Hegseth boosts veteran benefits bill that key Republicans have opposed 

Russian President Vladimir Putin told reporters on Saturday he believes the war he started in Ukraine more than four years ago is coming to an end. Russian and Ukraine are in the middle of a three-day ceasefire brokered by President Donald Trump.

Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss President Donald Trump’s high-stakes trip to meet with China’s Xi Jinping for the first time since the Iran war began. “China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil and has been backing Iran in this conflict. So to that end, Mr. Trump is expected to press Beijing to scale back that support and to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz,” Kristen says.

The United States is still waiting to hear from Iran about the latest American peace proposal as the fragile ceasefire holds. NBC’s Molly Hunter reports for Sunday TODAY.

Passengers on a cruise ship that had an outbreak of the hantavirus have begun disembarking the vessel, The Associated Press reported. The outlet reported that the first plane with passengers evacuated off the ship left the Spanish Canary Islands on Sunday. Spanish health authorities said that Spaniards were the first group of people to depart...