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... protect from the cold. The U.N. says 80 percent of Gaza is in ruins. There's a U.S. plan to reconstruct, but President Trump said today the first move was Hamas'. Donald Trump: If they don't disarm, as they agreed to do, they agreed to it, and ...
And on his first day in office, he pardoned more than 1,500 January 6 defendants. Griswold says that Trump's pardon for Peters has clear limits. Jena Griswold: She was convicted under our state laws in a state court, and the president does not have authority to issue pardons ...
... s go with affordability, because I think that is the word that, at the beginning of the year, people weren't using that word. President Trump likes to say this, and then this new word affordability came around. Well, in fact, it is a word that has sort of shot ...
... immediately respond to a message seeking more details. The press office of Venezuela’s government did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump’s statement. Trump for months has suggested he may conduct land strikes in South America, in Venezuela or possibly another country, and in recent ...
... the world's most desperate countries, Afghanistan, is not included, nor are the Palestinian territories, which officials say will be covered by money stemming from Trump's as-yet-incomplete Gaza peace plan. The project, months in the making, stems from Trump's longtime view that the world body has ...
... previously floated. Trump makes case once again for Netanyahu pardon The two leaders, who have a long and close relationship, heaped praise on each other. Trump also tweaked the Israeli leader, who at moments during the war has raised Trump's ire, for being “very difficult on occasion.” Trump also ...
... as a candidate in 2024, he boasted that he could resolve the fighting in a day. After hosting Zelenskyy at the White House in October, Trump demanded that both Russia and Ukraine halt fighting and “stop at the battle line,” implying that Moscow should be able to keep the territory ...
Trump said he'd follow the meeting with another call to Putin. Earlier Sunday, Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the Trump-Putin call was initiated by the U.S. side, lasted over an hour, and was “friendly, benevolent and businesslike.” Ushakov said Trump and Putin agreed to ...
In our news wrap Saturday, Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital with a barrage of missiles and drones a day before Trump and Zelenskyy are set to meet, a quick-moving winter storm snarled holiday travel across the Great Lakes and Northeast, and California dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration ...
... I think, in this instance, what we're seeing is America working just as it was intended to. William Brangham: But we have seen the Trump administration, particularly when it comes to deporting foreign nationals, move very quickly, sometimes seemingly in contradiction to judicial orders.Do you have a sense ...
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