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U.S.-mediated peace talks between Russia and Ukraine have not reached a dead end, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on March 30 in response to a question from the Kyiv Independent, arguing that negotiations are merely postponed. The comments come as diplomacy appears stalled, with the U.S. now focused on the war in Iran and no new Kyiv-Moscow-Washington talks scheduled. Despite the pause, Zelensky sought to project momentum, even as fundamental disagreements — particularly over territory — remain unresolved. "The trilateral meeting must take place; it is undoubtedly being postponed because the U.S. is currently focused on Iran," Zelensky said about a...

I don't think many people saw this one coming, but it makes sense in a perverse way. Events in the Middle East have conspired to create a situation in which Ukraine has become an indispensable ally and munitions supplier to Gulf Arab states. Nobody in the world has as much experience fighting Iranian drones as does Ukraine, and they have become extraordinarily proficient at destroying them before they do any damage, and at a price that cannot be beat. The Gulf states, having blown through an awful lot of their anti-air magazines, are having to quickly learn how to defend...

General or partial assessments of the number of victims in the war in Ukraine reveal the high human cost of an armed conflict unprecedented in Europe in the last eight decades. With estimates of nearly two million military casualties, it is reminiscent of the worst conflicts experienced in the 20th century on the Old Continent. The most conservative figures — around half a million deaths on the Ukrainian side — are five times higher than those of the Balkan War (1992-1995), which totaled 100,000, of whom 13,500 were civilians. The Ukrainian Commissioner for Missing Persons in Special Circumstances has just...

Sen. Ron Johnson's plea came after Just the News earlier this week disclosed declassified documents showing Chinese intelligence gained access to multiple states' voter registration data and conducted some voter influence efforts. The intelligence agencies chose to keep that information quiet because spy agency analysts opposed Trump and his policies. The chairman of the Senate's most powerful investigative panel is urging President Donald Trump to declassify and make public any U.S. intelligence showing China's efforts to gain access to American voter registration data or to use measures to influence voters dating back to 2020. "I wish they briefed the American...

The Chinese did, in fact, meddle in the 2020 presidential vote in the United States, and the intelligence community did hide that information from President Donald Trump. That's according to a new investigative report at Just the News on the clouded vote results that already are known to have been under the undue influence of two factors. Those are the FBI's decision to interfere by falsely claiming that accurate information about Biden family scandals revealed in a laptop abandoned by Hunter Biden was Russian disinformation and Mark Zuckerberg's decision to put his thumb on the scale by handing out $400...

Us Hunter Biden now the sacrifiacl lamb for the Democrats to use?

Former CIA Director John Brennan snapped at a man who confronted him for signing the infamous letter in 2020 that claimed the bombshell Hunter Biden email scandal exposed by The Post had “all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” Brennan, 70, grew visibly incensed and angrily got in the face of the man who pressed about the letter, poking him on the chest repeatedly before backing off. “You misrepresented that,” Brennan shouted at conservative national security consultant Thomas Speciale during the tense clash. “We never said it was disinformation; we said it was Russian influence operations, which is...

FBI's squeezing Supervisory Intel Analyst Brian Auten, now on paid suspension, to cooperate in conspiracy probe. Auten, who worked Midyear, Crossfire, FISAs, Hunter laptop, Mar-a-Lago, and ICA, "knows were all the bodies are buried" at the Hoover Building, a source says

The retired CIA spy who says she led the team that helped draft the controversial 2016 U.S. intelligence community assessment on Russian election meddling has called Donald Trump a “dictator” and MAGA supporters “Nazis” — and insists that the now-discredited Steele dossier “might be true.” Susan Miller, a recently-retired CIA counterintelligence officer, has taken to social media and news media interviews in recent days to tell the story of how she was allegedly hand-picked by former CIA Director John Brennan to lead the team which helped draft the ICA in late 2016, gleefully exposing her anti-Trump sentiments. She has repeatedly...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec “Hunter Biden, did you pardon yourself?" From Human Events 2:37 PM · May 29, 2025

Marco Polo Relaunches BidenLaptopEmails dot com Searchable Database- - - [Captains are auto generated & may contain slight errors] pic.twitter.com/b4Hg5VhjAE— Marco Polo (@MarcoPolo501c3) July 16, 2025 The searchable database: https://bidenlaptopemails.com/

What happens when a reporter gets caught spreading disinformation in the form of the biggest fake news of the 2020 presidential campaign? Why, promote them up the media food chain from a Politico reporter to a national security correspondent at CNN. Such was the reward for Natasha Bertrand for her role in "fortifying" the 2020 election against Donald Trump by hyping the disinformation campaign by 51 intelligence officials who incorrectly claimed that the highly damaging (to the Joe Biden campaign) information on Hunter Biden's laptop was really the result of Russian disinformation.So instead of eternally bearing the Scarlett Letter "D"...

