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Russia strikes Kyiv. Trump wants it to stop.

Rebecca Morin   Paste BN

Hello! Rebecca Morin here. Lorde’s new song, “What Was That,” has been on repeat for me all morning.

While Trump wants a peace deal, Russia strikes Ukraine

“Vladimir, STOP!” It’s clear that President Donald Trump is currently frustrated with Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin. Russia hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with a barrage of deadly missile and drone strikes overnight. The White House is pushing hard for both sides to agree to some form of a peace deal to end the conflict that started back in February 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine. Trump said he wants a peace deal done.

  • Russia’s overnight attack on Ukraine killed at least eight people and injured more than 70 others. The attack on Kyiv triggered fires, smashed buildings and buried residents under rubble in one of its deadliest assaults on Ukraine in months.
  • The Kremlin's top security official, Sergei Shoigu, said his country reserves the right to use nuclear weapons if it faces aggression by Western countries. He said Russia might consider a nuclear strike in response to a conventional attack on Russia or its ally Belarus that "created a critical threat" to their sovereignty or territorial integrity.

A politics pit stop

DNC tensions arise

A top Democratic leader wants a new generation of Democrats in Congress. But the head of the Democratic National Committee wants party officers to not butt in for primaries. Ken Martin, chair of the DNC, is proposing a rule change that would require party officers to remain neutral in primary elections. The move comes after DNC Vice Chair David Hogg announced his group, Leaders We Deserve, was pouring $20 million toward challenging "out-of-touch, ineffective" Democratic officeholders. If the rule change is approved, Hogg would be forced to either resign from the DNC or divorce himself from the organization he co-founded. Why Democrats have less confidence in party’s leaders.

New polls show Trump’s approval slipping

In less than a week, President Donald Trump will meet the 100-day marker of his second term as president. And new polls are showing Americans aren’t very satisfied at the moment with his job as president. Trump’s net approval rating dipped to -13 percentage points in a new poll by The Economist/YouGov, with 41% of respondents approving of Trump's job, compared to 54% who disapproved.  See the results of the poll.

  • A new Reuters/Ipsos poll also found that Americans are turning on Trump’s handling of the economy. Just 37% of respondents to the poll approve of Trump's handling of the economy, down from 42% in the hours after his January 20 inauguration, when he promised to supercharge the economy and bring about a "Golden Age of America."

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