Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff touch down in Paris to hear Ukraine plead its case

Top Ukrainian officials flew Thursday for a previously unannounced visit to Paris, where Europeans were assembling to plead Kyiv’s case to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff. The high level diplomacy reflects Europe’s mounting concern over the U.S. administration’s overtures towards Moscow, after the failure so far of Trump’s efforts…

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The Pentagon is working to make Trump’s vision of a U.S. ‘Iron Dome’ a reality

Defense Department officials will soon brief President Donald Trump on a variety of options for him to fulfill his pledge to protect the United States with something modeled on Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile defense, according to U.S. officials and experts familiar with the initiative. Like former President Ronald Reagan’s push for the Strategic Defense Initiative,…

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Trump administration plans to end IRS Direct File for free tax filing, sources say

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program, an electronic system for filing tax returns directly to the agency for free, according to two people familiar with the decision. The program developed during Joe Biden’s presidency was credited by users with making tax filing easy, fast and economical. But Republican lawmakers and commercial tax preparation…

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