5 h. ago Putin phones Venezuelan president to offer Russia's support after Trump seizes oil tanker off coast

Putin called Maduro a day after United States forces seized control of an oil tanker in Venezuela as part of an escalation in tensions between the Trump administration and Maduro's government.

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3 d. ago Trump offers $12 billion taxpayer bailout for farmers harmed by his tariff policies

Farmers have been slammed by reductions in foreign purchases as a result of Trump’s obsession with import taxes

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3 d. ago US park service to offer free entry on Trump’s birthday but revokes it for MLK Day and Juneteenth

Civil rights leaders decry administration’s move to downplay Black American history and promote presidentThe US’s National Park Service (NPS) will offer free admission to US residents on Donald Trump’s birthday in 2026 – which also happens to be Flag Day – but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth.The new list of free admission days for Americans is the latest example of the Trump administration downplaying America’s civil rights history while also promoting the president’s image, name and legacy. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Trump to offer $12 billion taxpayer bailout for farmers harmed by his tariff policies

Farmers have been slammed by reductions in foreign purchases as a result of Trump’s obsession with import taxes

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4 d. ago If a peace deal includes two key elements, Ukraine should accept | Christopher S Chivvis

Kyiv may be approaching its last chance to end the war with its sovereignty intact. If a peace deal includes two key elements, it should acceptThe negotiations over the war in Ukraine are frustrating and tragic. On the one side, a victim of aggression whose plight is more and more desperate. On the other, a brutal aggressor, willing to go to extraordinary lengths to win the war. In the middle, a transactional American president eager for a deal.It’s no surprise that so many observers have railed against the proposals recently put forward by President Donald Trump and his emissary Steve Witkoff. These proposals appear to offer much to Russia and little to Ukraine – other than an end to the violence. If the negotiations produce a plan that offers Ukraine no hope of security after the war, no Ukrainian leader will accept it. Security is the core of sovereignty, and it would be political suicide to trade Ukraine’s sovereignty for peace.Christopher S Chivvis is a senior fellow and direct...

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2 w. ago Donald Trump blasts Ukraine for having ‘zero gratitude’ as officials meet over peace plan

Trump said his proposal is not a ‘final offer’ but the war must end now

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2 w. ago Trump says Ukraine deal is not ‘final offer’ as officials gather for Geneva summit

US president signals potential room for adjustments after Zelenskyy says proposals force Ukraine to choose between national dignity and losing the USDonald Trump said on Saturday that his Moscow-drafted “peace plan” was “not my final offer”, after a furious backlash from Ukrainians who described it as reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain’s 1938 Munich agreement with Adolf Hitler.The US president told reporters during brief remarks at the White House: “We’d like to get to peace. It should’ve happened a long time ago we’re trying to get it ended, one way or the other we have to get it ended.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump says his humiliating Ukraine peace plan is NOT a 'final offer' but the war must end now

Speaking to reporters outside the White House on Saturday, Donald Trump said he would like to see peace between Ukraine and Russia, before adding the proposal was not his 'final offer'.

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2 w. ago Starmer and other Ukraine allies express ‘concern’ over US peace plan

Donald Trump said his proposal is not a ‘final offer’ but the war must end now

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3 w. ago Judge to proceed with contempt probe after US flew migrants to El Salvador prison in March

A federal judge has asked attorneys to identify witnesses and offer plans for how to conduct a contempt probe of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March

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4 w. ago What is Fusarium graminearum? The plant that landed a scientist in court

The harmful pathogen costs wheat and barley farmers more than $1 billion a year

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4 w. ago Epstein tried to set up meeting with Kremlin to offer insight into Trump, newly released emails show

Lawmakers made some 20,000 emails public on Wednesday that shone a light on Epstein’s complex relationship with the US president

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