The US will resume military aid to Ukraine while Ukraine supports a US proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia - this agreement is set out in a joint US-Ukraine statement released after talks between the two sides in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.

Intelligence information would also be passed on to the country attacked by Russia , it said. In addition, an agreement on Ukrainian raw materials is to be concluded "as soon as possible".

" Ukraine has agreed to accept the United States proposal to implement an immediate, temporary 30-day ceasefire, which may be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which must be accepted and simultaneously implemented by the Russian Federation," the ceasefire proposal read.

The US would make it clear to Russia that reciprocity in such an agreement is "the key to achieving peace". Regarding the resumption of military aid, the joint statement continued: "The United States will immediately lift the freeze on information sharing and resume security assistance to Ukraine."

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who attended the talks in Jeddah along with National Security Advisor Mike Waltz , said the ball was now in the Russians' court.

https://www-stern-de.translate.goog/news/usa-nehmen-ukraine-militaerhilfen-wieder-auf-35543208.html?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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Trump strikes a deal with zelensky. Rare earth minerals in exchange for security assurances.
Trump figures out how to help America. Again.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-strikes-rare-earth-minerals-deal-ukraine-2036146
Donald Trump Strikes Rare Earth Minerals Deal with Ukraine

President Donald Trump's administration has reached an agreement with Kyiv on the framework of a rare earth mineral deal that Ukrainian officials hope will strengthen ties with the Trump administration and lay the groundwork for a long-term U.S. security commitment.

Newsweek has reached out to the State Department and White House on Tuesday afternoon for comment.

The agreement could be finalized as soon as Friday, with plans underway for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to travel to Washington for a meeting with Trump, a Ukrainian official told the Associated Press

Another official said the agreement would give Zelensky and Trump a chance to discuss ongoing military aid to Ukraine, making its finalization a priority for Kyiv. The agreement does not include security guarantees. One official said that this would be a topic for discussion when Zelensky and Trump meet.

Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, said Tuesday he'd heard that Zelensky was coming and added that "it's okay with me, if he'd like to, and he would like to sign it together with me."

Trump called it "a very big deal," adding that it could be worth a trillion dollars. It could be whatever, but it's rare earths and other things."

Why This Matters
Negotiations on the deal have advanced despite a recent exchange of sharp rhetoric between Trump and Zelensky over their disagreements on the matter.

Zelensky resisted signing a proposal pushed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during his visit to Kyiv earlier this month and reiterated his objections days later in Munich during a meeting with Vice President JD Vance, arguing that the American plan lacked security guarantees.

https://www.newsweek.com/price-eggs-rising-falling-cost-2042992

Ukraine on Tuesday accepted a deal put forward by the Trump administration during a meeting in Saudi Arabia, a significant step forward in securing a ceasefire agreement and bringing an end to the war with Russia.

"We'll take this offer now to the Russians, and we hope that they'll say yes," Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters.

Rubio, standing alongside national security advisor Mike Waltz, did not detail exactly what was in this agreement, but according to a readout provided by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's office, Kyiv has agreed to a 30-day ceasefire contingent on Moscow's acceptance of the terms.

"We hope the Russians answer to that," Rubio said. "The best goodwill gesture the Russians can provide is to say yes."

In response to Kyiv's willingness to accept Washington's hard-fought preliminary proposal, President Donald Trump agreed to lift the pause on U.S. security assistance to Ukraine "effective immediately" and renewed U.S. intelligence sharing.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/ukraine-accepts-deal-says-rubio-well-take-russians

NUUK, Greenland, March 12 (Reuters) - Greenland's pro-business Demokraatit Party surged to victory in a shake-up that could boost U.S. President Donald Trump's attempts to tap the island's mineral wealth, with the victors keen for reforms favouring private enterprise and mining.

The Democrats, which favour gradual independence from Denmark, more than tripled their seats to 10 in the 31-seat Inatsisartut parliament, according to results released on Wednesday, and will begin talks to form a coalition.

The strongly pro-independence Naleraq doubled their seats to eight from the prior election, while the ruling coalition lost almost half of its share of the vote.

"People want change," the Democrats' leader Jens-Frederik Nielsen told reporters in Nuuk after the final vote count. "We don't want independence tomorrow, we want to build a good foundation."

Independence became the central campaign theme in Tuesday's election after Trump's repeated insistence that the semi-autonomous Danish territory is vital to U.S. national security and will eventually become part of the United States.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greenland-votes-pro-business-independence-parties-trump-interest-looms-2025-03-12/

President Donald Trump and other senior White House officials have spent the past several days bracing Americans for a potential economic slowdown that they say will then lead to stronger growth ahead.

