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In the news today: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heads to the White House today with Europe's top leaders; mayors of US cities President Donald Trump decries as 'lawless' tout significant declines in violent crimes; and the Trump administration halts visas for people from Gaza after Laura Loomer questions arrivals. Also, a new study finds Stone Age humans were picky about which rocks they used for making tools.
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President Donald Trump greets Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Friday at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
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Putin agrees that US, Europe could offer NATO-style security guarantees to Ukraine, Trump envoy says
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war, a U.S. official said Sunday. Read more. |
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- Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, who took part in the talks Friday at a military base in Alaska, said it "was the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that" and called it "game-changing." Witkoff offered few details on how such an arrangement would work.
On Sunday night, however, Trump seemed to put the onus on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree to concessions. "President Zelenskyy of Ukraine can end the war with Russia almost immediately, if he wants to, or he can continue to fight," he wrote. "Remember how it started. No getting back Obama given Crimea (12 years ago, without a shot being fired!), and NO GOING INTO NATO BY UKRAINE. Some things never change!!!"
- It was expected to be a key topic Monday as Zelenskyy and major European leaders meet with Trump at the White House to discuss ending the 3 1/2-year conflict.
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Black mayors of cities Trump decries as 'lawless' tout significant declines in violent crimes
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Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities. But, those accomplishments, which they felt were already overlooked, became further buried in the past week with the Trump administration's unprecedented law enforcement takeover in the nation's capital. Read more. |
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President Donald Trump has deployed the first of 800 National Guard members to Washington, D.C. But, the Republican president is setting his sights on other cities including Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles and Oakland, California. One thing they all have in common: They're led by Black mayors.
The cities have been seeing a drop in violent crime after a pandemic-era spike. In some cases, the declines were monumental, due in large part to more youth engagement, gun buyback programs, and community partnerships.
- Trump argued that federal law enforcement had to step in after a prominent employee of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was attacked in an attempted carjacking. He also pointed to homeless encampments, graffiti and potholes as evidence of Washington "getting worse." However statistics published by Washington's Metropolitan Police contradict the president and show violent crime has dropped there since a post-pandemic peak in 2023.
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Trump administration halts visas for people from Gaza after Laura Loomer questions arrivals
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A day after conservative activist Laura Loomer posted videos on social media of children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioning how they got visas, the State Department said it was halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza pending a review. Read more. |
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The State Department said Saturday the visas would be stopped while it looks into how "a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas" were issued in recent days. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday told "Face the Nation" on CBS that the action came after "outreach from multiple congressional offices asking questions about it." Loomer on Friday posted videos on X of children from Gaza arriving earlier this month in San Francisco and Houston for medical treatment with the aid of an organization called HEAL Palestine. She called it a "national security threat" and asked who signed off on the visas, calling for the person to be fired. Trump has downplayed Loomer's influence on his administration, but several officials swiftly left or were removed shortly after she publicly criticized them.
- HEAL Palestine said in a statement Sunday that it was "distressed" by the State Department decision to halt visitor visas from Gaza. The group said it is "an American humanitarian nonprofit organization delivering urgent aid and medical care to children in Palestine."
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Oldowan stone tools made from a variety of raw materials at the Nyayanga excavation site in Kenya. (E.M Finestone, J.S. Oliver/Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project via AP)
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Stone Age humans were picky about which rocks they used for making tools, study finds
Early human ancestors during the Old Stone Age were more picky about the rocks they used for making tools than previously known, according to research published Friday. The study shows that by 2.6 million years ago, humans had developed a method to chip sharp flakes from rocks to use as blades for butchering meat, and it also suggests they had a mental map of where suitable raw materials were located and planned ahead to use them. |
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