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The US president has praised the “progress” made during special envoy Steve Witkoff’s visit to the Kremlin US President Donald Trump has told his team to “move fast” to arrange a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, CNN reported on Wednesday. Putin proposed a direct meeting with Trump during talks earlier in the day with US special envoy Steve Witkoff, the news outlet said, citing two anonymous sources in the White House. The US president’s aides reportedly began planning for a potential summit immediately. Though these types of high-level meetings typically require preparation time, “Trump was urging his team to…
The United States Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, closed its doors on Monday, August 4, 2025, due to intense gunfire in the Tabarre neighborhood, where the diplomatic compound is located. The State Department announced that all personnel have been confined within the compound, suspending any official movement outside of it, in response to the growing wave of violence affecting the Caribbean nation. This decision comes in the context of widespread chaos, where armed gangs control approximately 90% of the capital, according to UN reports. Haiti, the poorest country in Hispanic America and the Caribbean, has been mired for years in a…
Record recruitment into the Australian armed forces has delivered the biggest single-year military personnel increase Down Under in 15 years, figures released Wednesday show. Official data shows the Australian Defence Force (ADF) permanent workforce grew by 1,868 over the 2024–25 financial year, bringing the total number of full-time personnel to 61,189. Year-on-year, it reflects a 17 percent increase in the number of people joining the ADF. The boost comes in a strained geo-political climate riven by Beijing’s continued false claim to the entire South China Sea in clear defiance of U.N. ruling there is “no legal basis” to the territory grab. Defence…
A motion to issue arrest warrants for the dozens of Texas Democrat legislators who fled the state Sunday to prevent their Republican colleagues from voting on a congressional redistricting map has been passed by the state’s House of Representatives. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirmed that he will work to “hunt down” the 51 Democrats who left Texas in order to delay the vote in a statement on X: “Democrats in the Texas House who try and run away like cowards should be found, arrested, and brought back to the Capitol immediately,” Paxton wrote following reports that the lawmakers fled…
The US president has told reporters that talks in Moscow could lead to progress towards peace in the Ukraine conflict A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky could happen “very soon,” US President Donald Trump has claimed.Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday, hours after US special envoy Steve Witkoff met for talks with Putin in Moscow, Trump was asked to comment on a potential summit between the Russian and Ukrainian leaders.“There is a very good prospect that they will, and we haven’t determined where, but we had some very good talks with President…
The Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday issued a nationwide ground stop for United Airlines flights at several airports due to a ‘technology issue.’ BREAKING: United Airlines has issued a nationwide ground stop and is holding all departures due to a technology issue. pic.twitter.com/HyxD4KqqaO — Sam Sweeney (@SweeneyABC) August 7, 2025 “The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it issued a ground stop for United Airlines (UAL.O), flights at several U.S. airports while the company itself said its teams were working to resolve a tech outage as soon as possible,” Reuters reported. ‘Due to a technology issue, we are holding…
Amid a flood of internal criticism, the centre-right government in Sweden appears to be backtracking on its “one-sided” stance towards Israel, potentially including its calls to cut off EU trade. Last week, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced that Stockholm wanted a suspension of the trade agreement between the European Union and Israel over supposed failures in “fulfilling its most basic obligations” around humanitarian aid in Gaza. Members of all three governing coalition parties were quick to criticise the stance, which many argued failed to recognise that Hamas was to blame for the start of the war with the October…
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) issued an executive order to block Medicaid funds from going to abortion providers in the state. Stitt signed the order on Thursday, instructing state agencies to align with Oklahoma’s broader public policies protecting unborn babies by barring taxpayer funding through Medicaid from going to clinics and organizations that perform, refer, or are affiliated with abortions. The governor cited a June Supreme Court decision as grounds for the order — the high court ruled that South Carolina could block Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds, finding that Planned Parenthood could not sue the state under a civil rights…
The Department of Homeland Security is running a full-court press with recruitment and is dropping the age requirement for immigration agents, opening the door for more Americans to help tackle the illegal immigration crisis. “In less than one week since DHS launched its recruitment campaign, more than 80,000 Americans applied to join ICE,” a Wednesday statement from the department’s website read. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now waiving age limits for new applicants “so even more patriots will qualify to join ICE in its mission to arrest murderers, pedophiles, gang members, rapists, and other…
The conservative movement must be “robust, charismatic, [and] deeply engaged” to win the culture war and wage a long campaign against the radical left’s use of lawfare, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow said at the Young America’s Foundation (YAF) National Conservative Student Conference on Tuesday. In his speech, Marlow detailed Democrats’ dubious legal dealings — pulling from his newly released book Breaking the Law: Exposing the Weaponization of America’s Legal System Against Donald Trump — as well as conservative culture war wins against the crumbling DEI machine, nodding to the Sydney Sweeney/American Eagle ad saga. “Andrew would’ve absolutely loved that news cycle,”…