Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday, in an effort to seek a diplomatic breakthrough in the continuing crisis in Syria, NBC News reported. Thursday's meeting was hastily set up after Kerry announced, somewhat off-handedly, on Monday that the Assad government may be able to avoid a military strike by the U.S. if it turned over all its chemical weapons within a week. That unusually delivered proposal was soon endorsed by his Russian counterpart.
Jordan Linn Graham, a Montana resident, who has been accused of pushing her husband off a cliff after an argument, was charged with second degree murder on Monday. The pair had been married for just eight days, and if convicted, Graham faces life in prison.
In an effort to capitalize on his country's achievement in averting a U.S. strike on Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin penned an article in The New York Times on Wednesday, chiding America about its history of military intervention, and that a strike would not be wise
