Ukraine and Russia draw up neutrality plan to end war  —  Fifteen-point draft deal would involve Kyiv renouncing Nato membership ambitions in return for security guarantees  —  Ukraine and Russia have made significant progress on a tentative 15-point peace plan including a ceasefire …

Trump says Pence partnership over as ex-president eyes 2024 comeback bid  —  EXCLUSIVE — Former President Donald Trump is effectively ruling out tapping former Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate should he mount a third White House bid in 2024 and win the Republican nomination.

Vladimir Putin Has Fallen Into the Dictator Trap  —  In the span of a couple of weeks, Vladimir Putin—a man recently described by Donald Trump as a strategic “genius”—managed to revitalize NATO, unify a splintered West, turn Ukraine's little-known president into a global hero …

Tucker Carlson favorite Douglas Macgregor on “Stone Age” Indigenous people, South Asian immigrants, “rootless cosmopolitans,” and more  —  Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, a frequent Fox News guest, has denigrated South Asian immigrants as insufficiently patriotic, described Indigenous Americans displaced …

Romney stirs ugly treason talk  —  ROMNEY STIRS UGLY TREASON TALK.  It's one thing for the usual suspects in over-the-top commentary — the Keith Olbermanns, the cast of The View, the Lincoln Project, and others — to call their fellow Americans traitors.  They're not known for thoughtful, measured opinion.

Inside Jonathan Martin and Alex Burns' new Biden book  —  President Biden confessed in private that he didn't understand Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), who helped stymie his biggest legislative dreams, New York Times reporters Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns write in the first major book …

Four Russian Generals Killed in Three Weeks Show Moscow's Vulnerabilities in Ukraine  —  Russia's fighting style and troubled communications are leading to deaths of high-ranking officers on the front lines  —  Four Russian brigadier generals have died in three weeks on the battlefield in Ukraine …

Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall safely out of Ukraine after suffering serious injuries  —  Bill Hemmer told viewers, ‘Ben is alert and said to be in good spirits’  —  Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall, who was injured this week while covering the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine …

Russian Oligarch Roman Abramovich Invested At Least $1.3 Billion With US Financiers, Secret Records Show  —  European governments have frozen the Russian oligarch's assets, including mansions and a soccer team.  But how much he poured into the US has stayed secret.  —  Copy

The Fed is charting a course to stagflation and recession  —  When the long-awaited process of raising interest rates begins Wednesday, market observers will fixate on the precise words used in the Fed statement and during Chair Jerome H. Powell's news conference.

The Red State Murder Problem … Takeaways  — The rate of murders in the US has gone up at an alarming rate.  But, despite a media narrative to the contrary, this is a problem that afflicts Republican-run cities and states as much or more than the Democratic bastions.

GOP senator gives trucker protesters a Capitol tour  —  Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) gave truckers in the so-called “People's Convoy” a tour of the Capitol last week — even as the building remains mostly closed to the public.  —  A senior congressional aide alerted the Department of Justice …

George Conway: Claiming to Be ‘Completely Insane and Stupid’ May Be Trump's Best Defense  —  But “he's never going to bring himself to do that.” … Mona Charen: You see this among the Trump defenders.  They'll say, If he had a good-faith belief that the election was stolen …

Daniil Medvedev told he will be banned from Wimbledon unless he denounces Vladimir Putin  —  Russia and Belarus have already been thrown out of the Davis Cup and Fed Cup, but individual players have, thus far, been free to continue  —  Daniil Medvedev and other Russian and Belarusian tennis players face …

National Guard troops were dispatched to famous Texas ranches with private security as part of border mission  —  The dispatching of troops to the sprawling private ranches, far from the border, raises questions about the use of National Guard troops, who have widely decried the mission as aimless …

Putin's War on Ukraine Is About Ethnicity and Empire  —  Biden's framework of ‘democracies versus autocracies’ misses the darker source of this war, which has deep roots in Russian history and thought.  —  BRUSSELS — President Biden took office with the idea that this century's struggle …

War in Ukraine live updates: Zelenskyy makes an impassioned plea to Congress for more help  —  Ukraine's capital was hit with more Russian airstrikes overnight.  Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a direct appeal for more military aid as he addressed U.S. House and Senate members this morning.

Adams Revives NYC Anti-Crime Units Disbanded Under De Blasio  —  The New York City Police Department relaunched a controversial gun crime task force this week, vowing not to engage in the sweeping dragnets and abuse that plagued previous iterations of the teams.