President Trump said a mineral deal with Ukraine will be signed next Thursday, a deal the president has been chasing for months. Seated beside Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office on Thursday, Mr. Trump said, “I assume they’re going to live up to the deal.” Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it’s possible to sign a “memorandum of intent” as soon as Thursday…… Read more
Maryland’s steep tax increases follow the lead of other liberal-leaning states that love to spend and are now desperate to raise revenue to dig out of growing deficits and fund new spending. Under the state’s $67 billion budget that the General Assembly passed this month, Marylanders will pay $1.6 billion for a dizzying array of new taxes and fee increases beginning in July…… Read more
The Trump administration is referring New York Attorney General Letitia James for potential criminal charges related to mortgage fraud. Ironically, the allegations relate to falsifying financial forms — the same crime for which she prosecuted President Trump during the 2024 campaign. William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department…… Read more
The Washington Commanders are nearing a return to the District after playing more than 25 seasons in Maryland. The franchise is reportedly close to an agreement with D.C. officials to build a new football stadium on the site of the old RFK Stadium, NBC4 reported on Wednesday. One source familiar with the negotiations told The Washington Times that a deal had not been finalized…… Read more
A federal judge reinforced her demand Tuesday that the U.S. keep working to bring back an MS-13 gang suspect wrongly deported to El Salvador, dismissing statements by that country’s president against releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Judge Paula Xinis said she would order a two-week sprint to get to the bottom of U.S. efforts to return Mr. Abrego Garcia, including demanding testimony from top Trump officials. She will then decide whether to hold the government in contempt…… Read more
President Trump is aiming to lower drug prices with an executive order he signed Tuesday. Mr. Trump directed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to take steps to reduce prices, potentially save millions of dollars for Americans, and expand a program to help patients get deals on sickle-cell medication. The order will lower drug prices for Medicare by improving the Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiation Program…… Read more
The top brass in the FBI and intelligence community were determined to stop President Trump from winning the White House in 2016, and they talked about removing him from office months after he was sworn in, according to newly released documents. The zeal to pin Russian collusion allegations on Mr. Trump spilled out of the 700 pages of emails, memos, interviews and other material connected to the 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” probe…… Read more
China is using consulting firms, headhunters and think tanks to aggressively recruit current and former U.S. officials as spies, according to a federal counterspy unit. “Foreign intelligence entities, particularly those in China, are targeting current and former U.S. government employees for recruitment by posing as consulting firms, corporate headhunters, think tanks, and other entities…… Read more
On April 9, Fairfax County Public Schools’ superintendent, Michelle Reid, summoned two dozen students from 24 high schools to the district’s headquarters to lecture them about her budget preferences. Reid has a history of promoting a political agenda to manipulate students. Last month, for example, she supported a Women’s History Month display hanging in West Springfield High School beginning with “A is for abortion,” accompanied by the image of a coat hanger…… Read more
Mallory Wilson | April 18
(The Washington Times) — President Trump said a mineral deal with Ukraine will be signed next Thursday, a deal the president has been chasing for months.
Seated beside Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in the Oval Office on Thursday, Mr. Trump said, “I assume they’re going to live up to the deal.”
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said it’s possible to sign a “memorandum of intent” as soon as Thursday.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said “we’re still working out the details.”
Mr. Trump has been pushing for this mineral deal as he continues to work to end the war between Ukraine and Russia. U.S. officials have repeatedly met with officials from both countries to get this war settled.
The president has said access to Ukraine’s minerals could serve as a form of payment for all of the aid money that was sent to Ukraine under the Biden administration.
Maryland’s steep tax increases follow the lead of other liberal-leaning states that love to spend and are now desperate to raise revenue to dig out of growing deficits and fund new spending. Under the state’s $67 billion budget that the General Assembly passed this month, Marylanders will pay $1.6 billion for a dizzying array of new taxes and fee increases beginning in July…… Continue Reading
The Trump administration is referring New York Attorney General Letitia James for potential criminal charges related to mortgage fraud. Ironically, the allegations relate to falsifying financial forms — the same crime for which she prosecuted President Trump during the 2024 campaign. William Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, sent a criminal referral to the Justice Department…… Continue Reading
The Washington Commanders are nearing a return to the District after playing more than 25 seasons in Maryland. The franchise is reportedly close to an agreement with D.C. officials to build a new football stadium on the site of the old RFK Stadium, NBC4 reported on Wednesday. One source familiar with the negotiations told The Washington Times that a deal had not been finalized…… Continue Reading
A federal judge reinforced her demand Tuesday that the U.S. keep working to bring back an MS-13 gang suspect wrongly deported to El Salvador, dismissing statements by that country’s president against releasing Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Judge Paula Xinis said she would order a two-week sprint to get to the bottom of U.S. efforts to return Mr. Abrego Garcia, including demanding testimony from top Trump officials. She will then decide whether to hold the government in contempt…… Continue Reading
President Trump is aiming to lower drug prices with an executive order he signed Tuesday. Mr. Trump directed Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr to take steps to reduce prices, potentially save millions of dollars for Americans, and expand a program to help patients get deals on sickle-cell medication. The order will lower drug prices for Medicare by improving the Medicare Drug Pricing Negotiation Program…… Continue Reading
The top brass in the FBI and intelligence community were determined to stop President Trump from winning the White House in 2016, and they talked about removing him from office months after he was sworn in, according to newly released documents. The zeal to pin Russian collusion allegations on Mr. Trump spilled out of the 700 pages of emails, memos, interviews and other material connected to the 2016 “Crossfire Hurricane” probe…… Continue Reading
China is using consulting firms, headhunters and think tanks to aggressively recruit current and former U.S. officials as spies, according to a federal counterspy unit. “Foreign intelligence entities, particularly those in China, are targeting current and former U.S. government employees for recruitment by posing as consulting firms, corporate headhunters, think tanks, and other entities…… Continue Reading
On April 9, Fairfax County Public Schools’ superintendent, Michelle Reid, summoned two dozen students from 24 high schools to the district’s headquarters to lecture them about her budget preferences. Reid has a history of promoting a political agenda to manipulate students. Last month, for example, she supported a Women’s History Month display hanging in West Springfield High School beginning with “A is for abortion,” accompanied by the image of a coat hanger…… Continue Reading