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  • Putin sending foreign minister to Saudi Arabia for talks with Trump officials

    Putin sending foreign minister to Saudi Arabia for talks with Trump officials

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has dispatched a group of senior officials to Saudi Arabia for meetings with the U.S. about a potential peace deal for Ukraine, the Kremlin announced Monday.

    The officials, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov, will meet with U.S. counterparts on Tuesday. The groups plan to discuss a restoration of diplomatic ties between Washington and Moscow, as well as a Ukrainian peace deal and a potential meeting between President Donald Trump and Putin.

    Secretary of State Marco Rubio will lead the U.S. delegation, accompanied by Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and national security adviser Mike Waltz, the state department confirmed Monday.

    The meeting comes just days after Trump revealed he had spoken to Putin in a phone call last week. Trump said he and Putin “agreed to have our respective teams start negotiations immediately.”

    TRUMP SAYS RUSSIA AGREES TO ‘IMMEDIATELY’ BEGIN NEGOTIATIONS TO END WAR IN UKRAINE

    President Donald Trump (center), Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right). (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto via Getty Images | Contributor/Getty Images | Scott Olson/Getty Images)

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met the effort with skepticism, urging Trump not to trust Putin in a separate call last week.

    “I said that [Putin] is a liar,” Zelenskyy recounted of his phone call to Trump. “And he said, ‘I think my feeling is that he’s ready for these negotiations.’ And I said to him, ‘No, he’s a liar. He doesn’t want any peace.’” 

    PUTIN VIEWED AS ‘GREAT COMPETITOR’ BUT STILL A US ‘ADVERSARY’ AS UKRAINE NEGOTIATIONS LOOM, LEAVITT SAYS 

    Zelenskyy nevertheless said he believes Putin is a “little bit scared” of Trump.

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    Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will lead the Russian delegation meeting with Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia this week. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

    Trump’s representatives have declined to offer details about the negotiations, such as whether the U.S. would support a deal where Ukraine is forced to give up a sizable amount of its pre-war territory.

    FREED AMERICAN HOSTAGE MARC FOGEL LANDS IN US AFTER YEARS IN RUSSIAN CAPTIVITY

    “Those are details, and I’m not dismissive of the details, they’re important. But I think the beginning here is trust-building. It’s getting everybody to understand that this war does not belong continuing, that it should end. That’s what the president has directed us to do,” Witkoff told Fox News on Sunday.

    Meanwhile, U.K. Prime Minister Kier Starmer has confirmed that he is willing to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine to ensure its security as part of a peace deal.

    “I do not say that lightly,” he wrote in the Daily Telegraph. “I feel very deeply the responsibility that comes with potentially putting British servicemen and women in harm’s way.”

    “But any role in helping to guarantee Ukraine’s security is helping to guarantee the security of our continent, and the security of this country,” he added.

    Artillery in Ukraine

    War has continued to rage in Ukraine in recent days despite a phone call between Trump and Putin discussing a possible peace deal. (Anatolii STEPANOV / AFP, ANATOLII STEPANOV/AFP via Getty Images)

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    Zelenskyy added in his interview that he will not accept any negotiation hashed out by just the U.S. and Russia.

    “I will never accept any decisions between the United States and Russia about Ukraine. Never.… The war in Ukraine is against us, and it is our human losses. And we are thankful for all the support, unity between U.S.A. – in U.S.A. around Ukraine support, bipartisan unity, bipartisan support, we’re thankful for all of this. But there is no… leader in the world who can really make a deal with Putin without us about us,” he said.

  • Hegseth, Vance appear to give different answers on sending troops to Ukraine

    Hegseth, Vance appear to give different answers on sending troops to Ukraine

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told reporters on Friday that “the reality of U.S. troops in Ukraine is unlikely,” but insisted that there was “no daylight” between himself and Vice President JD Vance.

    In a bilateral press conference with Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, Hegseth touched on the possibility of U.S. troops going into Ukraine. At first, he appeared to shut down the idea, but then he seemed to not take it entirely off the table. 

    Hegseth added that he would “never put constraints around what the President of the United States would be willing to negotiate with the sovereign leaders of both Russia and Ukraine.”

    VANCE WARNS US WILL USE SANCTIONS, MILITARY ACTION IF PUTIN DOESN’T AGREE TO UKRAINE PEACE DEAL: REPORT

    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth deliver a press statement after a bilateral meeting at the Ministry of Defense on Feb. 14, 2025 in Warsaw, Poland.  (Omar Marques/Getty Images)

    On Thursday, in an exclusive interview with The Wall Street Journal, Vance reportedly said that the option of sending U.S. troops to Ukraine remained “on the table.”  

    Vance also told the outlet that the U.S. could use “economic tools” or “military tools” against Russia to bring about an end to the nearly three-year-long war. The vice president said that President Donald Trump wants “a productive negotiation” with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also teased a deal that would “shock a lot of people.”

    Vance is in Germany for the Munich Security Conference, where he is expected to meet with Zelenskyy.

