Trump muses on war with Russia and praises Kim Jong Un … NEW ORLEANS — Former president Donald Trump mused Saturday to the GOP's top donors that the United States should label its F-22 planes with the Chinese flag and “bomb the s — t out of Russia.”  —  He also praised North Korean …

Putin's full-scale information war got a key assist from Donald Trump and right-wing media … The former presidential adviser and Russia expert Fiona Hill made headlines last week when she stated bluntly in a Politico interview that Vladimir Putin would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons.

Russia's War on Ukraine Must Fail  —  Mr. Johnson is the prime minister of the United Kingdom.  —  LONDON — Over the past week, in response to the gut-wrenching scenes in Ukraine, Western unity has been impressive and heartening.  I know from my near-daily conversations with President Volodymyr Zelensky …

Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside?  —  In September, 2020, Donald Trump's then chief of staff claimed to live in a mobile home in North Carolina.  —  Mark Meadows, who grew up in Florida, moved to North Carolina in the nineteen-eighties and opened Aunt D's, a sandwich shop in Highlands.

Trump has been on Putin's side in Ukraine's long struggle against Russian aggression  —  (CNN)Americans rarely pay much attention to international events.  Busy lives leave little time for distant events with unfamiliar protagonists.  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine …

WTF: Trump rages to friends about his social network's problems, says report  —  The disgraced former President Trump's Wall Street-fueled Twitter knockoff is two weeks old, and the rollout is going so badly reports say he's cursing the venture to his friends.

Dire Conditions in Besieged City as Food and Water Run Low  —  Vladimir Putin said any nation that imposes a no-fly zone would be considered an enemy combatant.  Russian forces are running into problems in their key objective to take Kyiv, but are making significant inroads in southern Ukraine.

Russian Artillery Kills Ukrainian Civilians Fleeing Kyiv Suburb  —  In Irpin, Russian shells kill a family as thousands try to escape fighting north of the capital  —  IRPIN, Ukraine—A line of yellow school buses pulled up on a forested roadside in this once-prosperous suburb of Kyiv on Sunday, ready to evacuate Ukrainian civilians.

Visa Suspends All Russia Operations  —  Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) today announced it is suspending its Russia operations.  —  Effective immediately, Visa will work with its clients and partners within Russia to cease all Visa transactions over the coming days.  Once complete, all transactions initiated …

U.S. Officials Travel to Venezuela, a Russia Ally, as the West Isolates Putin  —  The trip is the highest-level visit by American officials to Caracas in years, driven by a desire to separate Russia from its remaining Latin American allies.  —  Senior U.S. officials are traveling to Venezuela …

'People's Convoy' plans to slowly loop around the Beltway on Sunday  —  Organizers of the “People's Convoy” say they are planning to circle their armada of trucks, cars and SUVs around the Beltway on Sunday morning and into the workweek at the minimum speed limit to slow traffic and get their message to lawmakers.

Scattered corpses.  A rain of rockets.  A week inside Russia's war against Ukraine  —  The shell that reamed the Russian soldiers' vehicle scattered them in all directions.  One was face down on the asphalt, arms outstretched.  Another was a mass of white and red in barely-there fatigues.

US works with Poland to provide Ukraine with fighter jets  —  Kyiv ratchets up pressure on west to bolster its air force so it can repel Russian air strikes  —  The US is working with Warsaw on a deal to provide Ukraine with Polish fighter jets as Kyiv ratchets up the pressure on the west …

Mike Lindell Claims He Will Sue ‘All Voting Machines’ to Prove Big Lie  —  HERE WE GO AGAIN  —  MyPillow CEO and Big Lie booster Mike Lindell found himself on yet another platform Saturday, this time in support of Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.

Indicted.  Under F.B.I. Investigation.  And Still Popular With Texas Republicans.  —  Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, earned the most votes in Tuesday's G.O.P. primary.  His embrace of Trumpism has helped him weather a series of allegations.  —  SAN ANTONIO — The race …

Harris to walk across Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday anniversary  —  (CNN)Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Selma, Alabama, on Sunday, where she will walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a key moment in the civil rights moment.

‘Reckless ignorance’: Senators criticised for sharing photos of Zelensky during call after being asked not to  —  Democratic Rep Dean Phillips slammed Republican Senators Steve Daines and Marco Rubio for their ‘appalling and reckless ignorance’  —  Zelensky attacks Nato in nighttime address: ‘People will die because of you’

Russia's Ukraine invasion could be a global economic ‘game changer’ … Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the financial reckoning imposed on Moscow in response are proof that the triumphant globalization campaign that began more than 30 years ago has reached a dead end.

Too Close to Putin?  Institutions Vet Artists, Uncomfortably.  —  Russia's invasion of Ukraine has led arts organizations to reconsider who performs, forcing them to confront questions about free speech and policing political views.  —  In Canada, an acclaimed 20-year-old Russian pianist's concert …

Ukraine official says assault halts evacuations for 2nd time  —  LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — A Ukrainian official says a second attempt to evacuate civilians from a southern city under siege for a week has failed due to continued Russian shelling.  —  Evacuations from the port city of Mariupol …

RFE/RL Suspends Operations In Russia Following Kremlin Attacks  —  WASHINGTON - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) has suspended its operations in Russia after local tax authorities initiated bankruptcy proceedings against RFE/RL's Russian entity on March 4 and police intensified pressure on its journalists.