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The invading forces have faced stiff resistance, but President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia could quickly send in more troops, Pentagon officials said. A residential building was hit by missiles in southern Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, on Friday. WASHINGTON — For…
On January 3, the United States announced the elimination of Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the leader of the so-called Islamic State (IS) during a counterterrorism raid in Atmeh, a town in Syria’s Idlib province close to the Turkish border. In an…
The vote sets up a fight with the Senate, which has different recommendations for how the United States should bolster its technology industry to take on China. Workers at a semiconductor factory in Beijing in 2020. The renewed push for…
What to know about the death-penalty prosecution of a Saudi prisoner accused of plotting the attack on a Navy destroyer off Yemen in 2000 that killed 17 sailors. The U.S.S. Cole was attacked by suicide bombers during a routine refueling…
The president aims to revive the cancer “moonshot” program he headed as vice president. As vice president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. initiated the cancer “moonshot” program in 2016. WASHINGTON — President Biden will unveil a plan on Wednesday to reduce…
As we announced in January, by highlighting the everyday abuses of the language of public personalities and the media, Fair Observer’s new running feature prolongs the four-year-old tradition of The Daily Devil’s Dictionary (now reduced to a weekly format). We…
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President Biden will retreat from fruitless negotiations with lawmakers and instead emphasize his power to govern, senior White House advisers said. President Biden arrived in the White House promising to draw on three decades in the Senate to enact history-making…