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The Trump-Zelensky blowup, broken down by body-language analysts — The decision not to use an interpreter, the power imbalance, Trump's misstatements and Zelensky's “warrior energy” helped fuel the unusual public flap. — just now — President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance …
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Norway fuel giant ‘refuses to fill US submarines’ after Trump-Zelensky clash — Norwegian petroleum giant Haltbakk Bunkers has declared it will no longer help the US Navy. — A petrol giant in Norway has announced a ban on fuel sales to all US forces following Donald Trump's treatment …
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A Day of American Infamy — In August 1941, about four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill aboard warships in Newfoundland's Placentia Bay and agreed to the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration by the world's leading democratic powers on …


The War Trump Chooses — That wasn't Trump against Zelens'kyi. It was Americans against reason — The Americans claim that their attempt to humiliate the Ukrainian president in the White House yesterday was about peace. On that premise, nothing they said makes any sense.
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Trump's Dressing Down of Zelensky Plays Into Putin's War Aims — The public blowup could propel President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to escalate the fight in Ukraine instead of agreeing to peace. — President Trump says he wants a quick cease-fire in Ukraine.
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How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance — Vance snaked his way in first to the row between Trump and Zelenskyy, his second intrusion this month after Munich — JD Vance was supposed to be the inconsequential vice-president.
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Most European leaders back Zelenskyy as he joins crisis talks in London
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President Trump Embarrassed Himself, the Nation, and Every Thinking Human on Earth
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Zelenskyy Forgot the First Rule of Dealing With Trump
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Trump Is Rootin' for Putin
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Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle
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Starmer welcomes Zelenskyy to Downing Street ahead of tomorrow's defence summit with European leaders - live

Russian Lawmaker Predicted the Trump-Vance Ambush of Zelensky
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February 28, 2025 — Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky …
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Behind the Collision: Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal
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Good Trouble: JD Vance Chastised by Vermont Snow Reporter — JD Vance, fresh off of helping his boss ambush & insult a foreign leader in the White House yesterday afternoon, is on vacation in Vermont with his family this weekend and will be skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, VT, a 15-minute drive from where I live.
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Andrew Cuomo for Mayor? His “First Accuser” Says New York City Deserves Better — Taxpayers have paid millions defending the former governor and top aides against accusers' allegations. — New York City deserves better than Andrew Cuomo. As frustrated as city residents rightfully …
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Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo launches political comeback with a run for New York City mayor
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Pentagon orders up to 3,000 troops and Stryker combat vehicles to border — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved orders on Friday to further militarize the U.S. southern border with Mexico, officials said. — Just now — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered an additional 2,500 …
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Pentagon to send 3,000 more troops to the US-Mexico border
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Musk's Purges Suddenly Take a Horrific Turn—and Wreck an Ugly MAGA Lie — It has a dry, bureaucratic name, but Ready to Use Therapeutic Food has functioned for over a decade as a lifeline for countless starving children around the globe. Manufactured in the United States and distributed …

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — After the Trump administration moved to freeze nearly $60 billion …
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Francis Collins Retires From N.I.H., Saying Colleagues ‘Deserve the Utmost Respect’ — Dr. Collins, a renowned geneticist, ran the National Institutes of Health for 12 years. His parting statement offered a pointed, if veiled, message to the Trump administration.


We tried to quantify the impact of abrupt PEPFAR cuts. The results startled even us — These policy decisions put lives at risk — In May 2023, about a year before the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief was up for congressional renewal, a — alleged that PEPFAR funding …
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General Services Administration cuts tech unit — 18F employed researchers, website designers and product managers. — The General Services Administration cleaved one of its technology units Saturday morning as part of a Trump administration directive to cull the federal workforce and reduce government spending.
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Ex-Chicago mayor rips current city leaders for focus on bathroom and locker room instead of crime, education — 'I don't want to hear another word about the bathroom. You better start focusing on the classroom,' Rahm Emanuel told Bill Maher on Friday — Former Democratic Chicago Mayor …
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Trump takes seized boxes back to Florida on Air Force One — President Donald Trump on Friday transported back to Florida with him boxes of documents that the FBI had seized from Mar-a-Lago after executing a court-ordered search warrant in August 2022. — “The Department of Justice …
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‘Let him stew in his own juice,’ Pelosi advises ahead of Trump's speech — The ex-speaker tore apart a copy of Trump's 2020 address to Congress. This time, she says Democrats need to coalesce on one, short message. — Just now — Nancy Pelosi still recalls the precise nature …


Trump's spending play raises ‘risk of a shutdown,’ top Democrats say — Top Democratic appropriators said on Friday that President Donald Trump's decision to abandon bipartisan spending talks and endorse a long-term funding patch is “raising the risk of a shutdown.”
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US auto industry could be collateral damage in Trump's trade wars — President Donald Trump's trade wars threaten to claim a casualty on the home front: the American auto industry. If the president goes ahead with 25% taxes on imports from Canada and Mexico on Tuesday …
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Kennedy Jr backtracks and says US measles outbreak is now a ‘top priority’ for health department — Health secretary earlier said outbreak was ‘not unusual’ but with first US measles death in decade steps up response — Two days after initially downplaying the outbreak as “not unusual,” …
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