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First lady Melania Trump is taking a bigger role on the world stage, penning a personal appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging him to end the war in Ukraine on behalf of its youngest victims. President Donald Trump spoke about his wife’s letter Tuesday on "Fox & Friends," praising her call for peace. "My wife, Melania, wrote that beautiful note to President Putin about children," said Trump. "The children are devastated. They're taken away from their homes." FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP’S ‘PEACE LETTER’ TO PUTIN: ‘IT IS TIME’President Trump convened a large group of prominent European leaders on Monday to discuss ongoing negotiations.

One executive for makeup brand e.l.f. is trying to turn down the social media temperature after her company’s latest ad sparked outrage among users for starring stand-up comic Matt Rife.In an interview with the outlet "Business of Fashion" (BOF), the beauty brand’s chief marketing officer, Kory Marchisotto, spoke about what went wrong with its ad with Rife, explaining that causing outrage was never their intention."Obviously we’re very surprised," she said. "There is a big gap between our intention and how this missed the mark for some people … We always aim to deliver positivity, and this one didn’t."TIM ALLEN ADDRESSES

President Donald Trump pledged Tuesday that there will be no U.S. troops defending Ukraine's border, even after he leaves office."You have my assurance," he told "Fox & Friends" on Tuesday."I'm just trying to stop people from being killed," he continued. "They're losing 5,000 to 7,000 people a week in that ridiculous war that should have never happened. If we had a normal president — not even a great president — if we had normal president, it wouldn't have happened." Trump said he intends to let Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meet one-on-one before focusing on a broader

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Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev taunted European leaders early Tuesday, accusing them of failing "to outplay" U.S. President Donald Trump during their meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House. "The anti-Russian warmongering Coalition of the Willing failed to outplay @POTUS on his turf," Medvedev wrote on X, in English. The "Coalition of the Willing" refers to a group of European leaders who formed a pact to support a peace deal in Ukraine. Those leaders at Monday’s meeting included French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Finnish President

Authorities have released footage of a Southwest Airlines pilot failing a sobriety test shortly before takeoff in January.David Allsop, 52, of New Hampshire was taken into custody at Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport at around 7 a.m. on Jan. 7, per the Chatham County Sheriff's Office.Police bodycam video shows officers questioning Allsop after receiving reports that the pilot might have been under the influence just before Southwest Flight 3772 was about to leave Georgia for Chicago.The pilot admitted that he drank "a few beers" 10 hours before the flight, to which the officer asked him to clarify.PASSENGERS REMOVED FROM PLANE, ARRESTED

The chief of the Seattle Police Department was reportedly just yards away from a jewelry store when it was ransacked in broad daylight on Thursday, with the robbers getting away with an estimated $2 million in diamonds, gold and luxury watches.That day, four masked robbers executed the robbery at Menashe & Sons Jewelers in West Seattle, threatening staffers with bear spray and a stun gun after smashing the locked glass front door with a hammer and stealing everything from six display cases in the store.But as the jewelry heist was taking place, Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes was eating lunch

"New Yorker Staffer Slammed for Anti-White Posts After Sydney Sweeney Attack"A New Yorker staff writer rushed to scrub her social media last week after users resurfaced old controversial tweets in response to her article criticizing actress Sydney Sweeney, which described the star as an "Aryan Princess."Doreen St. Félix deleted her X account after critics began sharing her old posts, the New York Post reported. These posts — some of them more than a decade old — included statements like, "I hate white men," and that "white capitalism" is the "reason the earth is in peril."AMERICAN EAGLE FIRES BACK AT CRITICS AFTER

Peter Mandelson, the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States, thinks the Super Bowl should be held across the pond.Mandelson said last week he has been lobbying since taking the role in February for the biggest sporting event in the U.S. to be hosted by the U.K."I’ve made a big pitch for the first Super Bowl outside the U.S. to take place in Britain," Mandelson told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs on Thursday, per C-SPAN.CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM"I want that Super Bowl in Britain. I don’t care when it takes place, but I want it