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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to a draft of a minerals deal with the White House on Tuesday, according to reports. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the Ukrainian leader plans to travel to D.C. on Friday to meet with President Donald Trump after the officials agreed to the terms of the deal. The pact, which would involve giving the U.S. access to natural resources in exchange for America’s support of Ukraine amid its war with Russia, was days in the making. Trump said on Friday that his administration was "pretty close" to striking a deal, and on Monday, he hinted that a meeting between him and Zelenskyy was imminent.

To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it. So, Americans should revisit some fundamental realities and questions from which to remember before going forward. Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine in 2022? Putin did start the war. Trump’s trolling aside, he knows that because he correctly pointed out that Putin invaded his neighbors in three of the last four administrations—but not his own, given Trump’s deterrence.The most obvious answer why Putin did is that he thought he easily could. But why in 2022—as he had in 2008 and 2014?

MSNBC is pulling the plug on Joy Reid’s show, “The ReidOut,” as part of a major shakeup, Fox News Digital has learned—and I can’t stop laughing. Honestly, there’s no one more deserving of cancellation. Well, maybe Rachel Maddow… and pretty much everyone else at MSNBC. According to the report, “The ReidOut” has been struggling to hold viewers, averaging just 973,000 in February 2025—a sharp 28% drop from the 1.3 million it pulled in during the same month last year. Reid has become notorious for her relentless anti-Trump rhetoric and a string of controversial moments.

The most remarkable thing about President Donald Trump’s whirlwind first five weeks back in office has not been the pace at which his administration has been making major changes, but rather that it has done so without spending much political capital, or, in laymen's terms, losing much support. Trump’s slew of executive orders, covering everything from establishing only two genders, to freezing federal spending, cutting energy regulations and much more have been fast and furious. The pace of change has left Democrats and their media allies flatfooted and confused, punching at quickly changing shadows, as when they laughably pointed to a fired national parks employee

If you beamed in from Mars, you could learn everything about the state of the West and its politics through a split screen last week. On one half is an unhinged b-rated street-theater, suicide-march of mostly geriatric Democrats protesting Elon Musk’s effort to cut fraud, waste, and abuse — dandies like an EPA grant of $50 million to a group that believes “climate justice travels through a Free Palestine,” $8 billion to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to use proper gender-fluid pronouns and grants for drag queen shows in Ecuador. Across the Atlantic at the same time were the pursed lips and stone faces of the priggish

Democrats don’t just lack a message — they also lack a messenger. While the focus is on the former, the latter is forgotten, as if somehow solving their message problem will automatically create the messenger to deliver it. In fact, the opposite is occurring; Democrats’ message problems are killing off their potential messengers. Democrats’ message problems are much discussed… for good reason. They killed not one, but two Democratic 2024 presidential campaigns.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, is facing backlash for introducing a budget recommendation that changes the word "mother" to "inseminated person," and "paternity" to "parentage" in certain parts of state law. The Evers administration's budget recommendation for the 2025-2027 fiscal period advises several other gendered terms be changed, as well. References to "wife" or "husband" are changed to "spouse" in the proposal. In other places, the word "father" is changed to "parent," and "mother" is swapped out for the phrase "parent who gave birth to the child.”

Kash Patel was sworn in Friday afternoon as Donald Trump's FBI Director, delivering this statement after taking the oath of office: FBI DIRECTOR KASH PATEL: Wow! First and foremost, we were just with President Trump and I want to thank him. I know he is not here in the room right now, but what a ride we have been on, what a courageous warrior and leader he has been. And the faith and trust he put on me to lead the FBI is the greatest honor I will ever have in my life.

It is easy to portray US President Donald Trump’s demand for a minerals deal as a cynical effort to take advantage of the victim of aggression when he has no other choice. The reality, however, is far more complex, and a deal between the US and Ukraine could offer significant benefits for Ukraine. At the moment, Ukraine is sitting on vast reserves of untapped natural resources wealth. A good portion is in territory occupied by Russia and thus inaccessible to Ukraine; the rest, while in unoccupied territory, is not likely to be developed successfully until there is an end to Russia’s attacks against Ukraine.

Victor Davis Hanson examines the resurgence of Trump's influence and what it is a "counter-revolution" against: VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: They call it the "MAGA Revolution." It is not a revolution, it is a counter-revolution. There's a big difference. This is a restoration, let's use the word restoration. We don't know or appreciate what we've been through with eight years of the Obama administration and then the third more radical term of Obama using or employing the waxen effigy of Joe Biden. The revolution that we've experienced was cultural, economic, political, and social.

I recently returned from a much-needed week away from arctic Michigan, and I’ll admit I (mostly) took a break from the news as well. Holy cow, I missed a lot. This is the new normal with President Donald Trump back at the helm. Between his many social media posts, announcements and executive orders, Trump can control the news cycle like no one else. After four years of former President Joe Biden, who essentially hid from the news media and the public for much of that time, it’s easy to feel whiplash. Trump is just getting started, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Thursday marks his first full month in office

The hard left of the Democratic Party is trying to force Gov. Kathy Hochul to fire Mayor Eric Adams because it thinks he might help the Trump administration remove illegal migrant criminals who are menacing New Yorkers. How dare he! Forget that Adams is New York’s democratically elected mayor. Forget that most New Yorkers want illegal alien gangbangers out of our city. The self-described party of “democracy” wants, yet again, to kill democracy to save it. The mere fact that Adams sat on the curvy couch of “Fox & Friends” with border czar Tom Homan last week sent his Trump-deranged fellow Democrats into a tizzy.