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Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * In a bit of a surprise, Republican Rep. Jake LaTurner announced that he won’t seek re-election in the fall. The 36-year-old Kansan has only served two terms, and he was unlikely to have any trouble winning a third. * Donald Trump’s political operation reportedly […]

(Bloomberg) — Lithuania said two Polish citizens had been detained over an attack on an ally of the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny in the Baltic nation’s capital last month. Most Read from Bloomberg Leonid Volkov was assaulted with a hammer near his home in Vilnius in what the authorities consider to be a […]

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday painted a grim picture of a continent teetering on the edge of armed conflict in a speech opening his party’s campaign for European Union elections. He called for a changing of the guard among the bloc’s leaders. As Orbán addressed members of his Fidesz […]

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) complained on Fox News Thursday that American infrastructure is in disrepair. But as viewers pointed out, he was one of the Republican senators who voted against a massive bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed in 2021. “It just strikes me that more and more, nothing really works in America anymore,” Hawley told […]

After more than two years of intense fighting in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday reasserted Moscow’s claimed right to rule over its neighbour. At most, the future of western Ukraine is unclear, Lavrov told several Russian broadcasters in an interview in Moscow. Otherwise, there will only be a Ukraine “that is truly […]

It’s been difficult to keep up with the number of Republican efforts in recent years to roll back child labor laws. The Guardian reported in the fall that GOP policymakers at the state level “have led efforts to roll back child labor protections, with bills introduced in at least 16 states.” To be sure, not […]

By Nailia Bagirova BAKU (Reuters) -Armenia has agreed to return several villages to Azerbaijan in what both sides said on Friday was an important milestone as they edge towards a peace deal after fighting two wars since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Aykhan Hajizada posted on X that Armenia would […]

NATO allies are to give more air-defence systems to Ukraine, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced on Friday, after a crisis meeting via videolink with defence ministers and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. NATO has “mapped out existing capabilities” from alliance countries that can be given to Ukraine, Stoltenberg said in a press conference after the meeting. […]

There was a “monster” in the bathroom. A UK couple realized every child’s worst nightmare after discovering a gothic gargoyle behind the toilet of their 700-year-old home. “I couldn’t believe it. I shouted up to my wife and said ‘I’ve found a thing,” cybersecurity worker Rory Vorster, 41, told South West News Service while recounting […]

German customs authorities have granted the cargo ship Atlantic Navigator II permission to depart from the German Baltic Sea port of Rostock, after earlier detaining the ship under EU sanctions against Russia. A spokeswoman for the German customs office in Stralsund confirmed the decision to dpa on Friday. The cargo ship, which was heading from […]