    The vice president’s remarks appear contrast with what Hegseth told the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels earlier this week. In his opening remarks to the group, Hegseth said that rather than admitting Ukraine to NATO, security guarantees to the country would be supported “by capable European and non-European troops.” However, he also appeared to completely rule out the possibility of U.S. troops

    “To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine,” he said.

    Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth

    Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers remarks during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Pentagon on Feb. 5 in Arlington, Va.  (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

    FORMER US AMBASSADOR TO NATO PREDICTS IMMINENT CEASEFIRE IN UKRAINE

    At the Munich Security Conference, Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker, R-Ms., told Politico that he was “puzzled” and “disturbed” by Hegseth’s remarks in Brussels.

    “Everybody knows … and people in the administration know you don’t say before your first meeting what you will agree to and what you won’t agree to,” Sen. Wicker told Politico, classifying Hegseth’s comments as a “rookie mistake.”

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    President Donald Trump (center), Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskyy (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right). (Alessandro Bremec/NurPhoto via Getty Images | Contributor/Getty Images | Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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    Trump has long spoken about ending the war between Ukraine and Russia, often asserting that it would not have started had he been in the Oval Office.

    On Wednesday, Trump announced that in a “lengthy and highly productive” phone call Putin agreed to “immediately” begin negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

    Trump said he asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of the CIA John Ratcliffe, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz and Ambassador and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to lead the negotiations, saying he thinks they “will be successful.”

  • Federal court blocks Trump admin from sending detained Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo Bay

    Federal court blocks Trump admin from sending detained Venezuelan immigrants to Guantánamo Bay

    A federal court on Sunday issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to the Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, detention camp as part of the president’s efforts to remove illegal immigrants from the U.S.

    Lawyers for the trio said in a legal filing that the detainees “fit the profile of those the administration has prioritized for detention in Guantánamo, i.e. Venezuelan men detained in the El Paso area with (false) charges of connections with the Tren de Aragua gang.”

    In the filing, the lawyers asked a U.S. District Court in New Mexico for a temporary restraining order to block the administration from flying them to the U.S. military base. The lawyers noted that “the mere uncertainty the government has created surrounding the availability of legal process and counsel access is sufficient to authorize the modest injunction.”

    TRUMP DEPORTING CRIMINAL ALIENS TO GUANTANAMO BAY: MEET THE HARDENED TERRORISTS THEY’LL JOIN

    The Trump administration has begun flying detained illegal immigrants from the U.S. to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images, left, DOD via AP, right.)

    Judge Kenneth J. Gonzales granted the temporary restraining order, according to attorney Jessica Vosburgh, who represents the three men.

    “It’s short term. This will get revisited and further fleshed out in the weeks to come,” Vosburgh told The Associated Press.

    The filing came as part of a lawsuit on behalf of the three men filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico and Las Americas Immigrant Advisory Center.

    FIRST 10 ‘HIGH THREAT’ ILLEGALS ARRIVE TO GUANTÁNAMO BAY ARE ALL TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBERS

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    A migrant prepares to board a flight to Guantánamo Bay. (Department of Homeland Security)

    Last week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt separately said that flights carrying detained illegal immigrants had been sent to Guantánamo.

    Immigrant rights groups sent a letter on Friday demanding access to people who are now being held at the U.S. naval station, arguing that the base should not be used as a “legal black hole.” Guantánamo has been criticized around the world for its inhumane abuse and torture of detainees, including interrogation tactics.

    The immigrants are being held in the Guantánamo detention camp that was set up for detainees in the aftermath of 9/11. The immigrants are separated from the 15 detainees who were already there, including planners in the 2001 terrorist attack.

    Guantanamo Bay Naval Base

    In this April 17, 2019, photo, reviewed by U.S. military officials, the control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. (AP)

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    Trump has promised to expand the detention camp to hold up to 30,000 “criminal illegal aliens.”

    Leavitt said Wednesday that more than 8,000 immigrants have been arrested since Jan. 20 as part of Trump’s plan to detain and deport immigrants in the country illegally, although hundreds of those arrested have since been released back into the U.S.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

  • Gwyneth Paltrow sells LA mansion for  million after sending kids to college

    Gwyneth Paltrow sells LA mansion for $22 million after sending kids to college

    Gwyneth Paltrow has sold her Los Angeles home.

    The Oscar-winning actress sold her six-bedroom home in the Brentwood neighborhood for $22 million. The home was initially on the market for $29.99 million when it was listed in May, according to The Wall Street Journal.

    The 8,000-square-foot house sits in Mandeville Canyon, which had been threatened by the Palisades Fire last month. The area has become a go-to place to buy because people displaced by the fires are looking for new homes, according to the Journal.

    Paltrow bought the property with ex Chris Martin in 2012, two years before they consciously uncoupled, the Journal reported. The couple reportedly renovated the home, making it larger and even adding two separate living spaces for guests.

    Paltrow sold her Brentwood home for $22 million. (Anthony Barcelo; Getty Images / Fox News)

    GWYNETH PALTROW REFLECTS ON WHAT SHE ‘LET GO OF’ IN 2024: ‘SOME PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT RIGHT FOR ME’

    The former couple share children Apple, 20, and Moses, 18, who are both in college. She put the house on the market last year after her youngest child graduated from high school. Paltrow married producer Brad Falchuk in 2018, and the couple shared the home with her children and his daughters, Isabella, 20, and Brody, 18.

