Putin, Holding a Weak Hand, Raises the Stakes

In a Kremlin speech last week, President Vladimir Putin identified Russia’s real “enemy” in Ukraine as “the ruling circles of the so-called West” whose “hegemony has a pronounced character of totalitarianism, despotism and apartheid.”

Biden Releases Thousands of Criminals Amid National Crime Wave

President Joe Biden announced that he will pardoning thousands of people who had prior federal convictions for possessing marijuana. Biden released a statement today on the controversial move. He said that law forbidding the use of marijuana “has upended too many lives and incarcerated people for conduct that many states no longer prohibit.” He went on to say that “Criminal records for marijuana possession have also imposed needless barriers to employment, housing, and educational opportunities. And while white and Black and brown people use marijuana at similar rates, Black and brown people have been arrested, prosecuted, and convicted at disproportionate

GOP sends notice to FBI official who shut down Hunter Biden probe: Turn over your documents and prepare to testify

With the GOP poised to take control of Congress next year, House Judiciary Committee Republicans have formally notified a controversial FBI figure he must turn over key documents and prepare for sworn testimony over claims he interfered in the 2020 election by blocking an investigation of alleged criminal activity by Joe Biden’s son Hunter. In a letter to former FBI agent

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