European officials were not sure what to make of the secretary of state’s measured assessment of Washington’s apparent pivot toward Moscow.

He is in a very difficult position because his long-held beliefs are not the ones he has been tasked to defend now.”

The Kremlin provided a quick fact-check after what sure looked like a prisoner swap between America and the United States.

The United States and Russia agreed on four principals following talks that lasted for more than four hours in Saudi Arabia, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said. CNN’s Clare Sebastian breaks down what stood out to her.

This is what Republicans are doing now: going against all of their strongest convictions about America’s role in the world—about the threat of Russia, the threat of Putin—to bend the knee to Trump,” says Jen Psaki on Republicans like Marco Rubio,

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said he saw no appetite for peace from Russia in Ukraine after listening to a speech by Russia's top diplomat at a tense Group of 20 meeting in South Africa on Thursday.

According to a readout from the Office of Secretary of State Marco Rubio, he and National Security Adviser Mike Waltz met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia. Special Envoy Ambassador Steve Witkoff was also on hand,

The U.S. and Russia agreed on Tuesday to restore the normal functioning of each other's diplomatic missions, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said after talks between senior U.S. and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in South Africa for a two-day meeting of the Group of 20 nations, where top European diplomats are expected to reinforce their support for Ukraine

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Wednesday with the leader of the United Arab Emirates, wrapping up an overseas trip that saw the highest-level outreach between the United States and Russia since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

According to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the US and Russia agreed on four principles following talks that lasted over four hours in Saudi Arabia. Puck News correspondent Julia Ioffe explains how these talks,