Month: September 2024

President Vladimir V. Putin heightened his warnings against the West, asserting that Russia should be permitted to use nuclear arms in the event of an attack by a nation backed by a nuclear power.

U.S. intelligence agencies had previously tracked a potential Iranian assassination plot. The Trump campaign said in a statement that the threat is now heightened.

Marcellus Williams, who was convicted of a 1998 murder in suburban St. Louis, maintained he was innocent. But the courts and the governor were not persuaded.

Some hawkish generals think that Hezbollah can be forced to back down, current and former Israeli officials said, while others in the government think Israel must reach a deal with Hamas before expanding the war.

“Russia can only be forced into peace.” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the Council members to sustain their backing for his country’s resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Desmond Mills Jr., who testified against his former colleagues, broke down in court, saying, “I made his child fatherless.”

“Shame on her,” Joe Manchin, the independent senator from West Virginia, said after Kamala Harris reiterated her support for ending the Senate practice. “She knows the filibuster is the Holy Grail of democracy.”

The alliance between Kamala Harris and Laurene Powell Jobs is a genuine friendship that has thrust the press-shy billionaire philanthropist into the political spotlight.

The destruction from one of the most intense air raids in modern warfare stretches across southern Lebanon and in pockets of the east.

The leaders of Ukraine and Denmark said in a joint interview that allied nations must lift restrictions on arms, increase their production and help Ukraine build weapons inside the country.