THE WAR ROOM: President Trump, who repeatedly bragged that he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours, failed to make progress yesterday in a two-hour call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.    “The tone and spirit of the conversation were excellent,” Trump …

METASTASIS Former President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an “aggressive”  form of prostate cancer that has already spread to his bones, his office revealed yesterday.   “While this represents a more aggressive form of the disease, the cancer appears to be hormone-sensitive …

STATE SECRETS: The Justice Department has resorted to twisted logic to defend the deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant under legal protection sent to prison in El Salvador.    DOJ lawyer Jonathan Guynn said at a hearing in Federal District Court …

ATTENTION WALMART SHOPPERS !: Executives at Walmart, the country’s largest retailer, told industry analysts that prices are going to rise because of President Trump’s tariffs on foreign-made goods.   Although Trump at least temporarily lowered tariffs on Chinese goods from 145 percent …

JUST BEAUTIFUL:  House Republicans are pushing forward with budget and spending plans in the first efforts to put the Trump agenda into legislation rather than executive orders.   Their plan is to cut spending on food stamps, clean energy subsidies, and  Medicaid … …

CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’: A California judge said he will re-sentence the infamous Menendez brothers to 50 years to life, giving them a shot at parole and freedom from their original life sentence for murdering their parents. They would be immediately eligible for parole …

ORANGE ALERT !: The last US citizen held hostage by Hamas militants in Gaza was released yesterday but President Trump overshadowed the story with his deal to accept the gift of a $400 million Boeing 747 from Qatar to replace the …

CHINA SYNDROME: The US and China announced an agreement to temporarily slash the drastic trade tariffs they imposed on each other while continuing talks to end the trade war threatening the world’s two largest economies.   Stock futures were up sharply this morning …

FREE SPEECH: In a blow to the Trump administration, a Tufts University foreign student detained by Immigration and Customs enforcement because she co-wrote an op-ed piece critical of Israel was released yesterday on orders from a federal judge who said the …

WHITE SMOKE: The Catholic Cardinals yesterday chose their first American pope, Cardinal  Robert Francis Prevost, 69, who immediately took the papal name Leo XIV. He becomes the leader of about 1.4 billion Catholics, roughly 20 percent of the world’s population.   In his …