{"id":372472,"date":"2026-10-14T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372472\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T00:08:09","slug":"trump-aids-putin-feuds-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/372472\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Aids Putin, Feuds With Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the front lines largely frozen, Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine has turned into a contest of economic endurance<\/a>. Kyiv has gone after Russia\u2019s oil refineries. Moscow has hit Ukraine\u2019s ports and heavy industries.<\/p>\n

Last week, President Trump sided with Russia in this all-important battle when he announced a deal to buy Russian diesel fuel, undercutting U.S. sanctions. European and British officials were stunned<\/a> by the agreement, which Ukraine has called \u201ca gift\u201d to Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n

But it is just one of several wins<\/a> Trump has given Russia\u2019s president in recent days. Among the others: He said that Ukraine needed a new leader. He demanded that Ukraine halt its attacks on Russian refineries, with Trump administration officials saying Kyiv owed Washington for its intelligence assistance \u2014 which some in the room took as a veiled threat that such assistance could be withheld<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Great Read: A Ukrainian soldier on the war\u2019s eastern front saw a Russian bomb hurtling toward his hometown on the screen of a live military map. He called his wife, who told him not to worry. Then their call was cut off<\/a>.<\/p>\n

G.O.P. plays defense in once-safe territory <\/p>\n

As Democrats grow bullish on flipping seats in reliably red parts of the country, Republicans are triaging their resources to contain a possible blue wave.<\/p>\n

Out: Republican super PACs are abandoning<\/a> their financial support for two incumbent House members seeking re-election in New Jersey and Iowa. And last week, House Republicans\u2019 top super PAC all but ceded<\/a> the open Nebraska seat currently held by Representative Don Bacon, who is retiring, by withdrawing cash from his district. <\/p>\n

In: Republicans are moving money into races they really don\u2019t want to lose. Their main Senate super PAC now plans to spend heavily to protect the seat held by Senator Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a>. Trump carried Nebraska by more than 20 percentage points two years ago, but voters across the American heartland have been stewing over economic challenges resulting from the Iran war. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s part of a broader realignment of the congressional map. President Trump has been holding rallies not only in familiar battlegrounds like Ohio and North Carolina, but also in ruby-red states like Alabama, Texas and Tennessee. And Democrats are spending millions in Kansas, which hasn\u2019t elected a Democratic Senator since 1932, in hopes of defeating Senator Roger Marshall, a Republican whose re-election contest has grown surprisingly competitive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In other midterm elections news: <\/p>\n

Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns<\/p>\n

Kimberly Guilfoyle has resigned as the U.S. ambassador<\/a> to Greece following a string of damaging reports, including one in The Wall Street Journal that she had asked a Republican donor for $100,000 to pay off her credit card debt. The White House had asked her to step down.<\/p>\n

Trump told reporters that Guilfoyle \u201cwas doing a good job\u201d but that he \u201cdidn\u2019t like\u201d what he was reading about her. The president also downplayed his connection to her: \u201cShe wasn\u2019t a member of my family,\u201d he said. \u201cShe, I guess, dated my son a long time ago.\u201d (Guilfoyle was once engaged to Donald Trump Jr.)<\/p>\n

Cornell bans frat parties<\/p>\n

Cornell University has banned parties at fraternity houses for the rest of the academic year and will add experienced sexual assault investigators<\/a> to its police force in response to allegations of a gang rape that have shocked the campus and nation.<\/p>\n

The moratorium, which comes days before Homecoming weekend, will allow for a thorough review of fraternity life at Cornell to determine whether it can safely resume, the school\u2019s president, Michael Kotlikoff, said.<\/p>\n

Geese in Carnegie Hall?<\/p>\n

Carnegie Hall is known for showing off prodigies and chamber orchestras. So how did Cameron Winter, the 24-year-old frontman of the popular, divisive rock band Geese \u2014 a guy with a hangdog baritone who likes to troll people on the internet \u2014 end up sitting there with a Steinway piano, playing a solo set? <\/p>\n

And how did Paul Thomas Anderson, the lauded director of \u201cOne Battle After Another,\u201d end up pausing his award-season victory lap to film Winter\u2019s concert? (The film will tour select theaters through January.)<\/p>\n

\u201cExplain to me why this is good,\u201d a colleague asked our pop music critic, Lindsay Zoladz. So she did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018Gentrified\u2019 seafood<\/p>\n

Oysters that were $1 apiece not so long ago are now $4.50. Alaskan red king crab used to fetch $25 to $45 per pound; today, it retails for as much as $160. This past summer, a single king salmon from Alaska\u2019s Copper River cost $2,000.<\/p>\n

As climate change makes seafood more expensive, even weeknight staples can get pricey<\/a>. \u201cThe fact that a cod is a delicacy is a huge cultural shift,\u201d said Mark Kurlansky, who wrote a best-selling book about the fish in the late 1990s. \u201cCod was such an ordinary fish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crazy about Elvis, an ocean away <\/p>\n

Elvis Presley never performed outside of North America. So why do so many of his fans party in Wales???<\/p>\n

Every September, Elvis aficionados and slick-haired tribute acts flock to the seaside town of Porthcawl to celebrate the King of Rock \u2019n\u2019 Roll \u2026 4,200 miles away from Graceland, his home in Memphis. Pompadours abound. So do fringes, flared collars and Americana. See more photos, and read how it all came to be<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the front lines largely frozen, Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine has turned into a contest of economic endurance.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-372472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}