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Repeated attempts by the United States’ top defense and military leaders to speak with their Russian counterparts have been rejected by Moscow for the last month, leaving the world’s two largest nuclear powers in the dark about explanations for military movements and raising fears of a major miscalculation or battlefield accident. The Biden administration has finalized a plan to overhaul the syste...

Human rights advocates are demanding that the United States immediately release billions of dollars which it seized from Afghanistan’s Central Bank after ending its 20-year military occupation of the country last year, causing a devastating hunger crisis that has already killed thousands of Afghan newborns in 2022. A GOP Senator said the Supreme Court shouldn’t have legalized interracial marriage....

Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday that residents should brace for more indiscriminate Russian shelling of critical infrastructure, as President Joe Biden issued one of his strongest warnings yet that Moscow is considering using chemical weapons. Lindsey Graham claimed that ‘Putin owns Biden,’ and he also called for a no-fly zone if Russia uses chemical weapons in Ukraine. Sean Hannity said Iraq s...

The U.S. and NATO officials are struggling to decipher the status of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. U.S. officials are saying that the reported detention of a Russian spy boss is showing tensions over the stalled Ukraine invasion. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that the country is combining all national TV stations into a singular platform in an effort to co...

Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared at a huge flag-waving rally at a Moscow stadium. You could score a $5 million payday fighting Russian corruption—if you play your cards right. Republican Senator Elaine Gannon of Missouri asked extremely invasive questions to a trans teen Avery Jackson who was testifying against a proposed anti-trans bill in the state. Sexual harassment went unchecked at C...

President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday referred to pro-Western Russians as “scum and traitors” who needed to be removed from society, describing the war in Ukraine as part of an existential clash with the United States and setting the stage for an ever fiercer crackdown at home and even more aggression abroad. A Ukrainian man described the moment he found out that his wife and two children had been...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday peace talks were sounding more realistic but more time was needed, as Russian air strikes killed five people in the capital Kyiv and the refugee tally from Moscow’s invasion reached 3 million. A man was charged with attempted murder in what police have described as a “brutal hate crime” against an Asian woman in New York state last week, wi...

Why has the Biden administration hired 28 people with ties to Saudi Arabia and the UAE? About 400 people are reportedly being held as “hostages” in a Ukrainian hospital. According to a U.S. government report, a detainee at a secret CIA detention site in Afghanistan was used as a living prop to teach trainee interrogators, who lined up to take turns at knocking his head against a plywood wall, leav...

Negotiators from Russia and Ukraine met again on Monday for another round of talks aimed at finding a way out of the war, even as Russian forces broadened their devastating offensive and the Kremlin insisted that it would not pull back until “all plans” for the invasion are fulfilled. A pregnant woman who was injured when a maternity hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was bombed on Wednesd...

Russia has widened its offensive in Ukraine, striking airfields in the west and a major industrial city in the east, while the huge armored column that had been stalled for over a week outside Kyiv was on the move again, spreading out into forests and towns near the capital. Russia is also claiming that the U.S. has trained birds to deliver Ukrainian bioweapons. An accused Russian double Agent don...

The Biden administration has publicly warned that Russia might seek to use chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine as the White House rejected Russian claims of illegal chemical weapons development in the country it has invaded. Vice President Kamala Harris has been criticized for breaking into laughter after she was asked whether the US will take in Ukrainian refugees. Inflation hit another 40-...

Russia’s Central Bank limited withdrawals of foreign currency, hoping to shore up the plunging ruble as Western economic penalties take a serious toll. In Ukraine, efforts to evacuate civilians from battered cities resumed, but many remain trapped in the areas of heaviest fighting. The Department of Defense rejected an offer from Poland, a fellow NATO member, to send fighter jets to a U.S. air bas...

President Joe Biden has decided to ban Russian oil imports, toughening the toll on Russia’s economy in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine. A major religious leader in Russia has come out in support of the invasion of Ukraine and laid the blame on the support of gay rights. The United Nations has emailed staff advising them not to refer to the situation in Ukraine as a “war” or “invasion”, in...

Russian forces hit a bridge being used by civilians evacuating the fighting in Ukraine and four people were killed. A former Trump official said that Russian forces were “too gentle” on Ukraine. The Biden administration is seeking to ease oil sanctions on Venezuela as part of a broader U.S. strategy to temper oil prices that have skyrocketed because of Russia’s war in Ukraine. Trump wrote a letter...

Russian troops have seized the biggest nuclear power plant in Europe after a middle-of-the-night attack that set it on fire and briefly raised worldwide fears of a catastrophe in the most chilling turn in Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine yet. Three commanders in Russia’s army have been killed after moving up towards the frontline in an apparent attempt to restore momentum to the invasion of Ukraine. P...

A Ukrainian MP said on Fox News, “You care more about whether you pay extra 50 cents for your gas” than “how many people die in Ukraine.” The January 6th committee says it has evidence showing Trump committed crimes including obstruction and fraud while trying to overturn the election. A homeless defendant with a double-digit rap sheet, accused of smearing his own feces on a woman inside a Bronx s...

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Russia hit major cities across Ukraine with increasingly heavy shelling as the conflict escalated on its sixth day while a vast convoy of Russian forces is threatening the capital, Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a passionate speech to the European Parliament in defiance of Russia’s ongoing invasion of his country. His words were so moving that the English translator could b...

A Russian State TV host threatened nuclear war and asked, “Why do we need the world if Russia won’t be in it?” An embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its bond with the West on Monday by applying to join the European Union, while the first round of Ukraine-Russia talks aimed at ending the fighting concluded with no deal but an agreement to keep talking. The U.S. Treasury Department announced furthe...

Russian tanks entered the capital of Ukraine, Kyiv, on Friday morning as the city was rocked by explosions and gunfire. An entire garrison of 13 Ukrainian border guards was killed in the first day of fighting on the nation’s Snake Island after the soldiers refused to surrender to invading Russian forces. Over 1,000 Russians were arrested for protesting Putin’s Ukraine invasion. President Joe Biden...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a speech announcing a military operation in Ukraine that countries that interfere with Russian actions will face “consequences you have never seen.” Steve Bannon and Erik Prince praised Putin and Russia for LGBTQ intolerance. A confused Trump told Laura Ingraham that U.S. Soldiers landed in Ukraine to fight the Russians. Stocks and energy markets reel after...

Trump praised Putin’s ‘genius’ incursion into Ukraine. Ukraine has urged its citizens in Russia to evacuate. The U.S. Supreme Court formally rejected Donald Trump’s request to block the release of White House records sought by the Democratic-led congressional panel investigating last year’s deadly attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters. An alt-right and Nazi group attended a protest agai...