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A powerful, bipartisan group in Congress announced Monday that it would craft legislation suspending normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus, and grant the White House the authority to increase tariffs on the two countries, in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Republicans are bracing for the next Supreme Court confirmation battle, signaling that they're eying a measured but "painstaking" approach to an historic nominee who would not change the lean of the court and who could be confirmed without any GOP support.

Security personnel at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday night arrested one person with a weapon, while another remains at large, according to a news release, shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris had arrived on the base.

Millions of lives could be destroyed to slake Vladimir Putin's Cold War obsession.

Schools could lose the pandemic waivers that provide them with extra federal funds and flexibilities to cope with supply chain and labor issues if Congress doesn't agree to extend them in the spending bill being hashed out this week.

US and European officials have been discussing how the West would support a government in exile helmed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky should he have to flee Kyiv, Western officials told CNN.

American officials on Sunday identified three areas on which the United States could soon take action in an attempt to address Russia's intensifying war in Ukraine: a ban on Russian oil imports, a declaration of war crimes against Russia and help facilitating delivery of Polish fighter jets to Ukraine.

Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are set for a showdown over Covid-19 relief that threatens to hold up desperately needed aid to Ukraine as the country fights back against Russia's invasion.

Two top prosecutors leading the criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump and his business resigned after the Manhattan district attorney said he was not prepared to authorize an indictment against the former President, a person familiar with the investigation said.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley went last week to an undisclosed airfield near the Ukrainian border that has become a hub for shipping weapons, a senior Defense Department official said, seeing firsthand the multinational effort to get weapons into Ukraine amid Russia's unprovoked invasion.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that the US has seen reports of Russian abuses in Ukraine that "would constitute a war crime" and that the Biden administration is committed to supporting investigations into the country's actions.

Americans rarely pay much attention to international events. Busy lives leave little time for distant events with unfamiliar protagonists.

Ukrainians have surprised the world with the ferocity of their opposition to Russia's invasion. It's a passionate defense of the country's Western-style democracy and marks a contrast to the US, where many see a recent erosion of democratic principles.

Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday called on Congress to pass federal voting rights legislation before walking across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 57th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a key moment in the civil rights moment.

Emily Horne, the spokesperson for the National Security Council, will depart her position on March 25, a White House official said, and will be replaced at that time by Adrienne Watson, a longtime Democratic press operative who joined the NSC as a deputy spokesperson late last year.

More than a week into Russia's war in Ukraine, President Joe Biden and his team at the White House are settling in for what many of them believe will become one of the defining backdrops to his presidency: A grinding war in Europe led by an increasingly unsound combatant.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told US lawmakers Saturday that his country urgently needs more assistance from the US, including the establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukraine, as it fights against Russia's invasion.

The impact of coordinated sanctions on Russia has sent shockwaves through the Russian elite as oligarchs, some targeted and others taking steps in anticipation of what could come, look to move yachts, shed assets and adapt to a wave of sanctions that have come swifter than usual, and are more expansive than before.

The Democratic Party's early 2000s dream of an emerging majority based on a diversifying electorate has run into reality. Democrats lost the 2016 presidential election, and they barely won in 2020. Part of their problem was declining support among White voters.

Americans and most of the world have been united in condemning Russia for invading Ukraine. Now, amid high inflation and rising energy prices, they might have to start putting their money where their mouth is as US lawmakers consider an embargo on Russian oil.