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In what has the potential to be a historic moment for peace, Russia and Ukraine are set to hold their first direct talks since the war erupted in February 2022—yet both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will notably skip face-to-face negotiations, dimming hopes for a swift end to the devastating conflict. Instead, Moscow will send a delegation of seasoned technocrats, including presidential adviser Vladimir Medinsky and Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, to Istanbul on May 15. Kremlin officials made it clear: Putin himself will not be attending, despite having proposed the talks just days earlier. On the Ukrainian side, Zelensky…
The Brother Lode: Billionaires Joesley (left) and Wesley Batista are the top shareholders of JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, which the SEC recently greenlit to be listed on the NYSE.EVARISTO SA/AFP/Getty Images Joesley and Wesley Batista, the billionaire brothers behind JBS, went to jail after paying off more than 1,800 politicians in their native Brazil and have struggled to launch a public offering in the U.S. But after one of their companies donated $5 million to Donald Trump’s second inaugural, their SEC troubles miraculously disappeared. After a decade-long beef with the Securities and Exchange Commission as well as bipartisan opposition…
13 million nonprofit workers, including teachers, nurses, and university staff, could lose access to … MoreGetty Images Student Loan Forgiveness Potentially In Jeopardy For Millions A low-profile provision buried in the GOP’s 2025 tax proposal could spark one of U.S. history’s most significant rollbacks in student loan forgiveness and repayment eligibility, specifically targeting the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The bill would allow the Treasury Secretary to unilaterally revoke the nonprofit status of any organization it designates as a terrorist supporting organization. While its language appears aimed at bad actors, the downstream effect could destabilize the PSLF for the more…
Credit Trump for the irony of the year in a pair of comments on Truth Social. Comments of the Day CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA — WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!! CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!! 80% Tariff on China seems right! Up to Scott B. Irony of the Year CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!! No one has tried harder than Trump to make the US an island. He wants production here, massive tariffs to stop imports, tariffs to balance the budget, and now he says an “80 percent tariff on China seems right”. Nearly as…
Eileen Gu, the freestyle skier often called “Genocide Barbie” during the 2022 Olympics, has been handed another high-profile honor by appearing on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue this year. Gu, born in the United States but chose to join China’s Olympic team, became the youngest freestyle skiing champion during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, and then became the No. 2 top female athlete in earnings with $22.1 million a year, according to Newsweek. This year, the accolades continue as she has been handed a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue photo shoot. “Free skiing is a very male-dominated sport.…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) proposed Wednesday to spend $1 billion per year on the state’s failing high-speed rail project through cap-and-trade programs, even as his budget drowned in massive deficits. As Breitbart News reported, the governor’s revised budget plan sought cuts to a variety of programs to make up a $12 billion deficit. He even proposed cutting off new enrollees for “free” health care to illegal aliens. But high-speed rail — a program that is decades late and $100 billion over budget without a single station being built — will continue to be funded, as Newsom continues to embrace…
Former U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline” that former President Donald Trump has “perverted” the laws of the United States for the past 100 days. Luttig said, “The President of the United States doesn’t have the power under the Constitution or laws of the United States for any single one of his signature initiatives undertaken in his first 100 days. I think, and I thought of myself in writing this article, as little more than a scrivener or a scribe of the president’s actions and their illegality. I just marshaled, frankly, all of the…
Speaker Mike Johnson is scrambling to negotiate with competing factions of his conference as the clock ticks to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda through the House next week. Here’s a sampling of what each group is gunning for: THE SALT-IES: The so-called SALT Republicans are at an impasse with GOP leadership over the state-and-local-tax deduction. House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) told reporters Wednesday there’s only about $50 billion to work with — putting Johnson in a difficult spot to placate the mostly blue-state members who are pushing to beef up the $30,000 cap currently in the bill.…
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs and Cassie Ventura, former girlfriend and now main witness in his trial. Cassandra ‘Cassie’ Ventura was back at the witness box for a second day of testimony on the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sex-trafficking trial. Read: Part 1 | Part 2 Cassie told jurors that when she fought back against the alleged physical violence by her then-boyfriend Sean “Diddy” Combs, it made “it worse for myself.” New York Post reported: “‘I feel like it would escalate the fight more and make it worse for myself’, Cassie testified on her second day on the witness stand. ‘It would make…
The president may be thirsting for a new four-engine jumbo jet, but many governments and royal families are unloading their fuel-guzzling palaces in the sky. The royal family of Qatar, owner of one of the largest private jet fleets in the world, has been quietly getting rid of some of its biggest planes. It may have found the perfect taker for one of its Boeing 747 jumbo jets in President Donald Trump, who has been frustrated with the multi-year delays in replacing Air Force One. But while many have speculated that the Qataris have offered Trump the luxurious plane to…