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The previous version of the deal was not signed because of a verbal spat between Vladimir Zelensky and US leaders at the White House MOSCOW, March 28. /TASS/. Ukraine will not recognize Washington’s military aid as a debt, Vladimir Zelensky said at a briefing. A new US-Ukraine draft agreement on natural agreements stipulates that Kiev should compensate for all the aid, which may exceed $120 bln, the European Pravda news outlet reported, citing a copy of the document. "Ukraine has received the new draft agreement on natural resources from the US, which is totally different from the previous framework agreement....

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he has spoken with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) about making interest payments on loans for American-made cars tax deductible. While speaking with reporters in the Oval Office, Trump revealed that he has spoken with the leaders of both chambers of Congress about his vision for tax deductions on loans for U.S.-made cars. “If you buy a car in the United States that’s made in the United States, if it’s manufactured here… if you borrow money you have interest payments, we’re going to let you deduct the...

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong is a surgeon who made billions inventing cancer drugs. He says that Covid, and the vaccines that didn’t stop it, are likely causing a global epidemic of terrifyingly aggressive cancers.Chapters 5 chapters in this episode1. Why Are Cancer Rates Rising in Young People? 2. What Is Causing This Cancer Epidemic? 3. Is There a Connection Between Covid and Cancer? 4. How Big Pharma Tried to Undermine Dr. Soon-Shiong 5. Dr. Soon-Shiong’s Analysis of RFK Jr.

OLIVEHURST, Calif. — Days after a shootout left a Marysville Police Department officer dead, officials on Friday released details about the transnational drug trafficking operation several law enforcement agencies were coordinating to take down.

Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the top Republican in the Senate's government efficiency (DOGE) caucus, is urging the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to conduct another audit of its current and former employees and contractors, who, as of May 2023, owed nearly $46 million in delinquent taxes. Just under 6,000 IRS employees and contractors were audited to have not paid their taxes as of May 2023, with only about a third on payment plans, according to a Treasury inspector general report last year. Ernst requested the report at the time and sent a letter to the Department of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent...

If you think President Trump is just goofing around about Greenland or just using it for some sort of negotiation leverage, you would be wrong. And President Trump FULL TRANSCRIPT: We need Greenland, very importantly, for international security. We have to have Greenland. It’s not a question of “Do you think we can do without it?” We can’t. If you look at Greenland right now, if you look at the waterways, you have Chinese and Russian ships all over the place. And we’re not going to be able to do that. We’re not relying on Denmark or anybody else to...

The State Department has officially notified Congress that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has been dissolved, and the remaining operations of the agency will be run by the State Department itself. According to United Press International, the State Department officially told Congress that USAID was dissolving on Friday. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, "Today, the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have notified Congress on their intent to undertake a reorganization that would involve realigning certain USAID functions to the Department by July 1, 2025, and discontinuing the remaining...

HERNANDO COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said a 16-year-old boy was arrested Friday after a teenage girl’s body was found near the Cypress Lake Preserve on Thursday morning. Deputies said the girl’s body was found by a passerby off Ridge Manor Boulevard in Ridge Manor, near Cypress Lake Preserve, around 9:35 a.m. Thursday. “We found out from one witness that this young lady left her home early in the morning. She went to go meet an individual who was likely the person who killed her,” Sheriff Al Nienhuis said during a news conference. Nienhuis said the...

There’s a terrifying trend happening right now—and most of the so-called “experts” who have let us down in every way imaginable are pretending not to see it. So, what’s happening? Well, cancer is exploding. And not just in adults. Children—actually very young children—are now being diagnosed with these extremely aggressive, fast-moving cancers at a rate that’s impossible to ignore. But instead of asking hard questions, the same crowd of “experts” that once shouted down anyone who dared question the COVID vaccine has gone radio silent. Suddenly, they’ve lost all curiosity. Suddenly, they don’t want to “follow the science.” ... The...

