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Lawyers for the global elite aren’t buying Trump’s gold card visa

Immigration attorney Michael Wildes has represented first lady Melania Trump and her parents, who are naturalized citizens. He has secured visas for Miss Universe titleholders when President Donald Trump ran the pageant organization. He has done legal work for the Kushner family.
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China confirms Xi-Trump summit that was delayed by Iran war

Beijing officially announced the date of Donald Trump’s state visit this week, publicly green-lighting the first U.S. presidential trip to China in nearly a decade despite tensions over the Iran war. Trump, who last visited China in 2017, will meet Xi Jinping in a much-anticipated summit that’s already been rescheduled once due to the war. The White House had said the summit will be held May ...
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Seoul confirms strike on vessel in Hormuz before Pentagon talks

South Korea said a fire aboard a Korean-operated cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz was caused by external strikes, the first official acknowledgment by Seoul that the incident was the result of an attack, though it stopped short of assigning blame. A South Korean government joint investigation found that two “unidentified aerial objects” struck the stern of the HMM Namu about one minute apart ...
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NATO nations brace for Trump to pull more troops from Europe

U.S. allies in Europe anticipate that President Donald Trump will withdraw more forces from the continent after he announced he would pull 5,000 troops out of Germany, people familiar with the matter said. Top diplomats from NATO allies forecast that Trump will announce more drawdowns, possibly including from Italy, and scrap a plan dating back to Joe Biden’s presidency to station long-range ...
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Pope and Haiti’s leader discuss security, migration and humanitarian challenges

Haiti Prime Minister Alix Didier Fils-Aimé discussed his country’s ongoing security and sociopolitical crisis, as well as humanitarian and migration challenges, during an audience with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Saturday. The visit came a day after the first American pontiff marked the first anniversary of his election as head of the Catholic Church and as the United Nations details in a ...
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Putin says he thinks Russia-Ukraine war is coming to an end

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that he thought the Ukraine war was coming to an end, remarks that came just hours after he had vowed victory in Ukraine at Moscow’s most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years.
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Starmer’s party suffers stark losses in U.K. local elections

LONDON – With the right-wing populist Reform UK party headed by Nigel Farage posting significant gains in local elections, Prime Minister Keir Starmer took responsibility Friday for large Labour Party losses, saying that he would “not sugarcoat” voters’ scathing verdict on his 22 months in office.