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Russia to emerge from Ukraine conflict weaker, senior Pentagon official says

Russia will emerge from the conflict in Ukraine weaker and more isolated, a senior Pentagon official said on Thursday.

Reuters · Mar 25, 2022

Trudy Rubin: Don’t let Putin’s nuclear and chemical threats stop us from giving Ukraine what it needs

Russia’s threats to use nuclear weapons have been a shadow over the Ukraine war and were a key topic at Thursday’s emergency NATO summit in Brussels.

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Mar 25, 2022

Latest Ukraine updates: Russia says first phase of war near end

Ukraine war news from March 25: Russian general says Moscow will push to fully capture eastern region of Donbas.

Al Jazeera · Mar 24, 2022

White House To Seek $813.3B As One of Biggest National Security Budget: Bloomberg

Citing officials familiar with the plan, Bloomberg reported that President Joe Biden would request $813.3 billion&nbs

Benzinga · Mar 24, 2022

Russian Army 'Taking Defensive Positions' in Ukraine, Says Pentagon

The Russian army has retreated more than 30 kilometers (18 miles) east of Kyiv in the past 24 hours and has begun to establish defensive positions on several fronts in Ukraine, a senior Pentagon official said Wednesday. "The Ukrainians have managed to push the Russians back 55 kilometers east and…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 24, 2022

‘Putin banked on NATO being split, he’s getting the opposite,’ Biden says

Russian President Vladimir Putin had banked on NATO being split when he launched an invasion of Ukraine last month, but Putin actually sparked the exact opposite, with the alliance now being “more united than ever”, US President Joe Biden said at a NATO-G7 summit in Brussels on Thursday. Read FRANCE…

France 24 · Mar 24, 2022

White House to seek $813.3 billion national security budget

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden plans to request $813.3 billion in national security spending — including $773 billion for the Pentagon — in the federal budget he will send to Congress on Monday, according to officials familiar with the plan.

Tribune News Service · Mar 24, 2022

John Cornyn digs in on claim that Judge Jackson called Bush and Rumsfeld ‘war criminals’

WASHINGTON — Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) defended his assertion that Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson called then-President George W. Bush and his Pentagon chief “war criminals,” rejecting Democrats’ contention Wednesday that he distorted her petitions on behalf of militants detained at Guantánamo Bay.

Tribune News Service · Mar 23, 2022

Congress’ protections for whistleblowers only go so far

WASHINGTON — Congress wants to ensure that former President Donald Trump’s attempted coercion of Ukraine in 2019 — and his effort to thwart and intimidate the official who disclosed it — never recur. But a new law aimed at doing that is insufficient, several whistleblower advocates contended.

Tribune News Service · Mar 23, 2022

Congress' protections for whistleblowers only go so far - Roll Call

New whistleblower protections, a response to Donald Trump's first impeachment, don't go far enough, advocates for whistleblowers say.

Roll Call · Mar 23, 2022