Vance’s comments about European peacekeeping plan for Ukraine draw ire abroad
Vice President Vance said the best security guarantee for Ukraine is to sign a mineral deal with the United States.
U.S. stock markets plunge as Trump’s tariffs spark fears about a trade war
U.S. stock markets plummeted on Tuesday morning as a new global trade war began.
Europe considers a major defense spending package as Trump signals disengagement
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed an $840 billion plan to build up the bloc’s defense, as President Trump pauses military aid to Ukraine.
Mexico faces off with U.S. gunmakers at the Supreme Court
The country claims Smith & Wesson and other gunmakers are turning a blind eye to hundreds of thousands of high-powered weapons made in the U.S that are illegally trafficked into in the hands of Mexican cartels.
Morning news brief
President Trump pauses Ukraine military aid, President Trump to address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, Trump administration imposes tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico.
President Trump pauses Ukraine military aid
The news comes just days after a disastrous meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
A Political Dilemma for Israel’s Prime Minister
Our correspondent takes a look at the near future of the the war with Hamas in Gaza through the eyes of Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. He is being pulled in opposite directions politically: President Trump wants the ceasefire in Gaza to continue, while influential right-wing members of Netanyahu’s political coalition want fighting to resume.
Pope Francis has acute respiratory crises, the Vatican says
Pope Francis experienced more respiratory problems and went on noninvasive ventilation on Monday, the Vatican said, as the head of the Roman Catholic Church battles double pneumonia in the hospital.
The political power of the pope
Unlike any other religious leader around the world, the leader of the world’s one billion Catholics is also the leader of a sovereign nation. And Pope Francis hasn’t been shy about using that political power.
He’s pushed for an end to the wars between Hamas and Israel, and Russia and Ukraine.
And he’s repeatedly tried to point the world’s attention to two ongoing challenges: immigration and climate change.
Much of the world has spent the last two weeks focused on Pope Francis’ health. And the reason why has as much to do with the fact that he’s a powerful geopolitical force as it does with the fact he’s a key religious figure.
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James Harrison, whose blood donations saved over 2 million babies, has died
Harrison, whose plasma contained a rare antibody, rolled up his sleeve 1,173 times from 1954 to 2018. The Australian is credited with helping 2.4 million babies and advancing scientific research.
Israel’s culture minister calls a Palestinian-Israeli film’s Oscar a ‘sad moment’
The Oscar documentary win by the movie No Other Land is garnering very different reactions in Israel and the West Bank.
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