Zelensky, Seeking a Diplomatic Victory With Trump, Leaves With a Debacle
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Zelensky, Seeking a Diplomatic Victory With Trump, Leaves With a Debacle

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines It was meant to be a moment of triumph for President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, a chance after weeks of maneuvering for an Oval Office meeting to demonstrate American backing in Europe’s bloodiest war in generations. Instead, the meeting unraveled into insults. Mr….

Opinion | This Has Never Happened With an American President Before
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Opinion | This Has Never Happened With an American President Before

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines What happened in the Oval Office today — the obviously preplanned ambush of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by President Trump and Vice President JD Vance — was something that has never happened in the nearly 250-year history of this country: In a major…

Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama
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Opinion | The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The drama going on between President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine raises one of the most disturbing questions I’ve ever had to ask about my own country: Are we being led by a dupe for Vladimir Putin — by someone ready…

Taiwan Watches Trump Undercut Ukraine, Hoping It Won’t Be Next
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Taiwan Watches Trump Undercut Ukraine, Hoping It Won’t Be Next

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, Taiwan’s leaders joined the United States and its allies in declaring solidarity with the victim. Taiwan and Ukraine were fellow democracies, they said, each imperiled by its hulking, authoritarian neighbor. Now, President Trump’s turn against Ukraine could fan…

Opinion | Trump Has the Same Idea in Mind for Ukraine and the Department of Justice
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Opinion | Trump Has the Same Idea in Mind for Ukraine and the Department of Justice

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines I grew up a Reagan Republican in the middle of the Cold War, and I never thought I’d see the day when the president of the United States became the world’s most prominent and effective Russian propagandist. Yet that’s exactly what happened last…

Emboldened Kremlin Steps Up Efforts to Seize Businesses in Russia
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Emboldened Kremlin Steps Up Efforts to Seize Businesses in Russia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines After the fall of Communism, Russia ushered in capitalism by selling off billions of dollars in state assets. Now, 30 years later, the Russian government is stepping up a wartime campaign to do the opposite: seizing private businesses, this time in the name…

Europe’s New Reality: Trump May Not Quit NATO, but He’s Already Undercutting It
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Europe’s New Reality: Trump May Not Quit NATO, but He’s Already Undercutting It

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines In his first term, President Trump episodically threatened to pull out of NATO, removing the United States as the linchpin of the most successful military alliance in modern times. In his second term, he is trying a different approach: hollowing it out from…

Opinion | Tom Friedman on Just How Far Trump Could Push the World
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Opinion | Tom Friedman on Just How Far Trump Could Push the World

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Just Trump saying he talked to Putin for 90 minutes, drove the global benchmark crude oil price down at one point. So you can see where the market is going. They smell this. What is Trump doing with both the Russians and Putin?…

Trump Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky Not Putin
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Trump Flips the Script on the Ukraine War, Blaming Zelensky Not Putin

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines When Russian forces crashed over the borders into Ukraine in 2022 determined to wipe it off the map as an independent state, the United States rushed to aid the beleaguered nation and cast its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, as a hero of resistance. Three…