Lindsey Graham to push ‘bone-breaking sanctions and tariffs’ to pressure Russia into peace with Ukraine
As the Trump administration seeks to mediate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., announced that he plans to propose “bone-breaking sanctions and tariffs” this week in a bid to goad Russia into making peace. The U.S. and Ukraine declared in a joint statement on Tuesday that Ukraine would be willing to agree to a 30-day ceasefire. “Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation,” the statement noted. RUSSIA HITS ZELENSKYY’S HOMETOWN AS UKRAINE SIGNALS IT’S READY FOR PEACE But Graham noted in a Wednesday post on X that he is “skeptical that Russia will accept the ceasefire” and is “very doubtful they want to end this war.” “In order to move toward peace, I will be introducing bone-breaking sanctions and tariffs against Russia before the end of the week. If they do not pursue the ceasefire with the same vigor as Ukraine, there will be hell to pay,” Graham warned. RUSSIA WAITING FOR US-UKRAINE CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL DETAILS, KREMLIN SAYS “I expect overwhelming bipartisan support for my proposal,” he noted. The U.S.-Ukraine statement noted that America “will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace” and “immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine.” SEN. GRAHAM, ZELENSKYY TRADE BARBS AFTER SUGGESTION THAT UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SHOULD RESIGN CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Graham has served the U.S. Senate for more than 22 years. Prior to that, he served eight years in the House.
US to require Canadians visiting for over 30 days to have fingerprints taken, register with authorities
The United States will require Canadians visiting for more than 30 days to register with authorities and have their fingerprints taken, according to a new interim final rule from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The new requirement, which takes effect on April 11, applies to all foreign nationals who cross the U.S.-Canada land border and are at least 14 years old who stay in the U.S. for 30 days or more. The rule was submitted to the Federal Registrar on Wednesday amid an escalating trade war between the United States and its northern neighbor. Canada, meanwhile, announced $21 billion in new U.S. tariffs on Wednesday. RUBIO PUSHES BACK AGAINST MAHMOUD KHALIL DEFENDERS: ‘NOT ABOUT FREE SPEECH’ The change will impact some Canadians who were previously exempt from this requirement, including many Canadian snowbirds – retirees who spend winter months in U.S. states – who now have to register with the government or face fines. The interim final rule confirms that children under age 14, whose parents or guardians must register them, will not be fingerprinted. Biometrics will also be waived for Canadian business and tourist visitors who enter by land, but they also must register if they remain in the country for 30 days or more. DHS recognized that the “affected population impacted by this rule are those who are currently unregistered and who would use the general registration form designated under this rule.” “DHS estimates the affected population to be between 2.2 million and 3.2 million,” the rule said. TRUMP THREATENS FURTHER TARIFFS ON CANADIAN STEEL, ALUMINUM, ELECTRICITY, VEHICLES DHS and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in February acknowledged their intention to follow President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Day executive order requiring all immigrants to register with the U.S. government. The Jan. 20 executive order directs DHS to ensure all immigrants are registered under the Immigration and Nationality Act. That law, which has not previously been fully enforced, mandates that noncitizens over 14 years old must register and be fingerprinted within 30 days of entry, and that all registered noncitizens over 18 years old must carry proof of registration at all times. “Once an alien has registered and appeared for fingerprinting (unless waived), DHS will issue evidence of registration, which aliens over the age of 18 must carry and keep in their personal possession at all times,” the February post to the USCIS website said. “Failure to comply may result in criminal and civil penalties, up to and including misdemeanor prosecution, the imposition of fines, and incarceration.” “Many aliens in the United States have already registered, as required by law,” the post said. “However, a significant number of aliens present in the United States have had no direct way to register and meet their obligation under INA 262. USCIS has established a new form, G-325R, Biometric Information (Registration), and an online process by which unregistered aliens may register and comply with the law as required by the INA.” USCIS added, “Registration is not an immigration status, and registration documentation does not create an immigration status, establish employment authorization, or provide any other right or benefit under the INA or any other U.S. law.”
