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A US Titan class nuclear missile, from the Cold War, now decommissioned and held at a museum in Nevada (Photo: jonkeegan) Vladimir Putin’s threat of extreme violence in the face of possible Nato provocation has rightly raised the issue of…
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The days when voters put their partisan differences aside during a national security crisis appear to be over. A watch party of the State of the Union address at a bar in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday. Few notions are as…
The strategy is supposed to help the nation transition to what some are calling a “new normal,” but it will require funding from Congress. A technician performing coronavirus tests outside a pharmacy in Rhode Island. President Biden’s new plan would…
Democrats hope meeting the nominee will persuade some Republicans senators to support her historic nomination to the Supreme Court. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the first Black woman ever nominated to the Supreme Court, began meeting with Senators in the Capitol…
In a court filing, the panel said there was enough evidence to suggest that the former president might have engaged in a criminal conspiracy as he fought to remain in office. Former President Donald J. Trump may also have broken…
Jessica Cisneros had the backing of national progressive leaders, a cramped campaign headquarters and the help of her father. She’s now taking on Representative Henry Cuellar in a runoff in May. Jessica Cisneros, center, in Laredo with supporters on Tuesday.…
The president repackaged his sweeping domestic policy plan with more centrist language, but it remained unclear whether Congress would resurrect key elements of his agenda. President Biden speaking with city officials and workers at a bridge in Superior, Wis., on…
The task force adds to the raft of actions that Western leaders have taken in recent days in an effort to undercut Vladimir V. Putin and the politically connected elite in Russia. The creation of the task force reflects the…