U.S. Treasury nominee Scott Bessent is facing sharp questions from Democrats on tax policy, tariffs, China, Russia sanctions ...

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice for Treasury secretary appeared on track for Senate confirmation after a wide-ranging ...

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) ripped the media coverage of the attack on New Year’s Eve revelers in New Orleans early Wednesday morning, arguing the alleged crime should be treated as an act of war.

And why didn’t it cut off Russia’s natural gas earlier? By Marc Santora Andrew Higgins and Stanley Reed Marc Santora reported from Kyiv, Ukraine; Andrew Higgins from Warsaw; and Stanley Reed ...

Here are the key developments on the 1,041st day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine swapped more than 300 prisoners of war in an exchange brokered by the United Arab Emirates ...

When Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, resigned on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he publicly implored Vladimir Putin, his handpicked but little-known successor ...

Pokrovsk is of a different category. Its capture would signify the most important military achievement for Russia since the start of the trench warfare in eastern Ukraine. If Russian troops manage to ...