• Putin warns again Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or independence threatened

    Putin warns again Russia is ready to use nuclear weapons if its sovereignty or independence threatened

    Mar 13, 2024 04:02 PM EDT

    ... no red lines regarding Russia should realize that Russia won't have any red lines regarding them either." Lithuania's foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, recently lamented that the West too often constrains itself with self-imposed "red lines" regarding Russia. He also welcomed a comment by French President Emmanuel Macron ...

  • Trump clinches 2024 Republican nomination

    Trump clinches 2024 Republican nomination

    Mar 13, 2024 03:18 AM EDT

    ... Russia. And it could have dramatic implications for NATO. During his years in the White House, Trump often derided the transatlantic alliance as antiquated and lamented that some countries weren't spending enough on their own defense. He has maintained that critique this year, causing a stir on both sides ...

  • WATCH: Alabama Sen. Katie Britt delivers GOP response to the 2024 State of the Union

    WATCH: Alabama Sen. Katie Britt delivers GOP response to the 2024 State of the Union

    Mar 07, 2024 09:05 PM EDT

    ... enough to stem migration at the southern U.S. border.She has also been a conservative voice in her home state, frequently criticizing Biden and lamenting a country she has said she no longer recognizes. In December, she endorsed Trump for the presidency. She is expected to continue that theme ...

  • Haiti's prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign

    Haiti's prime minister is locked out of his country and faces pressure to resign

    Mar 06, 2024 09:27 PM EDT

    ... was appointed minister of social affairs and labor but faced calls for resignation after he quit the Inite party. He then largely disappeared from the limelight, serving as a political consultant and working as a professor at Haiti’s medical university until he was installed as prime minister shortly after ...

  • Attorney General Josh Stein, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will run against each other for NC governor

    Attorney General Josh Stein, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson will run against each other for NC governor

    Mar 06, 2024 01:24 AM EDT

    ... Robinson, who lost jobs to the North American Free Trade Agreement and entered personal bankruptcy, it was a four-minute speech defending guns rights and lamenting the “demonizing” of police officers before the Greensboro City Council that sparked his political career. After being elected lieutenant governor, Robinson spearheaded a task ...

  • UN rights chief urges end to 'repression' of independent voices in Russia after Navalny's death

    UN rights chief urges end to 'repression' of independent voices in Russia after Navalny's death

    Mar 04, 2024 11:24 PM EDT

    GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights chief called Monday for a quick end to the “repression of independent voices” in Russia and expressed concerns about the “persecution" of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last month. Volker Türk, in a wide-ranging speech, also lamented dozens of ...

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy pleads for more ammunition at Albania summit of southeastern European nations

    Ukraine's Zelenskyy pleads for more ammunition at Albania summit of southeastern European nations

    Feb 28, 2024 08:39 PM EDT

    ... attacks, and that heavy fighting was ongoing on the outskirts of the city. Meanwhile, further north on the frontline, Russian troops are pressing forward around Lyman and Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region that borders Russia. Ukraine has urged Western leaders to increase the joint production of weapons and ammunition, improve ...

  • Man found guilty of killing trans woman in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity

    Man found guilty of killing trans woman in 1st federal hate crime trial over gender identity

    Feb 24, 2024 06:31 PM EDT

    COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man was found guilty Friday of killing a Black transgender woman in the nation’s first federal trial over a hate crime based on gender identity. After deliberating for roughly four hours, jurors convicted Daqua Lameek Ritter of a hate crime for the ...

  • WATCH: Biden tells governors he's eyeing executive action on immigration

    WATCH: Biden tells governors he's eyeing executive action on immigration

    Feb 23, 2024 08:51 PM EDT

    ... executive order. “Over time, our laws and our resources haven’t kept up with our immigration system and it's broken," Biden told the governors, lamenting that "petty politics intervened” to kill the deal. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, the Republican chair of the association, told reporters later that Biden didn ...

  • Russia's forces turn their focus on Ukraine's northeast in what may be an ambitious new offensive

    Russia's forces turn their focus on Ukraine's northeast in what may be an ambitious new offensive

    Feb 22, 2024 07:43 PM EDT

    ... has not shifted much in the run-up to the war’s two-year anniversary on Feb. 24. Moscow’s troops are driving forward around Lyman and Kupiansk, in the Kharkiv region that borders Russia, ignoring casualties or equipment losses, according to Illia Yevlash, spokesperson for the operational group overseeing ...