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Turkey doubled down in its refusal to grant NATO membership to Finland and Sweden following Wednesday’s five-hour meeting between delegates representing the three countries. A senior Turkish official said his country will not agree to allow the Nordic nations into the alliance unless its objections are addressed, according to the

Eighty-two percent of Ukrainians don’t want Ukraine to cede any of its territories to Russia under any circumstances, according to a new survey released Tuesday by one of the country’s top pollsters. The plurality holds this view so firmly, in fact, that they said their opinions would not change even

House Republicans are demanding answers from the FBI after court-ordered information shows that the bureau collected information on millions of U.S. citizens without a warrant. In a May 24 letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, and Mike Turner

A gunman opened fire at an elementary school in South Texas on Tuesday, killing 14 students and one teacher, before the suspect himself died, Governor Greg Abbott told reporters. Abbott said the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, apparently was killed by police officers responding to the scene, and that two of

In an extremely rare public expression of opposition to the war from among Russia’s elite, a Kremlin diplomat delivered a scathing rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in a letter of resignation sent to foreign colleagues. “Never have I been so ashamed of my country as on

President Joe Biden has achieved a new all-time low in his job performance approval rating according to the latest Associated Press poll. The new data shows that only 39% of Americans approve of how Biden is handling key issues. On the heels of a Quinnipiac poll showing the low approval

Voters are headed to the polls today in Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Minnesota in another round of midterm primary elections, with one race pitting Donald Trump against his former vice president, Mike Pence, in what could be the biggest challenge to Trump’s influence over his party to date. In Georgia,

President Joe Biden seemed to praise high gas prices for causing an “incredible transition” from fossil fuels and towards greener energy sources. During a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Fumion Kishida on Monday, Biden said that “God willing” the United State’s will be “stronger” as a result of

State Farm asked its employees to donate LGBTQ children’s books to local libraries and schools in a newly-leaked internal document. In a Jan. 18 email, State Farm asked its Florida agents to select from among three books written for children in grades kindergarten and up. The titles include: “A Kids