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Russian President Vladimir Putin talks to Finance Minister Anton Siluanov during the EEU Summit meeting on December 20, 2019 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Mikhail Svetlov | Getty Images News | Getty Images Russia successfully made at least some of the payments on its sovereign bonds in dollars, according to reports from Reuters, appearing to avoid

President Joe Biden on Wednesday detailed how the United States will spend $800 million in military and humanitarian aid for Ukraine approved this week, and promised to “do more in the days and weeks ahead” to help the war-torn nation. The funds will go toward drones, 800 antiaircraft systems, 9,000 antiarmor systems, 7,000 small-arm machine

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and former congresswoman Kathy Hochul, campaign together at the Hotel Trade Council during a reelection campaign event on September 8, 2014 in New York City. Andrew Burton | Getty Images Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is considering a run against his replacement and fellow Democrat, Gov. Kathy Hochul, as

U.S. President Joe Biden, center, signs H.R. 2471, the “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022,” in the Indian Treaty Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a $1.5 trillion bill that funds federal operations through September and sends

A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine at a vaccination clinic in the Peabody Institute Library in Peabody, Massachusetts, on Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2022. Vanessa Leroy | Bloomberg | Getty Images The White House on Tuesday warned that the U.S. won’t have enough booster shots and life-saving Covid treatments for Americans

Russian President Vladimir Putin watches with binoculars the Tsentr-2019 military exercise at the Donguz range near Orenburg city on September 20, 2019. Alexey Nikolsky | Afp | Getty Images There are increasing concerns that Russia could be prepared to use chemical weapons to attack Ukraine, with Western officials and strategists warning the threat posed by

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel waves goodbye as she departs from the Chancellery for the last time. Sean Gallup | Getty Images News | Getty Images With Vladimir Putin‘s unprovoked attack against Ukraine, political analysts are now reassessing the long and deeply complicated relationship the Russian leader had with ex-German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and how

US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One before departing from Tulsa International Airport in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 1, 2021. Mandel Ngan | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The White House is considering a presidential trip to Europe in the coming weeks, multiple outlets reported Monday, citing anonymous sources. A visit by President

Ukrainians who fled the war in their country take refuge in the main hall of an athletic complex in the Moldovan capital Kishinev, on March 10, 2022. Menahem Kahana | AFP | Getty Images Russia’s war in Ukraine has gone on for nearly three weeks. Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded his ex-Soviet neighbor late last

Sarah Bloom Raskin, nominated to be vice chairman for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, speaks before a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 3, 2022. Ken Cedeno | Reuters Sen. Joe Manchin, the most conservative Democrat in the

Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin addresses a rally at the Manezhnaya Square just outside the Kremlin in Moscow, late on March 4, 2012. Dmitry Astakhov | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war on Ukraine and the resulting global response will set Russia’s economy back by at least 30 years — close

President Joe Biden on Friday called for the U.S. to revoke Russia’s “most favored nation” status, which would downgrade Russia as a trading partner and open the door to damaging new tariffs on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. The European Union and the Group of Seven nations are expected to take the same steps,

President Joe Biden on Friday issued an executive order blocking U.S. imports of key Russian products, including vodka, and banning exports of high-end goods to Russia. The executive action bans imports from key sectors of Russia’s economy, such as seafood, alcohol and non-industrial diamonds, according to the text of the order. That action will block more than $1

In this article @CL.1 @W.1 Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Thursday that Americans will likely see another year of “very uncomfortably high” inflation as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine muddles her prior forecast that price acceleration would moderate in the months ahead. “I think there’s a lot of uncertainty that is related to what’s going on

Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Conservative Political Action Conferenceat The Rosen Shingle Creek on February 26, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. Joe Raedle | Getty Images A plane carrying former President Donald Trump made an emergency landing last weekend when one of its engines failed over the Gulf of Mexico after he spoke

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken holds a joint press conference with British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss in the Benjamin Franklin Room of the State Department in Washington, D.C., March 9, 2022. Jim Watson | Pool | Reuters The United States and the United Kingdom on Wednesday hardened their opposition to imposing any form of

U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday calling on the government to examine the risks and benefits of cryptocurrencies. It’s a long-awaited directive that has had the crypto industry on edge, not least due to growing regulatory concern around the world surrounding the nascent digital asset market. There had been reports of

Russian President Vladimir Putin checks his watch before a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, in Moscow, Russia, February 7, 2022. Thibault Camus | Reuters If there’s anything we’ve learned about President Vladimir Putin over the 22 years or so that he’s been in power in Russia it’s that he has systematically and repeatedly