In an X post over the weekend, the mega-popular right-wing commentator claimed that French President Emmanuel Macron and first lady Brigitte Macron are planning her assassination.

The 28-point plan outlined last week by the US would have delivered peace on Putin’s terms. EU leaders must help Kyiv resist the bullying

There was a grim familiarity to the unveiling of Donald Trump’s latest peace proposals for Ukraine last week. As in August, when the US president invited Vladimir Putin to a summit in Alaska, Kyiv and its European allies were excluded from discussions that ended up echoing Kremlin talking points. Yet again, Mr Trump publicly scolded Volodymyr Zelenskyy for not being more grateful for his ongoing mediation efforts. And as in the summer, Mr Zelenskyy and blindsided European leaders strove to stay polite while scrambling to limit the damage.

The salvage operation appears to have been relatively successful, following Sunday’s meeting in Geneva between the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, and a Ukrainian delegation. The 28-point plan reportedly drafted by Mr Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, and the Kremlin adviser, Kirill Dmitriev, was in effect a repackaging of Mr Putin’s maximalist demands. A deal premised on the handing over of new territory in the Donbas region to Russia, restrictions on Ukraine’s sovereignty, and drastic limits on the size of its future army, could never be acceptable to Kyiv. Mr Rubio, suggesting a more “refined” framework was now being developed, seemed to at least acknowledge this fundamental difficulty.

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A fragile Cop30 consensus is a win. But only a real bargain between rich and poor nations can weather the climate shocks that are coming

This year’s UN climate talks in Brazil’s Belém ended without a major breakthrough. The text of the final agreement lacked a deal to shift away from fossil fuels, delayed crucial finance and the “mutirão” decision contained no roadmap to halt and reverse deforestation. But the multilateral system at Cop30 held together at a point when its collapse felt close. This ought to be a warning: next year’s conference of the parties must strike a better bargain between the rich and poor world.

Developing countries are far from united on some issues. Over rare earth minerals China sees any move as targeting its dominance, while Africa sees it as essential for governance. Elsewhere petrostates did not support Colombia’s call for a fossil fuel phase-out. Yet the global south broadly coheres around a simple principle: its nations must be equipped to survive a climate emergency they did not create. That means cash to build flood defences, make agricultural systems resilient, protect coastlines and rebuild after disasters strike. They also demand front-loaded finance to transition to clean, green economic growth.

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Negotiators from the Trump administration gave Ukraine an ultimatum last week: Accept this deal, or the next one will be worse.

Editorial: With the US pushing Zelensky to accept a flawed peace deal, Britain and Europe must help Ukraine stand strong – and Starmer is doing just that

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For once, the City Council is on the verge of doing something sane: Relaxing the insane ban on Airbnb in one- and two-family owner-occupied homes.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s fanciful promises of free stuff met with a cold dose of reality last week.

New York City's upside-down justice system is sending a 67-year-old man to prison for four years for owning unlicensed guns — while rapists, stabbers and serial gropers go free.

Zohran Mamdani “pledged to address ‘repression’ on campus,” citing professors fired “for the crime of expressing solidarity with the fight for Palestinian human rights,” observes Stu Smith at City Journal.

Editorial: Britain deserves more than mixed messaging and policy drift. After weeks of premature proposals, the chancellor must deliver a Budget that provides the confidence and coherence so far lacking in both her stewardship and Labour’s broader economic direction

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With Hamas reportedly threatening to pull out of the Gaza cease-fire, it's anyone's guess what's next in store for the strip.

Editorial: With the US pushing Zelensky to accept a flawed peace deal, Britain and Europe must help Ukraine stand strong – and Starmer is doing just that

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Progressives want to “decommodify” residential real estate by turning it into “social housing” run by politically connected nonprofits.

President Donald Trump and Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani staged a total love-fest Friday afternoon, and good for them — and especially good for New York.

Democrats “blame President Trump” for America’s affordability problem “while ignoring their own responsibility for causing it in the first place,” fumes James Piereson at The New Criterion.

Of all the spas in all the towns in the world, Alexandra Goebert insisted on going to the King Spa in Palisades Park, NJ, to force regular women to view the transwoman's male genitals.

The Post reported Wednesday that Washington and Moscow have been covertly working on a 28-point plan to bring an end to the war.

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani showed wisdom in asking Jessica Tisch to remain police commissioner, and her decision to stay offers much hope for the city.

Disgusting: Democratic members of Congress are now actively encouraging troops to disobey their commanders.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently warned that America faces a “1939 moment” — a “moment of mounting urgency,” cheers The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, which hopes this “translates into fixing how the US military fields equipment.”

Jumping on the Zohran bandwagon has clearly backfired, gov.

High schools across New York every year graduate kids who can barely read or do basic math, yet the state Board of Regents are adding a new "climate science" requirement.