The Russian president will aim to exploit a truce, current and former senior European officials tell The Independent

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More than half of Americans disapprove of Trump’s economic policies

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Trump threatens Russia with 'devastating' financial blow if it refuses to accept ceasefire agreement

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At the “risk” of his job, a veteran CNBC journalist has blasted President Donald Trump’s tariff threats as “absolutely insane” — and popular financial news host Jim Cramer wondered if Trump is deliberately “manufacturing” a recession.

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‘Maybelline called and said they’ve had to ramp up eyeliner production to keep up with JD Vance’s demand,’ one critic mocked

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LA MALBAIE, QUE. -- Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly is welcoming her counterparts from some of the world's most powerful countries to Quebec this week, as Ottawa works to maintain unity between Washington and its Group of Seven partners and pushes back on U.S. tariffs. Read More

Kuwait has released a group of American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related charges

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The state is considering spending $1.2m to implement firing squad executions

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KYIV, Ukraine -- U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine resumed Wednesday, officials said, a day after the Trump administration lifted its suspension of military aid for Kyiv in its fight against Russia's invasion, and officials awaited the Kremlin's response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire endorsed by Ukraine. Read More

Security forces helld off from full-out battles as militants wearing suicide vests loaded with explosives barricaded themselves inside the train with hostages in Balochistan

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Ontario Premier Doug Ford and federal Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc are set to meet Thursday in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, who invited Ford to put an end to an escalation of the trade war between Canada and the United States. Read More

One way to prepare for a recession is by beefing up your savings account, experts say

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Calling Trump plan for peace within 100 days ‘impossible,’ document states ‘resolution’ can’t come before 2026. A U.S. expert noted Russia isn’t interested in an early peace, and Trump ‘doesn’t appear to understand’ that

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A GoFundMe has raised over $20,000 for Dane Paulsen’s parents

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Trump administration has put hundreds of civil rights employees on leave, leaving Department of Education less able to field complaints from students

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Shortly after an American Airlines flight left Savannah, Georgia, it turned back due to chaos caused by a passenger who thought a Satanic spirit had entered the cabin. Read More

UN critics believe a recent initiative launched by Secretary-General Guterres is actually a response to possible spending cuts by the U.S. as DOGE looks to root out waste.

A blood stain led to the arrests of Carolyn Foreman, 81, and Dakota Davis, 45, for the 1997 murder of Gerthie Carolina

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Analysis: Democrats have two choices – let the government shut down or pass a spending bill rife with DOGE-style cuts, Eric Garcia writes

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‘You're going to get rid of all these very qualified people who the military has spent millions of dollars into training specialized jobs for no other reason than they have had gender dysphoria or they transition,’ the judge summarized

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Pennsylvania man was flagged at Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday after a body scanner alarm went off ‘in the area of [his] groin’

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Some states, such as Maryland, are receiving 30 to 60 unemployment assistance requests from federal workers per day

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Patti Davis says former president and Republican leader ‘would be heartbroken’ by some of the current commander-in-chief’s actions

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An FBI task force probing an enormous network smuggling cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and heroin from Mexico into the United States and then hauling it north by truck to Canada was secretly watching a suspect’s home in Inglewood, a suburb of Los Angeles. Read More

Pakistan's neglected southwestern province of Balochistan has been the scene of a yearslong insurgency, with a dramatic uptick in attacks in recent years underscoring the struggles the government in Islamabad faces in dealing with myriad security threats. Read More

A handful of Alaskan state-level politicians are opposing Donald Trump's "restrictive trade measures that would harm the unique Canada-U.S. relationship" with recent joint resolutions. Read More

Pakistani forces were in a tense standoff Wednesday with hundreds of militants holding about 250 people hostage on a train they had hijacked in the remote southwest the day before, officials said. The security forces held off from full-out battles as militants wearing vests loaded with explosives had barricaded themselves inside the train with the hostages. Read More