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Vance spoke at the meeting Sunday afternoon and promised to speed up migrant deportations throughout the country.

Rapper Nicki Minaj, meanwhile, made a surprise appearance at the event on Sunday, offering her support for President Trump she had condemned Trump in the past.

U.S.

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff says peace talks in Miami over the weekend between the U.S., Ukraine, and Russia have been productive.

The talks were aimed at ending Russia's almost four-year-old war in Ukraine, but as NPR's Joannika Kicis reports, several barriers to a peace deal remain.

The National Weather Service says a flash flood warning remains in effect for the southern part of Shasta County, California at this hour.

Evacuations have been ordered in some areas as water continues to rise in the Yuba River.

Along Colorado's Front Range, meanwhile, a fire warning is in effect.

Hurricane force winds and tender dry conditions there have increased the threat of wildfires.

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In the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship, ninth-ranked Texas A&M took advantage of its first trip to the Final Four and won the national title with an upset over second-ranked Kentucky.

Greg Eklund has more from Kansas City.

The Coast Guard has ships in active pursuit of another sanctioned oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea.

Government officials say the ship is operating under a false flag and is under a judicial seizure order.

The U.S.

has already seized two other ships, it says, for violating U.S.

sanctions.

Many legal experts, though, say the seizures violate international law.

Thousands of people gathered at Stonehenge in England on Sunday to celebrate the winter solstice, which is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

They cheered and danced as the sun rose over the prehistoric stone circle.