With fears brewing over the potential tariff impact, the labor market slowing and indicators pointed toward possible negative growth in the first quarter, the president and his top lieutenants are projecting a mostly optimistic outlook tempered with warnings about near-term churning.

“There is a period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big,” Trump said Sunday on the Fox News show “Sunday Morning Futures.” “We’re bringing wealth back to America. That’s a big thing. ... It takes a little time, but I think it should be great for us.”

Asked whether he thinks a recession is imminent, Trump said, “I hate to predict things like that.” He later added, “Look, we’re going to have disruption, but we’re OK with that.”

The comments come during a tumultuous period for markets, with stocks riding a continuing roller coaster depending on the news of the day. Major averages slid again Monday, with the most recent White House assurances doing little to assuage jangled market nerves.

While Trump used Wall Street as a continuous barometer of his progress during his first term in office, he discouraged making it a yardstick this time around.

“What I have to do is build a strong country,” he said. “You can’t really watch the stock market.”

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/10/trump-says-transition-period-likely-for-economy-and-you-cant-watch-the-stock-market.html

The Department of Agriculture has slashed over $1 billion in funding aimed at helping schools and food banks purchase from local farmers, according to a nonprofit.

“Multiple states” were recently notified of these cuts, the nonprofit School Nutrition Association said in a statement Tuesday.

An estimated $660 million in funds through the Local Food for Schools program for 2025 will no longer be available to support childcare institutions and schools, the group added.

“This program will strengthen the food system for schools and childcare institutions by helping to build a fair, competitive, and resilient local food chain, and expand local and regional markets with an emphasis on purchasing from historically underserved producers and processors,” the USDA website says about the Local Food for Schools program.

The Independent has reached out to the USDA for comment.

The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education confirmed it received a notice of termination from the USDA on Friday of the second round of Local Food for Schools grant funding, an award of $12.2 million, claiming that they “determined this agreement no longer effectuates agency priorities and that termination of the award is appropriate,” the state’s governor Maura Healy said in a Monday statement.

The governor suggested the cuts were made as part of a Department of Government Efficiency-led effort to reduce spending in the federal government.

>https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/usda-cancels-funding-food-banks-schools-trump-b2713125.html

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/60-universities-under-investigation-trump-admin-antisemitic-discrimination-harassment

FIRST ON FOX: President Donald Trump's Department of Education announced Monday that 60 universities are currently under investigation for "antisemitic discrimination and harassment," Fox News Digital has learned.

"The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better," Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement.

"U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded by U.S. taxpayers. That support is a privilege and it is contingent on scrupulous adherence to federal antidiscrimination laws."

Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots

Lucy Grace Nelson made repeated trips to the Tesla car lot in Colorado she spray-painted “Nazi” in black under the dealership’s entrance sign, she ignited a molotov cocktail near a Tesla Cybertruck. She also allegedly used red spray-paint to scribble a message on the car dealership’s entrance doors: “F--- Musk.”

more than a dozen violent or destructive acts have been directed at Tesla facilities,
In March, several Tesla superchargers at a shopping center in Massachusetts, were set ablaze. Vandals in Maryland spray-painted “No Musk” onto a Tesla building, alongside a swastika-like symbol. In February, a man brandishing an AR-style semiautomatic weapon fired at a Tesla storefront in Oregon. Just a few weeks earlier, investigators say, the same man attacked the same dealership by throwing molotov cocktails at Tesla vehicles and through the store window.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/08/elon-musk-tesla-protest-violence-vandalism/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/10/elon-musk-x-falls-cyberattack-00221841

Elon Musk is asserting his social media site X has been deluged by a “massive cyberattack” Monday following weeks of upheaval about his cost-cutting crusade across the federal government.

The purported cyberattack, which has impacted users since at least Monday morning, has destabilized many features on his website like viewing posts and user profiles. “We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources,” Musk wrote on X. “Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved.”

It comes days after people across the country took to the storefronts of his car company Tesla to protest Musk’s allegiance with the Trump administration. Some fired shots at an Oregon dealership last week, while others in Manhattan stormed a showroom.

Speaking to Fox Business on Monday afternoon after the outage, Musk said the attack could have originated in Ukraine, though did not provide any evidence to support his accusation.

“We’re not sure exactly what happened, but there was a massive cyberattack to try to bring down the X system with IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area,” he said.

Musk has been on increasingly acrimonious terms with Kyiv, calling for a halt to American aid and publicly lambasting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Ukraine for its part has accused Musk of spreading pro-Russian propaganda via X.

The tech billionaire’s quasi-government agency, called the Department of Government Efficiency, has orchestrated cuts to thousands of federal government workers and has roiled many Americans impacted by the reductions. Now, scientific research at universities, cleanup services at national parks and efforts to curb bird flu have been diminished as the federal government looks to readjust after Musk’s hack-and-slash directive.