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Countries such as China and, increasingly, the US use trade and economic leverage to achieve foreign policy goals. But the past few days in Russia — itself a regular practitioner of economic statecraft — have been a reminder that nation-states aren’t the only ones wielding such a strategy. The stunning near-assault on Moscow carried out by one-time Vladimir Putin confidante Yevgeny Prigozhin

Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Biden administration to reinstate rules that instruct Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus its deportation efforts in the U.S. interior on immigrants with serious criminal convictions and those deemed to threaten national security. The court found that Texas and Louisiana, the two states that challenged the administration

A former federal judge once lauded by the right for his conservative legal opinions delivered a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party over its continued fealty to Donald Trump. J. Michael Luttig wrote in a New York Times op-ed that the GOP’s “spineless support” has enabled the former president despite his role in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and his indictment in the classified

President Joe Biden’s son Hunter has been charged with failing to pay federal income tax and illegally possessing a weapon and has reached an agreement with the Justice Department, according to a letter filed in U.S. District Court in Delaware. As part of the agreement, made public Tuesday, Hunter Biden will plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses and is expected to reach an agreement with