Melania Trump Brokers Russia-Ukraine Ceasefire in Oleshky
First lady Melania Trump helped broker a temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the devastated Ukrainian city of Oleshky, an unusual diplomatic intervention by an American first lady in Russia’s nearly five-year full-scale war in Ukraine. The localized…
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Corey Lewandowski and the Pardon That Waits
In Washington, everyone pretends to be bipartisan until the doors close and someone utters the magic words: “This is OFF THE RECORD.” This week,…
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There comes a moment in the life of a nation when the most important word in its political vocabulary is also the shortest. No.…
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White House press secretary Katie Zacharia is out after less than a week on the job, following mounting scrutiny of her professional credentials, criticism…
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Jeffries Says Trump White House Press Ban Could Reach Supreme Court
House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries told The Pavlovic Today on Wednesday that the legal fight over White House press-access restrictions could reach the Supreme Court, as litigation over…
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Trump May Meet Dennis Rodman, Won’t Say If Kim Is Topic
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has been told he is meeting former NBA star Dennis Rodman, but declined to say whether…
Trump Says AI ‘Not a Hoax,’ Bets on Industry Self-Policing
After a private White House lunch Tuesday with some of America’s most powerful technology executives, President Donald Trump laid out the rough shape…
Trump Launches America.gov as Part of AI Push
President Donald Trump launched America.gov on Tuesday. He called the AI-powered website “just a preview of what is possible with super intelligence” and…
EXIM’s Jovanovic on America’s Economic Security
President Donald Trump on Monday announced a $15 billion investment by Mesabi Metallics to build a major steel plant in Iowa, putting domestic…
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Chronicles on Freedom: My Life in Voluntary Exile
“It is we who changed. Everything else remained the same,” the Croatian waiter at Monte’s Trattoria in New York City told…
Trump’s Inner Circle Brings Its Own Explosives
In Trump’s world, even revenge needs an audience. And what a week it has been! The scandals.…
Why Elon Musk Is Spending Millions to Defend Texas Republicans
Why does a Republican Party that has dominated Texas politics for decades need the world’s richest man to spend so much money defending its hold on the state? That is the question hanging over the extraordinary sums now pouring into the Senate race between Republican Ken Paxton and Democrat James Talarico. Texas has long been…
The Price of Proximity to Trump
Washington has its own rules, although, like most rules involving power, nobody bothers to write them down. One of them is this: a foreign country can spend years being almost completely invisible in Washington until, suddenly, someone discovers it can be useful in a political fight at home. And just like that, everybody becomes an…
What Power Looks Like When Nobody Is Watching
Politics is complicated. Covering an American president even more so. What I know and what I do not know is sometimes simply a matter of what I decide to publicize. Publicize is the word of the century—or perhaps the word of politics itself. Last week, I was in New York for UN week. One morning,…
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Exclusive: State Department Plans Major U.S. Push at Expo 2027 Belgrade
The State Department is preparing a major American push at Serbia’s Expo 2027 in Belgrade, The Pavlovic Today can reveal. The plans, confirmed by a State Department official, show that Washington intends to use the first Expo to be held in the Balkans not only as a cultural showcase, but as a platform for deeper American economic…
‘President Trump — Serbia Welcomes You!’ Huge UFC Banner Unleashes Massive Show of Support for Donald Trump
Serbia’s love for Donald Trump erupted at the UFC’s historic Belgrade debut on Saturday evening as a huge “PRESIDENT TRUMP — SERBIA WELCOMES YOU” banner was held up inside the arena. Trump ally Richard Grenell was spotted chatting ringside with Serbian Finance Minister Sinisa Mali as they joined a host of high-profile guests, including UFC…