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WASHINGTON (AP) —President Donald Trump'sadvisers and Ukrainian officials say they'll meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for postwar Ukraine.

The two sides also offered the sober assessment that any "real progress toward any agreement" ultimately will depend "on Russia's readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace."

The statement from U.S. special envoySteve Witkoff, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner as well as Ukrainian negotiators Rustem Umerov and Andriy Hnatov came after they met for a second day in Florida on Friday. They offered only broad brushstrokes about the progress they say has been made as Trump pushes Kyiv and Moscow to agree to a U.S.-mediated proposal to endnearly four years of war.

"Both parties agreed that real progress toward any agreement depends on Russia's readiness to show serious commitment to long-term peace, including steps toward de-escalation and cessation of killings," the statement said. "Parties also separately reviewed the future prosperity agenda which aims to support Ukraine's post-war reconstruction, joint U.S.–Ukraine economic initiatives, and long-term recovery projects."

The U.S. and Ukrainian officials also discussed "deterrence capabilities" that Ukraine will need "to sustain a lasting peace."

Witkoffand Kushner's talks in Florida with Umerov, Ukraine's lead negotiator, and Hnatov followdiscussions between President Vladimir Putinand the U.S. envoys at the Kremlin on Tuesday.

Friday's session took place at the the Shell Bay Club in Hallandale Beach, a high-end private golf and lifestyle destination owned by Witkoff's real estate development company.

Previous diplomatic attempts to break the deadlock have come to nothing andthe warhas continued unabated. Officials largely have kept a lid on how the latest talks are going, though Trump'sinitial 28-point planwas leaked.

Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyysaid his country's delegation in Florida wanted to hear from the U.S. side about the talks at the Kremlin.

Zelenskyy, as well as European leaders backing him, have repeatedly accused Putin ofstalling in peace talkswhile the Russian army tries to press forward with its invasion. Zelenskyy said in a video address late Thursday that officials wanted to know "what other pretexts Putin has come up with to drag out the war and to pressure Ukraine."

Speaking to Russian journalist Pavel Zarubin on Friday, Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov praised Kushner as potentially playing an important role in ending Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ushakov also took part in Tuesday's talks at the Kremlin.

"If any plan leading to a settlement is put on paper, it will be the pen of Mr. Kushner that will lead the way," Ushakov said.

The flattering comments about Kushner by the senior Russian official come as Putin has sought to sow division between Trump and Ukraine and Europe at a moment when Trump's impatience with the conflict is mounting. Putin said hisfive-hour talks this weekwith Witkoff and Kushner were "necessary" and "useful," but some proposals were unacceptable.

Kushner, who is married to Trump's daughter Ivanka, was a senior adviser to Trump during his first term and was the president's point person on developing the Abraham Accords, which formalized commercial and diplomatic ties between Israel and a trio of Arab nations.

Kushner has played a more informal role in Trump's second go-around, but he helped Witkoff close out ceasefire and hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas this fall. Trump tapped Kushner again to pair up with Witkoff to try to find an endgame to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The European take on the peace talks

Ushakov, who accompanied Putin on avisit to India on Friday, repeated the Russian president's recent criticism ofEurope's stanceon the peace talks. Kyiv's European allies are concerned about possibleRussian aggressionbeyond Ukraine and want a prospective peace deal to include strong security guarantees.

Kyiv's allies in Europe are "constantly putting forward demands that are unacceptable to Moscow," Ushakov told Russia's state-owned Zvezda TV. "Putting it mildly, the Europeans don't help Washington and Moscow reach a settlement on the Ukrainian issues."

French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that he made progress during avisit to Beijingon getting Chinese leader Xi Jinping's support for peace efforts.

"We exchanged deeply and truthfully on all points, and I saw a willingness from the (Chinese) president to contribute to stability and peace," Macron said.

The French president said he stressed that Ukraine needs guarantees that Russia won't attack it again if a settlement is reached and that Europe must have a voice in negotiations.

"The unity between Americans and Europeans on the Ukrainian issue is essential. And I say it, repeat it, emphasize it. We need to work together," Macron said.

The latest drone attacks

Russian drones struck a house in central Ukraine, killing a 12-year-old boy, officials said, while long-range Ukrainian strikes reportedly targeted a Russian port and an oil refinery.

The Russian attack on Thursday night in Ukraine's central Dnipropetrovsk region destroyed the house where the boy was killed and also two women were injured, according to the head of the regional military administration, Vladyslav Haivanenko.