    Originally built in the 1950s, the single-story, 13,000-square-foot house is surrounded by trees and features high ceilings, lush green grass in the yard and many other enviable amenities.

    The outside of the house is lined with small circular hedges.

    The exterior of the house is lined with small circular hedges. (Anthony Barcelo / Fox News)

    Following a large grassy area and a gray gravel driveway is the front door lined with small circular green hedges and small trees in planters. 

    Once through the front door, guests will find themselves in the entryway, which features black and white tiled floors, sconce lighting, a drop chandelier in the middle of the room, wainscoting and a large mirror on the wall.

    The entryway boasts black and white tiled floors, and a large mirror on the wall.

    The entry boasts black and white tiled floors and a large mirror on the wall. (Anthony Barcelo / Fox News)

    Past the entryway is the spacious living room, which boasts high ceilings, chevron-patterned hardwood flooring and wainscoting on the walls. On the far wall are floor-to-ceiling windows and glass French doors that lead to the backyard and bring in natural light.

    Paltrow incorporated nature into her decor in the room, placing a tall tree in one corner and a smaller plant on a side table, which also boasts many books.

    The living room boasts large windows and hardwood flooring.

    The living room boasts large windows and hardwood flooring. (Anthony Barcelo / Fox News)

    Another highlight of the home is the large kitchen, which features circular black tiles, floor-to-ceiling windows, a door leading to the backyard and multiple hanging light fixtures placed throughout the room.

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    The room features white countertops and drawers, a sizable eat-in center island that adds additional counter and storage space, a double oven, a double cooktop and a wood-burning oven. In addition, to the eat-in island, the room boasts a breakfast nook next to the large windows.

    Paltrow's kitchen features a large center island and a breakfast nook.

    Paltrow’s kitchen features a large center island and a breakfast nook. (Anthony Barcelo / Fox News)

    Elsewhere in the home is the cozy family room, which boasts yet another wall lined with floor-to-ceiling doors and windows. The wood-paneled room with white walls features light gray hardwood floors, a wood-burning fireplace, built-in bookshelves and a bar.

    Some of the home’s other enviable features include a climate-controlled wine cellar, plus an office, a gym, a game room and a movie theater.

    The family room features built-in bookshelves and floor-to-ceiling windows.

    The family room features built-in bookshelves and floor-to-ceiling windows. (Anthony Barcelo / Fox News)

    In the backyard, guests will find a large grassy area, an outdoor seating and dining area and a dipping pool.

    The backyard also houses the large guesthouse that boasts high ceilings with exposed wooden beams, a unique light fixture and all-wooden walls with tiled flooring. The guesthouse is accessed through large glass double doors that take up the entire wall, giving anyone inside a full view of the backyard.

    The one-bedroom guest house features a unique light fixture.

    The one-bedroom guesthouse features a unique light fixture. (Anthony Barcelo / Fox News)

    In addition to the guest house, the backyard features a large grass patch and a dipping pool.

    In addition to the guesthouse, the backyard features a large grass patch and a dipping pool. (Anthony Barcelo / Fox News)

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  • Pentagon sending additional 1,500 troops to southern border: US official

    Pentagon sending additional 1,500 troops to southern border: US official

    The U.S. Pentagon is sending an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border by the end of the month, a U.S. official told Fox News on Wednesday.

    It was not immediately clear what specific units would be sent, though the Trump administration is expected to make a formal announcement later Wednesday.

    There are already 2,500 U.S. service members stationed at the southern border. The troops were ordered there in May 2023 during the Biden administration under title 10 authorities, were approved by former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and are planned to be in place until the end of FY2025, according to a U.S. Northern Command spokesperson. 

    The 1,500 additional service members will deploy to different locations along the southern border by the end of the month, the U.S. official said. 

    BORDER CZAR TOM HOMAN SENDS MESSAGE TO FAR-LEFT OFFICIALS PUSHING BACK AGAINST MASS DEPORTATIONS: ‘GAME ON’

    The U.S. Pentagon is sending an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border by the end of the month, a U.S. official told Fox News on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

    The added troops will act in the same roles as the service members already there, providing aerial reconnaissance, data entry, training, vehicle maintenance, detection and monitoring, and some other logistical support roles. 

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    Migrants walk along the US-Mexico border fence in Lukeville, Arizona, on Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023. An influx of migrants crossing the border unlawfully has overwhelmed U.S. border officials.  (Eric Thayer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

    The announcement will mark the third time that U.S. troops have been sent to the southern border in the last two years. 

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    In May 2023, former President Joe Biden and Austin approved a request from former Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to send an additional 1,500 active-duty troops to the southern border for 90 days to assist with the influx of migrants after pandemic era health restrictions ended in May 2023. 

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    In March 2024, Austin approved another DHS request for 2,500 service members, including national guardsmen under Title 10 duty status.