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President Donald Trump said Friday he would sign an executive order next week to undo a Biden-era plan to phase out plastic straws by 2027. “BACK TO PLASTIC!” Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social. Paper straws, he continued, “don’t work.” Republicans and Democrats butted heads over straws last summer when the Biden […]

Donald Trump is gearing up to be the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday in New Orleans, saying on social media that “IT WILL BE A GREAT GAME.” Trump, in a Friday morning post on his Truth Social, said he is eager to see the stars on both teams when the […]

LONDON — Britain’s former Ambassador to the U.S. Karen Pierce has a new gig: she’s becoming the U.K.’s special envoy to the Western Balkans. Pierce — highly-regarded on the Washington D.C. scene after representing the U.K. under both Donald Trump and Joe Biden’s presidencies — will manage the U.K.’s strategic objectives in the sensitive region, […]

Donald Trump is ready to double down on sanctions against Russia to bring about an end to the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the U.S. president’s special envoy on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Sanctions enforcement on Russian President Vladimir Putin is “only about a three” on a scale of one to 10 on how painful […]

PARIS  — The biggest day of François Bayrou’s decades-long political career has arrived. His government’s fate is in the hands of the members of the French parliament, as they vote Wednesday on the first of several no-confidence motions expected to be put forward against the centrist prime minister. It’s only two months since they brought down […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he is in “no rush” to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping despite expectations they would meet the same day, as trade tensions increase after both countries imposed tariffs early in the morning. “We’ll speak to him at the appropriate time. I’m in no rush,” Trump told reporters […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Trump must get “strong security guarantees” from Russia to end the war that’s been raging for nearly three years in Ukraine. “We believe that President Trump wants to succeed in this situation,” Zelenskyy said, speaking in an interview with British broadcaster Piers Morgan via a translator. “Success is the victory of common […]

BRUSSELS — The EU’s tech fines are a “tariff” on U.S. companies and the bloc is going in the “wrong direction” with its tech regulation, Meta’s top lobbyist Joel Kaplan said Tuesday. Kaplan slammed the EU’s recent practice of imposing hefty fines on companies like Meta during a live-streamed interview at a Meta event in […]

Talks to form a government that would put the far right in power in Austria are struggling, Austrian media reported Tuesday, though the parties involved say negotiations have not collapsed. The far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ), which won the most votes in a September election in Austria, has been in talks with the right-wing Austrian People’s […]

ROME — Italy’s UniCredit has bought a stake in insurance giant Generali Group, according to two people familiar with the matter, adding another twist to a byzantine banking battle brewing in Italy’s north. Generali is in the crosshairs of several competing groups, including the Rome-allied billionaire Del Vecchio and Caltagirone families, as well as Milan-based investment […]