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A handful of Senate Republicans on Wednesday evening tore into fellow Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville for hours, arguing that his blockade of more than 300 military promotions has damaged the US armed forces and risks serious long-term consequences.”There’s a reason this has not been done this way for a couple hundred years, no matter whether…

NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday dropped his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, ending his campaign for the White House after struggling to raise money and gain traction in the polls.“It’s become clear to me: This is not my time,” Pence said at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual gathering…

Donald Trump Jr is going off on another rant, but this time, he’s targeting a presidential candidate.Along with making some seriously eyebrow-raising remarks toward his father Donald Trump’s past rival Hillary Clinton earlier this month, Donald Jr is now targeting one of his father’s presidential rivals, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.More from SheKnowsDuring a meeting with…

The Kremlin has denied that Vladimir Putin is ill following reports that he suffered a heart attack over the weekend.An unsourced report by a Russian Telegram channel, picked up by some Western media, claimed on Sunday that the Russian president had been struck by a serious illness that evening.On Tuesday, a spokesman for Putin denied…

TAIPEI. Taiwan (AP) — China has replaced Defense Minister Gen. Li Shangfu, who has been out of public view for almost two months, state media reported Tuesday. No further information was given.Li is the second senior Chinese official to disappear this year, following former Foreign Minister Qin Gang, who was removed from office in July…

There are now nine Republicans in the House seeking the speaker’s gavel ― but one former GOP member says they have one thing in common.“They’re all bad,” former Rep. David Jolly (R-Fla.) said on MSNBC on Sunday.A revolt by far-right GOP lawmakers toppled former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and has left the House without a…

The president of a Detroit synagogue who was found dead in front of her home Saturday morning was the victim of a “brutal murder,” according to Michigan’s top prosecutor.Samantha Woll, 40, had been president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Detroit Synagogue since last year, according to the Detroit Free Press. She was found outside her…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Russian missile attack killed two civilians in an apartment building in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, local authorities said, as President Vladimir Putin dismissed the importance of a new U.S.-supplied weapon that Kyiv used to execute one of the most damaging attacks on the Kremlin’s air assets since the start of…

BEIJING (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that the United States was wading deeper into the Ukraine conflict and making a mistake by providing Kyiv with long-range ATACMS missiles.He told a news conference during a visit to China that he had briefed President Xi Jinping “in some detail” about Ukraine. He said…

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday sacked Economy Minister Samir Saied after fresh statements that a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be vital for obtaining other foreign financing. The president strongly opposes what he described as the dictates of the IMF, saying that the IMF is ‮”‬not sacred‮”‬ and…