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1 day ago | 
politico.com | Amy Mackinnon |Eric Bazail-Eimil |Felicia Schwartz |Diya Contractor
Colonel Pavlo Palisa told reporters at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington that Russia wants to occupy the entirety of Ukraine east of the Dnipro River.
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1 week ago | 
politico.com | Amy Mackinnon |Eric Bazail-Eimil |Phelim Kine
State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said the U.S. is "focused on protecting our nation and our citizens by upholding our national security and public safety through our visa process." | Rod Lamkey, Jr./AP With help from John Sakellariadis, Robbie Gramer and Daniel LippmanSubscribe here | | The Trump administration’s effort to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students in the U.S. is, in part, borne out of espionage concerns.
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1 week ago | 
wiadomosci.onet.pl | Eli Stokols |Amy Mackinnon |Jordain Carney |Felicia Schwartz
"Putin niebezpiecznie zbliża się do spalenia złotego mostu, który Trump przed nim rozwinął" — powiedział urzędnik administracji Trumpa, który chciał zachować anonimowość, aby podzielić się szczegółami na temat aktualnych planów prezydenta.
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1 week ago | 
politico.com | Eli Stokols |Amy Mackinnon |Jordain Carney |Felicia Schwartz
Trump has yet to make a decision on whether to impose additional sanctions on Moscow in response to Putin ramping up attacks on Ukraine, according to four U.S. officials. Pro-Ukraine allies on Capitol Hill are treading carefully as they urge the White House to consider following up on his threats to Putin by backing their effort to enact new sanctions.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Eli Stokols |Amy Mackinnon |Jordain Carney |Felicia Schwartz
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signaled that his patience with Vladimir Putin is running thin, warning the Russian leader that he is “playing with fire” by refusing to engage in serious peace talks about ending the war in Ukraine. But Trump, frustrated that Putin has shrugged at his offer to reset relations with the U.S. following a peace settlement, still hasn’t decided to shift gears.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Amy Mackinnon
Yechiel Leiter described Wednesday’s shooting as part of a “political agenda” to eradicate the state of Israel. Israeli ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter speaks to the media outside the Capital Jewish Museum on Thursday, May. 22, 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Amy Mackinnon
Israel’s ambassador to the United States cast the killing of two of his country’s staffers in Washington as part of the Jewish state’s multifront war in the Middle East against Iran and its proxies. “This is done in the name of a political agenda to eradicate the state of Israel,” Yechiel Leiter told reporters, referring to reports that the alleged gunman Elias Rodriguez had shouted “Free, free Palestine,” as he was apprehended by the police.
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2 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Robbie Gramer |Amy Mackinnon |Jack Detsch
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gather for a meeting on Sept. 27, 2024, in New York City. | Alex Kent/Getty Images With help from Felicia Schwartz, Veronika Melkozerova, Joe Gould and Daniel LippmanSubscribe here | | President DONALD TRUMP and his top aides have threatened to walk away from efforts to broker peace in Ukraine as attempts to break the logjam with Russia fall short. But what does walking away from talks mean for Ukraine?
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4 weeks ago | 
politico.com | Amy Mackinnon
The low number of briefings this time around is troubling to many in and around the intelligence community, who were already concerned about Trump’s act-first-evaluate-after approach to governing. “It’s sadly clear that President Trump doesn’t value the expertise of and dangerous work performed by our intelligence professionals each and every day, and unfortunately, it leaves the American people increasingly vulnerable to threats we ought to see coming,” Sen.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Amy Mackinnon
Since President Donald Trump was sworn into office in January, he has sat for just 12 presentations from intelligence officials of the President’s Daily Brief. That’s a significant drop compared with Trump’s first term in office, according to a POLITICO analysis of his public schedule. In much of his first term, Trump met with intel officials twice a week for the briefing, which provides the intelligence community’s summary of the most pressing national security challenges facing the nation.
