An international affairs consultant discusses the status of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and how the new Trump Administration might help secure peace.

Trump followed through on several of his Day One promises with a flurry of executive orders, but he left some on the table, including imposing tariffs and ending the war in Ukraine.

Soldiers and civilians alike say that after so much loss, the new U.S. president must push for a just settlement, not peace at any cost.

Trump has said he will issue executive orders on his first day in office to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico if the two US neighbors do not clamp down on the flow of drugs into the US and people entering the country illegally.

Ukraine is in the final stages of drafting recruitment reforms to attract 18- to 25-year-olds who are currently exempt from mobilization as it looks for ways to bolster its fighting force.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has an answer for President Donald Trump about his idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America:” he can call it whatever he wants on the American pa

Pete Hegseth starts his first day as Secretary of Defense with key challenges ahead, from border security to military reforms and navigating US relations with China, India, and Ukraine.

President Donald Trump has imposed a 25% tariff and a travel ban on Colombia after the South American nation's president refused to allow 160 deportees on two military planes to land in that country Sunday.

Dulzura, United States - January 24, 2025 The Border 2 Fire, a brush fire that broke out on Otay Mountain near the U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego County on Thursday afternoon, January 23, had burned more than 6,

President Donald Trump has stopped the program, which for decades has brought to the U.S. thousands of people fleeing war and persecution.

Their scope may depend on what happens after that. If tariffs start to have the negative effects that their critics predict — higher inflation, lower profits and a trade war — Trump will likely pull back. If they seem to be working, or at least not failing, Trump may end up being a lot bolder than he has been in the past few days.

For malice, you’d have to go a long way to beat the way Trump spent the first few minutes of his speech trashing the record of Joe Biden. Only an hour or so before, the outgoing president had graciously welcomed the incoming president into the White House – and was sitting right behind Trump as he tore him to shreds.