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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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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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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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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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Putin Wins the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office Spectacle — Vice President Vance starts a public fight that only helps Russia's dictator. — Toward the end of his on-camera, Oval Office brawl with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, President Trump quipped that it was “great television.”
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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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President Trump Embarrassed Himself, the Nation, and Every Thinking Human on Earth — In the Oval Office on Friday, Donald Trump and JD Vance behaved like angry children. Volodymyr Zelenskyy acted like a man. — (Permanent Musical Accompaniment to the Last Post of the Week from the Blog's Favourite Living Canadian)
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Zelenskyy Forgot the First Rule of Dealing With Trump — Flattery will get you everywhere. Insults will get you kicked to the curb. — When President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was first elected in 2019, he proved to be a quick study on how to try to win over his American counterpart.
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Trump Is Rootin' for Putin
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Russian Lawmaker Predicted the Trump-Vance Ambush of Zelensky
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Behind the Collision: Trump Jettisons Ukraine on His Way to a Larger Goal
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How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance
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This Never Happened With an American President Before
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February 28, 2025 — Today, President Donald Trump ambushed Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky …
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A Shameful, Appalling Spectacle
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MTG's Boyfriend Dresses Up as Reporter to Confront Zelensky
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Starmer welcomes Zelenskyy to Downing Street ahead of tomorrow's defence summit with European leaders - live

Trump and Vance Are Stripping Away Foreign Policy Illusions
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Western allies rally around Zelensky after Trump spat deepens rift with Europe
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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 …


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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Medicare and Medicaid agency faces compromised functions and disruption from Trump's firings — A top CMS official retires and lambastes the way dismissals have been carried out — The federal agency that oversees Medicare, Medicaid, and other major health care programs is facing employee firings …
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Cuomo Enters N.Y.C. Mayor's Race, Upending Contest to Unseat Adams — The comeback attempt, three years after Andrew M. Cuomo resigned as governor in scandal, will test New Yorkers' appetite for second chances, and change. — Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Saturday that he would run …
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Former N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo launches NYC mayoral campaign
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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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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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‘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 …


Wreckage, Rapists, and Resistance: Week Six of the Coup — They used to say war is how Americans learn geography. This civil war as Team Trump lays waste to most federal institutions is how Americans are going to learn what their federal government did. Specifically what it did for us …


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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Trump Relaxes Limits on Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Conventional War Zones — The president has rescinded a Biden-era system that required high-level approval for certain drone strikes and commando raids, reverting to a more permissive system. — President Trump has rescinded Biden-era limits …


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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Judge blocks Trump order threatening funding for institutions that offer care for transgender youth — President Donald Trump's plan to pull federal funding from institutions that provide gender-affirming care for transgender youth will remain blocked on a long-term basis under a federal judge's ruling in Seattle late Friday.
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