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Zelensky touts ‘positive signals from American side’ after Norway summit, call with Rubio

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky touted "positive signals" from a phone call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and an Oslo, Norway, summit with US special envoys, as President Trump said "it's time" to reach a peace deal to end the more than four-year war with Russia.

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Trump Predicts End to Rural Voters’ Economic WoesPresident Donald Trump said high gas prices and economic dissatisfaction among rural voters are a “small price to pay” for winning the war in Iran. “It’s a very small price to pay for not letting the most dangerous country in the world have a nuclear weapon,” he said Tuesday in response to a question from...

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China Condemns U.S. Ban on DeepSeek A.I. in Government SystemsThe response came after Homeland Security ordered the removal and exclusion of products developed by the Chinese tech giant.

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Musk ordered Starlink slowdown in Ukraine: WSJTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of Starshield, the military version of Starlink internet, which Ukraine said hampered its ability to respond to Russian attacks, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter. The disruption impacted Ukraine’s drones, airplanes and helicopters, a source…

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