A Trump-Putin meeting has been floated by both sides for some time. So why might either side want it to happen now?

The enthusiasm for a negotiated deal is a sharp reversal from 2022 — the year the war began — when Gallup found that about three-quarters of Ukrainians wanted to keep fighting until victory.

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At a glance, U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be winning the trade war he unleashed after returning to the White House in January, bending major trading partners to his will, imposing double-digit tariff rates on nearly all imports,

That’s not to say tariffs won’t hurt; CEO Tim Cook said tariffs will likely cost the company $1.1 billion this quarter. But analysts say Apple has bigger concerns, such as its future product strategy and approach to artificial intelligence, a burgeoning field that the tech behemoth is perceived to be behind in.

Have you seen War of the Worlds? No, I’m not talking about the Tom Cruise and Dakota Fanning-led film adaptation of H.G. Wells’ science fiction novel from 2005. I’m talking about the Ice Cube-led adaptation that arrived to the 2025 movies schedule last week and can be streamed with an Amazon Prime Video subscription.

The movie has been universally panned by critics as a poor adaptation of the original novel and a feature-length advertisement for Amazon.