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The billlionaire allegedly feared the strike on Crimea could trigger nuclear war.

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Victor Plescanov, a 59-year-old gravedigger from Tiraspol—the capital of the Russian-backed breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova—has never shied away from bold public expressions of support for Ukraine’s independence. His case "is extremely similar to the suppression of war critics in Russia proper,” Vlad Lupan, a...

A judge in Georgia on Wednesday denied motions from two co-defendants to sever their cases from one another in the sprawling racketeering prosecution against Donald Trump....

Satellite images from August show new construction on Triton Island, the westernmost island of the Paracel Islands near Vietnam. China has occupied the Paracel Islands since the 1970s, but Taiwan and Vietnam also lay claim to the archipelago....

Not a single one of them had ever treated the now-15-year-old as if he were a threat—until Ron DeSantis came to town....

Deflection, distraction, and intimidation. Another example of the Florida governor’s lack of transparency and thug-like tactics.

On TV, Patrick Carroll is a buttoned-up businessman who manages $7.4 billion in property. In private, things are very different.

Altimont owns Carmen’s Corner Store in Hagerstown, Maryland, a community where around 20 percent of people rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to buy their groceries. But a federal agency decided that Altimont can never accept SNAP as a form of payment at Carmen’s....

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“Who would have declared such a war on us in Moscow?”...