New poll flashes warning sign on a top issue for Trump during campaign
President Donald Trump is pushing back against talk of a recession. “I don’t see it at all. I think this country is going to boom,” the president told reporters on Tuesday as he inspected a Tesla electric vehicle that was parked on the South Lawn of the White House, courtesy of top Trump adviser Elon Musk, the car company’s billionaire CEO. However, when it comes to the economy – the issue that more than any other arguably boosted Trump back into the White House in last November’s presidential election – Americans do not seem so pleased with the job he is doing. Trump stands at 44% approval and 56% disapproval for the job he is doing steering the economy, in a CNN national poll conducted March 6-9 by SSRS and released on Wednesday. PRESIDENT TRUMP’S POLLING POSITION 50 DAYS INTO HIS SECOND TOUR OF DUTY IN THE WHITE HOUSE The president was also underwater on the economy by 10 points in a Reuters/Ipsos survey in the field March 3-4. While a handful of national polls indicate Trump above water on the economy, most recent surveys put him in negative territory when it comes to the top issue on the minds of Americans. HEAD HERE FOR THE LATEST POLLING FROM FOX NEWS When it comes to his overall approval rating, Trump has seen his numbers edge down slightly since returning to the White House in late January, when an average of his polls indicated the president’s approval rating in the low 50s and his disapproval in the mid 40s. An average of the latest surveys indicates he is hovering slightly above water. While Americans are split on Trump’s performance, the approval ratings for his second term are an improvement from his first tour of duty, when he started 2017 in negative territory and remained underwater throughout his four-year tenure in the White House. However, when it comes specifically to his handling of the economy, CNN’s latest numbers are below where he stood at any point in their polling during his first term in office. The president’s rapidly shifting tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico – America’s neighbors and top trading partners – have rattled the financial markets and raised concerns of further inflation and a possible recession. FOX BUSINESS: WHY INFLATION SLOWED LAST MONTH When asked on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures” by host Maria Bartiromo whether he expected there would be a recession this year, the president responded, “I hate to predict things like that.” “There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big,” Trump said as he referred to his agenda, which includes tariffs. “It takes a little time,” Trump said before predicting that his economic agenda “should be great for us.” While aking questions Tuesday amid another down day for the nation’s financial markets, Trump said “You’re going to have drops and markets are going to go up and they’re gonna go down.” Trump’s predecessor in the White House, former President Joe Biden, was dogged by inflation during his tenure. Biden’s approval rating hovered in the low-to-mid-50s during the first six months of his single term as president, with his disapproval in the upper 30s to the low- to-mid-40s. However, Biden’s numbers sank into negative territory in the late summer and autumn of 2021, in the wake of his much-criticized handling of the turbulent U.S. exit from Afghanistan, a surge of migrants crossing into the U.S. along the nation’s southern border with Mexico, and amid soaring inflation. Biden’s approval ratings stayed underwater throughout the rest of his presidency, as high prices for goods remained a top concern on the minds of American voters. “He just got crippled and never recovered,” said Daron Shaw, a politics professor and chair at the University of Texas who serves as a member of the Fox News Decision Team and is the Republican partner on the Fox News Poll. Trump received some good inflation news on Wednesday, with the consumer price index coming in at a lower-than-expected level last month, according to a new government report. The White House communications shop spotlighted the news in an email release titled “Inflation Eases as Job Creation Soars and Border Security Pays Off.” However, Shaw emphasized that inflation remains critical to Trump’s political fortunes. “If prices remain high, he’s going to have trouble,” Shaw warned.
Iran, China and Russia huddle for nuclear talks while UN meets behind closed doors on possible sanctions
Iran, Russia and China are set to hold high-level talks in Beijing Friday to discuss Tehran’s near-nuclear capabilities. Mao Ning, spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry, informed reporters about the meeting on Wednesday. The trio of nations has friendly relations, and all are parties to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said the talks will be on “developments related to the nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions.” The Friday meeting will follow a closed-door meeting of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Iran’s uranium enrichment that has breached 60%, dangerously close to the 90% enrichment needed to make a bomb. RUSSIA WAITING FOR US-UKRAINE CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL DETAILS, KREMLIN SAYS That meeting, which was requested by the U.S. and its allies, could discuss the triggering of so-called snapback sanctions – sanctions that were lifted under the JCPOA. The U.S. left the Iran nuclear deal during President Donald Trump’s first administration. But the other parties to the agreement – Britain, Iran, China, Russia, Germany and France – could decide to call back the international sanctions before the Security Council resolution behind the deal expires in October. Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu will preside over the meeting, with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi in attendance. Tehran has provided Moscow with drones and missiles for its offensive in Ukraine. And China, Iran and Russia conducted joint naval drills on Monday. The meetings follow an unsuccessful attempt by Trump to restart talks on a new nuclear deal. Iran recently rebuffed a letter Trump sent on the matter and said it would not negotiate with “bullying” countries. RUSSIAN MISSILE EXPERTS VISITED IRAN AMID GROWING MILITARY TIES “It is unacceptable for us that they give orders and make threats. I won’t even negotiate with you. Do whatever the hell you want,” said Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Trump has insisted he’d prefer diplomacy, but will not rule out military tactics to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. “If we have to go to the military option, it will be very, very bad for [Iran],” he said. Tehran still denies it is pursuing a nuclear weapon, but experts have said there is no civilian use for 60% enriched uranium. Earlier this month, Russian Foreign Minister Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had agreed to assist the U.S. in communicating with Iran on its nuclear program. “It is clear that Iran is seeking negotiations based on mutual respect, constructive negotiations,” Peskov said of possible nuclear talks.
