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Trump and Putin to hold call on ceasefire, but Zelenskyy is skeptical that Russia is ... 2025-03-18
Newsday

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is set to hold talks on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin as he looks to get buy-in on a U.S. ceasefire proposal that he hopes can create a pathway to ending Russia’s devastating war on Ukraine. The White House is optimistic that peace is within reach...

photo: Pool via AP

Fewer Americans sympathetic toward Israel: Gallup 2025-03-06
The Hill

Americans are becoming less sympathetic toward Israel in its war against Hamas, the results of a recent survey suggest. A Gallup poll released Thursday shows 46 percent of respondents said they back Israel over the Palestinians when it comes to the "Middle East situation." Another 33 percent said...

photo: UN / Evan Schneider

Virginia Gov. Youngkin Pardons White Cop Who Fatally Shot Black Man Accused of Shoplifting 2025-03-06
Democracy Now

Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin has pardoned a white police officer just days after a judge sentenced him to three...

photo: AP / Andrew Harnik

US Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to freeze $2 billion in foreign aid 2025-03-06
Madhyamam

The United States Supreme Court has rejected an attempt by President Donald Trump to freeze nearly $2 billion in foreign aid payments, ruling 5-4 in favor of upholding a lower court order that directed the resumption of payments to contractors working with the US Agency for International Development...

photo: White House / Tia Dufour

China says it will ‘fight to the end’ with US ‘in tariff war, trade war or any other war’ 2025-03-06
The Irish Times

China’s ministry of foreign affairs has promised that China will “fight to the end” with the US in a “tariff war, trade war or any other war”, marking China’s strongest rhetoric on US president Donald Trump since he entered the White...

photo: AP / Mark Schiefelbein

Supreme Court rejects Trump bid to withhold $2bn in foreign aid 2025-03-05
BBC News

The order is the latest in a legal battle challenging the Trump administration...

photo: Public Domain / President Donald J. Trump

Chicago landlord ordered to pay $80k for threatening to call ICE on tenants, a first under 2019 state law 2025-03-05
Press & Guide

A judge ordered a Chicago landlord last month to pay $80,000 to former tenants after the landlord threatened to call ICE on them during a verbal dispute in June 2020, according to court documents. The case is the first to reach a judgment under the state’s 2019 Immigrant Tenant Protection Act,...

photo: AP / Richard Drew

IS militant behind Kabul airport attack arrested: US 2025-03-05
Knoxville Daily Sun

An Islamic State operative who allegedly planned the 2021 suicide bombing outside Kabul airport during the chaotic US military withdrawal has been arrested, President Donald Trump has said. The bomber detonated a device among packed crowds as they tried to flee Afghanistan, killing 170 Afghans and...

photo: AP / Department of Defense via AP

Trump Says Zelensky Ready for Talks With Russia, U.S. Minerals Deal 2025-03-05
Moscow Times

U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky told him he was ready to negotiate with Russia and finalize a U.S. minerals deal, just days after their tense White House meeting. The fallout from Trump’s and Zelensky’s Oval Office clash led to the...

photo: AP / Sarahbeth Maney/The New York Times

The Take: Can AI save endangered Indigenous languages? 2025-03-05
Al Jazeera

AI is being used to save Indigenous languages, but is it the right fix? One new project aims to use tech to help keep these...

photo: UN / Kim Haughton