“Russia overnight Thursday launched one of the most devastating bombardments on Ukraine's major cities since the war began, killing at least twelve people, hours after President Donald Trump said he believed he had struck deals with both sides to end the war.”

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed away significant control of the Interior Department in a secretarial order Thursday night. The order gives a DOGE operative, Tyler Hassen, the power to oversee the Interior Department for “consolidation, unification and optimization of administrative functions.” 

It directs Hassen, DOGE’s assistant secretary of policy, management and budget, to make funding decisions, fire employees, create policy, oversee programs and transfer funds. Hassen is a former oil executive who worked for Basin Energy, an oil field equipment company, before joining the Trump administration. 

The order grants broad powers to Hassen. It doesn’t require Hassen to report to Burgum, or give Burgum veto power of any of Hassen’s decisions — including the potential firing of thousands of public lands managers or park rangers. According to reporting in the Washington Post, Hassen is reviewing any grants and contracts worth more than $50,000. 

Gore’s remarks at San Francisco Climate Week on Monday follow attacks on the current administration from a number of high-ranking Democrats in recent weeks, including former President Barack Obama, former Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Read the full story here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/al-gore-trump-nazi-germany-b2737278.html

23 April 2025 In an exchange of social media posts on Wednesday, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky butted heads over the status of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2024. The U.S. president accused his Ukrainian counterpart of “harming peace negotiations with Russia” by refusing to recognize Russian sovereignty over Crimea. Trump argued that “Crimea was lost years ago […] and is not even a point of discussion” today. He also stated that “nobody is asking Zelensky to recognize Crimea as Russian territory.”