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European leaders are scrambling to respond to President Trump’s first moves to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, shocked to find themselves on the outside of high-stakes talks about the continent’s security and grappling with a potential retreat of U.S. forces from Europe.  Secretary of State Marco Rubio said “real talks” will involve Europe and Ukraine,…

The showdown between House and Senate Republicans is escalating as the two groups barrel ahead with their contrasting strategies to pass President Trump’s legislative agenda — with the upper chamber expected to move this week. The House Budget Committee last week advanced a budget resolution for one sprawling bill full of Trump’s wish list items,…

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) introduced a bill Friday that would establish President Trump’s birthday, June 14, as a public holiday. The Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act proposes the recognition of both Trump’s birthday and Flag Day, celebrated on June 14, as federal public holidays. “Just as George Washington’s birthday is codified as…

The Education Department is investigating whether five Northern Virginia school districts violated Title IX and one of President Trump’s recent executive orders by allowing transgender students to use their chosen name and pronouns at school and access restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity.  The department’s Office for Civil Rights opened probes into…

Rep. Angie Craig (D-Minn.) said she is “giving serious consideration” to running for a Minnesota Senate seat. “I am giving serious consideration to the open Senate seat in Minnesota,” Craig said in a post on the social platform X Monday. “I’ll be talking to Minnesotans in the weeks ahead about the best way to continue…

Putin must scarcely believe his luck.

Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), said in a recent interview that opponents of President Trump’s executive action against birthright citizenship will ultimately prevail against him in court. Asked by The New Yorker during its “Radio Hour” podcast, Romero said birthright citizenship was the issue from the Trump administration…

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) is issuing a sharp rebuke of President Trump’s flurry of executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) since his inauguration.  Speaking at the National Cathedral’s Holy Eucharist and Annual HBCU Welcome Sunday, Warnock said many of the president’s orders are a “wholesale unabashed assault” on DEI.  “Don’t tell me you…

Ukraine is urging Europe to quickly select a representative for potential talks with the U.S. and Russia on ending Kyiv’s war with Russia. “It should be a quickly made decision,” Igor Zhovkva, the deputy head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, told Bloomberg. “I hope right after the Paris meeting. We should act, not reflect.” French…

President Trump's claim that the inhabitants of Gaza must be transferred elsewhere for reconstruction is contradicted by the post-World War II reconstructions of cities such as Dresden and Hiroshima, where inhabitants were at the center of the rebuilding process.