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Donald Trump has threatened to “take a pass” on attempts to secure a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, as he denied the Kremlin was playing him.

Marco Rubio’s comments are the strongest indication yet of Washington’s apparent growing frustration at the lack of progress in peace talks. 

The fight over Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia came down to “optics” for the Trump administration, Journalist Chuck Todd surmised Friday on CNN. The only explanation for the administration’s continued resistance to bring Abrego Garcia home from El Salvador, where

President Donald Trump’s dealings with everything from Ukraine to Ivy League universities amount to blatant extortion, Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker wrote Friday. “Trump isn’t a dealmaker; he is closer to an extortionist,” Parker wrote. “At least he meets the

Secretary of State Marco Rubio “split” with President Donald Trump over the ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, The Daily Beast reported Friday. Speaking to the press, Rubio lamented the lack of progress in negotiations and said that the United States

Right-wing commentators Benny Johnson and Mike Cernovich blamed “The Deep State and Ukraine” for perpetuating two assassination attempts on Donald Trump as he campaigned in Butler County, PA, last July; and Palm Beach County, FL, in September. Johnson hosted Cernovich

A U.S. senator was denied entry to a prison that had held Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. The authorities arranged a meeting at a hotel instead. Here’s what to know.

The legal underpinnings of the administration’s broadsides against universities and schools stretch precedents and cut corners.

An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Senator Chris Van Hollen said that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia,who was deported and incarcerated in El Salvador, reported having been transferred after weeks in a maximum-security prison.