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) head Elon Musk shared his concerns for the country and future generations during the second installment of his exclusive interview with Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier. "Well, there's a lot of things that I suppose that I worry about. And some of these things will seem esoteric to people. The birth rate is very low in almost every country, and unless that changes, civilization will disappear," Musk said in part two of his "Special Report" exclusive interview Friday. Musk pointed to declining birth rates in the U.S. and Korea, warning that "nothing seems...

Filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was reportedly beaten and detained earlier this week after a conflict in the West Bank.The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has sent a statement to members, apologizing for not publicly supporting No Other Land co-director Hamdan Ballal after his recent assault and arrest in the West Bank, in the village of Susiya, his hometown. On Monday, Yuval Abraham — an Israeli director and one of the four directors behind No Other Land, which won the Oscar for best documentary feature film — claimed on X (formerly Twitter) that a group of settlers had beaten the...

Imagine being a child and riding your bicycle to school, only to be struck in a crosswalk by a car, and the driver leaves the scene. Imagine being the parent of that child. Yes. It happened. Jackie Traynere, Will County Board Member and DuPage Township Administrator, was involved in an accident the morning of March 11, 2025. After leaving the accident scene, Traynere arrived at the Bolingbrook Police Station where according to the police reports, she said she was stopped at a red light while a child was crossing the crosswalk on his way to school. Traynere said she started...

No matter what his detractors have thrown at him, Justice Thomas has stayed the course and remained true to his principles. An absolute legend.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands at a crossroads. After years of pandemic fallout, opioid deaths, and declining public trust, the agency needs bold, decisive leadership. What it doesn’t require is another physician at the helm. In recent years, the CDC has almost exclusively been led by physicians, clinicians whose primary training, instincts, and oath revolve around caring for individual patients. But medicine and public health, though deeply related, are fundamentally different. Medicine treats individuals. Public health protects populations. Leading the CDC is less about diagnosis and more about infrastructure, logistics, and prevention. It is a...

Per @POTUS directive, I have revoked former President Joe Biden’s security clearance, and revoked clearances and access to classified information for Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, and Alexander Vindman.

Since its founding two years ago, xAI has rapidly become one of the leading AI labs in the world, building models and data centers at unprecedented speed and scale. X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth and, in the last two years, has been transformed into one of the most efficient companies in the world, positioning it to deliver scalable future growth. xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent. This combination will...

A lawmaker in Washington on Thursday likened legislation aimed at banning transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports in the state to racial segregation in the United States, arguing that those across the aisle are "making a lot of the same arguments today." Washington Democratic state Rep. Kristine Reeves spoke during an executive session of the House Education Committee on Thursday morning where members of the committee introduced SB 5123, a bill that aimed to expand protections for students, including gender expression and gender identity. "I recall a time in our country’s history not that long ago … where people...

Remember the movie “City Slickers?” Billy Crystal asked for the secret to life. Jack Palance said, “One Thing.” President Trump is the G.O.A.T. (the greatest of all-time). His first two months have been a work of art. My fans love him. But one thing is missing. One thing that matters above all else… WHERE ARE THE ARRESTS? Because I host national TV and radio shows, and a daily video podcast, I am blessed to receive thousands of emails from my fans. I am honored. I read every one of them. That is what gives me my edge. I understand exactly...

India is open to cutting tariffs on more than half of U.S. imports worth $23 billion in the first phase of a trade deal the two nations are negotiating, two government sources said, the biggest cut in years, aimed at fending off reciprocal tariffs. The South Asian nation wants to mitigate the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal worldwide tariffs set to take effect from April 2, a threat that has disrupted markets and sent policymakers scrambling, even among Western allies. In an internal analysis, New Delhi estimated such reciprocal tariffs would hit 87% of its total exports to...

Two months after he was inaugurated, Trump has smashed many of the government's silly DEI rules. But he hasn't created a new age of meritocracy.On Inauguration Day, President Donald Trump vowed to "forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based." Less than two weeks later, Vice President J.D. Vance's office hired Buckley Carlson—the 24-year-old son of former Fox News host and popular conservative pundit Tucker Carlson—as deputy press secretary. At least young Buckley can be certain that he didn't get the job because of the color of his skin. The dismantling of the federal government's various so-called diversity, equity,...