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Zelenskyy Shares Hopeful Message Ahead Of Trump Meeting To End War With Russia

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared an optimistic message on social media ahead of his Sunday meeting with President Donald Trump, in which the pair will work to make progress on a peace plan before the new year after weeks of intense discussions.

In a lengthy X post, Zelenskyy said that the chance for peace between Ukraine and Russia hinges on his country’s allies and “those who put pressure on Russia.”

“These are some of the most active diplomatic days of the year right now, and a lot can be decided before the New Year,” he wrote. “We are doing everything toward this, but whether decisions will be made depends on our partners – those who help Ukraine, and those who put pressure on Russia so that Russians feel the consequences of their own aggression.”

Zelenskyy went on to note that this week alone, Russia “launched over 2,100 attack drones, around 800 guided aerial bombs, and 94 missiles of various types” that were “directed against our people, against life itself” and “above all, against our energy infrastructure.”

On Saturday, Russia ramped up its attacks on Ukraine days ahead of Zelenskyy and Trump’s meeting at Mar-a-Lago, unleashing multiple strikes on Ukraine, which left at least one person dead and several others injured.

Zelenskyy said that “repair crews, energy workers, and first responders” are “working literally 24/7 to protect lives and restore power supply,” but noted that “it is just as important that sanctions against Russia work, that all forms of political pressure for its aggression are applied, that Ukraine receives air defense missiles, and that we all finalise the formats of steps that will end this war and guarantee security.”

Wrapping up his message, the Ukrainian president added, “These are exactly the steps we will be discussing with our partners today. Thank you to everyone who is helping.”

In November, Trump approved a 28-point peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war. The plan, which calls on Ukraine to cede territory and has been viewed as significantly more favorable to Russia, initially sparked pushback from Kyiv and Europe leaders.

On Sunday, Trump said in a Truth Social post that he “just had a good and very productive telephone call with President Putin of Russia prior to” his meeting with Zelenskyy.

Meanwhile, just days before, Trump threw cold water on Zelenskyy’s optimism about the meeting, telling Politico in a story published on Friday, that the Ukrainian president “doesn’t have anything until I approve it.”

The right-wing leader added, “So we’ll see what he’s got.”

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I Tried 10 Walking Trends In 2025 – Only 3 Are Staying In 2026

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2025 was a busy year for my step tracker. I tried “Japanese walking,” “retro walking,” “meditative walking,” “rucking,” walking earlier in the mornings, “6-6-6 walking,” “mindful walking,” strolling like a Jane Austen heroine, and “colour walking” this year (phew).

And while I only outright disliked one – “plogging,” I’m afraid, is not my cup of tea – it’d be pretty unreasonable to have expected all of these to stick.

Predictably, most have not. “6-6-6” walking, for instance, was based on great theory, but I found it a little too prescriptive in practice.

“Rucking” probably did help my posture a bit. But if I don’t need a bag, I don’t need a bag; and after a couple of weeks of trying the trend, I slowly stopped looking for an excuse to fill one up (and did not buy a weighted vest).

So, I thought I’d share the three I still regularly engage in, and why I find them so beneficial.

I’ll be honest: I was a little sceptical of this walking method at first, though it’s based on research that links the method to improved blood pressure, stronger thigh muscles, and better aerobic capacity than those who walked 8,000 steps a day at a regular pace.

The idea is to walk quickly in intervals (a slower cousin of running’s “Jeffing,” AKA the “run-walk-run” method).

I walked fast for three minutes, then slower for another three, five times. That cut my daily walking time to just half an hour.

GP Dr Suzanne Wylie said at the time, “From a clinical perspective, any form of consistent, moderate-intensity walking, especially if it incorporates posture, breathing, or mindfulness as Japanese walking sometimes does, can further enhance cardiovascular and mental health”.

While that’s true, I’ve stayed “Japanese walking” for other, more selfish reasons: it’s fast, it feels more satisfying than a regular walk, and I think it’s made my quads stronger.

A more recent addition to my routine, this method has proven surprisingly addictive.

It’s simple: you walk backwards. While I did this in a park at first, which was indeed mortifying, I’ve since stuck to treadmills.

Another reason to get over the initial embarrassment? “Retro walking” has been linked to better arthritis results when paired with conventional treatment, lessened back pain for athletes, more balance, gait speed, and lower body benefits for older people than “regular” walking, and even brain boosts.

“When you walk backwards, your movement pattern changes completely: you use different muscle groups and place different loads through your joints,” Dr Wylie said.

“In particular, it tends to activate the quadriceps more and places less compressive stress on the kneecap compared to forward walking, which may explain why some people notice improvements in knee discomfort.”

That explains my real reason for sticking to the trend: it’s proven great for my worn knees.

