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Hamas and President Trump have threatened to upend the cease-fire. Analysts say those words could prove hollow, but the deal still may not last beyond early March.

Ukraine ‘may be Russian someday,’ Trump says ahead of Vance-Zelensky meeting  CNN

Europe Vows to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs, but Holds Back on Details  The New York Times

Somewhere in the blur of 2020, as I slipped outside with a mask and running shoes in the early morning to walk around the block, the lilting drawl of a friend’s “hiiiiii” nearly stopped me in my tracks. It was

US justice department tells prosecutors to drop Eric Adams case  BBC.com Trump’s Justice Department moves to drop charges against Eric Adams  POLITICO Watch live: NYC Mayor Eric Adams holds press conference after DOJ moves to drop charges  USA TODAY DOJ orders corruption charges

by Hillary ORINDE ‘On the streets of Johannesburg’s student district, U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer to accept white Afrikaners as refugees landed as both “ridiculous” and “lame”, among South Africans of all races. On Friday, Trump cut off aid to

ROME — Pope Francis issued a major rebuke Tuesday to the Trump administration’s mass deportation of migrants, warning that the program to forcefully deport people purely because of their illegal status deprives them of their inherent dignity and “will end

The trip that changed Tigran Gambaryan’s life forever was supposed to be short — just a few days. When he flew to Nigeria in February of 2024, he didn’t even check a bag. Tigran is a former IRS Special Agent.

We’ve all been in a situation where we sit down to our devices first thing in the morning—caffeinated beverage clutched in hand—and brace ourselves for the moment when all those unread messages from the previous day flood our screen. And

John Bolton, Trump’s former national security adviser, says making Greenland an American territory or commonwealth could help with security interests of “critical importance” to the United States. (Image credit: Anna Moneymaker)