(Background) In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner attend a meeting with Russia's President at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 2, 2025. (Photo by Kristina Kormilitsyna / POOL / AFP via Getty Images) / (R) In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner (both not pictured) at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 2, 2025. (Photo by Alexander KAZAKOV / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump Envoy meets Putin in Moscow as U.S. continues push for end to Ukraine-Russia War

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials at the Kremlin on Tuesday, in the latest White House bid to persuade Moscow to end its ongoing invasion of Ukraine — just hours after Putin declared Russia would be “ready right away” to fight Europe if attacked.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and Head of the Office of the Presidency of Ukraine Andriy Yermak (L) during their meeting at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on November 18, 2025. Ukraine and the US are launching talks in Switzerland on ways to end the war, a Ukrainian negotiator said on November 22, 2025, after Washington sent Kyiv a plan which accepts some of Moscow's demands. Zelensky appointed his top aide, Andriy Yermak, to lead the team, according to a presidential decree. (Photo by Oscar DEL POZO / AFP via Getty Images)

Zelensky’s chief of staff and lead negotiator in U.S. talks resigns after anti-corruption investigators search his home, office

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced the resignation of Andriy Yermak, his longtime chief of staff and the country’s most influential official after himself. The move came just hours after anti-corruption investigators searched Yermak’s residence and office in connection with a massive embezzlement probe.

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(L) suspect Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29. (Photo via: FBI) / (Background) WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 25: U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) talks to reporters as he walks to the Senate Chamber at the U.S. Capitol on June 25, 2025 in Washington, DC. Republican lawmakers are aiming to complete passage of the "One, Big, Beautiful Bill" by this weekend, which by some estimates would add at least $2.8 trillion to the $36.2 trillion U.S. debt in the long term. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Sen. Tuberville urges immediate ban and mass deportation of Muslim immigrants in U.S. after D.C. shooting suspect ID’d as Afghan national

Alabama Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville ignited a firestorm on Wednesday night, demanding the federal government to “IMMEDIATELY BAN all ISLAM immigrants and DEPORT every single Islamist who is living among us” — hours after an Afghan national ambushed and shot two National Guardsmen near the White House.

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Jordanian demonstrators waving green Muslim Brotherhood flags and other banners shout anti-Israel slogans during a mass rally held outside the parliament building (background) in Amman against Israel's attacks on the Gaza Strip on January 4, 2009. Jordan's King Abdullah II demanded today that the UN Security Council issue a resolution to end Israel's "aggression" on the Gaza Strip, the royal palace said. Jordan, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, "is extremely angry and will take all necessary steps to stop the aggression," the king told a meeting of the country's council on national policies. AFP PHOTO/KHALIL MAZRAAWI (Photo credit should read KHALIL MAZRAAWI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump signs EO directing admin. to initiate process of designating chapters of Muslim Brotherhood as FTOs and SDGTs

Kicking off the week with momentum just ahead of the holiday season, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the State and Treasury Departments to formally initiate the process of designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) as foreign terrorist organizations (FTOs) and specially designated global terrorists (SDGTs).

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