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🔵 Peace Talks Begin
Citizen Frank
February 16, 2025
Good evening. It’s Saturday, February 15.
Senior Trump administration officials are heading to Saudi Arabia to start peace talks with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators, according to a Republican lawmaker and two U.S. officials familiar with the plan.
However, a Ukrainian official told POLITICO that the announcement of the Saudi talks came as a surprise to Kyiv, and as of now there were no plans to send a delegation.
The U.S. officials said that National security adviser Mike Waltz will join Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, the president’s Middle East envoy, in the coming days to start talks on ending the war.
French President Emmanuel Macron has summoned Europe’s leaders to Paris on Monday for an emergency summit, where President Trump will be on the agenda.
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski revealed Macron’s plans while attending the Munich Security Conference Saturday, Politico reported.
“I’m very glad that President Macron has called our leaders to Paris,” Sikorski said, adding he expects the European leaders to discuss, “in a very serious fashion,” the new Trump administration.
Every Arizona swing voter in our latest Engagious/Sago focus groups said they approve of President Trump’s actions since taking office — and most also support Elon Musk’s efforts to slash government.
Public opinion can constrain presidents when Congress does not. But these 11 voters — all of whom backed Joe Biden in 2020 but switched to Trump last November — said they’re good with Trump aggressively testing disruptive, expansionist expressions of presidential power that are piling up in court challenges.
It’s needed to “get America back on track,” one participant said.
A Syrian asylum seeker was arrested on suspicion of killing a 14-year-old boy and wounding five others in a knife rampage in Austria on Saturday.
The attack took place in the centre of Villach, the capital of the Carinthia province in southern Austria, just before 4pm.
The 23-year-old suspect is alleged to have slashed passers-by at random, killing one and wounding five others, two of whom were left with serious injuries.
Vivek Ramaswamy has kicked off his campaign to become Ohio’s next governor — and vowed it won’t be “your usual gubernatorial dog-and-pony show.”
The biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate celebrated Valentine’s Day by filing paperwork with the Ohio Secretary of State’s office — signaling his run for the 2026 election.
Ramaswamy, 39 — a native of Cincinnati — has not yet formally announced his campaign plans but has repeatedly hinted that he was eyeing an elected office at the state level.
The Army is repurposing more than half of the money it collects from junior enlisted soldiers for food, according to data reviewed by Military.com. The numbers suggest that a large portion of those funds are not going toward feeding soldiers, a diversion of resources coming at a time when troops increasingly struggle to find nutritious food on base.
The money is collected in what amounts to a tax on troops — taken from their Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS) payments, roughly $460 per month that is automatically deducted from the paychecks of service members who live in barracks and is intended to help cover food costs. For junior enlisted troops who earn about $30,000 annually, the cost can be consequential.
2024 financial records provided by the service from 11 of the Army’s largest bases show that more than $151 million of $225 million collected from soldiers was not spent on food. Given that the Army operates 104 garrisons, the true amount of unspent funds is likely far higher.
A migrant transgender woman wanted by federal immigration officials allegedly stalked and raped a boy in Manhattan this week, The Post has reported.
Nicol Suarez allegedly followed the 14-year-old into the bathroom of a bodega across the street from Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem Tuesday and attacked him, police and sources said.
The boy then left the bathroom and flagged down witnesses, who alerted police, the sources said.
Dave Chappelle recently revealed that his iconic Saturday Night Live monologue in January was subject to censorship during his latest stand-up performance.
While performing in San Francisco on Thursday, the comedian—who has sparked controversy with his transphobic remarks—shared that the higher-ups at Studio 8-H had requested he steer clear of two specific topics for his latest SNL appearance.
‘SNL producers told him he couldn’t speak about two topics: transgender people and Gaza,’ reported SFGATE’s senior culture editor Dan Gentile.
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