Russia ‘studying’ US ceasefire proposal agreed to by Ukraine
NewsFeed The Kremlin says it is examining the US ceasefire proposal agreed to by Ukraine, but Russia’s Vladimir Putin has previously said he is not interested in a temporary truce and would rather have a full stop. Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari has more from Moscow. Published On 12 Mar 202512 Mar 2025 Adblock test (Why?)
Palestinians mourn victims of Israeli attack on Gaza
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Palestinians are mourning the victims of Tuesday’s Israeli air attack near Gaza City that killed four people.
Pakistan separatist fighters release video showing attack on train
NewsFeed Video released by Pakistan separatists, the Balochistan Liberation Army, show the moment they attacked a train on Tuesday and took hundreds of passengers hostage. Officials said that more than 300 people had been rescued but a number of people were killed as they declared an end to the incident. Published On 12 Mar 202512 Mar 2025 Adblock test (Why?)
CIA director, Putin’s spy chief hold first phone call in more than 2 years: report
The directors of the Central Intelligence Agency and Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) spoke by phone for the first time in more than two years, reports say. CIA Director John Ratcliffe called his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin on Tuesday and “discussed the issues of interaction of both intelligence agencies in areas of common interest and the settlement of crisis situations,” Russia’s state-run TASS news agency reported, citing a statement from the SVR’s press office. It added that both Ratcliffe and Naryshkin agreed “on maintaining regular contact between the SVR and CIA directors with the aim of facilitating international stability and security and reducing confrontation in relationships between Moscow and Washington.” The CIA, when contacted Wednesday by Fox News Digital, declined to comment on the matter. Rebekah Koffler, a former Defense Intelligence Agency intelligence officer who specialized in Russian military doctrine, told Fox News Digital that the “Ratcliffe-Naryshkin meeting is supposed to be part of the revival of the CIA-SVR cooperation, which also has been tried before and abandoned.” TRUMP ENVOY WITKOFF HEADING TO RUSSIA FOR SECOND TIME LATER THIS WEEK, SOURCE SAYS “Although such cooperation could be valuable, for example, in the counter-terrorism arena, it always eventually fails because there’s a dramatic difference between how the Russians and Americans see the world,” she said. RUSSIA WAITING FOR US-UKRAINE CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL DETAILS, KREMLIN SAYS “We are ostensibly in a period of another attempted reset with Russia. Every U.S. president attempted to reset U.S. relations with Moscow and every one of them has failed,” Koffler continued. “There’s such a fundamental difference between the ways that Moscow and Washington see the world and their role in it that eventually, the policies each pursues come into collision with one another. The way that Russia and the U.S. have defined their national interests have placed the two nations in direct confrontation with each other.” “The two are mutually irreconcilable. And this is clearly demonstrated in the war in Ukraine, which has been sacrificed and destroyed in the proxy battle between Moscow and Washington,” Koffler added. “It is possible that President Trump, who is a realist, will place Russia-U.S. relations on a transactional basis, without the ideological angle, as all the previous administrations, that always drove an edge between the two. It remains to be seen if he will succeed,” Koffler also said.
