"Saturday Night Live" opened the show from Air Force One as the press corps peppered James Austin Johnson's President Donald Trump while he was on a cocktail of Ambien and Adderall. Ashley Padilla as Karoline Leavitt fielded questions from the journalists, and Trump complimented her lips. "How great is Karoline Leavitt?" he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reportedly abandoned his country's ambition to join NATO, signaling a major concession ahead of peace talks Sunday with U.S. officials in Berlin. Mr. Zelenskyy told reporters in a WhatsApp chat that Ukraine has already compromised on its desire to join the 32-nation transatlantic alliance.

The Justice Department sued Fulton County, Georgia, this week in an effort to obtain more than five-year-old ballots tied to the 2020 presidential election which President Donald Trump lost. The eight-page complaint filed in federal court in Atlanta on Thursday names Fulton County Clerk of Courts Che Alexander as a defendant, alleging that the clerk violated the Civil Rights Act by failing to produce records tied to the 2020 presidential election as requested by state and federal officials.

A JetBlue Airways pilot said he narrowly avoided a "midair collision" with a U.S. military aircraft that entered his flight path while the JetBlue plane was climbing after takeoff from Curaçao on Friday, according to the airline and ATC recordings. Curaçao is a Dutch Caribbean island near Venezuela.

Oil prices climbed on Monday as supply disruptions linked to escalating U.S.-Venezuela tensions outweighed oversupply worries and the impact of a potential Russia-Ukraine peace deal. Brent crude futures were up 30 cents, or 0.49%, at $61.42 a barrel, as of 0725 GMT, and U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $57.72 a barrel, up 28 cents, or 0.49%.

Many state labor laws in Wisconsn no longer apply to Minor League Baseball players after Gov. Tony Evers signed legislation to redefine what counts as minium wage overtime and record keeping. The bill allows the state's players on the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers in Appleton and the Beloit Sky Carp to adhere to the rules of a 2023 collective bargaining agreement that runs through 2027 instead of being subject to reporting hours for their jobs.

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