The new round of funding will help pay for projects nationwide, bringing the total awarded to states for water infrastructure improvements to $22 billion
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that the new package would be unveiled this Friday. U.S. and its allies have put stiff sanctions on Russia in retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine
There is a real danger of a Trump victory pushing the United States toward a dictatorship, and polls indicate that the president does not have enough support to stop it. Democrats still have time to look for a more compelling candidate
The editor of the quarterly political journal ‘American Affairs,’ who emerged during Trumpism’s first act and quickly turned his back on it, sees the current US election as framed by a historical turning point, but doesn’t think either candidate or party is proving to be up for the occasion
The uncertainty about who will be the new US president is sure to bring some degree of volatility, but in the medium term investors will be more focused on the economic situation
War is the greatest and most brutal engine of change. And war calls for war; especially when there is no longer a superpower to prevent it. If Russia can mobilize against Ukraine, so can China against Taiwan, Azerbaijan against Armenia, and Israel against Gaza
A witness accused of providing false testimony has punctured the accusations against the U.S. president. Despite this, Trump’s party will continue investigating him
The Munich Security Conference has highlighted the broken global order in which Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are closing ranks. ‘The question is whether democracy will survive,’ says the president of the European Commission
An airstrike in Rafah overnight killed six people, including a woman and three children, and another strike killed five men in Khan Younis, the main target of the offensive over the past two months
Talk about Trump shredding constitutional norms in a second term doesn’t seem to be provide much motivation for potential voters, based on the interviews
Republican candidate Haley reported a growing number of threats during her presidential campaign. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will make the final decision
The centrist Democrat who often bucked his party’s leadership had been considering a run for the presidency and had said he thought it would be clear by March if there was a path for a third-party candidate
Germany is now the second-biggest supplier of military aid to Ukraine after the U.S., and Scholz has called for other European countries to step up with more weapons deliveries
Special counsel David Weiss has accused Alexander Smirnov of fabricating the scandal that is the subject of the Republicans’ impeachment inquiry into the president
Washington downplays the threat: ‘We’re not talking about a weapon that can be used to attack human beings or cause physical destruction here on Earth’
U.S. also faces renewed pressure to close loopholes that allow illicit funds to flow from the U.S. into Russia, Iran and the hands of militant Hamas figureheads
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin conducted the virtual session from his home. ‘I’m in good condition, and my cancer prognosis remains excellent,’ he said