Washington In an interview that aired Thursday night, President Donald Trump implied that Ukraine shouldn't have resisted when Russia seized it. Trump said, "Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful," to Sean Hannity of Fox News. "He shouldn t have done that, because we could have made a deal." In the Fox News interview, Trump restated his claim that Zelenskyy should have struck a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in order to prevent the war. "I could have made that deal so easily, and Zelenskyy decided that 'I want to fight,'" Trump stated. Trump continued by contrasting the quantity of tanks in each nation, highlighting Russia's superiority. Trump remarked, "You don't fight those," When asked how Trump believes Ukraine should have responded ...

When new Secretary of State Marco Rubio travels abroad late next week for the first time as the top diplomat of the United States, Panama will be one of his first trips. This presents a special kind of challenge for him early in his term. One of the United States' closest allies in Latin America is Panama, but since December, President Donald Trump has stated his desire to reclaim the Panama Canal, claiming in rallies, social media posts, and even his inauguration speech that China controls the vital canal. The canal is run as a neutral waterway, and neither China nor Panama have acknowledged meddling in its management. According to State Department spokesman Tammy Bruce, Rubio's tour will include stop in Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, and the Dominican Republic. Bruce told reporters ...

Two Washington, D.C., police officers who were found guilty of their involvement in the 2020 cover-up and murderous pursuit of a young man on a moped—a case that sparked protests in the nation's capital—were granted complete and unconditional pardons by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. Officer Terence Sutton of the Metropolitan Police Department, who was given a sentence of more than five years in prison in September, was granted clemency by Trump. In the October 2020 unlawful pursuit that killed 20-year-old Karon Hylton-Brown, he was charged with second-degree murder in the District of Columbia and conspiracy to impede and obstruction of justice in the federal court. As a result of his actions while on duty, Sutton became the first police officer in D.C. to be found guilty of murder. ...

According to the platform he used, the adolescent who shot and killed a student at a Nashville, Tennessee, high school livestreamed a portion of the event and was influenced by online content that officials deemed offensive and dangerous on Thursday. The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement Thursday that the 17-year-old shooter, who injured another student before taking his own life, fired 10 shots from a 9 mm pistol 17 seconds after entering the Antioch High School cafeteria, southeast of downtown Nashville, on Wednesday. In response to the police chief's earlier statement that the shooter took the bus to school, the department stated that the shooter was dropped off by his mother. According to investigators, he posted pictures to social media and used a nearby res...

According to Panamanians, the United States should not regain control of the canal that bears the country's name, even though President Donald Trump has called for this to happen. When Panama formally assumed control of canal operations from the United States in 1999, most people believed the issue was resolved. However, during his campaign, he suggested that the engineering marvel that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans was being operated by China and should be returned to U.S. control. In his inaugural speech this week, Trump reiterated that assertion, stating, "We're taking back the Panama Canal, which is operated by China." As part of a Latin American and Caribbean tour that begins late next week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Panama. As he and other Panamanian l...

LOS ANGELES—A fast-moving brushfire that started north of Los Angeles on Wednesday and spread to thousands of acres in a matter of hours due to strong winds has gained additional territory on Thursday, according to officials. By Thursday evening, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, reported that the Hughes Fire, which began near Castaic Lake, was 36% contained and had burned over 10,000 acres. According to authorities, no buildings have been destroyed. More than 31,000 people were ordered to evacuate on Wednesday due to the fire. By Thursday afternoon, they were lifted, but approximately 54,900 people were still under an evacuation notice, which means they should be ready to leave if directed to do so, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Depart...

Walid Abu Libdeh, a 61-year-old engineer, felt like he was in a terrible movie when he and his little daughter returned to Rafah. He navigated the streets littered with debris, attempting to locate the location of his former home. The houses are where? Where are the trees? Where are the animals? Where are our loved ones? He addressed the ground crew of NBC News in the southern city of Gaza on Wednesday. According to Libdeh, what has transpired in Rafah is reminiscent of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. The United Nations estimates that six months ago, over a million Palestinians who had been forcibly displaced from the fighting in the Gaza Strip lived at Rafah, on the border between Gaza and Egypt. As Palestinians search through debris and rubble to see what remains of their city, the image now app...

Washington One day before he is scheduled to speak to thousands of anti-abortion rights protesters at their annual march in Washington, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday pardoning 23 of these individuals. At the signing ceremony for the Oval Office on Thursday, Trump stated that 23 people were prosecuted, but that they shouldn't have been, pointing out that many of them are old. It is truly an honor to sign this. They will be overjoyed. Standing beside Trump, White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, "Some are in jail." Their names weren't made public right away. Conservatives have accused the Biden administration of targeting nonviolent demonstrators by exploiting a 1994 statute that protects abortion clinics, doctors, and patients. In order to enable safe...

Authorities stated that after responding to a "suicide in progress" call in San Antonio on Wednesday night, seven police officers were shot after an hours-long armed confrontation. Before a "second call came in for shots being fired" at an apartment complex on Stone Oak Parkway, officers received a call for "a suicide in progress" just before 8:30 p.m. CT, according to a statement from the police department. William P. McManus, the chief of police in San Antonio, informed reporters on the scene that at least one of the calls was from a relative of the suspect. "A female exited the apartment stating that the suspect was shooting inside, and he was coming out," the police statement reads when cops arrived. Brandon Scott Poulos, 46, was claimed to have "then exited the apartment and opened fi...

Normally, tourists would be turned off by the smell of death rather than drawn to it. However, thousands gathered this week in Sydney, a city renowned for its beaches and thriving culinary scene, to get a look and smell of a rare flower whose aroma has been affectionately likened to rotting flesh. At the Australian city's Royal Botanic Garden, crowds of tourists flocked to see the rare and endangered "corpse flower," or Amorphophallus titanum, blossom. The flower only blooms for a day every few years.