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Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared to rebuff Donald Trump’s first attempt at cornering Ukraine’s critical mineral deposits to pay back the US billions spent fighting Russia. The Ukrainian president said that a draft deal – presented in Kyiv last week by the US treasury secretary, Scott Bessent – did not yet contain the security provisions Kyiv needed. […]
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Families of victims of the deadliest U.S. air disaster since 2001 visited the crash site Sunday just outside Washington, D.C., walking along the banks of the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport to memorialize their loved ones. Watch the news briefing in the player above. Dozens of people arrived in buses with a […]
The US has not stopped military aid to Ukraine after newly sworn in US secretary of state Marco Rubio announced he would pause foreign aid grants for 90 days, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday. The Ukrainian leader did not clarify whether humanitarian aid had been paused. Ukraine relies on the US for 40% […]
The development of a joint document is not iterative and there is no discussion between the agency and sponsor, according to new guidance seemingly aimed at differentiating the frequent use of joint backgrounders in oncology from the single document developed for the Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm. New guidance on joint briefing documents for ODAC meetings emphasizes […]
The US expects thousands of North Korean troops massing in Russia will “soon” enter combat against Ukraine, the secretary of defence said on Saturday. About 10,000 North Korean soldiers were believed to be based in the Russian border region of Kursk, Lloyd Austin said, where they were being “integrated into the Russian formations”. “Based upon […]
The US called on Russia to stop its “bellicose” and “irresponsible rhetoric” after Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons. It followed Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to strike targets inside Russian territory with US-supplied longer-range weapons. The US had not seen any reason to adjust its […]
President-elect Donald Trump has demanded the incoming Republican leader in the Senate streamline the temporary approval of his cabinet appointees, as his team begins assembling the incoming White House team. Three Republicans are vying to replace incumbent majority leader Mitch McConnell ahead of a party vote on Wednesday. Senator Rick Scott of Florida has earned […]
Officials at the Pentagon are having informal discussions about what to do if Donald Trump were to give an illegal order, such as deploying the military domestically, according to a report from CNN. They are also preparing for the possibility that he may change rules to be able to fire scores of career civil servants. […]
The Democratic party has begun to pick through Kamala Harris’s loss to Donald Trump in the presidential election, with the post-pandemic headwinds, a failure to distance herself from Joe Biden and overestimating abortion access instead of the economy as an election winner, all reported by congressional Democrats as reasons for the decisive loss. Biden struck […]
Republicans are on track to win the popular vote in a presidential election for the first time in 20 years, with Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris with 72.5m votes against nearly 68m on Wednesday night after winning the electoral college earlier in the day. Although the vote count is unfinished, Trump is expected to meet […]