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President announces he will enact ‘first tranche’ of sanctions in response to Putin’s recognition of two self-proclaimed republics

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime Russia hawk, and others are calling on Congress to approve an Ukraine aid package as soon as next week.

Republicans could not be clearer about their cynicism, yet some establishment Democrats act as if politics as usual is still an option

Senate Democrats and Republicans each want to flash election-year signals that they’re helping families struggling with rising costs and the two-year-old pandemic

There are different constellations in the Never Trump firmament and it’s unclear if they can unite

Donald Trump could be attacking President Biden on a number of kitchen-sink issues. Instead, he's obsessed with his 2020 election loss.

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WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell on Tuesday linked the Biden administration’s highly controversial pullout from Afghanistan six months ago to Russia’s current menacing troop build-up around Ukraine.

Fractures in the GOP foundation are forming — but Trump remains

Properly translating the Republican National Committee’s Orwellian statement that the Jan. 6 Capitol marauders and rioters were “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dropped the Newspeak and said in plain English: “We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection…

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden hasn’t yet settled on a nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.