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Sean Hannity began his Fox News show Tuesday by demanding that his audience understand the real point of significance from the trial that led to felony convictions for President Biden’s son Hunter. It wasn’t that Hunter Biden was facing accountability; it was that he and his allies in the right-wing media had been right all along about a laptop…

Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Russian strikes in Kharkiv region killed four people on Monday, officials saidArticle informationAuthor, Robert GreenallRole, BBC News11 June 2024, 14:36 BSTUpdated 2 hours agoThe mayor of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv has said that the situation there has been "calmer" since Russian missile launchers…

Russia released a group of women from a prison in late May to join the fighting in Ukraine, according to two former inmates who maintain contact with those still there, potentially signaling a new phase in the Kremlin’s use of criminals in its war effort.Military recruiters collected several women from a prison outside St. Petersburg, said the…

Image caption, Scientist Anatoly Maslov, 77, was sentenced in May to 14 years in a penal colonyArticle informationAuthor, Sergei GoryashkoRole, BBC Russian9 June 2024Russian President Vladimir Putin frequently boasts that his country is leading the world in developing hypersonic weapons, which travel at more than five times the speed of…

Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images Raisa Abramtseva, 68, walks past her heavily damaged house in the village of Novovorontsovka in the Kherson region on Monday.…

President Biden used the backdrop of the beaches at Normandy on Friday to argue that defending democracy in Ukraine and around the world in 2024 is as vital as the day that American troops joined the allies on D-Day to begin rescuing Europe from the grip of Hitler’s tyranny.“As we gather here today,” he said, “it’s not just to honor those who…

OMAHA BEACH, France (AP) — As young soldiers, they waded through breaking waves and gunfire to battle the Nazis. Now bent with age, the dwindling number of World War II veterans joined a new generation of leaders on Thursday to honor the dead, the living and the fight for democracy on the shores where…

by: JAMES JORDAN and HARRIET MORRIS, Associated Press Posted: Jun 5, 2024 / 10:45 AM PDT Updated: Jun 5, 2024 / 10:46 AM PDT ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that nothing will change in terms of Russia-U.S. relations regardless of who wins the American presidential…

A criminal gang made up mostly of former Wagner mercenaries has been busted in Russia’s Oryol region for extorting local residents.The regional branch of the Federal Security Service said Tuesday that four members of the gang obtained three apartments, five vehicles, and millions of rubles in cash by extorting residents “at gunpoint.” According…

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the Philippine president on Monday in a rare Asian trip to urge regional leaders to attend a Swiss-organized global peace summit on the war in Ukraine that he accuses Russia, with China’s help, of trying to undermine.Zelenskyy…