The Post last week went to the largest of Ukraine's five camps for Russian POWs hundreds of miles from the front lines to speak with prisoners about their treatment at the facility, their views on the bloody conflict and how they ended up fighting in it.
His position has given the former Warsaw Pact nation — which has a population only slightly larger than New Jersey — an outsized role in European diplomacy.
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“When the aunties come to celebrate … and play!” Meghan, 43, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, March 1. “Love you @serenawilliams.”
In the upload, Williams, also 43, dressed casually in a burgundy dress as she played a round of Candy Land with Meghan’s 3-year-old daughter. Lili, for her part, also got the pink memo and sported a pastel T-shirt with coordinating leggings. She wore her strawberry blonde hair down past her shoulders. (In addition to Lili, Meghan shares 5-year-old son Prince Archie with her husband, Prince Harry.)
Meghan, who set her Saturday post to Bill Withers’ “Lovely Day,” also posted a second image from the special playdate. In the snap, she gleefully watched Lili’s turn playing the Hasbro board game.
“3 days until the party begins. All are invited ,” Meghan captioned her post, referring to the Netflix premiere of her upcoming docuseries, With Love, Meghan.
A final post on Saturday showcased Meghan and the tennis champ sharing a sweet hug for the camera.
Lilibet Markle and Serena WilliamsCourtesy of Meghan Markle/Instagram
Meghan and Williams became fast friends when they were put on the same flag football team at DIRECTV’s Celebrity Beach Bowl charity event in 2014.
“We hit it off immediately, taking pictures, laughing through the flag football game we were both playing in, and chatting not about tennis or acting, but about all the good old fashioned girly stuff,” Meghan once wrote on her now-defunct Tig blog. “So began our friendship.”
The Duchess of Sussex added, “She quickly became a confidante I would text when I was traveling, the friend I would rally around for her tennis matches, and the down-to-earth chick I was able to grab lunch with just a couple weeks ago in Toronto. We are both the same age, have a penchant for hot sauces and adore fashion, but what connects us more than those things is perhaps our belief in exceeding expectations — our endless ambition.”
Meghan Markle, Lilibet and Serena WilliamsCourtesy of Meghan Markle/Instagram
Their friendship has endured throughout the years with Williams even attending Meghan’s wedding to Harry, now 40, and planning the Suits alum’s baby shower for Archie.
“I just really think she’s the strongest — literally the strongest — person I know and the nicest [and] sweetest,” Williams gushed to Access Hollywood in November 2019. “And that’s just one of the many things that she does for me. I call her, text her anytime, crying, upset — she’s always there. Doesn’t matter what she’s going through, she just sets time away, and she’s just so amazing.”
With Love, Meghan premieres on Netflix Tuesday, March 4.
Starmer is right to call for peace not a ceasefire in Ukraine and that could set him on a collision with Trump and test the ‘special relationship’, world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes
Activists protested outside Maine Rep. Laurel Libby's home on Sunday in opposition to her beliefs about transgender athletes in women's and girls' sports.
Libby was last week censured by the state's House of Representatives for a recent social media post pointing out that a transgender high school athlete had won a girls' competition.
The Maine House's Democratic majority, led by Speaker Ryan Fecteau, passed the censure resolution Tuesday night in a 75-70 vote. Libby is now no longer allowed to speak on the house floor or vote until she issues an apology.
Just eight protesters appeared outside Libby's home with signs reading "Shame on you Laurel 4 exploiting a child 4 your political gain" and "protect trans youth," according to The Maine Wire.
The mini-protest came a day after hundreds took part in a rally against Maine Gov. Janet Mills.
Mills recently clashed with President Donald Trump over his executive order on keeping transgender athletes out of women's and girls sports. Several female athletes took the microphone at the march to speak out against their Democratic governor.
Ahead of the march, an online petition to recall the governor received over 22,000 signatures. Hundreds appeared at the rally.
