Past vice-presidents and vice-presidential candidates are often among their party’s top contenders for future presidential nominations.

Instead of heading to the nation's capital, the Minnesota governor will go home to St. Paul, where he still has a job to do for another two years in his second term and where his backyard's political landscape appears to be tilting a slight bit toward Republicans.

The European Union needs to rethink its support for Ukraine following Donald Trump's U.S. election victory, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said before a summit of EU leaders on Friday, adding that Europe cannot finance the war alone.