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Former President Donald Trump has expressed interest in visiting war-torn Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has formally extended an invitation to the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee. For months now, Zelensky has been publicly offering to give the 77-year-old former president a tour of the front lines of his country’s war with Russia, in an effort to show him of the realities of the more than two-year-long conflict and with the hope that it leads to more military aid to Ukraine should Trump reclaim the White House. “We conveyed the messages and the context through the appropriate people,”...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday apologized after losing his “train of thought” while speaking to the press in East Palestine, Ohio. His act of contrition came nearly three weeks after the toxic train derailment devastated the local community there. Speaking of the dangers of what he described as “misinformation injected into this situation, none of which is to the benefit of the community,” Buttigieg appeared to lose his place. “So I think — sorry I lost my train of thought,” Buttigieg said, prompting some to note the irony of his word choice.

A border-state House Democrat ripped President Biden on Wednesday for not showing enough urgency about the immigration crisis at the southern border — claiming the situation will be out of control. Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that communities in his state will soon be “overwhelmed” by migrants crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas and that the 80-year-old president needs to “show up” at the border to in a demonstration of support for the impacted communities and the beleaguered members of law enforcement. “I don’t know why they keep avoiding the border and saying there’s other...

The head of the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) investigative team in Wuhan, China, told the Chinese propaganda outlet Global Times on Friday that he believed it was “still worth” visiting for clues on the origins of the Chinese coronavirus despite the government’s wholesale destruction of evidence there.

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A small crowd of Palestinian protesters accosted an American diplomatic delegation visiting the West Bank Tuesday, blocking a convoy of vehicles, chanting “shame on you” and hurling a shoe — a deeply insulting gesture in Arab culture. The Americans, including employees of the consulate in Jerusalem, were on their way to a U.S. reception in town of Ramallah meant to reaffirm cultural and educational ties with the Palestinians. But relations have grown strained recently, with Palestinians disappointed over President Barack Obama’s handling of Mideast peace efforts. They say he is not tough enough on Israel and...

Following mail bomb plot, Rabbi Vernon Kurtz says Jewish leaders working with local police to up security. Rabbi Vernon Kurtz enjoyed a peaceful Shabbat in Jerusalem, blissfully unaware that at his suburban Chicago synagogue, all of his congregants were talking about the packages apparently mailed by al- Qaida to two local congregations. Kurtz, who is the rabbi of the North Suburban Synagogue Beth El in Highland Park, Illinois, and immediate past president of Merkaz Olami, the Conservative Movement’s worldwide Zionist organization, only heard about the scare when he opened his e-mail Saturday night at his second home in Jerusalem’s Arnona...

Among the most frequent nongovernmental guests at the White House: union chiefs, a banker and a Chicago billionaire. WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has worked closely with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass health care reform and other measures, but there are a number of private-sector figures whose names appear more frequently in White House visitor records. They include labor leaders, an executive for a Swiss bank and a Chicago billionaire.

Agreed, this doesn't come as much of a shock. What's surprising is that Schultz said "almost". Here's Schultz on his radio show Friday talking about meeting with Obama advisor David Axelrod at the White House the day before, along with fellow liberal radio host Bill Press and several other left-wing media types Schultz did not identify

HAVANA – The Chilean president says she met with Fidel Castro for 90 minutes, and the ailing Cuban leader appeared "in very good shape." President Michelle Bachelet describes the 82-year-old former Cuban president as "active" and "very well." The two met Thursday behind closed doors to discuss the economy and farming in Bachelet's South American country.

"Her office on Monday said Gregoire was out of state, but would not say where or why — other than to say she wasn't going to work for President-elect Obama."

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1, 2006 – President Bush visited Brooke Army Medical Center, at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, today to wish wounded troops undergoing treatment there a happy new year, thank them for their sacrifice, and present nine Purple Heart Medals. "I can't think of a better way to start 2006 than here at this fantastic hospital," Bush told reporters during a stop at the San Antonio post, where he met with 51 soldiers and Marines, most of them injured in Iraq. "This hospital is full of healers and compassionate people who care deeply about our men and women in uniform,"...

STUTTGART, Germany, Oct. 19, 2005 – Business professionals traveling with the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference expressed pride and confidence in U.S. troops after meeting with U.S. special operations forces at Panzer Kaserne Range Complex here Oct. 18. "You see these guys and you think, 'How could we ever have a chance of losing?'" said Joel Cantor, president and chief executive officer of Gulf Atlantic Real Estate, in Tampa, Fla. Cantor said he was amazed by the bravery of the troops, many of whom had served in Iraq and expressed a desire to go back and finish the job there. Conference...

The Arab world is all one big happy family again. OK, dysfunctional, but happy. No, well, unhappy and as twisted as usual. While visiting Kuwait today, Palestinian presidential front-runner, Mahmoud Abbas, apologized for his people’s support of Saddam’s invasion of the Gulf emirate in 1990. Isn’t that special? (remember Dana Carvey as the “Church Lady” on SNL?). This happened just after Kuwait’s sultans (or whatever they’re called) forgave the Palestinian people for supporting Saddam’s invasion. Kuwait’s leadership went so far as to say they didn’t even expect a public apology for Palestinian support of the 1990 war. Now, isn’t that...

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LISTINGS The RNC Protests By Kate Crane The Convention Weds., Aug. 25 Know Your Rights training, NYCLU Get briefed by the New York Civil Liberties Union on your constitutional rights at the protests and what to do if the police infringe upon them. The workshop will cover recent changes to laws, how to interact with police and how to handle being stopped or searched. NYCLU, 520 8th Ave. (betw. 36th St.), 212-344-3005, x266 (rsvp req.); 7. National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer training Legal observers perform the crucial task of observing arrests and watching out for any inappropriate police behavior. Fourth...