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“JD Vance is a fantastic vice president, and Marco Rubio is a great Secretary of State,” said Trump adviser Alex Bruesewitz. “[Rubio] could have gone one of two routes after the 2016 campaign. He could have gone the route of John Kasich and begin to suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome and fade into the abyss,” said Bruesewitz, referring to the former Ohio governor who ran against Trump in 2016 and endorsed Joe Biden in 2020.Rubio, Bruesewitz, said, “chose the route of embracing MAGA and becoming one of MAGA’s staunchest allies and advocates.”A senior White House official, who like others in…

“This is going to be the top emerging issue” in finance, said House Financial Services Chair French Hill, an Arkansas Republican whose committee plays a critical role in overseeing the regulation of financial markets. Members are trying to get up to speed on the issue and “not trying to prejudge,” he said at an event Friday. “We’re all going to be dealing with it.”The episodes could prove to be a tipping point for Congress, regulators and President Donald Trump’s administration to impose new guardrails on a deep-pocketed industry that has quickly become a Washington powerhouse.Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who is stepping down after his party’s landslide election defeat earlier this month, said on Saturday that he is giving up his seat in Hungary’s parliament but intends to remain leader of the Fidesz party. In a video posted on Facebook, Orbán said the decision followed a Fidesz meeting during which party leaders agreed to carry out a major restructuring of the parliamentary faction after the heavy election loss. He said he would seek reelection as party leader in a vote scheduled for June. In the April 12 parliamentary election, Péter Magyar’s Tisza party won…

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Hegseth opened his remarks by saying that the operation is not an endless war like Vietnam or Iraq and Afghanistan, all of which dragged on for years amid shifting or unachievable strategic goals.Despite that, the U.S. has “all the time in the world” to achieve victory, he added.“The real endless war is the war Iran has waged on the United States for 47 years,” Hegseth said.For his part, President Donald Trump has said from the start of the war that the U.S. had already won, while also threatening to bomb critical infrastructure and eradicate Iran’s “whole civilization.”But rather than winding…

“France is Greece’s true ally,” Mitsotakis said, adding that “the highlight of the Greece-France agreements is the commitments to mutual assistance.” On top of a broader “enhanced comprehensive strategic partnership,” the two governments signed agreements in areas from education to scientific research to nuclear energy. During the visit, French defense giant MBDA also signed a contract to continue support for the Greek army’s Mica missiles. In parallel, the two leaders insisted on the need to clarify how the EU’s mutual defense clause — Article 42.7 of the Treaty on the EU — would work in practice, while stressing that the…

The U.K. fighter jets were tracking the drones as they were flying over the Ukrainian port city of Reni, 1.5 kilometers from the Romanian border. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech

Romanian authorities said 200 people were evacuated while two British fighters jets scrambled after a drone landed in the southeastern city of Galati, near the country’s border with Ukraine. It is not the first time that Romania, which is a NATO as well as EU member, has seen it airspace violated and drone fragments fall on its territory after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Romanian President Nicușor Dan said that this, however, “is the first incident where Romanian property has actually been damaged, a threshold we take very seriously.” The country’s foreign minster summoned the…

Published on 25/04/2026 – 15:31 GMT+2 At least seven people have been killed in one of Russia’s largest overnight attacks on Ukraine since the start of its full-scale invasion in 2022, targeting its neighbour with more than 600 drones and 47 missiles, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces. 30 locations across Ukraine were struck from either direct hits or from falling debris, while 610 of the aerial attacks were neutralised, Ukraine’s military said. The eastern city of Dnipro was the hardest-hit area, while the regions of Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Odesa and Kyiv were also hit. Dnipro’s military administration said the city…

The Greek prime minister was on the same page. “What sense does it make right now to go and repay the Recovery Fund, thereby eating into the budget for the next six years, when we have no reason to do so and when there is strong demand for European bonds that will also make us stronger as a European Union?” said Mitsotakis. Mistotakis and Macron, who lead respectively the most-indebted and third most-indebted countries in the EU, are expected to defend their position in tense negotiations around the EU’s €1.8 trillion multi-annual budget for 2028-2034. The option of rolling over…