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Trump continues to seethe at Zelensky as national security team gathers to discuss what’s next on Ukraine

By Alayna Treene, Natasha Bertrand and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Top Trump Cabinet secretaries and national security officials are holding meetings this week to discuss the administration’s next steps on Ukraine – including the prospect of suspending military aid – following the spectacular collapse of Friday’s Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump and

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Supporters hold signs as former US Agency for International Development employees on February 27

USAID official put on administrative leave for scathing memo blaming political appointees for affecting ‘lifesaving’ work

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN Washington (CNN) — A top official at the US Agency for International Development was put on leave after issuing a scathing memo blaming Trump political appointees for the US government’s inability to conduct lifesaving humanitarian work. The official warned the Trump appointees’ moves will “no doubt result in preventable death, destabilization,

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This May 2024 photo from the US Agency for International Development shows a worker handling Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) at the MANA Nutrition Factory in Fitzgerald

USAID reinstates contracts for Georgia company that helps feed malnourished kids after Elon Musk responds to CNN reporting

By MJ Lee, CNN Washington (CNN) — The CEO of a plant in Georgia that makes a special peanut butter paste for severely malnourished children around the world told CNN Sunday that his company’s contracts with the US Agency for International Development that had been abruptly canceled last week were all reinstated late Sunday night.

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‘It’s the shadow OPM’: How DOGE is using a once-obscure federal agency as ground zero for its plans to shrink government

By Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — The once-obscure Office of Personnel Management, essentially the human resources department of the federal government, is now ground zero for Elon Musk and President Donald Trump’s efforts to slash bureaucracy and deconstruct vast portions of the administrative state. Current and former OPM employees describe an agency that’s been taken

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Melania Trump to use first public remarks of this term to shine a light on victims of deepfake revenge porn

By Betsy Klein, CNN (CNN) — First lady Melania Trump is expected to speak publicly Monday, for the first time since her husband returned to office, highlighting her support for a bill aimed at protecting Americans from deepfake and revenge pornography. Trump will hold a roundtable discussion Monday on Capitol Hill, according to the office

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National security adviser Mike Waltz tells CNN's Dana Bash that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to make clear "publicly and privately" that he’s "ready to go to peace."

White House amplifies rave reviews for Trump’s handling of Zelensky showdown as Europe rallies around Ukraine

CNN By Betsy Klein, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval Office showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an overwhelming win that underscores Trump’s “America first” leadership, dispatching top officials and allies to amplify Trump’s handling of the situation even

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National security adviser Mike Waltz tells CNN's Dana Bash that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky needs to make clear "publicly and privately" that he’s "ready to go to peace."

White House amplifies rave reviews for Trump’s handling of Zelensky showdown as Europe rallies around Ukraine

By Betsy Klein, Alison Main and Aileen Graef, CNN (CNN) — The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval Office showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an overwhelming win that underscores Trump’s “America first” leadership, dispatching top officials and allies to amplify Trump’s handling of the situation even as

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Vice President JD Vance speaks during a meeting with President Donald Trump

Vance previously slammed Zelensky for lack of gratitude. This time, it placed him at center of tense Oval Office exchange

By Kit Maher and Kevin Liptak, CNN (CNN) — Campaigning in Pennsylvania last September, JD Vance seemed to strike at an unlikely political foe: the besieged president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, who’d spent most of the previous two years being hailed by Western leaders as a hero. “You know what I wish Zelensky would do

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