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The Trump administration’s push for direct negotiations with Russia without Ukraine’s involvement leaves the European allies with no clear role.

The Trump administration’s push for direct negotiations with Russia without Ukraine’s involvement leaves the European allies with no clear role.

Much of the U.S. faced another round of biting winter weather Sunday, with torrential rains causing intense flooding in Kentucky and resulting in at least four deaths in the Southeast. The Northern Plains faced life-threatening cold, and tornado watches were

Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning in an unprecedented expansion of their reach in their yearslong fighting. (Image credit: Janvier Barhahiga)

Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning in an unprecedented expansion of their reach in their yearslong fighting. (Image credit: Janvier Barhahiga)

Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning in an unprecedented expansion of their reach in their yearslong fighting. (Image credit: Janvier Barhahiga)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he directed his ministers not to sign off on a proposed agreement to give the United States access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals because the document was too focused on U.S. interests.

Panelists on CNN’s State of the Union sparred over two top Trump administration officials — Vice President J.D. Vance and adviser Elon Musk — “flirting with Nazism” following the vice president’s eyebrow-raising speech at last week’s Munich Security Conference. On

President Trump’s approach to foreign policy deals is reviving a bygone imperial approach that may backfire, experts say.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, told NBC News that he’d warned President Trump that Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is a “liar.”