WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone Wednesday about ending the nearly three-year-long war in Ukraine. “As we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social of their call, their...
WASHINGTON — The GOP-controlled Senate early Wednesday morning voted to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to be President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, putting the former congresswoman in charge of the sprawling U.S. intelligence community. The 52-48 vote was largely along party lines, with nearly all Republicans present voting in favor of Gabbard. Sen. Mitch McConnell,...
The Trump administration has agreed to send a convicted money launderer back to Russia in exchange for the release of American teacher Mark Fogel, a U.S. official told NBC News on Wednesday. Alexander Vinnik is currently in American custody and awaiting transport back to Russia, which is expected to happen by the end of the...
More than 170 Democratic lawmakers in the House and the Senate are calling on Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and White House budget director Russell Vought to boot members of the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and restore its systems and operations. “Dismantling this law enforcement agency has long...
Republican businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson announced Wednesday that she is running for governor in Arizona, touting support from President Donald Trump in the race. “I thank President Trump for his strong endorsement and look forward to working with him to secure our border and make Arizona safe again,” Taylor Robson said in a statement announcing...
NEW YORK — Mariah Carey, Chubby Checker, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast and Phish are some the 2025 nominees for induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a list that also includes two sets of musical brothers who have had public feuds and recent reunions — the Black Crowes and Oasis. The Hall revealed the list of 14 performer nominees...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday it was “unrealistic” to aim for a return to Ukraine’s borders as they were before 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and supported separatists who took over swathes of the country’s east. The remarks are the clearest indication yet that the United States will support a negotiation between Ukraine and...
Price growth sped up unexpectedly in January, posing an early challenge to President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. Inflation for so-called core items, which exclude volatile food and energy prices, climbed 3.3% over the past 12 months, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Wednesday, above economists’ expectations of 3.2%. On a monthly basis, the inflation measure...
Jalen Hurts knows he couldn’t have won the Super Bowl without some major help. Hurts, who led the Philadelphia Eagles to a 40-22 trouncing of the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 59, credits his father for playing a vital role in him winning the NFL title. Hurts’ dad, who coached him in football while...