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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,…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A bird flies by the United States Capitol building in Washington, U.S., March 17, 2022.  REUTERS/Emily Elconin/File Photo By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Congress voted to impose further economic pain on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, passing one measure to remove its “most favored nation” trade status…

© Reuters. U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks with the media following the weekly Senate Republican policy lunch on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 29, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday that Democrats will need to agree to a vote on an amendment to…

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.

Despite retreating away from Kyiv in a perfunctory display of de-escalating tensions, Russian forces are leaving landmines in their wake, and civilians have been found executed—some with their hands bound behind their backs, Ukrainian officials said Saturday.“Bucha, Kyiv region. The bodies of people with tied hands, who were shot dead by Russian soldiers lie in…

Amid confusion over a seven-hour gap in the White House phone logs on the day of the January 6 insurrection, a new report from CNN sheds light on how President Donald Trump would move calls to his cellphone.Although White House officials are supposed to use secure lines of communication, Trump made a habit of rejecting…

With the U.S. public showing a vast disapproval of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the wake of his invasion of Ukraine, former President Donald Trump has sought to explain his glowing appraisal of the Russian leader’s moves leading up to the war.On Wednesday, Trump released a statement in which he parsed the semantics of using the…

President Joe Biden snapped at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy on Monday, responding to the journalist’s question by saying: “Why should I tell you?”Doocy had asked what the U.S. would do specifically in response to a possible chemical weapons attack by Russia on Ukraine.Biden said Russia’s use of such weapons would trigger a “significant response.”Doocy…