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The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Russian troops killed a Ukrainian man because he had the same last name as the Putin critic.In a Tuesday Twitter thread, Navalny shared a picture of a passport with the name Ilya Ivanovich Navalny that he said was left next to the body of a 60-year-old man…

A small but growing number of Kremlin insiders are questioning President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and have serious concerns about its potentially devastating economic and political impact, Bloomberg reported.Bloomberg cited ten sources with direct knowledge knowledge of the situation in its report, and described the critics as being spread across senior positions in government…

Sanctioned Russian millionaire Oleg Tinkov ripped Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, a rare public criticism by a Russian elite.”I don’t see ANY beneficiary of this crazy war! Innocent people and soldiers are dying,” Tinkov in an Instagram post shared Tuesday,He said that Russian generals are realizing they have a “shitty army.””And how will…

President Biden and his immediate predecessor issued Easter messages that were as different as the men themselves. Other living presidents weighed in as well.Biden, who wished the nation a “Happy Easter” on Twitter, invoked the teachings of Christian savior Jesus Christ in his missive.“As we reflect today on Christ’s Resurrection, we are reminded that with…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A state court judge has concluded that Democrat Abby Finkenauer cannot appear on the June 7 primary ballot for U.S. Senate, knocking off the candidate considered by many to be the party’s best chance to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley.Judge Scott Beattie, a 2018 appointee of Republican Gov. Kim…

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Mike Gibbons, a leading Republican Senate candidate from Ohio, said at a media event last fall that middle-class Americans don’t pay “any kind of a fair share” of income taxes.“The top 20% of earners in the United States pay 82% of federal income tax — and, if you do the math,…

The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a key vote determining Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s future in the Supreme Court. If they vote in favor of the judge, she will move one step closer to being the first African American woman to serve on the high court. Congressional correspondent Nikole Killion joins CBS New’…

Some conscripts to the Russian war effort from the Donbas region are turning on their commanders and refusing to fight on, after being handed antiquated rifles designed in the 19th century, and forced to drink from ponds littered with dead frogs.One student draftee was given an automatic weapon but no instructions on how to fire…

Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council during the Trump administration, discusses Russia’s actions in Ukraine and how Vladimir Putin could tighten his grip on power.