The Ukrainian air force said Russia fired 137 drones of various types during the night.

Ukrainian drones attacked a port and an oil refinery inside Russia overnight as part of Kyiv's campaign to disrupt Russian logistics, Ukraine's general staff said.

The drones struck Temriuk sea port in Russia's Krasnodar region and the Syzran oil refinery in the Samara region, starting blazes, a statement said. Syzran is about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of the border with Ukraine.

The Russian Defense Ministry said only that its air defenses intercepted 85 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions and Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.

Novikov reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. John Leicester in Paris and Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.

Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine athttps://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine

At least 14 cases of Legionnaires' disease have been reported in central Florida.

In an email to state Sen. Carlos Guillermo Smith, the Florida Department of Health revealed the outbreak is linked to a gym, reported ABC News affiliateWFTV.

The letter from the department did not list the name of the gym, but WFTV reported that a Crunch Fitness in Ocoee -- 12 miles west of Orlando -- had members reporting cases of Legionnaires' disease.

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Crunch Fitness told the station it is working with the health department, has closed off parts of the gym and is testing its pool and spa systems "out of an abundance of caution."

Neither the Florida Department of Health nor Crunch Fitness immediately returned ABC News' request for comment.

Legionnaires' disease is a severe form of pneumoniacausedby inhaling the Legionella bacteria in small droplets of water mixed in the air or contaminated water accidentally going into your lungs.

Legionella bacteria are found naturally in freshwater but typically grow best in warm water and in warm to hot temperatures, according to theCenters for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC).

The disease does not spread from person to person, but outbreaks can grow if the bacteria get into a building's water supply, including in shower heads, sink faucets, hot water tanks, heaters and other plumbing systems.

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Legionnaires has increased in prevalence over the last decade, reaching a peak of 2.71 cases per 100,000 in 2018, theCDC said. Cases dropped during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and then rebounded in 2021.

Although most people recover from Legionnaires' disease with antibiotics, certain patients -- including those who are immunocompromised or who suffer from chronic lung diseases --can develop complicationsthat can be fatal.

About one out of every 10 people who develops Legionnaires' disease will die due to complications, according to the CDC. Among those who develop Legionnaires' disease during a stay in a health care facility, about one out of every four people will die, the federal health agency added.

NEW YORK (AP) — Vanity Fair is parting ways with West Coast editorOlivia Nuzziamid ongoing controversy over her relationship with profile subject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. while she was the Washington correspondent for New York magazine.

A joint statement Friday from the magazine and Nuzzi said that they "have mutually agreed, in the best interest of the magazine, to let her contract expire at the end of the year." She had been hired as its West Coast editor in September.

Nuzzi, 32, had been a star reporter for New York magazine known for colorful political profiles until the fall of 2024, when it was revealed she had an intense personal relationship withKennedy, a presidential candidate at the time she wrote about him and now head of the Department of Health and Human Services. Nuzzi was fired by New York for not disclosing her relationship.

She reflected on their relationship and the fallout from it in the memoir "American Canto," which refers to Kennedy as "The Politician" and ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza as "the man I did not marry." It was excerpted in Vanity Fair but competed for attention with a series of Substack posts by Lizza that contained embarrassing allegations.

Their feud quickly gripped media insiders as Lizza alleged that Nuzzi had an affair with another profile subject and had given Kennedy political advice, both considered off limits for journalists. Lizza even posted salacious, cringeworthy text messages from Kennedy to Nuzzi that he had intercepted.

Nuzzi denounced her ex-fiance's posts, in a Substack interview with Emily Sundberg, as "fiction-slash-revenge porn."

Friday's announcement came only days after the publication of "American Canto," disdained by critics and apparently of little interest to the reading public. The book ranked just 6,094 on Amazon.com's bestseller list as of Friday afternoon.

Critics were harsh: "A tell-all memoir? Ha. This is a tell-nothing memoir," wrote Helen Lewis in The Atlantic.

Through a miserable week, Nuzzi posted a humorous Substack column of "Signs Your Book Rollout Has Gone Awry."

Among them: "Monica Lewinsky reaches out to check on your mental health."

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR's management structure is unfair to its teams and drivers, with money and power in the hands of people who don't risk life and limb on the oval, basketball legend Michael Jordan told a court on Friday.