Internal communications obtained by the Oversight Project show that Department of Justice officials and Hunter Biden’s legal team worked together to manage press inquiries related to the slow-walking of the federal investigation into Hunter Biden, raising new questions about the impartiality of the probe led by Special Counsel David Weiss. The emails, reviewed by Oversight Project attorneys, include a DOJ “summary of call” documenting a coordination meeting between Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Wolf, DOJ Tax Prosecutor Mark Daly, and Hunter Biden’s attorneys. The meeting focused on crafting a response to media inquiries, with the DOJ circulating a “proposed statement” originally...

Only 11 days after President Trump was inaugurated for a second term, his administration began a purge of the F.B.I. that now threatens some of the bureau’s most important missions. His appointees ousted eight of its most experienced managers, including the division heads overseeing national security, cybersecurity and criminal investigations. Several had worked on prosecutions of Jan. 6 rioters or had assisted in the various investigations of Mr. Trump, and Emil Bove, then the acting deputy attorney general, said they could not be trusted to carry out the president’s agenda.That was just the beginning. Over the past five months, many...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday called for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden, repeating his baseless claim that the contest was marred by widespread fraud.“Biden was grossly incompetent, and the 2020 election was a total FRAUD!” Trump said in a social media post in which he also sought to favorably contrast his immigration enforcement approach with that of the former president. “The evidence is MASSIVE and OVERWHELMING. A Special Prosecutor must be appointed. This cannot be allowed to happen again in the United States of America! Let...

The cover-up of former President Joe Biden’s mental decline might be a bigger scandal than Watergate, CNN host Jake Tapper acknowledged Monday. Tapper, the co-author of a new book detailing Democratic efforts to hide Biden’s deteriorating health from the public during his 2024 re-election campaign, was asked by Piers Morgan why he concluded in the book – “Original Sin” – that the efforts to prop up the octogenarian former president were not akin to the 1972 burglary at the Democratic National Committee headquarters that eventually forced Richard Nixon to resign.

On the eve of the 2020 election, FBI agents discussed an active money-laundering case against Hunter Biden just hours after casting doubt on the authenticity of his incriminating laptop during meetings with social media companies.. The FBI’s refusal to confirm the laptop’s existence and instead allow a false narrative to take hold that it was Russian disinformation came on the same day that The Post published bombshell emails from the device revealing Joe Biden’s involvement in his son’s lucrative influence-peddling schemes when he was vice president. ... Truth silenced .. FBI analyst Peter Courtney .. began to respond that the...

If the FBI officials who buried the Hunter Biden laptop story aren’t held responsible, it will be impossible for Americans to have any faith in the agency — or the electoral process.. A new report released on Tuesday shows the FBI imposed a “gag” order in relation to the Hunter Biden laptop to conceal the truth about its authenticity from voters ahead of the 2020 election. Internal FBI chat messages obtained by investigative journalists Catherine Herridge and Michael Shellenberger show that “senior bureau officials actively [shut] down discussion of the laptop’s credibility days before the 2020 presidential election.” According to...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard revoked security clearances from the 51 ‘spies who lied,’ several Biden-era officials and Deep State lawyers. Joe Biden is also no longer receiving his Daily Brief. Last month, President Trump stripped the security clearances of at least eight corrupt ‘antagonists’ who worked for Biden or targeted him for ruin over the last several years: Former Secretary of State Antony Blinken Former NatSec Advisor Jake Sullivan New York Attorney General Letitia James Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Biden’s Deputy AG Lisa Monaco Corrupt prosecutor Andrew Weissmann Deep State lawyer Mark Zaid Norm Eisen – the man...

Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson 🔥THROWBACK: Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino torches the media for burying the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, receipts in hand: “Media is doing one of the biggest coverups ever. Here’s the proof—Hunter’s signed receipt for his laptop. Bill to Hunter Biden, signature and all.” 9:46 PM · Feb 23, 2025