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Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio. AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan is a top contender in the race for House speaker after Kevin McCarthy's ouster this week. Jordan has repeatedly voted against measures authorizing continued US aid to Ukraine in the war against Russia. His ascension to the speakership could also hinge on making a…

More than 50 progressive activists marched across Capitol Hill on Wednesday to protest the war in Ukraine and call on lawmakers to push the Biden administration to negotiate an end to the war. At least 11 of the protesters were arrested outside the office of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) after congressional aides demanded they end a sit-in…

Comment on this storyCommentHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy couldn’t allow sanity to prevail in Congress for too long, so just after the House voted late Saturday to temporarily keep the government open, he leveled a new threat. The California Republican now says that if Democrats want a new package of aid to Ukraine — which was not included in…

“It’s a survival issue,” said Pavel Verkhniatskyi, managing partner at COSA Intelligence Solutions in Kyiv, since there is only so long Ukraine can expect to rely on donations from partners whose support can be switched off with a single election. Kicking off the event, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the audience that…

Sam Bankman-Fried did not consent to a request by prosecutors filed in federal court to allow a Ukraine-based witness to testify via video conference.Prosecutors claimed the FTX customer cannot testify in person due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.The criminal trial of the former FTX CEO is set to begin on Tuesday and last through November.Former…

Comment on this storyCommentThe House of Representatives approved a government spending deal Saturday on a bipartisan basis that left out aid to Ukraine, rejecting warnings from Pentagon officials who made a last-minute push for the assistance.In conversations throughout the day, the Defense Department officials stressed to House and Senate…

Ukrainian pilots have arrived at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland to start English-language training.They’re here as part of a Biden administration initiative to provide F-16 fighters to Ukraine to support the country in its war with Russia. A group of Ukrainian pilots and mechanics will take classes at the Defense Language Institute at Lackland…

Ukrainian T64 tanks move towards Bakhmut direction, in Donetsk Oblast region, on March 20, 2023. ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images Russia has deployed a new military formation of about 15,000 soldiers to fight around Bakhmut. Ukraine's spy chief, Kyrylo Budanov, said the 25th Army was deployed earlier than planned. Budanov said…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine on Saturday morning launched another missile attack on Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean Peninsula, a Russian-installed official said, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet that left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering.Sevastopol was put under an air raid alert for…

Along the southern reaches of the Dnipro River, Ukrainian forces are staging amphibious assaults on Russian positions across the river from around the city of Kherson, forcing Russia to deploy already-stretched units to prevent Ukraine from gaining a foothold on the eastern bank.Nearly 1,000 miles to the north, it’s the Russians who are on the…