Karen Moscow

Meanwhile, the U.S.

and Iran have made progress in nuclear talks in Geneva, and Stuart Livingstone-Wallace is head of Bloomberg's Middle East coverage.

And that's Bloomberg's Stuart Livingstone-Wallace, who says the apparent diplomatic progress came despite growing military deployments in the Persian Gulf.

There were reports this morning that European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will step down from her role before it's scheduled to end.

And we get details with Bloomberg's Ewan Potts.

Ewan.

All right, Ewan, thank you.

It's now 18 days into the search for Savannah Guthrie's mother, Nancy, and investigators are searching for fresh leads into her disappearance.

A glove found near Guthrie's home in Tucson failed to match any DNA in the FBI's database.

Investigators are processing search warrant evidence, canvassing gun shops, even working to see if they can track Nancy Guthrie through her pacemaker.

Crews have pushed through mountainous wilderness in California near Lake Tahoe during a snowstorm to rescue six backcountry skiers who survived an avalanche but were trapped by its snow and ice.

Nine others from their tour group remain missing.

There's more fallout this morning from the Jeffrey Epstein Files, and Bloomberg's Alexis Christophorus has the latest from New York.

All right, Alexis, thank you.

Illinois Governor J.B.

Pritzker is proposing a new fee on social media companies, and he says it raised about $200 million a year for education.

It comes as the state confronts a sizable budget shortfall and greater uncertainty around federal funding under President Trump.

Japan plans to invest $36 billion in U.S.

oil, gas, and critical mineral projects.

It's the first tranche of its $550 billion commitment under the trade agreement it struck with President Trump.