Day: February 17, 2025

Thousands of Americans braved freezing temperatures on Presidents Day to protest against Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

The top official’s departure is the latest in a wave of exits from senior officials whose agencies have come into the crosshairs of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that a U.S. security commitment was the only way to ensure lasting peace in Ukraine and it was too early to say how many British peacekeeping troops he would be willing to deploy.

The Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent, Shaun Walker, talks through a seismic week, as the president sidelined Kyiv and other European capitals from negotiations on the ending the war and then called into question the future of US support for Europe’s security altogether. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

The Guardian’s central and eastern Europe correspondent, Shaun Walker, talks through a seismic week, as the president sidelined Kyiv and other European capitals from negotiations on the ending the war and then called into question the future of US support for Europe’s security altogether. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Macron’s mini-summit shunned Brussels’ normal obsession with consensus and revealed a new core with the region’s future in their hands.