Jeanie Hannaman

By Daniel Payne, CNA - The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday night temporarily paused an order from a lower court directing the White House to pay out roughly $2 billion in foreign aid grants to nonprofit organizations... The Department of Justice had filed an appeal with the ​​U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Tuesday night after U.S. District Judge Amir Ali ordered the administration to make payments to grantees by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday... The Trump administration had frozen the funding as part of an extensive series of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump

By R. R. Reno, First Things - Representatives of the U.S. and Russian governments are meeting in Saudi Arabia. Their goal is to determine whether an agreement can be reached to end the war in Ukraine. I’m grateful that this effort is being made... Two years ago, I expressed skepticism of the American and European governments’ claim that, with enough support, Ukraine could defeat the invading Russian army and reclaim all its territory (“Peace in Ukraine,” April 2023). I observed that, if my suspicions were true, then just war theory counseled negotiations to bring an end to hostilities.