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 …

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 …

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 …

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

Zelenskyy says minerals deal is ready to be signed as he seeks to move conversation on from White House spat - live  —  Keir Starmer announces additional £1.6bn package for Ukraine, allowing it ‘to buy more than 5,000 air defence missiles’  —  ‘We understand the importance of America,’ Zelenskyy says

Israel Halts All Aid Into Gaza as Cease-Fire Expires  —  The move came hours after Israel had proposed a temporary extension of the truce, though one with terms that Hamas is unlikely to accept.  —  Israel announced on Sunday morning that it was halting the entry of all goods …

Amid West Texas measles outbreak, vaccine resistance hardens  —  A child has died in an outbreak that has grown to 146 cases.  —  SEMINOLE, Texas — When the local hospital warned of a brewing measles outbreak, Kaleigh Brantner urged fellow residents of this rural West Texas community to beware of vaccinating their children.

The Countries Fueling America's $1.2 Trillion Goods Trade Deficit, in Charts  —  Growing gaps with Mexico and Vietnam add to the biggest imbalance the U.S. faces—with China  —$150 billion-$100 billion-$50 billion200020102020March 2022First month afterRussian invasion of Ukraine$121 billion deficitJAN.

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 …

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” …

Democrats Invite Fired Federal Workers to Trump's Congressional Address  —  The move comes as lawmakers hear from constituents over President Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to slash federal spending and cull the civil service ranks.  —  Rather than boycott President Trump's address …

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 …

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.

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 …

CNN Poll: Public remains negative on Trump ahead of address to Congress  —  The American public's view of Donald Trump's presidency and the direction he's leading the country is more negative than positive just ahead of his first formal address to Congress since returning to office, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

DOGE Claims Credit for Killing Contracts That Were Already Dead  —  Elon Musk's group claimed credit for canceling procurement agreements that had been completed years earlier, the latest in a string of public errors on its site.  —  While George W. Bush was president …

How DOGE detonated a crisis at a highly sensitive nuclear weapons agency  —  Perfunctory mass firings sparked alarm across the country, as cost-cutting missteps throughout government rattle lawmakers  —  Amid the tumult of mass firings, the Trump administration's dismissal of workers …