Author: potus
As the deadliest war in Europe since World War II rages in Ukraine, the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and other European leaders are alarmed and dismayed at being shut out of the talks. One of Kyiv’s main concerns was that Russia would be given the go-ahead to keep some 20% of the country it has occupied.“Ukraine did not know anything about it,” Zelenskyy warned ahead of the meeting. Kyiv “regards any negotiations on Ukraine without Ukraine as ones that have no result, and we cannot recognize … any agreements about us without us,” he said, adding that he planned to travel…
The Trump administration is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees this week as part of a move to rid the country’s third-largest agency of people deemed to be misaligned with the administration’s goals, according to three sources familiar with the matter.The sources said the Trump administration has a “centralized plan” and a list of people in high-level positions across every component of DHS who are to be targeted this week. The firings will come on top of hundreds of more general cuts that began across DHS on Friday night, which targeted the Federal Emergency Management Agency,…
Durante las dos últimas décadas, Estados Unidos ha generado un arsenal sin precedentes de herramientas de seguridad económica que han anclado la política exterior estadounidense.Los gobiernos republicanos y demócratas desarrollaron en conjunto una visión compartida del mundo y de la mejor manera de defender los intereses de Estados Unidos. Los responsables de la seguridad económica trabajaron en los diferentes gobiernos, forjando poco a poco grandes ambiciones de un orden mundial basado en sanciones financieras, controles de las exportaciones y el desarrollo de tecnologías cruciales. Cada gobierno nuevo fortalecía las herramientas económicas que heredaba del anterior y alentaba a sus sucesores…
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has nominated the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia — a “Stop the Steal” organizer who advocated for Jan. 6 defendants — to be the district’s top prosecutor on a permanent basis.Trump made the announcement less than three days after the nominee, Ed Martin, posted that he would be investigating Jack Smith and a law firm that gave the former special counsel pro bono legal services.Referring to Martin as “highly respected,” Trump wrote on X that Martin “has been doing a great job as Interim U.S. Attorney, fighting tirelessly to restore Law and…
(The Center Square) – North Carolina’s Commerce Department is supporting a Pennsylvania company’s expansion adding more than 200 jobs in the Sandhills with a performance grant of $800,000.Pennsylvania Transformer Technology, distributor of power and distribution transformers headquartered in Canonsburg, Pa., is investing more than $102.5 million in its facility in Raeford. Two state-of-the-art facilities are planned, adding 300,000 square feet.A release from the Commerce Department says increasing manufacturing capacity of transformers will “contribute to reducing domestic supply chain shortages of critical transformer equipment.”In a release, company President Sandeep Chakravarty said, “We built our first factory in Hoke County, North Carolina,…
Los dirigentes de muchos de los países más grandes de Europa acudieron el lunes a París en un esfuerzo por forjar una estrategia para su seguridad, mientras los enviados del presidente Trump se preparaban para las conversaciones con Rusia sobre el fin de la guerra en Ucrania, que no los incluyen.La reunión de París se organizó de manera apresura tras la primera visita a Europa la semana pasada del vicepresidente de Estados Unidos, JD Vance, y del secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, que dejó a los líderes europeos alarmados tanto por el tono como por el mensaje del nuevo gobierno…
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Monday hinted she might not throw up immediate roadblocks to Elon Musk’s infiltration of the nation’s government agencies, where he and his team have accessed sensitive data and enacted a flurry of firings. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said at a hearing Monday that she needed to see more evidence of imminent harm before she granted a request by a group of states for a temporary restraining order to stop Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency team from entering federal agency data systems and prohibited their making personnel decisions about federal employees. Chutkan…
As President Trump looks north and repeatedly presses his case to absorb Canada as the “51st state,” politically minded Democrats who are otherwise outraged by almost everything else about his agenda find themselves contemplating a potential electoral boon should it ever happen.Few in Washington take the prospect all that seriously, of course. Canada has made clear that it has no interest in joining the United States, and Mr. Trump seems unlikely to send in the 82nd Airborne Division to force the matter. But if the idea appeals to Mr. Trump’s grandiose sense of himself as an empire-building historic figure, it…
During Mettler-Toledo’s earnings call earlier this month, executives found themselves fielding a barrage of questions about one key topic: tariffs.The Ohio-based maker of industrial scales and laboratory equipment had already opened the call by breaking down the expected impact from President Donald Trump’s still-evolving trade policy. But when the event transitioned to the question-and-answer portion, the inquiries from analysts seeking further detail about potential tariffs were constant.“Uncertainty remains across many of our core markets and the global economy,” Finance Chief Shawn Vadala said on the Feb. 7 call. “Geopolitical tensions remain elevated, and include the potential for new tariffs that we have not factored…
Personnel from DOGE are set to visit FAA headquarters on Monday as union says workforce is ‘already stretched thin’.The administration of United States President Donald Trump has begun a mass firing campaign targeting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), including workers focused on radar, landing and navigational maintenance. Personnel from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory panel led by billionaire Elon Musk, is visiting FAA headquarters on Monday, as the group continues a controversial effort to access government data and slash the federal workforce. Hundreds of probationary employees were among those fired at the FAA, despite efforts to boost…