Pence hits Trump: No room in GOP ‘for apologists for Putin’  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Mike Pence will urge Republicans to move on from the 2020 election and will declare that “there is no room in this party for apologists for Putin” as he further cements his break from former President Donald Trump.

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 …

Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week  —  On Monday, near Kyiv, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and his team were attacked.  Camera operator Richie Mockler took two rounds to his body armour, Stuart was wounded.  Their experience illustrates the scale …

An Anti-Vax Judge Is Preventing the Navy From Deploying a Warship  —  Admirals are desperate to remove an insubordinate anti-vaxxer from command of a guided-missile destroyer.  A judge won't let them.  —  At this moment, the United States Navy is preparing to deploy a 10,000-ton warship …

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 …

What it's like at the border, delivering Javelins and Stingers to Ukraine  —  NEAR THE UKRAINE BORDER — Javelin antitank missiles, the American-made weapons that can destroy Russian tanks, are stacked in steel racks awaiting quick shipment into Ukraine.  A giant C-17 transport is parked on a nearby runway.

Bloomberg to Temporarily Halt Work of Its Journalists in Russia  —  Bloomberg News will temporarily suspend the work of its journalists inside Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed legislation that criminalizes independent reporting in the country.  —  “We have with great regret decided …

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.

Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve  —  Floundering in his attempts to wield political power while lacking a political office, Donald Trump looks increasingly like a stray orange hair to be flicked off the nation's sleeve.

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

Pulitzer winner Walter Mears, AP's ‘Boy on the Bus,’ dies  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Walter R. Mears, who for 45 years fluidly and speedily wrote the news about presidential campaigns and elections for The Associated Press and won a Pulitzer Prize doing it, has died.  He was 87.

White House Weighs Ban on Russian Oil Imports as Congress Fumes  —  The Biden administration is weighing a ban on U.S. imports of Russian crude oil as Congress races toward passing such a restriction to punish the Kremlin for its invasion of Ukraine.  —  Conversations are taking place within …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Enraged Sleuth Outs D.C. Public Transit Worker as Alleged Capitol Rioter  —  THERE GOES ANOTHER  —  An employee of Washington, D.C.'s public transit system has been arrested and charged with four misdemeanors for allegedly participating in last year's Capitol riot.

Ukraine's Special Forces Hold Off Russian Offensive on Kyiv's Front Lines  —  Weapons from the West make a big difference—as do the Russians' poor tactics, Ukrainian officers say  —  IRPIN, Ukraine—Every day for the past week, Russian forces have tried to fight their way through this suburb of Kyiv to reach the Ukrainian capital.

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.

Russia not cooperating on proposed humanitarian corridor in Kherson, Ukrainian officials say  —  MUKACHEVO, Ukraine — Local officials in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson said Friday that Russia is not living up to its side of the bargain on proposed “humanitarian corridors,” …

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...

Jewish New Yorkers Unite to Raise Millions for Ukraine  —  New York City is home to some 300,000 Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union.  —  Rabbi Labish Becker, the executive director of Agudath Israel of America, an umbrella organization of ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups …

'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.

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.