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Donald Trump does not know how to handle Vladimir Putin, the former US ambassador to Ukraine has said. Steven Pifer told Sky’s The World he’s been watching developments closely in recent days, and has assessed that Putin doesn’t see any strength in the White House. Discussing so-called concessions made by Putin in a call with the president…
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that seeks to shift responsibility for disaster preparations to state and local governments, deepening his drive to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The order, first previewed by the White House on March 10, calls for a review of all infrastructure, continuity, and preparedness and response…
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to eliminate a Biden administration diversity initiative at the State Department that removed barriers to employment for underrepresented groups. The order directed the State Department to remove the “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility” Core Precept from Foreign Service tenure and promotion criteria, The Hill reported. The order further…
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President Donald Trump’s order on the release of 80,000 pages of files connected to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been carried out. The National Archives on Tuesday announced the publication titled, “JFK Assassination Records – 2025 Documents Release.” The government agency noted that the release was in accordance with President Trump’s…
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The United States will keep attacking Yemen’s Houthis until they end attacks on shipping, the US defence secretary said on Sunday (Mar 16), as the Iran-aligned group signalled it could escalate in response to deadly US strikes the day before. The airstrikes, which the Houthi-run health ministry said killed at least 53 people, are the biggest…
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The US president said that he would talk to his Russian counterpart on Tuesday, after negotiators have pushed for Russia to back a US-Ukraine ceasefire proposal. US President Donald Trump announced he would discuss ending the war in Ukraine with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. “A lot of work’s been done over the…
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Steve Witkoff didn’t stay long in the Russian capital earlier this week. According to footage posted of his motorcade leaving and returning to Moscow’s Vnukovo airport, he was here for little more than 12 hours. And for most of that, it seems, he was left waiting. Witkoff, a former property mogul who has become Donald…
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The Trump administration is considering targeting the citizens of as many as 43 countries as part of a new ban on travel to the United States that would be broader than the restrictions imposed during President Trump’s first term, according to officials familiar with the matter. A draft list of recommendations developed by diplomatic and…
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A senior Islamic State (IS) group leader in Iraq and Syria has been killed in an operation by members of the Iraqi national intelligence service along with US-led coalition forces, the Iraqi prime minister has said. Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, also known as Abu Khadijah, “was considered one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq…
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The U.S. Social Security Administration is considering dramatically curtailing the phone services that 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned government benefits, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The agency, under pressure from the U.S. DOGE Service team, is considering a proposal to end telephone service for claims…
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Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, said on Wednesday that President Donald Trump is making waves, and Americans get the benefit. “We finally have a leader that the world respects, and that goes a long way. When we have respect, not only are you willing to listen, but you know that there’s going to be some type of…
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened “devastating” financial penalties for Russia if President Vladimir Putin does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine. “There are things that wouldn’t be pleasant in a financial sense. I can do things financially that would be very bad for Russia. I don’t want to do that because I want…
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The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the nation. Among a total of more than 1,300 layoffs announced Tuesday were roughly 240 in the department’s Office for…
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The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it needed to be briefed by the United States on the outcome of U.S.-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia before commenting on whether a proposed ceasefire in Ukraine was acceptable to Russia. Ukraine said on Tuesday it was ready to support a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia,…
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The dismantling of the Department of Education began Tuesday, “drastic measures” that Mercedes Schlapp told Newsmax are necessary to pry the country’s education hierarchy out of the federal government and give it back to the states. Schlapp, former White House director of strategic communications in President Donald Trump’s first term in office, joined conservative voice Larry Elder…
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The European Union and Canada announced retaliatory tariffs on Wednesday after the Trump administration’s metals duties went into effect, broadening a trade war with several of America’s top trading partners. The U.S. at midnight began imposing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports from all trading partners, with no exceptions or exemptions, the White House said. Officials representing…
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