Western leaders looking for signs that the Chinese leader used his influence on President Vladimir V. Putin to end the war in Ukraine are likely to be disappointed.
The stunning incursion into the Kharkiv Region lays bare the challenges facing Ukraine’s weary and thinly stretched forces as Russia ramps up its summer offensive.
“You’d be shocked by how many books have women chained in basements,” Reese Witherspoon said. “I know it happens in the world. I don’t want to read a book about it.”Nor does she want to read an academic treatise, or a 700-page novel about...
People who know the suspect described a “weird and angry” loner who wrote erotic poetry, and whose resentments ranged across the political spectrum.He wrote dark, erotic verse and poems featuring torture and pain. He also self-published a book that railed against Roma people and...
Political violence and polarization stalk Europe today, with ominous echoes of the past.Dmitri A. Medvedev, the former Russian president and regular forecaster of a third World War, had no hesitation in comparing the would-be assassin of Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia to the...
In an after-hours session on Capitol Hill, insults by the right-wing Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene led to a raucous exchange with Democrats, featuring insults about personal appearance, intellect and more.VideoEven by the rock-bottom standards of the 118th Congress, Thursday night’s three-hour voting session of...
A recent congressional meeting devolved into a back-and-forth that reflects a changing norm in politics — one that rarely makes anybody look good.Debates can get, well, ugly in Congress, but rarely do they descend to the level of physical taunts. Yet that is exactly...
Far from the shouting, Christian therapists, writers, parents and their trans children are trying to create a space within conservative circles to acknowledge differences in how people experience gender.Andrew and Debbie James are evangelical Christians. Born in England, the couple moved to Denver years...
