The Pope calls Vladimir Putin from his hospital bed after surgery for lung cancer to lobby the Butcher of the Donbas for a ceasefire around Oleshky so aid can get in and civilians can leave. It is ...

Trump waving a white flag for Ukraine, he trounces on the remarkable achievement of Republican President Ronald Reagan, who won the Cold War with sharp ideological rhetoric, military strength and ...

Polymarket's 2027 Nobel Peace Prize market favors Donald Trump at 8.5 cents, despite the committee's 2026 rejection of his ...

Carlson has broken with Trump largely over the war in Iran. But on Ukraine and immigration, the two speak very much the same language.

Ukraine is in talks with Poland and Slovakia to move grain export customs checks inland to protect lorries from Russian drone ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was illegal, but Australia’s response has also exposed a deeper inconsistency in how it applies ...

There are presidential differences. Some are having to make tougher decisions than others were willing to do.

I remember well when President Ronald Reagan in June 1987 issued a face-to-face challenge to the Russian born head of the Soviet Union: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Every person I knew felt ...

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It’s a sad twist of history that the U.S., a major ally of Western European democracies, is now an accomplice of Vladimir Putin.

When Reagan refused to abandon his missile shield, the Soviets secretly built a space-based laser weapon capable of striking targets in orbit. What happened next on launch day remained buried for ...

Are they turning in their graves? As Donald Trump doggedly indulges Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, you might ...