The Petersburg Post

Thursday, Apr 2nd, 2026 - The supreme court appears poised to reject Trump's attack on a foundation of US identity. We must hope it follows through A merican opponents of birthright citizenship – the right of all those born on the soil of a country to claim full legal rights and political representation in that nation – like to point out that many countries don't have it. On Wednesday at the supreme court, during the oral ...

Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 - – U.S. President Donald Trump has been fuming about NATO, musing about leaving the alliance, ratcheting up his criticism of European leaders and exposing a wider rift in the trans-Atlantic alliance — this time over "NATO treated us very badly, and you have to remember it because they'll be treating us badly again if we ever need them," Trump said Wednesday at a private White House lunch for the upcoming ...

Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 - State department says it is working to ensure release of freelancer 'as soon as possible' after abduction in Baghdad An American journalist, Shelly Kittleson, has been kidnapped in Baghdad by a suspected Iranian-backed Iraqi armed group, the US has said, as regional security deteriorates after the US-Israeli attack on Iran . Kittleson is a longtime freelancer in the region, reporting extensively from Syria, Iraq ...

Wednesday, Apr 1st, 2026 - A Russian An-26 military transport plane crashed into a cliff in Crimea , killing 29 people on board, due to a possible technical malfunction, Russia's defense ministry said early on Wednesday, according to news agencies. TASS news agency, quoting the ministry, said communication with the aircraft was lost at about 6 p.m. local time (1500 GMT) on Tuesday on a planned flight over Crimea. The peninsula, covered in ...