Both leaders spoke positively of their meeting. U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a brief one-on-one discussion inside St. Peter’s Basilica on April 26 before convening with other leaders to attend Pope Francis’s funeral. The conversation took place before the funeral Mass began, at a point in the morning when the
An unhappy marriage: Radical Islam and communism “are strange bedfellows,” writes the Hudson Institute’s Mike Watson. “Nonetheless, across much of Asia, an increasing number of countries are welcoming both,” as this week’s jihadist attack in Kashmir makes clear. “Pakistan is the classic example of this nexus,” Watson writes. “Its intelligence services allegedly supported the Taliban
This comes after U.S. special envoy Steven Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Russia on Friday. Russia and Ukraine are “very close” to reaching a peace deal that will bring an end to the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump stated on social media on Friday. His post follows U.S. special envoy Steven
Attorney General Pam Bondi said the policy change will restore prosecutors’ ability to hold government leakers accountable. The Justice Department has rescinded a Biden-era policy that limited prosecutors’ ability to obtain journalists’ records during criminal leak investigations, according to a memo issued on April 25 by Attorney General Pam Bondi. In the memo, Bondi said
As India mourns the dozens of tourists murdered in Kashmir this week by jihadists and Prime Minister Narendra Modi vows to pursue them and their backers “to the ends of the earth,” India and Pakistan are at daggers drawn. New Delhi has already closed the land border and suspended a key water-sharing agreement, and the
United Steelworkers president David McCall is pressing the Trump administration to kill Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel’s $15 billion merger, noting in a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that he remains “unalterably” opposed to the deal. It’s an awkward position for McCall to be in, given that many of his local union leaders and
An endorsement from Trump would give either candidate a boost to their candidacy. Paxton currently leads Cornyn by 11 percentage points in opinion polls. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump has said that he will endorse a candidate in the U.S. Senate election in Texas in 2026, in which two of his political associates are running against each