Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says  —  Keith Kellogg tells countries to offer concrete solutions and boost spending instead of complaining about talks role  —  Europe will be consulted - but ultimately excluded - from the planned peace talks between Russia …

Trump administration wants to un-fire some nuclear safety workers but can't figure out how to reach them  —  The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.

Trump-Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Unnerving Turn With Vile Leaked Memo  —  Shockingly, it turns out that empowering the richest human being on the planet to maliciously and gratuitously heap additional misery on that planet's most poor, hungry, and desperate people might—just might …

Records show how DOGE planned Trump's DEI purge — and who gets fired next  —  A DOGE team plans to fire federal workers who are not in DEI roles and employees in offices that protect equal rights, internal documents show.  —  A team of workers from the U.S. DOGE Service developed step …

Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves  —  Kyiv wants security guarantees to be tied to any natural resources deal  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a US bid to take ownership of around 50 per cent of the rights to his country's rare earth minerals …

Don't Assume Trump Is Wrong About Birthright Citizenship  —  On his first day in office, President Trump issued an executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship for certain children.  It does so despite Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which declares, “All persons born …

‘The Gulf of America’ Is the Wrong Fight to Pick  —  The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent principles.  —  The executive order rechristening the body of water known internationally as the “Gulf of Mexico” is not an easy document to take seriously.

Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order declares Black History Month ‘dead’  —  Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for an Eastern Shore parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass' 207th birthday because it was being held during …

Trump Supporters Shared How He Could Lose Their Support, And There's One Issue That's Verrrrry Important To Them  —  “We didn't vote for my husband to lose his government career and benefits.”  —  Ashley Holt— BuzzFeed … We recently asked people in the BuzzFeed Community who voted …

Don't Say “Chaotic” or “Transactional”  —  We're not living in Trump 1.0  —  I'm struck by the degree to which the mainstream media is still living in the Trump 1.0 world of 2017-2020, using words like “chaotic” or “transactional” to describe the new administration's behavior.

Georgia's First Jewish Senator Is Losing Jewish Support  —  Democratic donors and Jewish leaders are so unhappy with Jon Ossoff over his position on Israel that some have quietly urged Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, to run against him.  —  Four years ago, Senator Jon Ossoff was sworn in using …

Playbook: GOP confronts a continental divide  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Happy Saturday from Indiana, where I have a bit of FOMO about not being in Munich at the POLITICO Pub.  I'll try to remedy that today by having the Hoosier classic breaded pork tenderloin sandwich …

Federal workers are being rushed back to the office.  It's causing chaos.  —  Some need to win a coin flip to use a desk.  Others say they're killing time when workstations aren't available.  —  As the Federal Emergency Management Agency prepared for its full workforce to report in person this month …

How a Vermont border agent's death exposed violence linked to the cultlike Zizian group  —  In the wooded outskirts of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a perplexed landlord noticed odd sights at two of his rental properties.  —  Tenants wore long black coats and parked box trucks outside the duplexes.

Forced to flee Congo, USAID workers lost everything.  They're suing Trump.  —  USAID workers based in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo, tell a harrowing story of how Trump's attack on the agency complicated an escape.  —  January 28 began as a normal day for “Marcus Doe,” …

Trump's Threats and Statehood Taunts Reset Race to Lead Canada  — ‘The enemy is not in Ottawa, the enemy is in Washington’  — Conservatives pivot to ‘Canada First’ message as polls narrow  —  For over a year, Canada's Conservative Party seemed on track to win a decisive victory …

In Seeking Adams Dismissal, Trump's Appointees Use Legal System to Their Advantage  —  The demand for dismissal underlines the degree to which President Trump has long viewed the justice system as a battleground on which power is deployed for transactional political or personal ends.

How Trump's MAGA Agenda Is Already Sticking It To Red America  —  The effects of DOGE and potential cuts to Medicaid are likely to hit communities where Donald Trump is popular.  —  LOADING  —  Early in Donald Trump's first term, Steve Bannon met with some House Republicans who were wavering …

Trump foreign aid freeze deals heavy blow to family planning efforts abroad  —  The Trump administration's 90-day freeze on foreign aid has impacted family planning resources used by hundreds of thousands of women, girls and couples abroad, causing a number of health clinics to shut down and hindering the supply chain for contraception.

Trump Media says it lost more than $400M last year  —  Trump Media is the parent company of the president's social media platform Truth Social.  —  The parent company of President Donald Trump's social networking site Truth Social says it lost $400.9 million last year and its annual revenue declined 12% to $3.6 million.

Not Quite a Unified Theory of Trumpism, but Still an Alarming Pattern  —  President Trump's second term dizzies many Americans, but I find it oddly familiar — an echo of the time I lived in China as a reporter.  —  Americans sometimes misperceive Trump's actions as a fire hose of bizarre …

6 Americans on What They Think of Trump, Elon Musk and Gaza  —  In his first three weeks back in office, President Trump has set a dizzying pace of political and social change, issuing dozens of executive directives meant to dramatically remake the federal government and drive the country in a new direction.