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President Donald Trump suggested Tuesday that Ukraine was responsible for Russia’s invasion of the country three years ago, arguing Kyiv could have made a deal to avoid the conflict.“You should have never started it,” Trump said of Ukraine while criticizing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who had expressed concern that his country was not included in talks between the U.S. and Russia in Saudi Arabia.Follow live politics coverage here”I think I have the power to end this war, and I think it’s going very well. But today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited.’ Well, you’ve been there for three years,” Trump told reporters at…

Another top federal prosecutor has resigned from the United States Department of Justice amid pressure from the administration of President Donald Trump. The Reuters news agency reported that Denise Cheung left her post on Tuesday, after leading the criminal division of the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. In her resignation letter, obtained by several US news agencies, she highlighted her long career in civil service. “I have been proud to serve at the U.S. Department of Justice and this office for over 24 years,” Cheung wrote. “I took an oath of office to support and defend the Constitution, and…

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to make in vitro fertilization more affordable for Americans.The order points out that IVF can cost $12,000 to $25,000 per cycle and aims to cut costs “by easing unnecessary statutory or regulatory burdens to make IVF treatment drastically more affordable.”The order directs the assistant to the President for Domestic Policy to submit a list of ideas to lower the cost of IVF within 90 days.“My Administration recognizes the importance of family formation, and as a Nation, our public policy must make it easier for loving and longing mothers…

In April 1928, Joseph Goebbels, later the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, wrote a newspaper essay addressing the question of why the National Socialists, despite being an “anti-parliamentarian party,” would nonetheless compete in that May’s parliamentary elections.“We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons,” Goebbels explained. “If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem. It does not concern us. Any way of bringing about the revolution is fine by us.”Germany’s postwar federal republic, established over the ruins the Nazis made, has been haunted by Goebbels’s taunt ever since. How does…

WASHINGTON — A longtime federal prosecutor resigned Tuesday rather than carry out what she described as orders from Trump-appointed officials to take actions unsupported by evidence, according to a copy of her resignation letter obtained by NBC News.Denise Cheung, who had been at the Justice Department for over 24 years and was the head of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, wrote in her resignation letter to interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin that she had “always sought to offer sound and ethical counsel” to her bosses throughout multiple administrations, and that she had…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans pushed ahead late Tuesday on a scaled-back budget bill, a $340 billion package to give the Trump administration money for mass deportations and other priorities, as Democrats prepare a counter-campaign against the onslaught of actions coming from the White House.On a party-line vote, 50-47, Republicans launched the process, skipping ahead of the House Republicans who prefer President Donald Trump’s approach for a “big, beautiful bill” that includes $4.5 trillion in tax cuts that are tops on the party agenda. Senate Republicans plan to deal with tax cuts later, in a second package.“It’s time to act,”…

Honduras reverses previous position that it would not extend the treaty, seen as a symbol of heavy-handed US presence.Honduran President Xiomara Castro has announced her government has arrived at an agreement with the United States to extend an extradition treaty that she had previously pledged to discontinue. Castro said on Tuesday that the agreement will include “safeguards” for Honduras’s sovereignty, after previously attacking the treaty as an example of the heavy-handed US influence in Latin America. “I have reached an agreement with the new United States administration so that the Extradition Treaty will continue with the necessary safeguards for the…

Israel pulled its troops from towns and villages in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, according to the United Nations, but held onto strategic positions along the border as a deadline elapsed for both Israel and Hezbollah to fully withdraw from the south.The ongoing Israeli presence on Lebanese territory risked undermining a fragile truce with the militant group Hezbollah, and raised fears in Lebanon of another prolonged Israeli occupation.A cease-fire in November ended the deadliest war between the two sides in decades. The truce agreement stipulated that Israel and Hezbollah would cede control of southern Lebanon to the Lebanese military by the…

(The Center Square) – A bill establishing the right to access and use FDA-approved contraceptives in Virginia is headed to Gov. Glenn Youngkin following approval from both the Senate and House of Delegates as the 2025 General Assembly session approaches its final week.The Senate on Tuesday passed the final version 21-19 before sending it to the Governor for consideration. Senate Bill 1105, introduced by Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, protects the right of people to use and doctors to prescribe contraception, including the pill, IUDs, emergency contraceptives, condoms, and sterilization procedures.The governor will have until March 24 to sign, veto, or…

“Multialignment” has been Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s lodestar as he moved India and its foreign policy out of the dead end of nonalignment over the last decade. In Washington to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump last week, Modi got to see—firsthand and in real time—how Trump was developing a multialignment of his own. Trump’s efforts to loosen U.S. commitments to Europe, reach out to Russian President Vladimir Putin, and publicly woo Chinese President Xi Jinping mark an epochal break with the idea of a rules-based international order backed by U.S. power and a collective West. With his vision of America…