President Donald Trump presided over his first Cabinet meeting. Elon Musk, unelected and unconfirmed, was also in attendance. Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Western powers of attempting to sabotage renewed diplomatic efforts between Moscow and Washington, suggesting that certain elites benefit from ongoing global instability.

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he has received U.S. assurances that Washington will not reduce its troop presence in Poland and elsewhere along NATO’s eastern flank

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he met Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in Washington on Friday and discussed "fair and reciprocal market access" and the "need for NATO Allies to increase defense investment without delay".

US President Donald Trump has said that Washington won't make any security guarantees to Ukraine despite the fact that the US is expected to soon sign a rare earth mineral deal with Kyiv.

While NATO’s relevance is being questioned by some in Washington, officials in Brussels remain confident the alliance remains strong, pointing to a stark divide between rhetoric and reality.

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is traveling to Washington to convince NATO-skeptic Trump to “backstop” a European peacekeeping force in the event of a deal to end the war in Ukraine. Starmer’s trip comes at a low point in transatlantic relations.

The Ukrainian leader also said he would step down if Ukraine was allowed to join NATO, though it was unclear if he was serious or not.

Poland's President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday that he has received U.S. assurances that Washington will not reduce its troop presence in Poland and elsewhere along NATO's eastern flank. A conservative who has long had good ties with U.

Poland’s President Andrzej Duda says he has received U.S. assurances that Washington will not reduce its troop presence in Poland and elsewhere along NATO’s eastern flank.

President Donald Trump has called for a sweeping overhaul of the US military that could affect Washington's role in NATO as well as cooperation with Europe and support for Ukraine against Russia. But social media posts that say the US leader closed a military base in Greece are false -- Trump himself denied the claims and a Pentagon official told AFP the facility is not America's to close .

Latvia's foreign minister warned that Russia wanted to "weaken U.S. power" in the world as Washington and Moscow seek to end the war in Ukraine.