Articles filed under Politics
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Bluffing or not, Putin's declared deployment of nuclear weapons to Belarus raises tensionsJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - Sometime this summer, if President Vladimir Putin can be believed, Russia moved some of its short-range nuclear weapons into Belarus, closer to Ukraine and onto NATO's d...
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Supreme Court allows construction to resume on the Mountain Valley PipelineJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed construction to resume on a contested natural-gas pipeline that is being built through Virginia and West Virginia. Wor...
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Biden announces an advanced cancer research initiative as part of his 'moonshot' effortJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden's administration on Thursday announced the first cancer-focused initiative under its advanced health research agency, aiming to help doc...
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Putin claims fighting in southeastern Ukraine has intensified, with Kyiv suffering heavy lossesJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - KYIV, Ukraine - Fierce fighting raged Thursday in southeastern Ukraine, where a Western official said Kyiv has launched a major push and Russian President Vladimir Putin...
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Cyprus, Turkey and the importance of teaching real historyJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - I have a good friend in Cyprus named Daniel who was 15 in 1974 when Turkish forces split the island. Daniel lived in a village in the north of the island and when the Tu...
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How the coup in Niger could expand the reach of Islamic extremism, and Wagner, in West AfricaJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - More than 1,000 U.S. service personnel are in Niger, which until Wednesday's coup by mutinous soldiers had avoided the military takeovers that destabilized West African ...
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Understanding diverse ways we share opinionsJul 27, 2023 1:00 am - We throw a lot of different voices at you on the Opinion page from day to day. Sorting among them can be confusing, so let's take a moment today to make sure things are ...
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Pakistan's Supreme Court rejects Imran Khan's request to halt his concealing assets trialJul 26, 2023 1:00 am - ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a petition from former Prime Minister Imran Khan about halting his trial in a lingering case involving the con...
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Celebrate ADA Month in Cook County with empowerment and inclusionJul 26, 2023 1:00 am - As a former history teacher, lessons from history inevitably inform my administration's public policy. Those lessons are on full display today and all month long, as we ...
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Ukrainian surgeons treat waves of soldiers since the counteroffensive beganJul 26, 2023 1:00 am - DNIPRO, Ukraine (AP) - The horrors of war arrive through the night at a hospital in eastern Ukraine, a procession of stretchers bearing limp bodies whisked from the fron...