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  • Moulton hits Markey over prior support for war authorization

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    BOSTON — An expected vote by the U.S. Senate on a war powers resolution to restrict U.S. military action in Venezuela has become a campaign issue in the Democratic primary race between incumbent U.S. Sen. Ed Markey and challenger U.S Rep. Seth Moulton.

    The Senate on Thursday is poised to vote on a war powers resolution, filed by Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, to halt President Donald Trump’s use of military force against Venezuela. The move comes after Trump ordered the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, who were brought to New York to face drug trafficking and weapons charges.

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  • Region’s lawmakers slam Trump’s invasion of Venezuela

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    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president and his wife drew swift and harsh rebukes from area members of Congress, who branded the military action as “regime change,” a “rogue attack” and an unauthorized act of war.

    On Friday night, the United States carried out a major military operation in Venezuela, capturing President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, during the overnight raid in Caracas and removing them from the country. They landed in New York on Saturday to face federal charges related to narco-terrorism and drug trafficking, Trump said in a press conference from his home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.

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  • Trump Declares That Airspace Around Venezuela Should Be Considered Closed

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    President Trump on Saturday said that the airspace surrounding Venezuela should be considered closed, ratcheting up tensions with the Maduro regime and offering yet another sign that he is considering striking targets on land. 

    “To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY,” Trump posted on Saturday morning. 

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  • Why Russia and China Are Sitting Out Venezuela’s Clash With Trump

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    For two decades, Venezuela cultivated anti-American allies across the globe, from Russia and China to Cuba and Iran, in the hope of forming a new world order that could stand up to Washington.

    It isn’t working.

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  • Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine

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    Three powerful businessmen—two Americans and a Russian—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.

    But the full scope of their project went much further, according to people familiar with the talks. They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors to the dividends. 

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  • Trump to Pardon Honduran Ex-President Serving 45-Year Drug Sentence

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    Planned pardon of Hernández, convicted for cocaine trafficking, comes before the country’s election.

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  • Mystery Blasts Rock Russia-Linked Oil Tankers Off Turkey’s Coast

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    Explosions rocked two tankers sanctioned for carrying Russian oil, the latest in a spate of blasts on such vessels, sparking a rescue operation off Turkey’s Black Sea coast.

    The 900-foot Kairos was en route from Egypt to Russia when it suffered a blast and caught fire, according to Turkish authorities. Emergency response vessels managed to evacuate its 25 crew members. Meanwhile, the 820-foot Virat began spewing heavy smoke from its engine room after being hit at a point farther east along the coast. The 20 personnel on board were in good condition, authorities said.

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  • New Peace Push Offers Clues to Fundamental Question: What Does Putin Want? 

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    A 28-point plan and President Vladimir Putin’s response to it have offered some of the best clues yet to a fundamental question bedeviling peace talks: What does the Russian leader want?

    The plan, which has been revised since it was leaked last week, drew pushback from Ukraine and its supporters in Congress and Europe for hewing to Moscow’s uncompromising vision for a postwar settlement. Still, Putin has shown little interest in signing it.

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  • Zelensky’s Top Aide Resigns as Corruption Probe Deepens

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    The departure of Ukraine’s top negotiator—the president’s right-hand man Andriy Yermak—comes at a pivotal moment for the country.

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  • Europe Fears It Can’t Catch Up in Great Power Competition

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    BRUSSELS—In the accelerating contest between great powers, Europe is struggling to keep up. 

    The continent’s leaders have long worried they will be left behind as the U.S., China and Russia vie for economic, technological and military dominance. 

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  • Trump Is Silent on Taiwan After Talking to Xi—and That Is Fine With Taipei

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    Taiwan is making the most of the U.S.’s policy of “strategic ambiguity,” even as President Trump’s stance raises concern for some in Taipei.

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  • Where Trump Sees Deals, Russia and China See a Chance to Disrupt U.S. Alliances

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    U.S. adversaries are using President Trump’s eagerness to strike deals as a chance to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies and undermine the Washington-led security order that has for years held them in check.

    In Europe, Russia is seeking to exploit Trump’s desire to halt the war in Ukraine and strike business deals with Moscow by shaping a peace plan that meets many of its strategic objectives, including winning chunks of Ukrainian territory and closing off any hope Kyiv had of joining NATO.

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  • Pope Leo Heads to Turkey and Lebanon for His First Foreign Trip

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    ISTANBUL—After a low-profile start to his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV is stepping into the limelight.

    The first American pope begins his first foreign trip on Thursday, touring Turkey and Lebanon. It is a chance for him to set out his spiritual and geopolitical vision after six months as pontiff, notable for its relative quiet after years of turbulence in the Catholic Church.

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  • The JD Vance Classmate Emerging as a Key Player in Talks to End the Ukraine War

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    When President Trump decided to send Pentagon representatives to Ukraine in an attempt to resuscitate stalled peace talks, he turned to an unexpected source: Army Secretary Dan Driscoll.

    Driscoll, a friend and former law-school classmate of Vice President JD Vance, vaulted to a new diplomatic role last week when he delivered to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a U.S.-led proposal to end the war. On Monday, he traveled to Abu Dhabi to meet with a Russian delegation and with the Ukrainian officials again, clinching a promise that Kyiv would sign a peace deal Trump has sought since the campaign trail. Russia hasn’t signed off on the plan.

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  • Exclusive | Trump, After Call With China’s Xi, Told Tokyo to Lower the Volume on Taiwan

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    Chinese leader Xi Jinping was angry, and President Trump was listening.

    Days after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi outraged China by suggesting a Chinese attack on Taiwan could mobilize a Tokyo military response, Xi spent half of an hourlong phone call with Trump, people briefed on the matter said, hammering home China’s historic claim to the democratic self-governing island as well as Washington and Beijing’s joint responsibility to manage the world order.

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  • Paramilitary Expansion Shows Scale of War Preparations on NATO’s Eastern Frontier

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    UTENA, Lithuania—Some 1,500 paramilitaries descended on this industrial city in northeastern Lithuania late last month, taking up positions at government buildings and around critical infrastructure to prepare for what many in this frontier city now fear: a Russian invasion.

    Clad in military fatigues and armed with rifles loaded with blank cartridges, members of the Lithuanian Rifleman’s Union, or LRU, a state-funded paramilitary group, spent several days training to repel a possible enemy attack.

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  • White House Defends Witkoff After Leak of Conversation With Russian Official

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    The White House is defending special envoy Steve Witkoff over a reportedly leaked conversation in which he told a Russian official that praising President Trump would help smooth over a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the war in Ukraine.

    Witkoff also suggested that Putin call Trump ahead of a White House visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a conversation that gave the Kremlin an opportunity to press the case against giving Kyiv Tomahawk cruise missiles.

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    Alexander Ward

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  • Opinion | Trump Takes On the Muslim Brotherhood

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    Sanctions can strike the often-radical Islamist network a piece at a time.

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    The Editorial Board

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  • Opinion | Can Trump Deliver Putin?

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    The hysterics will get hysterical all over again when it turns out peace isn’t nigh.

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    Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

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  • Top Army Official Meets Russians in U.A.E., Signaling New Phase in Peace Talks

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    Army Secretary Dan Driscoll met with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi on Monday and Tuesday, a sign that talks to end the war in Ukraine have hit a new phase involving direct negotiations with the Russians.

    Driscoll, fresh off peace talks in Kyiv and Geneva with Ukrainian officials, landed in Abu Dhabi on Monday to meet with the Russians, according to U.S. officials. After holding initial meetings, he planned to conduct more substantive engagements with the delegation on Tuesday, the officials said. 

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    Lara Seligman

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