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In apparent shift in strategy, Russians troops stop offensive toward Kyiv: Pentagon on Day 30
omersukrugoksu/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Pentagon has been providing daily updates on the Russian invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine's efforts to resist. Here are highlights of what a senior U...
Mar 25, 2022
Biden admin avoiding 'red line' over any Russian use of chemical weapons in Ukraine
Henry Nicholls - Pool/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Biden administration official is steering clear of defining any use by Russia of chemical weapons in Ukraine as a "red line," a senior admini...
Mar 25, 2022
Judge Jackson takes empathetic approach to impartiality: ANALYSIS
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson never uttered the word 'empathy' in nearly 19 hours of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee this...
Mar 25, 2022
Meet the new generation running for office in the midterms
Maxwell Frost | Karoline Leavitt via Instagram(NEW YORK) -- A new generation of politicians is emerging just in time for the midterms. This election cycle marks the first time members of Generati...
Mar 25, 2022
Biden calls Putin a 'war criminal' after meeting with troops in Poland
Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- President Joe Biden touched down Friday in Poland, what's become the epicenter for millions fleeing their home country, to meet with U.S. service members an...
Mar 25, 2022
Justice Clarence Thomas discharged after week in hospital, court says
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Justice Clarence Thomas was discharged from Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington on Friday, one week after being admitted for treatment of an infection, a Su...
Mar 25, 2022
Ginni Thomas urged White House chief of staff to challenge election results, text messages show
Drew Angerer/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- In the fall of 2020, after Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Th...
Mar 25, 2022
Parkland shooting survivors, activists call on lawmakers to pass gun reforms as midterms approach
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- On the fourth anniversary of the "March For Our Lives" rally, more than 1,100 body bags -- each one representing 150 people -- were placed on the National M...
Mar 25, 2022
DOJ charges Russian officials over hacking campaigns that targeted critical infrastructure
Samuel Corum/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The Justice Department unsealed two indictments Thursday charging four Russian government employees with two separate conspiracies -- outlining t...
Mar 24, 2022
Cory Booker delivers impassioned speech at Ketanji Brown Jackson hearing
Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker delivered an impassioned speech on the third day of Ketanji Brown Jackson's Supreme Court confirmation hearings We...
Mar 24, 2022
