The Kremlin‘s special envoy, tasked with smoothing economic quarrels with the White House, has maintained that peace is on the horizon in Ukraine despite a disastrous tour of the United States. Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s special presidential representative for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, was asked at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia whether there […]

Following the Republican-controlled Senate’s rebuke of his tariffs, President Donald Trump appears to be losing leverage in trying to get some Senate GOP detractors to comply with his agenda. On Tuesday, Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) joined Democrats in opposing Trump’s national emergency […]

The full bench on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will review the legality of President Donald Trump‘s federalization and deployment of the National Guard to Portland, tossing out the short-lived win that a three-judge panel on the court had handed the president last week. The full appeals court announced in a […]

Virginia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Abigail Spanberger counts more billionaires, Washington, D.C.-based donors, and out-of-state residents among her financial supporters than Republican nominee Lieutenant Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, public records show.  Just 47% of donations to Spanberger’s gubernatorial campaign came from Virginia residents as of the end of September, according to public records compiled by the Virginia […]