Hegseth Orders Pentagon to Stop Offensive Cyberoperations Against Russia  —  The defense secretary's instructions, which were given before President Trump's blowup with the Ukrainian president, are apparently part of an effort to draw Russia into talks on the war.

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts  —  Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that government spending could be separated from gross domestic product reports in response to questions about whether the spending cuts pushed …

Zelensky must mend the breach with Trump — or resign  —  Zelensky's stubbornness has badly hurt Ukraine.  —  On Thursday, President Donald Trump was publicly pledging to help Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky regain Russian-occupied territory at the peace table.

RFK Jr says Texas measles outbreak a ‘call to action’  —  Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), said the measles outbreak in west Texas is a “call to action,” as he encouraged parents to consider whether to get their children vaccinated.

FAA Officials Ordered Staff to Find Funding for Elon Musk's Starlink  —  The Federal Aviation Administration directed staff to locate tens of millions of dollars for a Starlink deal, sources tell Rolling Stone … However, on Friday, FAA officials ordered staff to begin finding tens of millions …

Zelenskiy Signals He Would Meet With Trump If Invited Back  — Ukrainian leader is ready to sign natural resources deal  — Says he's convinced his clash with Trump will blow over  —  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he's willing to meet Donald Trump if the US president invites him again …

Playbook: Democrats in despair  —  With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine  —  Happy Sunday.  You have roughly eight hours to catch up on Oscars movies before the big awards show begins tonight at 7 p.m. Drop me a line: [email protected].  —  DRIVING THE DAY

Washington now ‘largely aligns’ with Moscow's vision, Kremlin says  —  Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”  —  MOSCOW — The Trump administration's rewrite of decades of U.S. foreign policy on Russia …

Crypto Prices Jump After Trump Announces Five Tokens for Strategic Reserve  —  Bitcoin, ether, solana, Ripple-linked XRP and cardano will be in the stockpile  —  Crypto prices surged Sunday after President Trump said he would move forward on a U.S. crypto strategic reserve that would include bitcoin …

Rubio Bypasses Congress to Send Israel $4 Billion in Arms  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio's emergency declaration calls for sending 2,000-pound bombs and other weapons to Israel as the war in Gaza continues.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio has invoked “emergency authorities” …

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science  —  Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats  —  The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is gutting a landmark project designed …

Crowds protest JD Vance at Vermont ski resort  —  The vice president was set for a family vacation.  —  WAITSFIELD, Vermont— Crowds protesting Vice President JD Vance the day after an Oval Office blowout over Ukraine lined roadways Saturday near a Vermont ski resort where he planned a weekend vacation with his family.

Elon Musk Thinks U.S. Should Leave NATO And The United Nations  —  Elon Musk has been tasked with cutting government spending.  —  Elon Musk, who holds no official cabinet position in the administration, wrote on social media that he agrees the United States should leave NATO and the United Nations.

Wyden to skip Trump's first speech to Congress, hold town hall instead  —  Democratic Oregon U.S. Sen/ Ron Wyden has announced he will be skipping President Trump's first first speech to Congress in his second term to hold an online town hall.  —  During his constitutionally-required address …

John Gotti would have OK'd the Trump-Vance mob hit on Zelensky  —  The late American architect Philip Johnson is famous for his iconic 20th-century skyscrapers and also less well-known — while fascinating his biographers — for a 1930s flirtation with rising global fascism during …

Sen. Bernie Sanders says calls for Zelenskyy to resign are ‘horrific’: Full interview  —  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says many Americans are “embarrassed or ashamed” of President Trump's hostile meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

‘Full on Fight Club’: How Trump Is Crushing U.S. Climate Policy … The Biden strategy was to erect legal and other barriers intended to make it tough to undo its work.  Trump has already broken through many of them.Al Drago for The New York Times  —  In a few short weeks …

N.Y. State Police Investigate Death of Another Inmate at Upstate Prison  —  A 22-year-old inmate at Mid-State Correctional Facility in Marcy, N.Y., died Saturday.  Nine inmates said he was viciously beaten by corrections officers.  —  The State Police are investigating the death of a prisoner …

Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests  —  The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.  —  President Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.”  Now, he also wants to log.

Senior USAID official ousted after detailing problems providing lifesaving aid  —  The memo contradicts claims by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that he has put in place a functioning system for exempting lifesaving assistance from the aid freeze.  —  A senior career official at the U.S. Agency …

Taliban refute Trump's claim of Chinese control over Afghan base as ‘emotional’  —  Taliban officials have denied President Donald Trump's recent assertions that China holds control over a crucial former U.S.-operated military base in Afghanistan.  —  The sprawling Bagram Air Base in question …