PDB Afternoon Bulletin | January 27th, 2026: ...

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: New reporting reveals Iran’s supreme leader personally ordered security forces to shoot protesters on sight. But the most revealing detail may not be the order itself—it’s that the information is now leaking from inside the regime, ...  Show more

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief: First up—sharp words out of Caracas, where Venezuela’s acting leader is openly defying the Trump administration and rejecting claims she’s governing at Washington’s direction. Later in the show—we return to a story we’ve been tracki ...  Show more

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin intends to keep fighting in Ukraine until the West engages on his terms for peace. U.S. President Donald Trump says weapons are already being shipped to Ukraine as NATO countries in Europe work out the details of a scheme to supply Kyiv. The deta ...  Show more

John Bolton, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, is charged with sharing classified information. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy heads to the White House as Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin make plans to meet in Hungary. The admiral who le ...  Show more

In this episode of One Decision In Brief, hosts Christina Ruffini and Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of Britain's MI6, unpack how the latest strike on Ukraine indicates Vladimir Putin's resistance to President Donald Trump's peace negotiations. They also examine how the Shangh ...  Show more

This week, Mark Leonard joins forces with Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR’s director of research and US programme director, to unpick two momentous geopolitical disruptions. First, a stunning scandal emerged from a Signal group chat, where senior US officials—including the vice president ...