• Trump may not be in power, but his Ukraine rhetoric has spooked Europe

    Republican presidential nominee can still undermine trust in US global leadership and is reminiscent of the GOP in the 1940sAmid the grandiose surroundings of the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich’s historic old town, previously cautious and low-key German politicians were in such a state of alarm about future US commitment to Nato that they were discussing how Germany might acquire an independent nuclear deterrent, potentially overturning decades of national defense doctrine.The setting was the...

  • Opinion: One Trump puppet stands between Ukraine and the aid it needs

    Speaker Mike Johnson in just months has all but cemented his place among the weakest House leaders in its history. Alas, the Louisianan nonetheless holds enough power that he’s single-handedly blocking one of the most crucial matters of our time: bipartisan U.S. aid to Ukraine for its defense against Vladimir Putin’s murderous expansionism. It’s not like Johnson is making a stand on principle by not scheduling a House vote. Oh, no. To hear him talk, he’s all for our Ukrainian allies and wants...

  • 'Gloves off': Biden campaign predicts how Trump likely spends his time

    President Joe Biden campaigned in five cities last week, while his opponent, former President Donald Trump, has only had "a single public campaign event since he locked up the Republican presidential nomination on March 12," according to The Associated Press.The Daily Beast's Jake Lahut reported earlier this week that since Biden's State of the Union address earlier this month, his reelection campaign "has seen a significant boost in both polling and fundraising." The president "is now leading...

  • TikTok may be on borrowed time in the US, but it still holds a Trump card

    Despite Congress threatening to ban the Chinese-owned app, the service has unexpectedly been handed a presidential jokerLast week, the US House of Representatives, a dysfunctional body that hitherto could not agree on anything, suddenly converged on a common project: a bipartisan bill that would force TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, to sell the app to an owner of another nationality, or else face a ban in the US, TikTok’s largest market.American legislators’ concerns about the social media...

    • MSNBC

    ‘He knew’: Witness who may land Trump in jail talks Jack Smith probe

    Brian Butler, a former Mar-a-Lago employee who testified before a grand jury in the classified documents case, joins MSNBC’s Ari Melber on “The Beat.” (Check out The Beat's playlist: https://msnbc.com/ari Connect with Ari Melber: https://www.instagram.com/arimelber)

    • KIFI

    Cecily Strong, like many of us, knew her fiancé was going to propose ahead of time

    By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Saturday Night Live” alum Cecily Strong recently revealed that she’s engaged and it wasn’t exactly a surprise for her. Referring to herself as “kind of a detective,” the actor and comedian broke down how things played out when her partner – known only as “Jack” – was planning his

    • MSNBC

    Liz Cheney urges the Supreme Court to stop aiding Donald Trump’s delay tactics

    Anthony Scaramucci, former Trump White House Communications Director, Charlie Sykes MSNBC Columnist, and Basil Smikle join Nicolle Wallace on Deadline White House with reaction to Liz Cheney’s most recent comments calling out the conservative Supreme Court for aiding and abetting Donald Trump and his legal team’s delay tactics by taking up the issue of Presidential Immunity.

    • News18

    US Has No "Exact Timing" On Ukraine Aid Amid Congress Break As Russia Makes Gains, "Two New Armies"

    The US Congress will head out on a two-week break without any clear plan to provide military aid requested by the White House to help Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that his country is in dire need of support to replenish dwindling ammunition stocks. He has also voiced hope the United States will approve a $95 billion package stalled on Capitol Hill. Meanwhile, Ukrainian PM Denis Shmygal said the financial aid provided to Ukraine by Western states and the IMF will...

    • CNN

    FDA approves new drug that may help stop and even reverse a rare, fatal condition that doctors call a ‘ticking time bomb’

    When doctors told Katrina Barry that she had a rare and serious condition called pulmonary arterial hypertension or PAH, they warned her not to Google it. Come on, she thought; they wanted a young woman who was bound for graduate school, who had survived a transatlantic plane flight while having a heart attack and now open-heart surgery, not to look up the condition that kept trying to kill her? Waiting for her on the internet was some chilling information. PAH affects about 500 to 1,000...

  • Biden says Trump has 'no basis of understanding' of foreign policy, then mixes up Norway and Finland: President attacks the press for focusing on polls and his predecessor for treating Putin 'like a buddy' at campaign stop in Nevada

    'This guy – he has no basis of understanding what American foreign policy is about,' President Joe Biden told supporters in Reno. Former president Donald Trump is currently leading in the polls in Nevada. Biden targeting union voters and voters of color during Nevada, Arizona trip

  • Slovak Matters: If it looks like Slovak and sounds like Slovak, it still may be Czech

    While Slovaks seem to naturally understand Czech, for foreigners who have learned Slovak, Czech is often unintelligible.

  • ‘Cruel’: the supreme court could send one-time abortion deserts like Hawaii back in time

    States in which abortion is legal but was long inaccessible have benefitted from the FDA’s expansion of a key abortion drugExplainer: the mifepristone caseTell us: have you used an abortion pill in the US? They treated a patient who had wanted to get pregnant, but decided to get an abortion rather than have a child with her abusive partner. They treated patients who had lost their houses in the 2023 Maui fires, found themselves homeless and pregnant, and wanted abortions. They treated patients...