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WASHINGTON — As Gaza buries its dead and starves under siege, the Trump administration has quietly signed off on a 6.7 billion dollar surge of US weapons for Israel, adding new attack
Donald Trump is building a 250-foot Independence Arch on the Potomac, a White House grand ballroom, and more — a vanity construction campaign running alongside sinking approval ratings and a fractured rural base.
Democrats are quietly rebuilding a political weapon that once helped them seize Congress from Republicans nearly two decades ago: corruption. But this time, party strategists believe the target is larger, more combustible,
The Pentagon’s decision to suspend and reduce planned troop deployments to Poland and parts of Eastern Europe has sent shockwaves across NATO, deepening fears that Donald Trump is rapidly reshaping Washington’s military
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Friday that any direct confrontation between China and the United States would become “a disaster for both countries and the whole world,” as Beijing attempted to
US President Donald Trump paid a federal ethics fine after failing to submit mandatory financial disclosure forms on time, according to newly released documents reviewed by RIA Novosti and additional filings published
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is stepping down after nearly eight years at the helm of the US central bank, concluding one of the most turbulent and politically charged tenures in modern
For years, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy positioned himself as the face of a new anti-corruption Ukraine, promising to dismantle the oligarchic networks and political patronage systems that had long defined the country’s
The administration of US President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered federal prosecutors to aggressively pursue use terrorism statutes against Mexican officials allegedly linked to powerful drug cartels, a move that could fundamentally
Russia intensified its campaign for a parallel global financial architecture on Friday after Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called on BRICS nations to accelerate the creation of cross-border payment systems insulated from Western
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that the election of a new UN secretary-general later this year could offer an opportunity to restore order within the international organization, as BRICS nations
For two days in Beijing, Donald Trump was treated less like a rival superpower leader and more like a visiting monarch. There were military honors outside the Great Hall of the People,
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