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A Joe Biden presidency would be better for Russia than a Donald Trump one, Russian President Vladimir Putin told pro-Kremlin journalist Pavel Zarubin in an on-camera interview Wednesday. Asked by Zuribin about the upcoming US presidential election, Putin said Biden would be better for Russia “because he is a more experienced person, he is predictable, he is a politician of …

WASHINGTON — The Senate early Tuesday passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, pushing ahead after months of difficult negotiations and amid growing political divisions in the Republican Party over the role of the United States abroad. The vote came after a small group of Republicans opposed to the $60 billion for Ukraine held the Senate floor through …

LONDON — King Charles III has expressed his thanks for the messages of support he has received since he revealed last week that he had been diagnosed with cancer. In a statement issued late Saturday, the monarch said that such thoughts are “the greatest comfort and encouragement.” “It is equally heartening to hear how sharing my own diagnosis has helped …

Classified documents were found in a damaged cardboard box in President Joe Biden’s cluttered Delaware garage, near where golf clubs hung on the wall. A photo in former President Donald Trump’s indictment, meanwhile, shows stacks of boxes filled with documents under a chandelier in an ornate Mar-a-Lago bathroom. In Biden’s case, special counsel Robert Hur, a former U.S. attorney for Maryland …

Chaos has been a common theme for the 118th Congress. But this week, lawmakers took the drama to new heights, as Republicans in both chambers sank two top GOP priorities – impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and securing the southern border – serving up a double dose of dysfunction in the nation’s capital. “I had many people reach out to me via text …

WASHINGTON — They were warned that their criticism of Israel after Oct. 7 could cost them politically. But in the months after the bloody war began between the Jewish state and Hamas, progressives in Congress who have called for a ceasefire in Gaza are seeing record fundraising dollars as they fight to remain in office. Members of the “squad” — a group …

Washington (AP) — Wartime aid for Ukraine was left hanging in the Senate Wednesday after Republicans blocked a bipartisan border package that had been tied to the funding, then struggled to coalesce around a plan to salvage the aid for Kyiv. After GOP senators scuttled months of negotiations with Democrats on legislation intended to cut back record numbers of illegal …

Washington (AP) — A federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump can face trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, sharply rejecting the former president’s claims that he is immune from prosecution while setting the stage for additional challenges that could further delay the case. The ruling is significant not only for …

TEL AVIV, Israel — A ship traveling through the southern Red Sea was attacked by a suspected Yemen Houthi rebel drone early on Tuesday, authorities said, the latest assault in their campaign targeting vessels over Israel’s war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attack happened west of the Yemeni port of Hodeida, and the projectile caused “slight damage” to the vessel’s …

Critical days are ahead in Donald Trump’s multiple legal battles. Imminent rulings and looming trials could prove fateful to the Republican frontrunner’s 2024 campaign and his personal fortune. The powers and the limits of the presidency, and even America’s constitutional democracy, will be shaped by what happens next. The collision between November’s presidential election and Trump’s extraordinary tangle of legal liabilities, …