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President Biden on Friday afternoon scrapped plans to stay at the White House and prepared to depart for his home in Delaware for the weekend. He changed his plans as chaos reigned in Ukraine with Russian troops battling to take control of the country’s capital, Kyiv. The White House released a daily schedule confirming that…Continue Reading

Ukraine’s military has been putting up a stiffer defense against the massive Russian invasion than even the most hardline backer of Russian President Vladimir Putin might have anticipated.  The country’s air and missile defense systems are still operating — although in a degraded state — and Ukraine’s ground troops are continuing to fight the advancing…Continue Reading

Russia slapped limits on its citizens’ access to Facebook after the social media giant refused to stop fact-checking the country’s state-run media, according to Facebook. Facebook, which has reorganized as Meta, said Friday that it is refusing a Russian demand to remove fact-checking and labeling of content posted by state-run media organizations. In response, Moscow…Continue Reading

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson credited God and her faith on Friday as President Biden nominated her to the Supreme Court, where she would become the first Black woman to serve on the high court in its 233-year history. “I must begin these very brief remarks by thanking God for delivering me to this point in…Continue Reading

LVIV, Ukraine — The United States plans to sanction Russian President Vladimir Putin, White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed Friday, as Russian forces pressed closer to the Ukrainian capital Friday.The announcement came after E.U. foreign ministers agreed to freeze the assets of Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov amid continued rocket attacks in Kyiv,…Continue Reading

PARIS — As U.S. and European leaders pondered how far to go in sanctioning Russia for its attack on Ukraine, their attention shifted to the most divisive — and potentially most severe — weapon at their disposal on Friday. French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire called it a “financial nuclear weapon.”He was talking about SWIFT…Continue Reading

MOSCOW — Protesters took to the streets in Moscow, St. Petersburg and across Russia on Friday to decry the invasion of Ukraine, even as authorities sought to suppress the spreading antiwar sentiment and project an image of strength and righteousness.The largest demonstration erupted in St. Petersburg, where several hundred people spontaneously gathered in the city…Continue Reading

SHEHYNI, Ukraine — At the jammed-up border crossing to Poland, where people lined up for more than a day to make their way out of Ukraine to the safety of the European Union on Friday, some rushed in the opposite direction.“It’s my home, it’s my land,” said Viktor, 22, who had boarded a plane from…Continue Reading