After Russian forces occupied her town near Kyiv in the early days of the February 2022 invasion, 14-year-old Ukrainian student Tanya Bondarchuk remembers feeling shocked and in disbelief. Her parents woke her abruptly and said the war had started. "Later, I got up and really understood that the war had begun," she told The Hill. "While my parents collected documents, food and clothes that we need, I just sat and cried. I really didn't know what to do in the situation because I was a little girl and did not understand the political situation in our country." |
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President Biden will spend the next 11 months balancing the job of governing with his reelection bid, traveling the country as he seeks to convince voters he deserves a second term. The president has already signaled what key issues will be consistent parts of his pitch to voters, and he has in many ways already set his sights on former President Trump, the GOP primary front-runner, as his likely opponent next November. |
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Former President Trump, the front-runner in the 2024 GOP presidential primary, released a new television ad Sunday afternoon that is set to air in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina. In the one-minute ad spot, former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders described Trump's surprise Christmas visit in 2018 to Iraq. The ad emphasized Trump's experience as commander in chief, just weeks away from the Iowa caucuses. |
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Voters across the country will weigh in on several key issues, including abortion, state primaries and school board elections, through a slew of ballot measures next year. Abortion rights supporters are looking to enshrine abortion protections into state constitutions in Arizona, Florida and Missouri, among others. Voters in Idaho, Colorado and Montana could decide on ballot measures that would change the way their primaries are conducted. In Florida, efforts are underway to put forward a measure that would make school board elections partisan. |
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In one of the war's deadliest strikes, at least 68 people were killed by an Israeli strike in central Gaza on Christmas Eve, health officials said Sunday. Meanwhile, the number of Israeli soldiers killed in combat over the weekend rose to 15, according to The Associated Press. |
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The city of Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, is usually bustling with holiday festivities and decor this time of year, but this year, celebrations were called off in the wake of Israel's war with the militant group Hamas. Where there are typically tourists, marching bands, pilgrimages and festive lights now stand dozens of Palestinian security forces patrolling the city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, The Associated Press (AP) reported. |
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President Biden criticized news coverage of the U.S. economy as he faces growing backlash from voters over his handling of inflation. In brief remarks Saturday before boarding the presidential helicopter, Biden expressed confidence in the economy and ripped the reporters for the way it has been portrayed. |
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Pet food company Blue Ridge Beef is recalling several lot numbers of its food for kittens and puppies, according to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), warning the products are contaminated with salmonella and listeria. The products on the recall list are Kitten Grind (UPC 8 54298 00101 6), Kitten Mix (UPC 8 54298 00143 6) and Puppy Mix (8 54298 00169 6). |
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The Associated Press (AP) News Guild announced Sunday it has struck a deal with management on a three-year contract after 19 months of negotiations that culminated in a final end-of-year push. "This announcement follows rounds of intense discussions with the company over the last two weeks, culminating in even more intense discussions over the last two days. Our efforts were backed by strong member pressure through social media, petitions and emails to AP executives," the union said in a statement. |
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BY JOHN BERLAU AND ARI PATINKIN |
OPINION | When shocking reports surfaced recently of discrimination, harassment and a toxic workplace culture at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, members of both parties in Congress called for holding FDIC leadership accountable. Yet even before the investigations are complete and any disciplinary measures have been taken, some are pushing to ram through legislation giving the FDIC massive new powers without a scintilla of accountability. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) led a letter with Senate Democrats calling for the FDIC to investigate and remove wrongdoers within the agency. The letter states that "allowing employees that have engaged in misconduct to stay on the job … compromises public trust in the FDIC." Yet in his opening statement this month at a committee hearing, Brown still pushed the Senate to pass a bill that would boost the FDIC's powers while the alleged FDIC miscreants are still on the job and the investigation is unfinished. |
OPINION | The best single description of civil war I have ever encountered is a scene from Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."Set during the Spanish Civil War, a Spanish woman loyal to the Republic named Pilar describes the first days of the war. For two dozen pages, she describes the murder of her hometown's most prominent fascists after declaring for the Republic. She finishes the story by calling it "the worst day of my life until one other day," then states that the worst day was when the fascists took the town three days later. The recently released trailer for "Civil War," an upcoming movie from indie studio A24, has spurred discussion about a hypothetical civil war in America. The trailer follows a former conflict journalist, played by Kirsten Dunst, as she and her crew try to make sense of a country plunged into uncertainty and chaos when 19 states secede. |
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BY ISABEL KERSHNER AND HIBA YAZBEK |
Israeli leaders vowed on Sunday to pursue their war against Hamas, even as Israel's own casualties mounted, with 15 soldiers reported killed in the Gaza Strip since Friday. |
Call it a Christmas miracle: Inflation around the globe is slowing way faster than expected. If economists are right, that gift will keep on giving next year, bringing inflation back to normal levels for the first time in three years. |
BY STEPHEN GROVES AND SEUNG MIN KIM |
As the Senate wrapped up its work for the year, Sen. Michael Bennet took to the floor of the nearly empty chamber and made a late-night plea for Congress to redouble support for Ukraine: "Understand the stakes at this moment." |
With the U.S. Supreme Court declining to intervene early, Donald Trump is now pressing in federal appeals court his claim that sweeping presidential powers protect him from facing prosecution for his efforts to undo the 2020 election results. |
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