Can you tell I love a walking trend – something quantitative, research-backed, and trackable?

That’s all well and good, but when I got injured earlier this year, I learned the importance of “meditative” walking.

Yes, it seems I needed expert advice to tell me to chill out and enjoy my walk.

“We can discuss the physical benefits of running and walking all day long, but it is perhaps the mental benefits that are most important.

“Walking… has been associated with breath regulation, decreased anxiety, decreased depression, and increased overall sense of well-being,” said Joy Puleo, pilates expert, avid runner, and director of education at Balanced Body.

“Take the pressure off doing it right, doing it too fast or too slow. Just commit to the walk, enjoy your time outside, ask a friend to join.”

This is perfect when I don’t feel up for a longer walk; in the past, I’d have given up on going outside due to worries my stroll “wouldn’t count”.

I could not have been more wrong about that, I now realise.

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Adulthood Starts After 30 And The Three Other ‘Brain Eras’ We Get

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New research released by Cambridge University has revealed that our brains develop at five pivotal ages in our lives and, it turns out, adulthood doesn’t really kick in until people are around 32.

The study was based on the brain scans of almost 4,000 people aged under one to 90 and it mapped neural connections and how they evolve over our lifetimes. The research revealed five broad phases with pivotal ‘turning points’ around the ages of 9, 32, 66 and 83 years old.

Professor Duncan Astle, a researcher in neuroinformatics at the university and senior author of the study said: “Looking back, many of us feel our lives have been characterised by different phases. It turns out that brains also go through these eras,

“Understanding that the brain’s structural journey is not a question of steady progression, but rather one of a few major turning points, will help us identify when and how its wiring is vulnerable to disruption.”

The four pivotal stages of brain development

Childhood

According to the study, childhood lasts from birth until around the age of nine years old, when children enter adolesence.

Adolescence

In news that will help a lot of us excuse previous mistakes, according to the study, adolesence lasts until around the age of 32, which is when adulthood really starts to kick in.

According to the researchers, this is around the age that mental health disorders are likely to develop, too.

“This phase is the brain’s only period when its network of neurons gets more efficient”, the researchers said.

Adulthood

This is when the brain hits ‘stability’, according to the researchers and this lasts around three decades.

They say: “Change is slower during this time compared with the fireworks before, but here we see the improvements in brain efficiency flip into reverse.”

Lead author of the study, Dr Alexa Mousely says that this: “aligns with a plateau of intelligence and personality” that many of us will have witnessed or even experienced.

Early ageing

This kicks in around 66 but researchers urge that this is “not an abrupt and sudden decline” but instead a time when there are shifts in the patterns of connections in the brain.

They added: “Instead of coordinating as one whole brain, the organ becomes increasingly separated into regions that work tightly together – like band members starting their own solo projects.”

Although the study looked at healthy brains, this is also the age at which dementia and high blood pressure, which affects brain health, are starting to show.

Late ageing

This is the final stage, occuring around age 83.

There is less data than for the other groups as finding healthy brains to scan was more challenging. The brain changes are similar to early ageing, but even more pronounced.

This could help with our understanding of ageing brains

Duncan Astle, professor of neuroinformatics at the University of Cambridge and part of the team responsible for the research, said: “Many neurodevelopmental, mental health and neurological conditions are linked to the way the brain is wired. Indeed, differences in brain wiring predict difficulties with attention, language, memory, and a whole host of different behaviours.

“Understanding that the brain’s structural journey is not a question of steady progression, but rather one of a few major turning points, will help us identify when and how its wiring is vulnerable to disruption.”

Here’s hoping.

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Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ Tariffs Worked — They Liberated Americans From Their Jobs

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s vaunted “Liberation Day” tariffs have worked — if liberating Americans from their jobs was the actual goal.

The nation’s manufacturing sector, the very one Trump purportedly wanted to help with his import taxes, has instead been losing jobs every single month since he announced them in April. In all, there are now 67,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than when he imposed tariffs on most imports.

That result is exactly the opposite of what Trump promised and predicted when he announced them on April 2.

“We created 10,000, already in a few weeks, new manufacturing jobs and that took place in one month, numbers that they haven’t seen in a long time,” Trump said, lying, to cheering supporters in what was still the Rose Garden, prior to his having paved it over. “Jobs and factories will come roaring back into our country and you see it happening already.”

His overall jobs numbers are just as grim, according to statistics compiled by his own Department of Labor, particularly compared to predecessor Joe Biden’s robust record on that front. Over four years, Biden’s economy added more than 4 million jobs per year, or 336,225 per month.

“It’s not just tariffs,” said University of Michigan economist Justin Wolfers. “It’s also uncertainty, chaos, incompetence, and a radical and idiosyncratic approach to economic policy.”

