In a Cabinet meeting, President Donald Trump defended boat strikes in the Caribbean and suggested that strikes on land could be coming “soon.” Cabinet officials echoed common refrains from the president,

President Trump convened his Cabinet on Tuesday, amid controversy over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s role in authorizing in a Caribbean strike that killed two survivors of an initial hit on their boat.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff was due to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, taking a draft peace plan that Washington hopes can bring about an end to the nearly four-year war in Ukraine.

Trump's special envoy is set to meet with Putin who has shown little signs of compromise in talks to end the war in Ukraine.