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President Biden on Friday expressed disappointment he was unable to include a visit into Ukraine as part of his European trip amid Russia's invasion. 

You know what Ginni Thomas and Vladimir Putin have in common? They are both sealed inside information bubbles of their own making, to disastrous ends.

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The Week

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The Week

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The Week

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The Week

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This week's question: Congress is considering legislation to make Daylight Savings Time permanent year-round, so clocks no longer need to be changed in the fall and spring. Please come up with an appropriate title for this bill.

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has been discharged from a Washington, D.C.-area hospital a week after being admitted for flu-like symptoms, NBC News reports Friday, per the court.

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) revealed Friday he does in fact plan to confirm nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court.

J.K. Rowling just received a public defense against her critics — though not one she'll be quick to embrace. 

A protected statue, a scampering rabbit, and more

Buckle up, politicos — Sen. Joe Manchin is reportedly back at (or on his way to) the negotiating table for President Biden's languishing social and climate legislation known as the Build Back Better agenda, The Washington Post reported Thursday night.

The second biggest bombshell of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation hearings — assuming Sen. Josh Hawley's (R-Mo.) was the first — was her statement that she was not qualified to define "woman" because she is not a biologist. Her response seemed incongruous for a nominee selected and celebrated in part because she is the first Black woman with an opportunity to sit on the Supreme Court. Conservatives, in today's lingo, pounced.

Keanu Reeves' movies have reportedly vanished from Chinese streaming platforms over the actor's support for Tibet. 

President Biden has announced the United States will form a joint task force with the European Commission to reduce Europe's dependence on Russian energy. 

Russia has been trying to make up for its setbacks on the ground in Ukraine with missiles and bombs, and the Russians have launched at least 1,200 missiles "of all stripes and sizes" in the first 28 days of their invasion, a senior U.S. defense official said Wednesday. But not all of those missiles are hitting their marks. Three U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday that Russia is suffering failure rates as high as 60 percent for some of the precision-guided missiles it's using to attack Ukraine. Читать дальше...

As a political centrist who's voted exclusively for Democrats (or rather, against Republicans) for 18 years now, I've been making "popularist" arguments since long before the term was coined.

Who would have thought this year's Best Picture race would turn into such a coin toss? 

Who's winning in Ukraine? I'm not asking about soldiers on the front lines or the civilians caught between them. Although we're flooded with reports, assertions, and assessments, it's desperately hard to assess the real state of the battle or to predict its outcome. Before the invasion began, U.S. officials expected Kyiv to fall within days — a goal that Russian forces still have not achieved a month later.

Is there any other actress as strongly associated with romantic comedies, but has made as few big ones, as Sandra Bullock?

"Earlier today, President Biden was in Brussels to meet with NATO leaders for an emergency summit on Russia," Jimmy Fallon said on Thursday's Tonight Show. "When they voted on a resolution to condemn Putin, 30 leaders voted yay and one office plant voted 'nyet.'"

Ukraine's navy said Thursday it destroyed a large Russian landing ship in the southern port of Berdyansk, which has been occupied by Russia for weeks. Russia has been using the port, on the Sea of Azoz about 50 miles east of besieged Mariupol, to deliver military and other supplies to its invasion force. 

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, sent at least 21 text messages to Mark Meadows, then White House chief of staff, in the weeks after the Nov. 3, 2020, election, most of them urging and advising Meadows on ways to help former President Donald Trump overturn his loss to President Biden, The Washington Post and CBS News reported Thursday evening. 

Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, a well-connected conservative activist and wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was very invested in the false idea that former President Donald Trump was robbed of victory in the 2020 elction, according to text messages she sent to Mark Meadows, then Trump's White House chief of staff, reported Thursday evening by The Washington Post and CBS News. 

Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) was found guilty on Thursday of lying to federal investigators about an illegal contribution made to his campaign by a foreign billionaire.

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson received the American Bar Association's top professional rating, and on Thursday, several of the group's leaders appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain why she ranked so highly.