This is not your father’s Cold War. In the Eisenhower-Khrushchev era, the West, Russia and China lived in separate economic spaces. Nuclear weapons posed limited danger, because neither the United States nor Russia could strike the other without risking annihilation. …
I am seeing opinion pieces on how heavy sanctions against Russia represent the first economic war in history. It isn’t. It may be another “world war” that is beginning with the imposition of economic sanctions. It is simply too soon …
The Russian military sustained a major blow Thursday when the flagship of the country’s Black Sea fleet was badly damaged and its crew evacuated. Ukrainian officials said their forces hit the vessel with missiles, while Russia acknowledged a fire aboard …
Oil futures rose Wednesday, extending a gain seen the previous session after Russian President Vladimir Putin said negotiations with Ukraine had hit a dead end. Price action West Texas Intermediate crude for May delivery CL00, +1.15% CL.1, +1.15% CLK22, +1.15% …
President Joe Biden was in corn state Iowa Tuesday to announce he’ll suspend a federal rule preventing the sale of higher ethanol blend gasoline this summer as one way to possibly bring down prices at the pump. Such action will …
President Joe Biden on Monday defended his administration’s new rule aimed at ghost guns, pushing back against gun-rights advocates who have labeled it as “extreme.” Such guns lack serial numbers, can be made at home from kits and are increasingly …
As we consider how the war in Ukraine will end, we must first understand how it began. Russia invaded for geostrategic reasons — having Ukraine as a buffer state safeguards Moscow from invasion from the west — and for economic …
When the Internal Revenue Service announced a hiring spree to clear a tax return backlog and get millions of taxpayers their long-awaited refund, tax officials knew they would be up against stiff competition from many other employers trying to staff …
The European Union has proposed sanctioning two daughters of President Vladimir Putin, according to diplomats familiar with the plan, a move that would add the Russian leader’s closest family members to a growing list of individuals sanctioned in response to …
That was Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, who gave an impassioned, pre-taped speech at the Grammy Awards on Sunday that asked the world to help his country as it remains under attack by Russian leader Vladimir Putin. He shot the video within …
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said “indeed, this is genocide,” referring to Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s vicious attack on his country that has seen hospitals and schools targeted by rockets, as well as disturbing new images of the bodies of executed …
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is divided over whether to impose sanctions on Kaspersky Lab, a Russian cybersecurity giant that officials warn could be used by the Kremlin as a surveillance tool against its customers, according to people familiar with …
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