White House sidelines staffers detailed to the National Security Council, aiming to align team with Trump's agenda
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House sidelines staffers detailed to the National Security Council, aiming to align team with Trump's agenda.
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House sidelines staffers detailed to the National Security Council, aiming to align team with Trump's agenda.
The deal Donald Trump brokered with Russia to release American school teacher Marc Fogel on Tuesday was, in fact, a prisoner swap—even though the president had tried to suggest otherwise. The Russian man freed in the deal is Alexander Vinnik, 45, who stands accused of laundering billions through the digital currency exchange website he ran, an unnamed U.S. official told The New York Times on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the Kremlin told reporters earlier on Wednesday that the U.S. had released
“We’re living in a different world,” said Harry Enten on “News Central.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is proposing an exchange of seized territory with Russia as part of any potential negotiations to end the war. Ukraine holds control of a small pocket of Russian territory, parts of Kursk Oblast, captured during a surprise incursion in August. Zelensky, in an interview with The Guardian, said he planned to…
One social media user noted that Trump also took credit when the stock market was up under Biden, and asked, “How does anyone take this guy seriously?”
Former Vice President Mike Pence took issue Tuesday with President Trump saying Ukraine “may be Russian someday.” “Mr. President, Ukraine will only ‘be Russian someday’ if the United States abandons them to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s brutal invasion. As you just said, ’When America is Strong the World is at Peace.’ Stand Firm,” Pence said…
The mother of Elon Musk’s 4-year-old son criticized his inclusion in an Oval Office press conference Tuesday with his father and Donald Trump. Musician Grimes, who shares three children with her former partner Musk, wrote on X in response to a post about how polite their son appeared: “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me. But I’m glad he was polite. Sigh.” The 4-year-old was seen at various points mimicking his father, picking his nose, and whisperin
Elon Musk was the center of attention in the Oval Office on Tuesday as he and Donald Trump offered a bizarre and rambling defense of their efforts to dismantle large chunks of the federal government through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The world’s richest man, who donned his “dark MAGA” cap for the occasion, towered over a seated Trump as he fielded questions from reporters. Musk appeared at ease, his young son perched on his shoulders, as he argued that he and his t
Israel has vowed to annihilate Hamas if fighting resumes as both sides prepare for a return to all-out war.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg analyses how one phone call between Moscow and DC has already upended east-west relations.
Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) is circulating a petition for his supporters to sign to deport a fellow member of Congress, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.). Gil had previously called on Omar to be deported, arguing she is more loyal to undocumented immigrants in the United States from her native Somalia than to the United States. The…
Chrystia Freeland threatened to ‘go after American stakeholders who matter to the White House’ in response to Trump’s tariffs
The conservative newspaper's editorial board predicted that it's a disaster in the making.
The White House press secretary was mocked for her Trump-defending goof.
The UK and the US snubbed France on Tuesday by refusing to sign a leaders’ declaration calling for “open” and “ethical” artificial intelligence at the end of a high-level AI summit in Paris.
Wednesday’s meeting at the NATO headquarters in Brussels was, on paper, about coordinating military aid for Ukraine and welcoming the new US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth into the international fold. In practice, it was a day that saw the Trump administration upend the alliance’s approach to this almost 3-year-old war.
Trump promised on campaign trail to bring down price of ‘everything’
President Donald Trump was questioned on his recent executive orders in Washington, DC on February 10. While talking about his federal worker buyout plan, Trump criticized people who work from home. The President himself spent 307 days of his first term working from his home at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.
With Ukraine's armed forces heavily outnumbered by their Russian adversaries on the front lines of the nearly three-year-old war, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters last week the recruitment drive was about to be launched. Under pressure to bring more soldiers into the military, Ukraine's parliament last year approved a new law on mobilisation reducing the draft age from 27 to 25 and providing for penalties for anyone avoiding the call-up. "Change your life in a year," a slick video on social media tells young prospects against a background of soldiers taking up positions and firing weapons.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's attacks on what he alleges is South Africa's mistreatment of its white minority are being met with mockery on social media by some white South Africans poking fun at their own privilege. Trump said last week that "certain classes of people" were being treated "very badly" in South Africa, referring to a bill signed by President Cyril Ramaphosa aimed at addressing racial disparities in land ownership. He then cut aid to South Africa and offered refugee resettlement in the United States to Afrikaners, the descendants of early European settlers, stating they were "victims of unjust racial discrimination".
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not request more than $137,000 in repairs and upgrades to military housing at Fort McNair that will become his official residence, according to a U.S. official familiar with the work order, who says the Army undertook the repairs on its own since the more than 100-year-old home had sat vacant for a year and needed security upgrades. The cost of the repairs — including almost $50,000 being spent on new paint — came to light in a Jan. 30 notification to Congress from the Army. The notification prompted calls for greater transparency by some Democratic lawmakers who sought answers on why the cost was necessary and whether Hegseth would reimburse the government through rental payments for the military-provided housing, as other senior executive service defense officials are required to do.