Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and owner of social media platform X, speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel and Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Feb. 20, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images For X owner Elon Musk, the solution to monitoring misinformation online has been…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia said on Friday that he had held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war with Russia and praised the Ukrainian leader as an “embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war.” Retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Keith…
The Alibaba office building on Feb. 18, 2025, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province of China. Fang Dongxu | Visual China Group | Getty Images Chinese tech titan Alibaba posted a startling 239% year-over-year jump in net profit in the final quarter of 2024. CEO Eddie Wu attributed that shiny result to growth in the company’s cloud…
Trump to hold meetings on Ukraine with French and British leaders – CBS News Watch CBS News One day after an angry exchange between Presidents Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Zelenskyy met in Kyiv with Keith Kellogg, Mr. Trump’s special envoy. A planned joint news conference was canceled, but Zelenskyy said they had a…
1. Picking up the phone: Almost three years after Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Trump decided it was time to re-establish direct contact between the president of the United States and Putin, a leader facing U.S. and EU sanctions, as well as an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for crimes against humanity…
Roth, a member of the center-left Social Democrats, who are running behind the conservative Christian Democrats in polls ahead of Sunday’s national election, also described the new U.S. government’s tone as a “worst-case scenario.” “The transatlantic relations are over,” Roth added, as he emphasized that Trump’s increasing alignment with Putin left Europe “home alone” and…
The new Trump administration, however, has appeared to give up much of its negotiating leverage over Russia unilaterally. Speaking at NATO headquarters on Feb. 12, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. would not accept NATO membership for Ukraine or provide peacekeeping troops, and warned the country would not return to its pre-2014…
Breaking down Trump’s claims about Zelenskyy, relationship with Putin – CBS News Watch CBS News As President Trump prepares to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending his invasion of Ukraine, he picked up his rhetorical attacks on the president of the invaded country, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Elizabeth Palmer has been monitoring the situation….
Washington — President Trump attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a “dictator without elections,” echoing rhetoric from the Kremlin about the war in Ukraine and escalating a public feud between the two leaders. In a post on Truth Social on Wednesday, Mr. Trump lashed out at Zelenskyy, accusing him of duping the U.S. into providing billions…
Across Ukraine, local politicians were candid in their opinions of Trump’s attacks. “We may like Zelenskyy, or we may not, we may scold him, or we may praise him, we may condemn his actions, or we may applaud them … because he is OUR President,” Borys Filatov, mayor of the industrial city of Dnipro, wrote…