Ukrainians complete training on Abrams tanks as Kyiv makes battlefield gains

A group of Ukrainian soldiers have completed a training program on U.S. M1 Abrams tanks, a lethal new weapon officials hope can help Kyiv break through Russia’s entrenched defenses. Around 200 Ukrainians have practiced on trainer tanks at U.S. Army training areas in Germany, said spokesperson Col. Martin O’Donnell. The soldiers recently completed one of the last phases of...

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Read the financial disclosures from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito

Financial disclosure forms for Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were released Thursday as the two justices face scrutiny over ethics and disclosure issues. Thomas' report discloses for the first time trips he took that were funded by billionaire Harlan Crow. The reports officially cover 2022, though Thomas' report offers new details about his finances...

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McConnell quickly convenes with allies after second public freeze

Mitch McConnell’s latest health scare guarantees Republican senators will return from recess next week just as they left — publicly and privately discussing the future of their 81-year-old leader. The Senate GOP leader paused for roughly 30 seconds during a press availability in Kentucky, a little more than a month after a similar episode in the Capitol in late July. His...

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Newsom embraces dirty energy in bid to stave off blackouts

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom campaigned on shutting down Aliso Canyon, a gas storage facility that was the site of the largest methane leak in U.S. history. Now, five years later, his administration is poised to inject even more gas into the sandstone chamber 8,500 feet beneath north Los Angeles in a bid to stave off energy price spikes and power shortages. He's...

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Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth by billions of dollars, New York AG says

NEW YORK — Donald Trump fraudulently inflated his net worth by as much as $2.2 billion per year, New York officials said in court filings unsealed Wednesday ahead of his upcoming civil fraud trial. The new estimates came in filings from the New York state attorney general’s office, which is suing Trump, some of his adult children and his business empire for falsifying his...

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Super PAC mounts major effort to carry Burgum back to the debate stage

A super PAC backing GOP presidential candidate Doug Burgum is launching a huge national ad campaign in an effort to vault the North Dakota governor into the second debate next month. Best of America PAC on Wednesday reserved over $4 million in advertising set to run nationally on Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, the History Channel, Newsmax, TBS, TNT on the Fox broadcast...

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Ryan Reynolds has transformed Wrexham. Who will save Britain’s other struggling towns?

Can the Hollywood takeover of a Welsh football club really be a model for regeneration? from Politics, Policy, Political News Top Stories https://ift.tt/aoePONF via IFT...

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