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The Biden administration is expanding the US’s summer food programme to help feed as many as 34 million schoolchildren during the summertime.

Using funds from the coronavirus relief package approved in March, the Agriculture Department has announced that it will continue to facilitate a payments programme used to replace school meals during the pandemic, when many students were forced to study from home, throughout the summer.

Under the programme, eligible families will receive $6.82 per child for each weekday during the summer, adding up to $375 over the summertime.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the benefits programme represented a “first-of-its-kind, game-changing intervention to reduce child hunger in the United States”.

Former President Donald Trump appears to have hosted gun rights activist and House representative Lauren Boebert and her family at Mar-a-Lago.

Sharing a photo to Twitter on Sunday of her family posing with a beaming Mr Trump, Ms Boebert said she was “honoured to have my entire family be able to spend time with President Trump”.

“We know our country is better than the socialist path the Dems are taking us down,” she said.

“We know we need to win in 2022 & get back on track,” she said, referring to the midterm elections next year.

“Stay positive & believe. We are going to make good things happen!” she said.

It is unclear when exactly the visit took place or what was discussed between the former president and Ms Boebert.

The Independent has contacted her office for more details.

Turkey summoned the US ambassador in Ankara over the weekend to protest US President Joe Biden’s recent statements branding the mass killing of Armenians during the Ottoman Empire a “genocide”.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal met with David Satterfield late on Saturday evening to express Ankara’s outrage over the statement, Politico reported.

On Saturday, Mr Biden became the first US president to formally acknowledge the 1915 mass killings of Armenians as a genocide.

In a statement, the US leader said his intention was “not to cast blame, but to ensure that what happened is never repeated”.

Turkey, however, has rejected the use of the term “genocide” to describe the mass deportations and killings carried out in the midst of World War I.

In a tweet on Saturday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the country” entirely rejects” Mr Biden’s decision. “We will not take lessons from anyone on our history,” he said.

US President Joe Biden could meet with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as early as June, a top Kremlin official has suggested.

Speaking on state-run television channel Rossiya-1, Putin’s top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, said June had been named as a likely date for the meeting.

Plans have yet to be set in stone, however, and so far the US government has not confirmed a date for a summit.

However, if the meeting did take place in June, it could take place alongside Mr Biden’s already planned trips to Britain for a G7 summit, as well as for NATO and EU summits in Brussels.

Good morning and welcome to The Independent’s live blog following the latest in US politics as a top Kremlin official signals that a meeting between President Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin could take place as early as June.