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SITUATION REPORT

A Republican Appropriations Chair Says Trump's $810 Million Cut Is Illegal

President Donald Trump moved Friday evening to cancel $810 million in spending that Congress approved and he signed into law, using a contested budget maneuver with five days left in the fiscal year and drawing a sharp rebuke from the Republican who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee. "Any effort

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By: Atlas

Kansas Republicans Who Voted to Expand ICE Now Want It to Call First

A four-day federal immigration operation across southwest Kansas slowed some of the country's largest beef plants this week, delayed shipments of thousands of cattle and drew calls from both of the state's Republican senators for closer coordination with local police. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents

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3 Min
By: Atlas

SCOTUS Blocked Missouri's Map & Revived the Citizenship Database In One Day

The Supreme Court on Friday ordered Missouri to hold its November congressional elections under the district map drawn in 2022, rejecting a Republican-drawn 2025 map that targeted the Kansas City seat of Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo. Earlier the same day, a divided court let the Trump administration resume

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4 Min
By: Atlas

Xi Arrives for First U.S. D.C. Visit in 11 Years

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States on Wednesday for a three-day state visit that begins with a rare planeside greeting from President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington. White House guidance has put wheels-down near 4:10 p.

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3 Min
By: Atlas

Zelenskyy Offers an Energy Truce — if Russia Stops First

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine is ready for a bilateral energy ceasefire with Russia if Moscow stops attacking Ukraine's energy, electricity, heating, and water systems, after a roughly 40-minute meeting Tuesday with President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New

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By: Atlas

Washington Withholds Sudanese Leader's UN Visa As Relations Hit A Low

The United States is withholding a visa for Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ahead of his planned appearance at the United Nations General Assembly, according to Sudanese and Western sources who link the holdup to a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal that Khartoum has resisted. The State Department

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3 Min
By: Atlas

Iran Offers to Reopen Hormuz Within Seven Days if U.S. Lifts Port Blockade

Iran can reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the United States eases military pressure and lifts its blockade of Iranian ports, senior Iranian officials said Tuesday, as President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in New York for United Nations General Assembly week. One of the officials said the initiative

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3 Min
By: Atlas

South Korea's Lee Urges U.S. to Trade Sanctions Relief for a North Korean Nuclear Freeze

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has urged the United States to ease sanctions on North Korea in exchange for a freeze on additional nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile technology, arguing that waiting for complete denuclearization all at once is not realistic while Pyongyang's arsenal keeps growing.

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3 Min
By: Atlas

Britain Sends RAF Tanker to Help Saudi Arabia Fend Off Houthi Attacks

Britain will deploy an RAF Voyager tanker to help Saudi Arabia against renewed attacks by Iran-backed Houthi forces, the Ministry of Defence said Tuesday, after Prime Minister Andy Burnham approved a Riyadh request on the advice of Defence Secretary Wes Streeting and Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband. It is Burnham&

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Putin's Party Heads for Record Duma Majority as Drones Hit Moscow on Voting Day

Preliminary returns Monday showed President Vladimir Putin's United Russia party on course for its largest State Duma faction ever, in Russia's first parliamentary election since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The three-day vote closed Sunday under what Russian officials called the largest

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By: Atlas

Left Wins Berlin, AfD Tops Northeast as Merz's Party Is Shut Out of a State Parliament

The Left finished first in Berlin's state election on Sunday with 25.7 percent, and the Alternative for Germany placed first in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern with 38.2 percent, according to provisional results. Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats finished a distant second in the capital at 18.

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2 Min
By: Atlas

Old Enemies From Ethiopia's Tigray War Join Alliance to Remove Abiy

Seven Ethiopian armed groups, including former enemies from the 2020-2022 Tigray war, said late Sunday they have formed a joint front aimed at removing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and installing an inclusive transitional administration. The Ethiopian Peoples' Forces Alliance for Survival, known as the Alliance

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