The Roger Stone tapes  —  Previously unseen documentary footage shows the longtime Trump adviser working to overturn the 2020 election and, after the Jan. 6 riot, secure pardons for the former president's supporters  —  As a mob ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Roger Stone …

Global outcry after Russia seizes nuclear plant  —  Updates from BBC correspondents in Ukraine and the region: Orla Guerin, Lyse Doucet and James Waterhouse in Kyiv, Sarah Rainsford in Dnipro, Fergal Keane and Joel Gunter in Lviv, and teams on Ukraine's western border  —  Summary

Supreme Court reinstates death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev  —  The Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted in the 2013 attack that killed three people and left hundreds injured.

Biden gets a bounce after the State of the Union, NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll shows  —  After what's been a bleak several months politically for President Biden, a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey finds he is seeing a significant boost in his approval ratings across the board following …

Eastman urges delay in Jan. 6 committee's push for his emails  —  Attorney John Eastman, the architect of Donald Trump's legal strategy to overturn the 2020 election, urged a federal judge Friday to slow down the Jan. 6 select committee's push to obtain documents they say could show …

Volodymyr Zelensky survives three assassination attempts in days … President Zelensky has survived at least three assassination attempts in the past week, The Times has learnt.  —  Two different outfits have been sent to kill the Ukrainian president — mercenaries of the Kremlin-backed Wagner group and Chechen special forces.

'My city is being shelled, but my mum in Russia won't believe me'  —  Oleksandra and her four rescue dogs have been sheltering in the bathroom of her flat in Kharkiv since the shelling began.  —  “When I heard the first explosions, I ran out of the house to get my dogs from their enclosures outside.

US officials say Biden administration is sharing intelligence with Ukraine at a ‘frenetic’ pace after Republicans criticize efforts  —  The US has multiple channels open and is sharing intelligence with Ukraine at a “frenetic” pace, US officials said Thursday, disputing criticism …

Lindsey Graham calls for Putin's assassination  —  South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham sent a stunning message to the people of Russia, calling for someone in the country to rise up and assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin to put an end to Moscow's war against Ukraine.  —  “Is there a Brutus in Russia?

When the public thinks up is down, it's time to rethink coverage  —  Imagine you're the editor of a major national news organization and you learn that the general public is terribly misinformed about an important issue that your reporters cover intensely — say you see poll results showing …

Why I'm Defying Beltway Cowardice  —  Republicans don't deserve to govern unless we're willing to take on the real problems America faces.  —  I have committed heresy in Washington.  I've been in the Senate for only three years, and I have released an 11-point plan with 128 ideas …

Convoy picks up cars and anti-Ukraine talking points ahead of Washington arrival  —  The American offshoot of the “Freedom Convoy” that brought chaos to Canada's capital is promising to stop traffic outside of Washington, D.C., on Saturday, but exact plans remained vague Friday as the group hit its last pit stop in Maryland.

Former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton on U.S.-Russian relations (Full Stream 3/4)  —  Russia has invaded Ukraine, and the West is exploring military and economic options to punish that aggression.  On Friday, March 4 at 11:00 a.m. ET, former na...

Interview with President Biden  —  Every day, people write to me and say they feel helpless to change the direction of our future.  —  I always answer that we change the future by changing the way people think, and that we change the way people think by changing the way we talk about things.

Wall Street Is Pouncing on Russia's Cheap Corporate Debt  —  As the U.S. and allies tighten sanctions on Russia and choke off investor demand for its assets, parts of Wall Street are jumping on the buying opportunity that it's creating.  —  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co …

Sanctions Compliance Tools for Crypto Market Operators  —  By: Brett Harrison (President, FTX US) & Sam Bankman-Fried (CEO, FTX and FTX US)  —  As FTX has stressed across all of its regulatory and policy efforts, active coordination and communication with regulators and policymakers is crucial …

Top shale oil boss warns US can't replace any Russia shortfall  —  Pioneer's Scott Sheffield warns crude could hit $200 in event of western energy embargo  —  The head of the US's biggest shale oil operator said the country would be unable to replace crude supplies from Russia this year …

Trump's McConnell obsession leads him toward Eric Greitens  —  Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens is rising in former President Donald Trump's eyes — and an episode at last week's Conservative Political Action Conference shows why.  —  The controversial former governor ran into a Trump ally …

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Russia's second biggest oil company calls for an end to Putin's war  —  London CNN Business —  Russia's second largest oil company has broken ranks with President Vladimir Putin.  —  Lukoil, which produces more than 2% of the world's crude oil and employs over 100,000 people, has called for an end to Russia's war in Ukraine.

Russia's callousness towards its own soldiers is undermining its combat power  —  In past conflicts Russia could hide small scale casualties, but not any more  —  hen senior British officers visited Moscow in the days before Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the chief of the Russian general staff …

Barbershop Confrontations, Profane Signs and Despair: Pro-Biden and Alone in Rural America  —  DUBOIS, Pa. — In the pandemic's darkest days, a man living across the street from a Methodist church in this small town raised a flag in front of his house emblazoned with the words “Fuck Biden.”