The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation has ballooned to $13.1 million — more than seven times the $1.8 million Trump initially promised — after the Interior Department added $6.2 million to the contract Friday.

Source: NYT

Who likes JD Vance? [applause] Who likes Marco Rubio? [applause] Sounds like a good ticket.

That was a perfect ticket. By the way, I do believe that's a dream team, but these are minor details.

That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstance.

I think it sounds like presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate.

With respect to drugs coming in by sea, meaning drugs coming in by water, by the ocean, by the sea.

A lot of people don't know what I mean by sea. They think I'm talking about vision. I'm not. I'm talking about sea. Like the sea.

If American policy toward Russia and Ukraine isn't in Europe's interests, as I believe it is, then we need to engage directly.

Yes, it's time to start talking to Russia. I don't know when that will happen. We've discussed with European leaders who will establish contact, but we don't know yet.

The most important thing is that everything must be coordinated among us, especially between the E5 (Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Poland) and the Nordic and Baltic countries, who are on the border.

Source: Corriere

The probe was tied to a 2025 Guardian and +972 Magazine report revealing that Israeli intelligence used Microsoft Azure cloud servers to store mass-surveillance data on Palestinians.

The intercepted data covered Palestinians in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

The military action did not serve the region in general. America harmed its friends in the region.

The military operation served Netanyahu personally, it served his agenda.

He openly talks about a new map of the region, new alliances, a Greater Israel.

They are ignorant of the structure of power in Iran.

This pyramid has been built over 47 years, since the day the Shah left. It won't collapse the way they think.

Iranians have been accustomed to entering negotiations, succeeding in delaying them, and continuing indefinitely. There is sometimes a trick in not using a trick.

Iran is not prepared to give up its nuclear program to America for free. They view it as an existential, sovereign matter.

One Iranian official once told me: Ukraine handed over its nuclear weapons — and look what happened to it.

Iran, as a state, sees Israel and Pakistan possessing nuclear weapons — even if they say they don't seek them.

I believe this is the conclusion they will reach — after 20 years, after several years, they will get there.

When this war ends, it's clear that the region is not the same.

The Gulf countries have said to us that they clearly see Europe's role there — because it's our neighborhood.

Just look at the kind of help Ukraine has given to the Gulf countries.

In the long term, there is definitely a road for us.

The new bases would be designated as American sovereign territory.

The bases would focus on surveillance of Russian and Chinese maritime activity in the GIUK Gap.

The U.S. currently has just one base in Greenland — Pituffik Space Base — down from around 17 during the Cold War.

Source: BBC

Our economic development has stagnated for years — at least seven years — while other countries around us grow, some significantly.

We are forecast a potential growth of less than half a percent for the coming years.

For our country, for our prosperity, for our economy — that is simply too little.

I hear these days that this social state should be 'cast off as ballast.'

I do not know whom that is meant to warn against.

With me, that will not happen.