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ODESA — When the team realized a drone was shadowing them, they immediately understood the danger they faced. They hoped the markings on their vehicles were visible, and that the drone operators could see the team was a group of aid workers, not combatants. Those hopes evaporated when the drone …

ODESA, Ukraine — The American Century is ending, with external adversaries outmaneuvering the United States in critical strategic contests worldwide, while internal extremists destroy American leadership. Whether one believes —as American officials say they do —that the purpose of U.S. power is to enforce a “rules-based” liberal international order and …

Russia’s army of online trolls seemed powerful after claims they may have helped Donald Trump win the presidency in 2016. But nearly eight years later, that troll army is struggling in the trenches of Russia’s war on Ukraine as it tries — and fails— to trick the world into buying …

The Senate passed a $95.3 billion aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan in a bipartisan vote early Tuesday morning — but like pretty much everything these days, it seems destined to end up in the House GOP’s legislative graveyard. In a 70-22 vote, a rare supermajority in the upper …

DNIPRO, Ukraine — The building rocks as air defenses engage incoming missiles, and one regrets being caught out on the 17th floor of a 20-floor high-rise, despite the view and modern construction. In Dnipro, an industrial city along the banks of the Dnieper River in central Ukraine where I had …

New House Speaker Mike Johnson is eager to send military aid to Israel but is not willing to prioritize aid to Ukraine as it continues to suffer under attack from Vladimir Putin’s army. “We are going to move a stand-alone Israeli funding bill,” said Johnson during an appearance on Fox …

During President Joe Biden‘s Oval Office address on Thursday, he drew attention to Wadea Al-Fayoume, the six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was stabbed to death in an alleged hate crime. “His name was Wadea,” said Biden during his address to the nation. “A proud American, a proud Palestinian American family. We …

Sean Penn knows what you think of him. Several minutes into the two-time Oscar winner’s new film, Superpower, ostensibly a documentary about the battle-hardened president of Ukraine, Penn’s gravelly voice answers a question posed in interviews past: Who do you think you are, Walter Cronkite? You have a savior complex? …

Walter Isaacson, author of the new Elon Musk biography, has walked back his explosive claim that Musk ordered Starlink engineers to cut off internet connectivity to thwart a Ukrainian attack on Russia’s naval fleet last year. The claim — which first emerged last week ahead of the biography’s publication — …

Secretary of State Antony Blinken evaded pointed questions from CNN’s Jake Tapper about news that billionaire Elon Musk interfered with a planned Ukrainian attack against Russia’s invading navy. Days ago, Elon Musk admitted he interfered with Ukraine‘s military communications in 2022 by ensuring Starlink — the satellite communications network he …