Last week, Trump told Mills at the White House that she must follow his executive order or "you're not going to get any federal funding."
"We’ll see you in court," she replied.
As for Libby, she told Fox News Digital last week that she would not apologize for the post. She did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Sunday's protest outside her home.
"It's a remarkable double standard as there are public photos of this individual in many places, on social media and even some posted by his school, and so, yes, this post went viral, but this was an individual who participated in a public event, who publicly stood on a podium and accepted a championship medal that rightfully belonged to the girls standing on the second-place spot," Libby said.
The U.S. Department of Education announced shortly after Mills' and Trump's interaction that it will be investigating the state for allowing trans athletes to compete in girls' sports and for potential Title IX violations.
Fox News' Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.
The rapid reduction of illegal crossings at the U.S. southern border calls into question a key Democratic talking point during the 2024 campaign, when party leaders blamed then-former President Donald Trump for helping kill bipartisan border legislation that they argued was the only way to secure the border.
"President Trump’s fast and successful border security proves Biden’s false claim of needing the Senate’s border insecurity bill was nothing more than Biden’s attempted power grab to codify his open border tools and hamstring a future president who wanted to enforce the law," Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation's Border Security and Immigration Center, told Fox News Digital.
The comments come as evidence continues to mount that Trump’s policies have rapidly improved the situation at the southern border, including news last week that single-day border apprehensions had hit a 15-year low, with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents encountering only 200 aliens at the border on February 22.
"President Trump and Secretary Noem have sent a clear message to illegal aliens: Do not come to our country. You will not be allowed in. And if you get in, we will hunt you down and deport you," a DHS spokesperson said in a release at the time.
That news came just days after Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks told CBS News in an interview that southern border crossings were down 94% from the same period last year, a staggering number he credited to the Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown.
While Trump has managed to reduce the numbers through his executive authority, many Democrats spent 2024 arguing that the continued crisis at the border was the result of Trump and his allies in the GOP tying the president’s hands by resisting a bipartisan border bill that was working its way through the Senate early in the year and was favored by former President Joe Biden.
"Every day between now and November, the American people are going to know that the only reason the border is not secure is Donald Trump and his MAGA Republican friends," Biden said in February after the bill failed to pass.
"Frankly, I would have preferred to address this issue through bipartisan legislation, because that’s the only way to actually get the kind of system we have now that’s broken, fixed. To hire more Border Patrol agents, more asylum officers, more judges. But, Republicans left me no choice," Biden said in June while announcing new executive actions on border security Republicans argued didn’t go far enough to alleviate the crisis.
That blame game continued throughout the 2024 campaign, with top Democratic leaders piling on Trump for helping kill the legislation they claimed was vital to ending the crisis.
"If my Republican colleagues truly believe the system is broken, why did they vote against a bill that would have provided more immigration judges, more asylum officers, and had the support of the very conservative Border Patrol Union?" then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer asked in a May press release on border security.
"When Americans ask this year who is to blame for the continued mess at the border, they should listen to the words that came from Donald Trump himself," Schumer added.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris took the torch and continued to blame Republicans for the crisis after rising to the top of the Democratic ticket, arguing that the legislation would have fixed the issues at the border if not for Trump’s intervention.
"Donald Trump got word of this bill that would have contributed to securing our border," Harris said during an August interview.
"He preferred to run on a problem instead of fixing a problem," Harris said during a September debate with Trump. "Because he believed that it would not have helped him politically, he told his folks in Congress, ‘Don’t put it forward.’"
"He killed the bill, a border security bill that would have put 1,500 more agents on the border," she added.
But Ries argued that not only did Trump’s executive actions help alleviate the crisis once he took office, but Democrats had another legislative option all along in border security legislation that had already passed through the Republican-controlled House.
"The Senate could’ve passed HR-2, the Secure the Border Act … the House had already passed it, and it was collecting dust on the Senate’s desk," Ries said.
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