Supreme Court allows deep cuts at Education Department for now
The justices lifted a temporary lower-court ruling that prevented Trump officials from slashing about half of the department's more than 4,100 workers and shifting some of its functions to the states and other departments.
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10 minutes ago
- Washington Post
In squeezing Putin, Trump ‘escalates to de-escalate'
Watching Donald Trump on Monday describe his new get-tough approach to peacemaking in Ukraine, I wondered whether he has a secret affinity with Alfred Nobel, the man who endowed the famous peace prize that the president is pursuing so eagerly. For the fact is: They both like to blow things up.
Forbes
11 minutes ago
- Forbes
Monday, July 14. Russia's War On Ukraine: News And Information From Ukraine
TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) in the Oval ... More Office of the White House in Washington, DC on July 14, 2025. Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,237. Trump Unveils New Aid for Ukraine and Issues Ultimatum to Moscow On July 14 U.S. President Donald Trump announced a significant shift in U.S. policy toward ending the war in Ukraine, unveiling a new plan to boost military support for Kyiv while increasing pressure on Moscow. Speaking in the Oval Office alongside NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Trump said the U.S. will provide Ukraine with as many as 17 Patriot missile defense systems. 'We're going to have some come very soon, within days,' Trump told reporters. Some of the systems will be transferred from European NATO allies' stockpiles, with the allies ordering replacements from the U.S. The new aid is valued at billions of dollars. The more aggressive posture comes with a clear warning to Moscow. Trump gave the Kremlin a 50-day deadline to reach a peace agreement with Kyiv. Otherwise, the U.S. will impose what President Trump called 'very severe' tariffs. 'If we don't have a deal in 50 days, it's very simple, and they'll be at 100%.' A White House official later clarified that these tariffs would target Russian goods, as well as extend to countries that continue purchasing Russian exports, including oil. Donald Trump's decision appears to be driven by growing frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin. 'My conversations with him are very pleasant, and then the missiles go off at night,' Trump said, even as he denied being taken in by Putin and attempted to cast his predecessors as having done so: 'He fooled Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden — he didn't fool me.' President Trump's decision, nonetheless, may not represent as abrupt a shift against the Kremlin as it might initially appear, thanks to the grace period Russia received to devise a resolution to the conflict before the measures take effect. The 50-day grace period was met with cautious relief by investors in Russia, where the ruble rebounded from earlier losses against the dollar and the stock market posted modest gains of 2.7%. Reacting to Trump's new pledges of military aid for Ukraine, European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, welcomed his firmer tone toward Russia, but not the 50-day grace period. 'It is very positive that President Trump is taking on a strong stance on Russia,' she said. 'On the other hand, 50 days is a very long time if we see that they [Russia]Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met in his country's capital, Kyiv, with Keith Kellogg, President Trump's special envoy to Ukraine and Russia. Zelenskyy said they had 'a productive conversation' about strengthening Ukrainian air defenses, joint arms production, purchasing U.S. weapons in conjunction with European allies, and the possibility of tightening international sanctions on Russia. 'We hope for the leadership of the United States, because it is clear that Moscow will not stop unless its unwarranted ambitions are stopped by force,' Zelenskyy wrote in his post on Telegram following the meeting. Russian Attacks on Ukraine Russian forces rained 597 drones down on Ukraine, along with 26 cruise missiles, overnight into July 12, marking the second largest aerial attack of the war. Ukraine's Air Force reported intercepting 319 drones and 25 missiles, as well as electronically jamming 258 drones. The barrage was directed at western Ukraine, with impacts recorded at five locations. Officials in Chernivtsi, previously considered one of Ukraine's safest cities, reported two residents killed, its first wartime casualties. In Lviv, a city widely regarded as the nation's cultural capital, at least 12 people were injured amid damage to the city's historic center. In total, the Kremlin fired more than 1,800 drones, 1,200 glide bombs, and 83 missiles at its neighbor last week. In addition to the massive overnight assault on July 12, Russian daytime attacks between July 10-13 killed at least 29 civilians across Ukraine. In the blood soaked eastern province of Donetsk, sustained Russian shelling killed at least 14 non-combatants and injured 26 others. In northeastern Kharkiv oblast, or province, four residents were killed, with 21 others wounded; in southern Kherson region, Russian drone strikes left four civilians dead and 32 others injured, while in southeastern Zaporizhzhia oblast, Russian attacks killed at least two residents and injured three others. In northern Sumy oblast, where Russia has renewed its on-the-ground offensive, five residents were reported dead and 19 others suffered injuries. June marked the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians in the war's more than three-year history. According to a recent report from the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, 232 were civilians killed and 1,343 injured in June, nearly three times the losses a year earlier. The UN attributed the spike to a tenfold increase in Russian long-range missile and loitering munition attacks, which use drones that can hover over an area to allow precision targeting. These weapons were in use across at least 16 regions, including Kyiv. Civilian casualties across Ukraine in the first half of 2025 surged to 6,754, a 54% year-over-year increase, where civilian deaths and injuries from Russian strikes rose by 17% and 64%, respectively. President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a government reshuffle and proposed First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko as the next Prime Minister of Ukraine on July 14. After the resignation of the current Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, Ukrainian lawmakers have 30 days to vote on the next Prime Minister. By Danylo Nosov, Karina L. Tahiliani
Politico
11 minutes ago
- Politico
‘We're not buying it': Trump ties Ukraine aid to America First
'The president's view is Russia is going to win, it's a matter of how long it takes,' said the senior White House official, granted anonymity to discuss the president's thinking. 'Russia has the bigger economy, has the bigger military, has more than enough bodies to grow into the meat grinder, and just doesn't care. And although they are making slow progress, they are still making progress. The president just wants to stop the killing.' Even as Trump wants to up the pressure on Moscow, bucking the isolationist wing of the MAGA movement, he is insisting that this latest move aligns with his 'America First' strategy and fits into a decades-long view that America has been ripped off by allies and that Europe, in particular, has gotten a free ride on defense. Trump, during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Monday, exaggerated how much money the U.S. has already spent on aid to Ukraine and emphasized that Europeans would finally pay their fair share. 'We're not buying it, but we will manufacture it, and they're going to be paying for it,' Trump said, referencing 'very rich' European allies. 'They feel very strongly about it, and we feel strongly about it too, but we're in for a lot of money, and we just, we don't want to do [it] any more.' The Pentagon's top policy official, Elbridge Colby, posted his support on X soon after the announcement, emphasizing the 'America First' aspect. 'Central to President Trump's common sense, America First message is that our alliances have to be fair and equitable for them to be sustainable,' Colby wrote. 'This is eminently reasonable but was treated for many years as heresy. Yet now with the historic NATO commitment we see that it can work — and will leave not only Americans but our European allies better off.' But two senior administration officials, granted anonymity to discuss the president's turnabout on Ukraine, said Trump's response is largely a reaction to Putin's indifference to attempts to broker a peace deal.
