A few weeks before launching his campaign to overthrow the Ukrainian government, Russian President Vladimir Putin implied that he would use nuclear weapons to repel a NATO-backed effort by Ukraine to retake Crimea from Russian occupation.
An upcoming Supreme Court fight over the Biden administration's student debt relief plan could see the 6-3 conservative majority employ a similar doctrine that quashed the Obama administration's landmark power plant emissions rule.
Thursday's nomination of former Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga to lead the World Bank likely formalized the institution's shift toward a greater focus on climate change.
North Carolina House of Representatives Speaker Tim Moore, another state congressman, and Moore's security were driving back to the state capital from an event when a vehicle repeatedly rammed into the back of them, the speaker's spokeswoman said Thursday.
Gift-giving has been a central part of diplomacy since the advent of states. The Biden administration has seen the continuation of this tradition, with world leaders presenting the president of the United States with lavish gifts as showings of goodwill, often unique to their countries.