Testimony from Jordan and the daughter-in-law ofPro Football Hall of Fame coach Joe Gibbshighlighted courtroom action Friday, in a federalantitrust case, accusingNASCAR of operating as monopolistic bullies.

"Someone had to step forward to challenge NASCAR," said Jordan, a co-owner of 23XI Racing.

Jordan explained that NASCAR needs to be run more like the NBA, with a mutually beneficial partnership between the league and its teams.

"If you share responsibility, the healthiness of the sport can grow," he said. "It needed to be looked at from a whole different perspective. That's why we're here."

Drivers are risking their lives to race with no insurance or union protections, according tothe former North Carolina Tar Heel,whowon six NBA championshipswith the Chicago Bulls.

"I never saw(NASCAR CEO) Jim Francedrive a car and risk his life," Jordan said.

Even though 13 of 15 NASCAR Cup Series teams have signed the 2025-2031 charter agreement extension, those organizations had no real choice, according to Heather Gibbs, chief operating officer of Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR).

Before Jordan took the stand, Gibbs told the court that signing was the only option in what amounted to a "take-it-or-leave-it" situation.

"As if you have a gun to your head,"Gibbs said of her team's decision to sign.

Even though JGR is on one of the sport's most storied organizations, Gibbs said profits have been hit-and-miss under the current NASCAR system.

"Some years, not every year," she told a NASCAR attorney asking if JGR is a money maker.

Three ofNASCAR's top five drivers, No. 2 andthree-time Daytona 500 winnerDenny Hamlin, No. 3 Chase Briscoe and No. 5 Christopher Bell, race out of the JGR stable.

Despite the massive stakes on the table and the occasional tough words, both sides were remarkably cordial to one another in court on Friday.

When a NASCAR attorney finished his cross-examination of Jordan, he told the all-time basketball great: "My 9-year-old thinks I'm pretty cool today."

Jorden joked that the NASCAR attorney should've been laced up in the former player's famed hight tops in court.

"You're not wearing your Jordans today," Jordan quipped.

Charlie Gile reported from Charlotte, N.C., and David K. Li from New York City.

Our long, national nightmare is over.Penn State footballhas found its head coach.

TheNittany Lionsare finalizing an agreementwith Iowa State's Matt Campbellto replace James Franklin,per a report by ESPN.

Campbell, 46, has coached the Cyclones for 10 seasons and became the winningest coach in school history with a 72-55 record, including 8-4 in 2025.

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Here's how we grade the hire:

Grade: B+

Penn State took a circuitous route to making a solid hire, if not a home run.

Even after whiffing on Brigham Young's Kalani Sitake,athletic director Pat Kraftmanaged to land a proven coach, one who was named the Big 12 coach of the year three times.

Campbell's name has appeared on candidate lists for prime jobs for many years, but he repeatedly remained loyal toIowa State. Now, finally, he saw an opportunity good enough to make a move. An Ohio native, the 46-year-old Campbell has spent his entire career in the Midwest. He'll fit Penn State's brand.

Campbell departs Iowa State as the best coach in program history, producing a winning record eight times in 10 seasons there. He's headed to a program with superior resources — and more demanding expectations than Campbell has ever encountered in his career.

Campbell's resume is not superior to that of the coach Penn State fired, but it always seemed unlikely the Nittany Lions would hire a more accomplished coach than James Franklin.

Campbell's known more for being a player developer than an ace recruiter. He'll need to prove he can win blue-chip recruiting battles to get Penn State onto Ohio State's level, or even to keep it at the level Franklin had Penn State operating at in most seasons before this one.

At Iowa State, Campbell could be counted on to assemble one of the Big 12's stingiest defenses, year after year. That'll translate well at Penn State. Can Campbell develop quarterbacks that'll allow Penn State to stand toe-to-toe with the best Big Ten programs?

As good as Campbell's Cyclones defenses usually were, his offenses were more middle of the pack or even toward the bottom of the Big 12. Maybe, that'll elevate with higher-caliber athletes at Penn State. Campbell only ever had one Iowa State quarterback selected in the NFL Draft. That was Brock Purdy, a four-year starter selected in the seventh round in 2022.

An 8-4 season at Iowa State would go down in the good-season column. At Penn State, that won't cut it anymore. Welcome to the big leagues.

Campbell is a steady hand who now must show he's ready to perform to the level Penn State demands.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Penn State football hires Matt Campbell as coach. Expert grades for move