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Sentencing Punctuates Downfall of Former FBI Counterintelligence Chief
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Sentencing Punctuates Downfall of Former FBI Counterintelligence Chief

Charles McGonigal spent more than two decades as an FBI agent working on some of the country’s most important national-security and terrorism cases, including the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and ended up as the bureau’s chief spy hunter in New York.He has since taken a humiliating fall, pleading guilty earlier this year to felonies in two separate cases, including violating U.S. sanctions by accepting secret payments from a Russian oligarch, a crime for which he faces sentencing in New York on Thursday.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Putin Vows to Push On With Ukraine War
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Putin Vows to Push On With Ukraine War

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to press on with his war on Ukraine during an end-of-year audience in which he said his country’s goals in the conflict hadn’t changed and that peace wouldn’t come until they are achieved.For the first time since launching his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin fielded questions from the international media and ordinary Russians on Thursday, trumpeting the country’s economic resilience amid stringent Western sanctions and U.S. infighting over tens of billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Will America Betray Ukraine? – WSJ
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Will America Betray Ukraine? – WSJ

Washington is ready to close up shop for the holidays, and so far there’s no deal for more weapons for Israel and Ukraine with changes to border security. The question to start asking is whether the U.S. is really going to let partisan divisions turn into a betrayal of Ukraine.Hard to believe, but perhaps it is. President Biden warned Tuesday that America is “at a real inflection point in history” that could “determine the future” of Europe. He is right on that point. Without more U.S. weapons, Ukraine will lose to Vladimir Putin. One result would be an unstable Europe. The blow to U.S. power and influence would be on the order of Saigon in 1975.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Zelensky’s Plea for Ukraine Aid Will Find a Tough Audience in Washington
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Zelensky’s Plea for Ukraine Aid Will Find a Tough Audience in Washington

Updated Dec. 12, 2023 7:40 am ETWASHINGTON—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky enjoyed a hero’s welcome when he came to Washington almost a year ago, a dramatic 10-hour visit that included an address to Congress complete with several standing ovations.He will find a tougher audience when he returns to Capitol Hill on Tuesday to plead for a continued military aid package that is facing resistance in Congress at a critical juncture in a war against Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Zelensky and his Western backers have tried to make the case that Putin poses a threat not only to European borders but to democratic governments that attempt to stand up to dictators. But even Zelensky’s allies worry about the costs of continuing to fight Russia.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights...
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Biden’s Halting Record on Ukraine
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Biden’s Halting Record on Ukraine

President Biden is chiding Congress for not passing more military aid for Ukraine, and he invited President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington this week to help make the sale. We support more aid, but one reason the President is struggling to persuade Congress is his own uncertain trumpet over the last two years.The conventional wisdom is that Mr. Biden has helped Ukraine while carefully avoiding a wider war with Russia. But this ignores that Mr. Biden failed to deter the invasion and has hesitated to provide the weapons that could have made a major difference sooner. The war has now become a bloody stalemate that has eroded confidence in Congress that Ukraine can win. For the record, here’s a chronology of Mr. Biden’s hesitation and delay:Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All R...
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House Speaker Johnson Insists Ukraine Aid Package Include U.S. Border Measures
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House Speaker Johnson Insists Ukraine Aid Package Include U.S. Border Measures

Dec. 11, 2023 10:06 pm ETWASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) said Monday he was sticking to his position that any package delivering aid to Kyiv would have to include strict new border-security measures, underscoring the stalemate gripping Congress on the eve of a visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The new House speaker is scheduled to meet with Zelensky on Tuesday as part of a push by Ukraine’s president for continued military aid. Republicans and Democrats have been at odds over the national-security package for months, as a rising isolationist and America First wing of the Republican Party gains traction and as public support for a war now almost two years old starts to wane.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5edd...
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Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Missing From Prison
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Putin Critic Alexei Navalny Missing From Prison

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s leading opposition figure, is missing from the penal colony where he has been imprisoned and his whereabouts are unknown, his spokeswoman and other allies said, prompting concern in Washington about his condition. Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, hasn’t been heard from for nearly a week, his team said on X. In recent weeks he had become ill and was put on an IV by prison staff. The team said that when his lawyers asked on Monday about his whereabouts in two penal colonies in the Vladimir region, east of Moscow, where he had been recently held, they were told he wasn’t at either one.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Ukraine’s Zelensky Is Facing a Turning Point as He Heads to Washington
11Dec By adminNo Comments
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Ukraine’s Zelensky Is Facing a Turning Point as He Heads to Washington

Listen to article(2 minutes)Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will hold high-level meetings in Washington on Tuesday as he faces his toughest test since Russian tanks bore down on Kyiv in late February 2022.Zelensky will meet with President Biden and Congressional leaders from both parties seeking to help push through an aid package for Ukraine, which has been held up by fighting over funding for security at the U.S.’s southern border.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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