Ukraine Won’t Accept a Deal It Didn’t Help Negotiate, Zelensky Says

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine reiterated in an interview that aired on Sunday that his country would “never” accept a peace deal struck by the United States and Russia if Ukraine did not have a seat at the negotiating table. In an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Mr. Zelensky sought to avoid criticisms of…

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Judge Lets Musk’s Team Keep Access to Records at Some Agencies, for Now

A federal judge declined on Friday to block the access of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency to records systems containing personal information at the Health and Human Services Department, the Labor Department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a setback for unions and nonprofits trying to fight Elon Musk’s effort to cut and reshape…

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Judges Generally Let Prosecutors Drop Charges. Maybe Not for Adams.

Federal judges have almost no ability under the law to refuse a government request to drop criminal charges. The corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams of New York may be the exception. On Thursday, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned rather than obey an order to seek dismissal of the charges against the…

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Judge Refuses to Immediately Reinstate Inspectors General Fired by Trump

A federal judge denied eight former inspectors general who were fired by President Trump immediate reinstatement to their jobs on Friday and excoriated their lawyers, saying that their emergency request had wasted the court’s limited time. The ruling by Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington marked a rare victory for…

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Layoffs Expand at Federal Agencies, Part of Trump Purge

The Trump administration accelerated plans for widespread work force cuts across the government on Friday, as employees at multiple federal agencies learned they would be losing their jobs. Agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Agriculture Department were the latest to be hit with layoffs as President Trump and a team led by…

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Army Helicopter Might Have Missed Critical Instruction Before Midair Crash

Investigators said that an air traffic controller had instructed the Black Hawk crew to pass behind a nearby passenger jet, but that information might have got lost. National Transportation Safety Board officials said on Friday that they were investigating what appeared to be confused communications inside the cockpit of an Army Black Hawk helicopter moments…

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Vance Tells Europeans to Stop Shunning Parties Deemed Extreme

Vice President JD Vance urged European leaders on Friday to end the isolation of far-right parties across the continent, an extraordinary embrace of a once-fringe political movement with which the Trump administration shares a common approach on migration, identity and internet speech. The address stunned and silenced hundreds of attendees at the Munich Security Conference,…

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Hagan Scotten, Emil Bove and the Collective Punishment Test

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion,” wrote Hagan Scotten, the assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, to Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney general, in a resignation letter that became public on Friday. This made…

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