Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned to the White House to make his case on how to end Russia’s war with his battle-weary country. Key European leaders were there, too. President Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin afterwards and said he’s now making arrangements for a trilateral meeting between the two warring countries and himself.
The visible parts of Mr. Trump’s meetings with Zelenskyy and European leaders went, by and large, “very, very well,” but the “proof will be in the pudding in the coming days,” said Bradley Bowman, senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Bowman said he had
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey will serve as the FBI’s co-deputy director, alongside the law enforcement agency’s current second-in-command, Dan Bongino. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed the news on X, saying Bailey “took on the swamp, fought weaponized government, and defended the Constitution” as Missouri’s top law enforcement official. Bailey will resign from his
Two weeks after fleeing in protest, Texas House Democrats returned to the state. Their homecoming allows the Republican-led House to pass a partisan, redrawn congressional map, possibly giving more seats to the GOP during the 2026 midterm elections. Omar Villafranca has the latest. Original CBS News Link</a
At least five Republican-led states have moved to deploy members of their National Guard forces to the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington, D.C., through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness. The governors of Mississippi and Louisiana on Monday announced they would be sending 200 and 135
President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders at the White House to discuss the path forward on a possible resolution to the war in Ukraine. Nancy Cordes reports. Then, Holly Williams has the latest on Russian attacks on Ukraine. Original CBS News Link</a
President Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power. “We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid of mail-in ballots,”