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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow could adopt what he described as a U.S. concept of using preemptive military strikes, noting it has the weapons to do the job, in a blunt statement amid rising Russia-NATO tensions over Ukraine.”We are just thinking about it. They weren’t shy to openly talk…

(Bloomberg) — Donald Trump’s lawyer argued that presidential immunity would protect him from lawsuits even if he had urged his supporters to “burn Congress down” while in office.Most Read from BloombergTrump has asserted sweeping immunity against suits by both police officers and Democratic members of Congress accusing the former president of inciting the Jan. 6,…

Georgia voters on Tuesday decided the country’s final Senate contest, choosing between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican football legend Herschel Walker after a four-week runoff blitz that drew a flood of outside spending to an increasingly personal fight.The runoff was determining whether Democrats gain an outright 51-49 Senate majority in the Senate or retain…

Russia’s war in Ukraine has now entered its 10th month, and as the weather drops below freezing, the invasion enters a new phase. According to the head of U.S. intelligence, the war is running at a “reduced tempo.” Meanwhile, a Kremlin official defended Russia’s repeated strikes against Ukraine’s crucial energy facilities, which the civilian population…

A Biden administration official has been charged with felony theft and is on leave from their post after being accused of stealing a mother’s Vera Bradley suitcase from an airport in Minnesota, according to court documents and the federal government.Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at…

Biden reacts to Trump meeting with Nick Fuentes

Fox News’ Raymond Arroyo accused the White House of jumping the gun on Christmas because it received its Christmas tree on the same day that President Joe Biden pardoned two turkeys for Thanksgiving.The trouble was, the conservative network had earlier in the day lit its own “All-American Christmas Tree” outside its HQ in New York.…

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday said he was “disappointed” in the tenure of former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, arguing that the ex-Trump aide “did not serve the president well.”During an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Pence made it clear that he was less than thrilled with Meadows’ performance when…

Russia has raised more than $13 billion in just one day as the cost of Vladimir Putin’s war with Ukraine keeps mounting.Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Saturday that the Russian Federation had conducted its largest debt issuance on Wednesday.Its intelligence report also said that Russia’s declared “national defence” spending in 2023 is estimated to…