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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.
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UPI, The Independent and The American Conservative
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has paused cyber offensive against Russia — Multiple U.S. officials tell CBS News that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command to pause planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions.


Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth orders a halt to offensive cyber operations against Russia — Russia has intensified cyber operations against Ukraine and NATO countries, according to previous U.S. intelligence and private sector reports. — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command …
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Cybersecurity …, Washington Post and The Kyiv Independent


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.
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The Hill, CBS News, New York Post and The Free Press
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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
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Bloomberg, Breitbart, New York Times, UPI, Associated Press, The Kyiv Independent, BBC, CBS News and WHDH-TV


How criticism of Zelensky's clothing made it to the Oval Office
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Johnson says Zelenskyy may need to resign
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GOP Sen. James Lankford defends Zelenskyy as Trump officials question his leadership
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The Daily Caller, The Hill, The Daily Wire, NPR, Washington Times, Breitbart, ABC News and Politico


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 …
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The Daily Caller, Associated Press and Catkora


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 …
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FAA staff reportedly ordered to find funding for deal with Musk's Starlink — Discussions about the deal, which could upend a $2.4 billion Verizon contract with the US, have happened verbally, reports Rolling Stone. … Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday ordered staff …


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 …
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The Guardian, Axios and Reuters
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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
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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 …
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Washington Examiner and Reuters
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In Ukraine, Many Watch and Wait for Signs of Hope From Abroad
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The Kyiv Independent, The Gateway Pundit, Althouse, RedState and Fortune

UK pledges export financing for air defense as world leaders discuss ending war in Ukraine
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Politico, CNN, New York Times, Washington Times, BBC, Telegraph, NBC News, NPR, Human Events, Townhall, Reuters, Semafor, Associated Press, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, Voice of America, Breitbart, The Kyiv Independent, Los Angeles Times, Washington Examiner, Canadian Press, Bloomberg and Al Jazeera


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.
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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 …
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Raw Story, New York Post and CoinDesk
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Crypto prices jump as Trump touts national crypto reserve
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Trump announces US crypto reserve
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Reuters, Axios, TechCrunch, Fortune, Wall Street Journal, The Verge and Fox Business


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” …
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Breitbart, Fox News, PBS NewsHour and Reuters


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 …


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.
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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 …
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Senate Democrat says White House is ‘arm of Kremlin’
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Axios, Mediaite, RedState, The Post Millennial, Raw Story, Breitbart and PoliticusUSA


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.


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.
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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 …


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 …
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Associated Press and NPR


‘Democrats have been playing dead for too many years’ — Bernie Sanders rejects a strategist's advice to Democrats to make “strategic political retreat.” — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday sharply rejected veteran Democratic strategist James Carville's suggestions for the Democratic Party to make a …
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The Daily Wire


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 …
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Clayton Cramer