The United States and other regional players converged to try to head off war between the neighboring nuclear powers. But more clashes seemed to keep hostilities roiling.

The question now, analysts say, is whether the two sides will claim victory as Pakistan asserts that it downed Indian jets and gauges the toll of India’s strikes.

In a parking lot in Ukraine, hundreds of family members gathered to greet loved ones being repatriated from Russian prisons. Amid happy reunions, there was anguish, too.

“He’s worth every freaking penny,” Golden State owner Joe Lacob said. “That’s all I can say. He’s fantastic.”

“I don’t know what we’re going to do,” Nathan MacKinnon said after Colorado’s 4-2 Game 7 collapse to the rival Dallas Stars.

I’ve always loved my husband, but now that we are older and in our 60s, I definitely hate him less. Maybe I shouldn’t have had to wait 33 years — a third of a century — to hate my husband less, but time has been good to him. And it’s not just that he …