Trump’s White House aides and press office did not respond to HuffPost queries about his jobs record compared to Biden.

Even discounting the first two years, which largely just recovered the jobs lost during the Covid pandemic, the economy under Biden’s stewardship still picked up 2.1 million jobs per year from February 2023 through January 2025, an average of 178,042 per month.

In contrast, the economy has added only 499,000 total jobs since Trump returned to office, or 49,900 per month. Most of those jobs were added in his first three months. From May, the month after he announced his tariffs, through November, the net number of jobs added is 119,000, or just 17,000 per month. Several months saw net job losses.

“There’s a huge difference in job creation rates in the two presidencies. Some part of it is that Trump has chosen a smaller America, literally, and population growth has shrunk. As a result, we don’t need as much job growth today,” Wolfers said. “Perhaps the best metric is the unemployment rate, which has risen relentlessly through 2025. That coincides not just with tariffs, but also a sharp rise in uncertainty and a sharp fall in business and consumer confidence. It’s not too hard to connect the dots. Economic policy has been chaotic, incoherent, run by fools, and poorly implemented.”

Trump’s usual approach to discussing his jobs records is to lie about it, just as he does with the cost of living and, recently, grocery prices. In fact, Trump’s tariff policies have increased food inflation dramatically. In Biden’s last year in office, inflation on grocery items had fallen to 1.8%. After Trump imposed tariffs, the food inflation rate jumped to 3.1%, according to a HuffPost analysis.

Andrew Bates, a former spokesman in Biden’s White House, said his boss predicted this would happen if Trump won.

“The Trump tariffs that Joe Biden and Democrats warned against are an historic sales tax hike on working people that’s raising costs and scrambling supply chains,” Bates said. “One year into the Trump administration, it’s an objective fact that Republicans inherited the strongest job creation record of any country after the pandemic and replaced it with recession-level job loss.”

During a prime-time address that the White House asked that the television networks carry live last week, Trump began his 18-minute diatribe by claiming that he had “inherited a mess,” with inflation “the worst in 48 years and some would say in the history of our country.”

In reality, Trump inherited an economy growing steadily, with inflation down to 3%, strong jobs numbers and a low unemployment rate — just as he did at the start of his first term in 2017.

Over those four years, Trump also initiated a trade war, although primarily with China. The result was a mini recession in manufacturing and agriculture. This time around, his trade war has been against the entire rest of the planet, and the effects have been more pronounced.

In a new article by Vanity Fair, his own chief of staff, Susie Wiles, conceded the harm his tariff policy has wrought: “It’s been more painful than I expected,” she said.

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Trump’s Favorite Spokesperson Has Major Family News

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White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced she is pregnant with her second child in a festive Instagram post on Friday.

Along with a photo of her touching her bump in front of a Christmas tree, she announced, “The greatest Christmas gift we could ever ask for – a baby girl coming in May 2026.”

“My husband and I are thrilled to grow our family and can’t wait to watch our son become a big brother,” Leavitt said of husband Nicholas Riccio, 60, and son Niko, 1.

“My heart is overflowing with gratitude to God for the blessing of motherhood, which I truly believe is the closest thing to Heaven on Earth,” her caption continued.

Thanking her bosses, Leavitt added, “I am also extremely grateful to President Trump and our Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for their support, and for fostering a pro-family environment in the White House. 2026 is going to be a great year and I am so excited to be a girl mom.”

Leavitt, who at 28 years old is the youngest White House press secretary in history, regularly brings her son to work in Washington, D.C., with her, often sharing their office moments together on social media.

Leavitt, here at the White House with her son Nicholas "Niko" Robert Riccio on Nov. 25, thanked President Donald Trump and chief of staff Susie Wiles for "fostering a pro-family environment."
Leavitt, here at the White House with her son Nicholas “Niko” Robert Riccio on Nov. 25, thanked President Donald Trump and chief of staff Susie Wiles for “fostering a pro-family environment.”

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She spoke more about juggling her high-pressure career and motherhood in an interview about her pregnancy with Fox News Digital, telling the site, “Nearly all of my West Wing colleagues have babies and young children, so we all really support one another as we tackle raising our families while working for the greatest president ever.”

The president is rather fond of his main spokesperson, whom he regularly praises for her appearance in public.

Fawning over his underling during a rally in Pennsylvania earlier this month, he remarked on her “beautiful face” and “those lips that don’t stop.”

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A Third Of Labour Voters Think Keir Starmer Should Step Down, Poll Finds

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One in three Labour voters say Keir Starmer should step down as prime minister, according to a new poll.

A JL Partners survey, commissioned by the Independent, asked Labour voters if they thought the party had a better chance of winning the next general election if they replaced Starmer – 38% of the 1,562 adults questioned said yes.

