Out-of-control inflation, high energy prices, trouble in Eastern Europe, and a feckless foreign policy that results in Iran threatening Israel and our interests around the globe. What has transpired in the last few years is eerily reminiscent of the problems the United States faced in the 1970s. Then, as now, America was looking for leadership...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is scrambling to counter Ukrainian offensives amid a weeklong invasion in Russia’s Kursk region in what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy argued Monday night was a border security operation. “Our operations are purely a security matter for Ukraine – the liberation of the border area from the Russian military,” Zelenskyy said in...
The fire that erupted at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant over the weekend has been extinguished, Russian state media reported on Monday while citing Russia’s nuclear energy agency Rosatom. But both Moscow and Kyiv continue to point the blame at each other as concerns over a nuclear meltdown remain high. Russian forces have illegally occupied...
Russian athletes competing at the Paris Olympics as neutral individual athletes will be allowed to attend the closing ceremony on Sunday, officials said. Athletes from Russia were not allowed to attend the opening ceremony and have not been able to represent their country in Paris due to its ongoing war against Ukraine. “The IOC Executive...
Moscow has deployed troops to the Kursk region after a Ukrainian incursion into Russian territory that has raised major questions for the Kremlin and handed Kyiv a major opportunity. “Given the significant disparity of combat potential favoring Russia on the battlefield, Ukrainian forces appear to be switching to, or at minimum, intensifying, unconventional warfare, bringing...
President Biden is now hunkering down at his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Friday after holding only one public event this week. Biden arrived there late Thursday night and remains away from the White House following a tumultuous week around the globe and on Wall Street. He has no events scheduled for today. On...
The Biden administration is sending another round of military assistance to Ukraine as its war with Russia intensifies following a large-scale incursion by Ukrainian forces. The latest package is worth $125 million and includes air defense interceptors, munitions for rocket systems and artillery, multi-mission radars, and anti-tank weapons, the State Department said Friday. FIGHTING RAGES...
Ukraine on Friday continued its efforts to bring the war onto Russian soil as fighting rages on in Russia’s Kursk region, while “massive” drone strikes were also carried out against military and government targets in at least four other western regions. Russia’s Lipetsk region, which sits just north of Kursk, came under attack by Ukrainian...
President Richard Nixon, the 37th U.S. president, announced he would be resigning from the office on this day in history, Aug. 8, 1974. In a speech delivered to the nation from the Oval Office, Nixon said his resignation would go into effect “at noon tomorrow.” On August 9, Gerald Ford would assume the presidency as...
Fighting in Russia rages for a third day after 1,000 Ukrainian troops stormed across the international border into the Kursk region on Tuesday in one of the largest surprise attacks on Russia since the war began over two years ago. Moscow called a state of emergency in the Kursk region — located roughly 175 miles...
