The biggest obstacle to an Iran deal may be Trump’s ego
President Donald Trump’s constant belittling of Iranian leaders is alarming some Arab and U.S. officials familiar with the Middle East who worry that such insults could prove a major obstacle to truly...
View ArticleTrump tells Congress the Iran war has ‘terminated’ as legal deadline hits
U.S. President Donald Trump notified lawmakers Friday that the Iran war has “terminated” — an effort to quelch the fight over the need for Congress to approve the conflict. The White House laid out...
View ArticleAs Trump focuses on Iran, Europe and Ukraine strengthen ties
President Donald Trump has largely turned his attention away from the ongoing war in Ukraine — and Europe has stopped waiting for him to refocus. Nearly two months into the Iran war, Trump’s...
View ArticleKing Charles tries to keep Trump’s attention on Ukraine
LONDON — King Charles made an open appeal for reconciliation between Britain and the United States on Tuesday, as he tried to revive Keir Starmer’s ability to speak to Donald Trump about the war in...
View ArticleTrump lashes out at ‘60 Minutes’ anchor for reading alleged gunman’s manifesto
President Donald Trump lashed out at CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell in an interview Sunday for quoting from the manifesto of the suspected gunman who tried to storm the White House Correspondents Dinner...
View Article‘More compromises’: Trump wants an end to Iran war
President Donald Trump is eager to negotiate an end to the Iran war as evidenced by his announcement on Thursday of a temporary ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Even as Washington and Tehran...
View ArticleWhat Orbán’s ouster means for MAGA, Le Pen and Brussels
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music Election night in Hungary was an emotional and teary one … but now, the work begins. The winners — Peter Magyar’s Tisza party — have the daunting task of...
View ArticleVance, after rallying in Hungary for Orbán, says he wasn’t surprised by the...
Vice President JD Vance said Monday evening that he was “sad” but not all that surprised that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán lost his bid for reelection, asserting that his decision to campaign...
View ArticleWhat Trump’s blowup with Rutte was really about
President Donald Trump couldn’t get over European allies’ refusal to allow the U.S. access to military bases for the Iran war. And he made that clear to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday...
View ArticleTrump vented at Rutte over NATO inaction on Iran during turbulent meeting
BRUSSELS — U.S. President Donald Trump unloaded his frustration with NATO allies in a bad-tempered meeting with Secretary-General Mark Rutte on Wednesday — and indicated he was considering reprisals...
View ArticleTrump sending Vance, Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan for ceasefire talks with...
President Donald Trump is sending Vice President JD Vance and other top negotiators to Pakistan for mediated talks with Iran this weekend aimed at cementing a permanent ceasefire, the White House...
View ArticleTrump on the warpath is Rutte’s toughest test yet
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is making another fraught trip to the White House Wednesday, hoping to again prevent President Donald Trump from breaking apart the transatlantic alliance. But with...
View Article‘Only the president knows’: The world awaits Trump’s Iran deadline
As the clock ticks down to President Donald Trump’s Tuesday evening deadline to reach a war-ending deal with Iran, Gulf Arab countries are in the dark. The U.S.’s European allies are clueless. Even...
View ArticleVance in Budapest: Viktor Orbán’s last throw of the MAGA dice
BUDAPEST — JD Vance will visit Hungary on Tuesday in an 11th-hour attempt to boost key MAGA ally Prime Minister Viktor Orbán before an all-important election on Sunday, but the U.S. vice president’s...
View ArticleTrump to declare Iran war is winding down and others need to resolve Hormuz
President Donald Trump will use a primetime Oval Office address Wednesday night to declare that the month-long war in Iran is winding down, against a backdrop of spiking oil prices and increasingly...
View ArticleTrump sanctions Russia’s oil sector in bid to end Ukraine war
After months of holding off, the Trump administration will announce new Russia sanctions late Wednesday or Thursday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said. While President Donald Trump has for months...
View ArticleTrump’s Hungary meeting with Putin is off
President Donald Trump’s second summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin may not come to fruition as quickly as he predicted — or at all — after a senior Kremlin aide said too much daylight...
View ArticleTrump, still convinced Putin ‘wants to end the war,’ lukewarm on Zelenskyy’s...
President Donald Trump isn’t ready to provide the Ukrainian military with the Tomahawk missiles President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to the White House to ask for Friday. Trump stopped short of ruling...
View Article‘We are ready’: Orbán hails planned Trump-Putin meeting in Budapest
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán celebrated the announcement that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin will meet in Budapest to discuss ending the war in Ukraine. “The planned meeting between the...
View ArticleTrump says he will meet Putin in Budapest to discuss end of Ukraine war
President Donald Trump said he and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed during a lengthy phone call Thursday to meet in Budapest to continue discussions about ending the war in Ukraine. “I believe...
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