A further 39% said getting rid of Starmer would not impact the party’s hopes at the next election, while just 13% said Labour would do worse without the prime minister at the helm and 10% did not offer an opinion.

The poll found that Labour voters have even less faith in Starmer than the general public, as only half of the wider electorate think he should step down.

James Johnson of JL Partners told the Independent: “The results underline the degree to which all voters have lost faith in Keir Starmer. What will worry Downing St most is the belief that Labour would do better under a new leader is strongest among Labour supporters themselves.”

The survey asked which Labour figure voters would like to succeed Starmer.

Manchester mayor and former cabinet minister Andy Burnham came out on top with 19% of Labour voters backing him, even though he is not an MP and therefore not eligible to be party leader.

Former deputy PM Angela Rayner came out in second place with 10% of the vote, while deputy Labour leader Lucy Powell was not far behind on 9%.

Health secretary Wes Streeting and Energy secretary Ed Miliband were both on 6% while home secretary Shabana Mahmood was on 4%.

The education secretary Bridget Phillipson was put on 3% and chief secretary to the PM Darren Jones was on 2%.

The poll also ranked all seven of Labour’s prime ministers in history – and Starmer came out in last place.

The survey comes after the Labour campaign group Labour Together secretly conducted a poll on Starmer’s popularity among its members.

The findings are a real blow to the prime minister, just 18 months on from a landslide victory.

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Trump Official Mocks Starmer’s Chief Of Staff With Bizarre Christmas Post

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An official from the Trump administration appeared to mock the prime minister and his chief of staff after banning two Britons from the US.

Imran Ahmed and Clare Melford, two British-based executives who campaign against disinformation, had their American visas revoked on Christmas Eve.

This was seen as a particular blow to the Labour government due to Ahmed’s links to Keir Starmer’s top team.

Ahmed, a former adviser to cabinet minister Hilary Benn, is chief executive of the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which was set up in 2017 by Morgan McSweeney, who is now the No.10 chief of staff.

But the US secretary of state Marco Rubio banned Ahmed and Melford for supposedly leading “efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose”.

Then America’s under secretary of state for public diplomacy, Sarah B Rogers, celebrated the move with a slightly less diplomatic move.

She shared a post on X which read, “Hey McSweeney. Merry Christmas”, and featured an edited photo of Rogers with a Christmas hat on.

Rogers added a further festive touch by adding a Christmas tree emoji.

The Trump official said the ban comes as part of a “red line” for the US and the “extraterritorial censorship of Americans”.

Rogers had already taken aim at the UK’s Online Safety Act in interview with GB News at the start of the month, claiming: “To censor Americans in America is a deal breaker.”

When news of the visa ban broke, a UK government spokesperson said: “The UK is fully committed to upholding the right to free speech.

“While every country has the right to set its own visa rules, we support the laws and institutions which are working to keep the Internet free from the most harmful content.

“Social media platforms should not be used to disseminate child sex abuse material, incite hatred and violence, or spread fake information and videos for that purpose.”

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Unexpected Boost For Starmer As Tory Peer Admits He Would Vote Labour

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A Conservative peer has offered up a surprise boost for Keir Starmer as he would still vote for Labour despite the government’s difficult time in office.

Lord Rose, the chairman of Asda, told LBC that there is widespread frustration with Labour – but suggested that’s still better than the alternatives.

“We’re in a situation now where I think many people in this country would be disappointed with the government they have elected,” Rose told LBC.

“We’ve now got a situation where I don’t believe the Conservatives can make a recovery in time for the next election.

“So let’s assume it’s the election after that.

“You are now going to find yourself in a very difficult situation in 2027, ’28, ’29, where if Labour don’t start delivering some [economic] growth, the Conservatives haven’t recovered in time, and you’ve got the other option – what are you going to vote for?

“Are you going to vote for Reform or are you going to vote for a second government?”

He said: “I would vote for another Labour government, but I would want some change in the meantime.”

Asked why he would vote for another round of Labour, he said: “It’s a question of degrees of pain, isn’t it?

“If I can’t have a resurgent Conservative Party, and they’ve got a lot of work to do to make themselves re-electable – or I’ve got the alternative, which, frankly, is supping with the devil.”

Asked what Kemi Badenoch has to do to secure the Tory peer’s vote again, he said: “She’s got to be doing more of what she’s begun now, I think, but I just think, it does, in all these things, require time, and I’m not sure time is on their side.”

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‘Why would you vote Labour?’
‘It’s a question of degrees of pain.’

Conservative peer Lord Rose explains why he would vote against his party in future elections. pic.twitter.com/yKdhbM6eIY

— LBC (@LBC) December 25, 2025

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