‘Get geared up’ because ‘ICE is coming,’ says leading House GOP member
Prominent House Republican Clay Higgins is telling local law enforcement agencies to “get geared up” to assist with ICE immigration operations because of “ongoing” enforcement actions throughout the country. While speaking during a House Federal Law Enforcement Oversight Subcommittee hearing on Tuesday, Higgins, who represents Southern Louisiana and chairs the subcommittee, cautioned local law enforcement to “get your mind right” and train up to help with the Trump administration’s efforts to shut down the border and deport illegal immigrants. “ICE is coming,” he said. “You will very soon be given the opportunity to join a task force with ICE in your state and your community to remove criminal illegals.” “This is going to be an ongoing operation,” he said, adding that the subcommittee will also be involved in the effort, which he described as a “restoration of law and order in our country.” BLUE STATE SUING SHERIFF’S OFFICE FOR HELPING ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAW “In recent years we’ve seen the weaponization of our justice system, lawlessness in our cities and an open border that has allowed drugs and dangerous gangs into our country with deadly results,” he said. Higgins vowed that “throughout this Congress, we’ll tackle these issues and ensure that President Trump has all the tools and resources he needs to address rampant crime.” During the hearing, several experts testified that local “sanctuary” policies keeping law enforcement agencies from cooperating or assisting ICE and other federal authorities makes it very difficult to enforce immigration law and poses a danger to communities. CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMMIGRATION COVERAGE Joseph Humire, executive director of the Center for a Secure Free Society and one of the experts testifying during the hearing, said that under the Biden administration, 14 million illegal immigrants entered the country. He said that “if only .5 percent” of these illegals are involved or tied to criminal organizations, “then we are facing a crime, terror contingent inside the United States that is the size of the U.S. Army and Marine Corps combined.” “If that’s not a national security emergency, I don’t know what is,” he commented. YOUNG FATHER KILLED BY ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT HIGHLIGHTS ‘BETRAYAL’ OF SANCTUARY CITIES, SAYS REPUBLICAN Sheriff Bob Gualtieri of Pinellas County, Florida, testified during the hearing that, in light of the criminal illegal threat in his community, his department is voluntarily participating in ICE’s 287(g) program, which authorizes local law enforcement to assist with certain immigration actions such as detainment and processing. Though his office participates in this program, he called for Congress to pass federal legislation to authorize all local jails to hold criminal illegals for ICE based solely on immigration detainers. “In other words, give the detainers force of law as opposed to simply making them an ask with no teeth,” he explained. “This is a big deal to fix, and it should be done as soon as possible because it would mean that criminal illegals, like the one I mentioned, will be deported directly from jail and not released back into the community to commit more crime.”
GOP moves to defund hospitals that perform sex-change procedures on minors
FIRST ON FOX: A new House GOP bill would block federal funding for hospitals that perform sex-change surgeries on minors. The legislation, led by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and backed by interest groups Do No Harm and Genspect, specifically targets funding that medical centers receive through a program aimed at fostering new children’s physicians. “We’re standing for basic medical ethics and recognizing those who have been silenced and betrayed by a system that put ideology ahead of genuine care,” Crenshaw told Fox News Digital. “Medicine should be grounded in truth and healing—not in false promises that cause lasting harm.” GENDER DYSPHORIA AND EATING DISORDERS HAVE SKYROCKETED SINCE PANDEMIC, REPORT REVEALS: ‘RIPPLE EFFECTS’ The bill would require re-authorization of the Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Payment Program through fiscal year (FY) 2030. The legislation includes a provision that “no payment may be made…to a children’s hospital for a fiscal year (beginning with fiscal year 2026) if, at any point during the preceding fiscal year, such hospital furnished specific procedures…and drugs to an individual under 18 years of age.” Those specifics are defined as being “for the purpose of changing the body of such individual to no longer correspond to the individual’s sex.” Do No Harm Medical Director Dr. Kurt Miceli lauded the legislation to Fox News Digital. “The American taxpayer should not fund hospitals that perform unscientific sex-change procedures on minors. Representative Crenshaw’s bill is important to help protect our children by ensuring federally funded graduate medical education programs do not engage in these harmful practices,” he said. The bill is being introduced on what conservatives have dubbed “DeTrans Awareness Day.” Permissions for transgender medical care or procedures for minors have been a lightening rod in the ongoing culture war between the right and left. NEWSOM CALLS BIOLOGICAL MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS ‘DEEPLY UNFAIR’ IN PODCAST WITH CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST The issue of transgender minors’ participation in school sports has also seen heated debate, with some Democrats even speaking out against their party for obliterating dissent on the topic. Notably, California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently said on his new podcast that allowing transgender men to play in women’s sports is “deeply unfair.” “I think it’s an issue of fairness. I completely agree with you on that. It is an issue of fairness,” he said to conservative activist Charlie Kirk.