White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The U.S. Secret Service is preparing for the summit in the Central European nation led by Prime Minister Victor Orbán, who has been close with President Donald Trump since the American president’s first term in office. A spokesperson for the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The Kremlin hasn't ruled out summits but has said they could only meet in the very final stages of clinching a peace agreement.

A Republican-led House committee said it plans to publicly release some files it receives from the Justice Department related to Jeffrey Epstein, as controversy over the convicted sex offender continues to divide the GOP.

The move continues a remarkable turnabout toward the app for President Trump, who tried to ban TikTok in his first term.

The White House launched a TikTok account on Tuesday amid uncertainty about the app’s future, as another deadline approaches for its parent company, Bytedance, to sell to a US buyer or be banned in the United States.

Rep. Nicole Collier, of Fort Worth, returned to the Capitol Monday, but remains in the House chamber because she wouldn’t sign a permission slip to be under escort by Texas DPS. The escort for all House Democrats who broke quorum is a guarantee that they will return to the House by 10 a.

Several Texas state House Democrats ripped up the written agreements that allowed them to leave the chamber with a police escort and returned to the House floor Tuesday night, the caucus announced.

State Rep. Nicole Collier — who spent the night on the House floor of the Texas Capitol on Monday after refusing to give her consent for a police escort to leave the building — has filed a habeas corpus petition,