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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Days before the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainians are as somber and tense as they were right before Moscow launched the war. Only now, they aren’t just worried about their longtime enemy.Ukraine’s stunning new threat comes from its once staunchest ally, the United States, whose support appears to be fading as President Donald Trump echoes the narrative of Russian President Vladimir Putin while pledging to stop the fighting between the two countries.Over three years of war, Ukraine’s initial unity had started to wear thin, as old frictions and political spats reemerged. But after Trump’s…

The Matheson Courthouse in Salt Lake City is pictured on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)A dizzying number of bills aimed at altering the rules governing Utah’s judicial branch keep cropping up during the Utah Legislature’s 2025 legislative session. Elizabeth Wright, executive director of the Utah State Bar, said even she has had a hard time keeping up with all of them. “It’s just been … overwhelming,” Wright told Utah News Dispatch this week. “Every day, new legislation is coming out that is attacking the independence of the judiciary.” Wright said it’s no “secret” that the Republican-controlled…

Candace Owens has published an interview with Xavier Poussard, who claims French media have hid the truth about Brigitte Macron for decades US journalist Candace Owens has claimed that Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, “is in fact a man.” Owens shared an investigation on her podcast this week, insisting she would stake her “entire professional reputation” on Brigitte Macron being transgender.Brigitte Macron, born Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux in 1953, is a former literature teacher and has been married to Emmanuel Macron since 2007. They are said to have met when Macron was 15 and she was teaching…

The Founding Fathers expected elected legislators to remain closest to the sovereign people in both interests and affection. Those great men got many things right, but boy did they get that one wrong. “Suppose you were an idiot,” literary legend Mark Twain once wrote. “And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.” Nonetheless, according to a Gallup poll conducted Feb. 3-16, those beleaguered legislators may thank President Donald Trump for a 70 percent increase in their approval rating since Jan. 17, three days before the president’s inauguration. Of course, one need not break out the champagne…

Nirvana’s Nevermind and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” both find their way back to one Billboard chart … [+] apiece, while also appearing on at least one other ranking as well. Dave Grohl, Kurt Conain and Kirst Novoselic of Nirvana (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Inc)FilmMagic, Inc Nirvana is one of many legacy acts that regularly rises and falls on the Billboard charts. It’s rare for the group to find its footing on only one or two tallies, but it’s not uncommon for the rockers to slip off one list or return to another based on current competition, or any exciting news…

Open Doors UK, a human rights group focused on persecution against Christians, reported on Tuesday that a militant group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) took 70 Christian villages hostage, marched them into their church, and then murdered them by cutting their heads off. Open Doors quoted sources in the field who said the massacre took place on February 13, when a group of terrorists allegedly from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) surrounded the village of Maybe and forced residents from their homes. The ADF allegedly rounded up a total of 70 Christian villages and forced them into a Protestant…

President Donald Trump’s deputies flew 177 Venezuelan migrants from Cuba’s Guantanamo Bay to Honduras on Thursday. The Venezuelan migrants were then flown from Honduras to Caracas, Venezuela, so putting 3,078 miles between them and ordinary Americans living in the Democratic-run sanctuary city of Aurora, Colo. But the success is just a down payment on a huge task ahead. President Joe Biden’s pro-migration deputies welcomed roughly 600,000 Venezuelan illegal migrants into Americans’ workplaces and homes. Venezuelan migrants deported from U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay arrive at Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela on February 20, 2025. (PEDRO MATTEY/AFP via Getty)…

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-NV) stated that she’s pushing to cut off funding for President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order because she wants “to fight to be sure that everybody who’s born here gets to retain that citizenship.” Host Pamela Brown asked, “Axios is reporting that you are leading a Democratic effort that would cut off funding to enforce Trump’s order to end birthright citizenship. Tell me more about that. Are any of your Republican colleagues supportive of this?” Rosen answered, “Well, I hope that they would be because we passed the 14th Amendment in…

Editor’s Note: This CNN Travel series is, or was, sponsored by the country it highlights. CNN retains full editorial control over subject matter, reporting and frequency of the articles and videos within the sponsorship, in compliance with our policy.Sara Sami remembers the first time she really saw the stars.The 38-year-old Bahraini photographer and travel guide was scouting out a spot for one of her tour itineraries in Saudi Arabia — a huge cliff overlooking a vast desert, nicknamed the “Edge of the World.”“There was a blanket of stars right above us,” recalls Sami. “You could see thousands of them, like…

LONDON (AP) — As the U.S. and Russia push ahead – so far without Ukraine at the table – on talks to end the war, political and military leaders in Europe are fleshing out details of a plan for European forces to help ensure Moscow does not attack again.After months of quiet discussions, the proposal has become increasingly public. It will likely be on the agenda when British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron, two major backers of the idea, visit Washington on separate days next week for talks with President Donald Trump.Starmer, who will visit Thursday,…