The White House said it is "very optimistic" ahead of special envoy Steve Witkoff's meeting in Moscow on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as U.S. officials continue their push to end Russia's war against Ukraine. The Kremlin on Tuesday said the meeting was expected to begin at about 5 p.m. local time, or about 9 a.m. ET, and that U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was expected to take part.

Tuesday's special election in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District, normally a conservative stronghold, is giving Democrats hope that their recently successful message of affordability can help them spring a major upset. The contest pits Trump-backed Republican Matt Van Epps against Democratic state Rep. Aftyn Behn. The winner will replace former Rep. Mark Green, who resigned in July.

The White House launched a "media bias" tracker on Friday highlighting news publications that it has accused of "offenses" against the current administration after the president's verbal clashes with reporters over their articles in recent weeks. The live webpage features a list of articles from various outlets with links to stories the Trump administration claims have included an omission of context, lies, mischaracterization, bias or malpractice.

The International Energy Agency appears to have bowed to threats from the U.S. to pull its funding if the agency didn't realign its forecasting toward unbiased, policy-neutral projections. In the middle of the COP30 United Nations Climate Change Conference last month, the agency released its annual "World Energy Outlook." Unlike previous iterations, the report doesn't base its forecasts of future oil demand on scenarios that assume nations' commitments to net-zero emissions by 2050 will be met.

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