The consequences of war, seen from the sky.
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Monday, 8 May 2023
Trump rejects last chance to testify at New York civil trial

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump rejected his last chance Sunday to testify at a civil trial where a longtime advice columnist has accused him of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996.
Trump, a Republican candidate for president in 2024, was given until 5 p.m. Sunday by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to file a request to testify. Nothing...
Biden's approval rating hits new low

President Joe Biden’s approval sank to a new low, an ABC News/Washington Post poll found, two weeks after the president announced his reelection campaign.
Biden’s approval rating dipped to 36 percent, down from February and just below his previous low in 2022. A significantly higher percentage of people — 56 percent — disapprove of the job the president has done so far, and...
Sunday, 7 May 2023
Senate Republicans will stand firm on debt ceiling, Mike Lee says
Sen. Mike Lee said Sunday that Senate Republicans are firmly behind the debt bill that the Kevin McCarthy-led House recently passed, giving McCarthy leverage in his Tuesday meeting with President Joe Biden.
Speaking on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures With Maria Bartiromo," the Utah Republican said: "As Kevin McCarthy, speaker of the House, meets with the White House, it's...
Chief justice must implement strong ethics code, Sen. Dick Durbin says

Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin on Sunday called on Chief Justice John Roberts to create a strong "code of conduct" for the Supreme Court.
"History is going to judge him by the decision he makes on this. He has the power to make the difference," the Illinois Democrat said on CNN's "State of the Union."
Durbin was speaking in response to the latest reporting by ProPublica...
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema says she has no interest in becoming a Republican

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is facing challenges from the right and from the left, should she run for reelection in 2024. But the threat has not yet pushed the Democrat-turned-independent into the arms of the GOP.
Sinema is “absolutely” done with parties and will never join the Republican Party, she said Sunday during a pre-taped interview on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”
“Now that you're...
Wagner chief to Moscow: Swap in Chechens in Bakhmut
Russian mercenary leader has threatened to pull out of battle for the besieged Ukrainian city.
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