Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Congress Wednesday morning, invoking the Sept. 11 attacks and Pearl Harbor as he called on the United States to “do more.” “Right now the destiny of our country is being decided,” he said through an interpreter. Advertisement Zelenskyy

Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., ripped President Biden for his foreign policy stance, warning "weakness invites the wolves" as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine and Ukraine pleads with the international community for more military aid. Sen. Kennedy joined

New York (CNN Business) The Federal Reserve will likely hike interest rates on Wednesday, marking the end of the ultra-low rate environment the pandemic ushered in two years ago. The market expects a quarter-percentage point to be added to the benchmark rate,

A recent audit from the New York state comptroller has revealed disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo failed to account for 4,100 nursing home deaths during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. “The audit found that Health Department officials at times underreported

Politicians and experts debate whether gas tax holidays are worthwhile As gas prices rise, politicians call for gas taxes to be suspended. Transportation experts say such moves won't provide much relief and would cut into needed spending on roads, bridges and

CHICAGO — Jussie Smollett’s attorneys say they’re planning to appeal nearly everything that went on in court over the last few months - from the actor’s December conviction of lying to police to the 150-day sentence a judge imposed last week. And they want

"It's a very tragic scene. Very very tragic," a law enforcement official said. The head coach and six members of the University of the Southwest men's and women's golf teams were among nine people killed in a head-on vehicle crash in Texas, authorities said. The

A 7.3-magnitude earthquake rocked Japan Wednesday evening off the coast of the Fukushima prefecture north of Tokyo, triggering a tsunami warning. There was no immediate information available on casualties or damage, though violent shaking was reported throughout

The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com. On April 14, 2021, President Joe Biden announced that, in keeping with an agreement former President Donald Trump had made with the Taliban, he would

Vladimir Putin’s history makes it hard to imagine a peace agreement in which an independent Ukraine continues to exist. Consider the obstacles: Putin views Ukraine as a natural part of greater Russia. To control it, he has at his disposal a military vastly

Former President Donald Trump virtually ruled out former Vice President Mike Pence as a running mate should he run in 2024. "I don't think the people would accept it," Trump told the Washington Examiner on Tuesday night. Trump loyalists who blame the 2020

A North Korean missile fired from its capital region exploded soon after liftoff in an apparent failed weapons launch on Wednesday, South Korea’s military said, amid speculation that the North is preparing to launch its longest-range missile in its most significant

ATLANTA — For the family members who lost wives, sisters and mothers in the Atlanta spa shootings, March 16, 2021, began and ended with "chaos, denial and deep grief." Their pain and loss hasn't faded a year later. Michael Webb, whose ex-wife Xiaojie Tan,

Disney employees, including those who are LGBTQIA+, are planning a massive walkout for March 22 to protest the entertainment giant’s response to Florida’s education bill that prohibits teaching of sexuality and transgender ideology to students in kindergarten

A Virginia police officer was shot and killed Monday at a gas station where he was responding to a "domestic situation" between two relatives, authorities said. Covington Police Officer Caleb Ogilvie, 35, was killed in a shootout with the suspect at the

More Americans supported Florida’s bill limiting classroom discussions of sexual orientation than opposed it, according to the results of a new poll, despite pollsters’ use of a misleading moniker for the legislation. The poll, conducted by Politico alongside

In a bipartisan vote Tuesday, March 15th, the Senate passed a resolution introduced by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) ending the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s mask mandate for public transportation, including air travel. The resolution now heads

Activist Monica Cannon-Grant waits to speak at a demonstration one day after the guilty verdicts against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the death of George Floyd, in Boston, Mass., April 21, 2021. (Brian Snyder/Reuters) A Black Lives Matter

(CNN) Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian charity worker who has been held in Iran for almost six years, has been released and is "on her way home," UK Member of Parliament Tulip Siddiq told CNN on Wednesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday announced grants and a resource guide for historically Black colleges and universities that were targeted with bomb threats, saying the Biden-Harris administration would “do everything in our power to protect all our

China reported 1,860 new local symptomatic COVID-19 cases on March. 15, posting over a thousand for a fourth consecutive day, with most new infections still concentrated in the northeast, official data showed on Wednesday. Cases fell by nearly half compared

(CNN) Ski resorts that look like deserts, skies colored brilliant hues of orange, and air quality five times worse than ideal conditions all have one thing in common: Saharan dust, which is expected to worsen over Western and Central Europe and even bring "blood

Ukraine has denied a report that signaled a peace agreement with Russia was getting closer to reality. Financial Times reported Wednesday that Ukraine and Russia made significant progress on a tentative 15-point peace deal, which included Ukraine President

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Mehmet Oz, warding off criticism from a key rival in Pennsylvania’s heated Republican primary race for U.S. Senate, said Wednesday that he will renounce his dual citizenship in Turkey if he is elected, as the expensive campaign took on a harder