WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States has announced new sanctions targeting Russia in retaliation for “war crimes” in Ukraine. The U.S. blocked two key Russian banks and also sanctioned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters. The United Kingdom piled on asset freezes Wednesday against two major Russian banks, a ban on British investment in…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden called for a war crimes trial against Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he’d seek more sanctions after reported atrocities in Ukraine. Biden said Monday that Putin “is a war criminal.” His comments to reporters came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, one of the towns surrounding Kyiv…
America’s employers extended a streak of robust hiring in March, adding 431,000 jobs in a sign of the economy’s resilience in the face of a still-destructive pandemic, Russia’s war against Ukraine and the highest inflation in 40 years. The government’s report showed that last month’s job growth helped shrink the unemployment rate to 3.6%. That’s…
MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — The U.N. refugee agency says more than 4 million refugees have fled Ukraine since Russian troops invaded the country. The number reported on Wednesday exceeds the worst-case predictions made at the start of the war. The refugee agency announced the milestone in Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II as…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says he is “not walking anything back” after his weekend comment that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” although Biden insists he’s not calling for regime change in Moscow. “I was expressing the moral outrage that I felt toward this man,” he said Monday. “I wasn’t articulating…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill that forbids instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through third grade. The Republican governor signed the measure into law on Monday following a news conference at a charter school. DeSantis and others speaking in favor of the bill stood at…
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has asserted it is “more likely than not” that former President Donald Trump committed crimes in his attempt to stop the certification of the 2020 election. The ruling ordered the release of more than 100 emails from Trump adviser John Eastman to the House committee investigating the insurrection at…
RZESZOW, Poland (AP) — President Joe Biden is following a day of diplomacy with a visit to Poland to discuss aid for refugees and to meet with U.S. troops stationed near the border with Ukraine. His first stop was mingling with the troops — and helping himself to a slice of their pizza. The White…
RADAUTI, Romania (AP) — A lion and a wolf have been evacuated from a zoo in war-torn Ukraine and brought to safety in Romania in what an animal rights group involved in the operation says was a four-day mission “full of dangers” further hampered by border entry bureaucracy. The adult male lion named Simba and…
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have decided against reopening schools to girls above the sixth grade, reneging on a promise and opting to appease their hard-line base, at the expense of further alienating the international community. The surprise decision is bound to disrupt Taliban efforts to win recognition from potential donors abroad at…