07:34This comes as Republicans remain split.

07:36Hardliners want the subsidies to expire.

07:38Moderates want them extended.

07:40And Democrats are already preparing to make any premium spike a major midterm issue.

07:45Finally this morning, a big shift in car safety.

07:49The Department of Transportation is rolling out a new female crash test dummy

07:52designed to better protect women who face a much higher risk of injury in a crash than men.

07:59This model, called Thor 5F, is the first dummy designed with true female proportions.

08:05For decades, U.S. car testing has relied on a dummy

08:08based almost entirely on the male body measurements,

08:12even in tests meant to represent women.

08:14Transportation officials say this new version is far more human-like,

08:19packed with sensors that show how seatbelts, airbags,

08:21and car structures actually perform on female bodies.

08:26That data will help drive safer designs and future regulations.

08:30The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says

08:32women are 73% more likely to be injured in a head-on crash than men and 17% more likely to die.

08:40Dummy makers already have the designs and can start building models for automakers right now.

08:46Sounds like a really good idea.

08:48All right, before we head out, here's what we're tracking today.

08:50A major press freedom fight hits a federal courtroom.

08:54A U.S. appeals panel in Washington will hear the Associated Press's case

08:58against President Trump after the newswire was blocked from events

09:01for refusing to use his preferred name for the Gulf of Mexico.

09:05In New York, Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups faces arraignment

09:09in a widening FBI gambling and game-rigging probe involving the NBA.

09:13And at noon, First Lady Melania Trump welcomes the official 2025 White House Christmas tree.

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09:28Those are your Unbiased Updates for this Monday.

09:30We'll see you back here tomorrow, Thanksgiving week underway.

09:32For all of us here at Straight Arrow News, I'm Craig DiGrelli.

09:35Have a great day.

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