Ukraine offensive ‘snowballs’ with fall of Russian stronghold  —  Ukrainian forces kept pushing north in the Kharkiv region and advancing to its south and east, Ukraine's army chief said on Sunday, a day after their rapid gains forced Russia to abandon its main bastion in the area.

In Hasidic Enclaves, Failing Private Schools Flush with Public Money  —  New York's Hasidic Jewish religious schools have benefited from $1 billion in government funding in the last four years but are unaccountable to outside oversight.  —  The Hasidic Jewish community has long operated …

Senators press for details about fake heiress at Mar-a-Lago  —  WASHINGTON — Raising concerns about security threats at Mar-a-Lago, members of one of the Senate's most influential committees say they will press national security leaders for more information about the woman who posed …

Biden quotes Queen in 9/11 remembrance: ‘Grief is the price we pay for love’  —  President Joe Biden quoted the late Queen Elizabeth II in a speech Sunday remembering the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.  —  “Grief is the price we pay for love,” Biden said, referring to a message sent …

No private jets, no helicopters, and a bus to Westminster Abbey: VIP guidance for queen's funeral revealed  —  LONDON — Foreign heads of state and their spouses heading to London for the state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II have been asked to arrive in the U.K. on commercial flights and banned from using helicopters to get around.

The Move to Eradicate Disagreement  —  Discovering a point of agreement with a colleague is always alarming.  The Atlantic wants more readers rather than fewer, after all, and agreement is poisonous for a subscription base, just as it is for intellectual culture.

Meet the Press - September 11, 2022  —  CHUCK TODD:  —  This Sunday: My interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.  The Vice President opens up on the threat posed by election deniers:  —  VICE PRES. KAMALA HARRIS:  —  I think that we have to admit that there are attacks from within.

White House alarm rises over Europe as Putin threatens energy supply  —  Biden aides have redoubled efforts to increase natural gas exports across the Atlantic but see few obvious solutions  —  White House officials are growing increasingly alarmed about Europe's energy crisis …

First class arrogance!  New Orleans' Democrat mayor says flying economy is UNSAFE for black women, as she refuses to repay $30,000 of taxpayer cash she splurged on luxury flights to Europe  — Mayor of New Orleans, LaToya Cantrell, is refusing to repay money spent on international business …

Exclusive: Biden to hit China with broader curbs on U.S. chip and tool exports  —  The Biden administration plans next month to broaden curbs on U.S shipments to China of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence and chipmaking tools, several people familiar with the matter said.

Border Patrol halts tweets from agency's West Texas region  —  U.S. Customs and Border Protection has deactivated the agency's Twitter account for the West Texas region after it retweeted posts criticizing President Joe Biden's border policies and liked posts that made gay slurs against U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

All Biden Has to Do Now Is Change the Way We Live  —  When the summer began, the Biden administration was mired in failure.  Inflation was high, the Build Back Better agenda was dead, the Democrats were doomed.  Then came the fastest turnabout I've seen in American politics.