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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is visiting with NATO. Allies were concerned that President Trump talked with Russia’s Putin to push for a peace deal with Ukraine without notifying European countries.

Volodymyr Zelensky says no peace deal without Ukraine involvement  BBC.com Zelenskyy protests US, Russia negotiating over Ukraine’s head after Trump’s call with Putin  ABC News Russia-Ukraine War Live Updates: Zelensky Responds to Trump and Putin Call  The New York Times Trump promises Kyiv

President Trump is pressing Ukraine to quickly end a war started by Russia. Ukrainians, meanwhile, are responding with dread as their government scrambles to find leverage.

Trump meets Indian PM Modi at White House – US politics live  The Guardian US Trump orders up a plan for more tariffs, even as inflation heats up  CNN President Trump orders plan for reciprocal tariffs  NBC News Trump Unveils ‘Big’ Reciprocal Tariffs:

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in Thursday as President Donald Trump’s health secretary after a close Senate vote, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the

President Donald Trump on Thursday rolled out his plan to increase U.S. tariffs to match the tax rates that other countries charge on imports, possibly triggering a broader economic confrontation with allies and rivals alike as he hopes to eliminate any trade

As congressional Democrats struggle to counter President Donald Trump’s disruption to the federal government, Slate writer Jim Newell suggested that threatening a government shutdown might work to their advantage. In a new article, Newell wrote, “Funding for the government expires

Taken at face value Donald Trump’s embrace of reciprocal tariffs is a declaration of total trade war, that would amount to perhaps the single biggest peacetime shock to global commerce.

President Donald Trump is meeting Thursday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has heaped praise on him and is hoping to avoid tariffs that the new administration has slapped on other countries in its opening weeks.

An economic adviser for President Donald Trump told MSNBC host Ali Vitali that long-held beliefs by nearly every economist that tariffs will raise prices are “just false.” Ahead of Trump signing another executive order on tariffs, Kevin Hassett was probed