World

President Donald Trump bashed both Russia and Ukraine from the Oval Office on Friday, saying that they're not moving forward with negotiations for ending the war.

Trump told reporters who were allowed to be in the room that he nonetheless found it easier to work with Russia than Ukraine despite the fact that Russia has shown no inclination so far to let up in its bombing campaign against its neighboring country.

President Donald Trump on Friday delivered a seemingly contradictory message about the state of the war with Ukraine.

Shortly after Trump said he'd consider sanctioning Russia given that it is launching massive bombing campaigns in Ukraine, a reporter in the Oval Office asked him if he still believed that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to make "peace" with the country he invaded more than three years ago.

President Donald Trump is finally talking tough against Russia.

In a post on his Truth Social page, the president floated the possibility of hitting Russia with even more economic sanctions given that Moscow so far has shown little willingness to make any concessions to end its three-year war with neighboring Ukraine.

The New York Times is reporting that the Canadian government is taking President Donald Trump's threats to make it America's "51st state" incredibly seriously based on a phone call Trump had last month with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

During the call, the Times' sources say, Trump "told Mr. Trudeau that he did not believe that the treaty that demarcates the border between the two countries was valid and that he wants to revise the boundary" and he also "mentioned revisiting the sharing of lakes and rivers between the two nations, which is regulated by a number of treaties."

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called criticisms of President Donald Trump's pause on Ukraine aid "all garbage" despite admitting that the policy appeared to some to be "pro-Russia."

Hegseth was asked about the pause in military aid for Ukraine Thursday during a meeting with British Defense Secretary John Healey.

Intelligence officials for U.S. allies are looking on in horror at President Donald Trump's chaos — and questioning how they can be capable of sharing their own information with his administration, reported The Atlantic on Thursday.

A major catalyst for these fears, which had already been lurking since Trump's election, came from the president's public verbal attack on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House, demanding that he make peace with the Russian invasion of his country and ultimately tossing him out of the building. Trump followed this up by pausing military aid to the country, as well as intelligence sharing.

Chinese dissidents who have long looked at the United States as a model for the democracy they want in their own country are growing alarmed at President Donald Trump's rhetoric and actions.

The New York Times reports that several Chinese journalists and activists are drawing parallels between what is happening in the United States now and the infamous "Cultural Revolution" that occurred in China under dictator Mao Zedong in the 1960s and 1970s.