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  • Joe BidenPolitics

    Biden decries ‘campaign of pure cruelty’ as deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust

    By Matthew Lee, Aamer Madhani, and others
  • American arms in IsraelPolitics

    Israel is already getting American arms for its war with Hamas as NSC vows: ‘We will stay in lockstep with them’

    By Matthew Lee, Tara Copp, and others
  • Palestinians inspect rubble in a destroyed refugee camp.Politics

    American death toll raises to nine in Hamas attack on Israel. An unknown number of U.S. citizens remain missing

    By Matthew Lee, Tara Copp, and others
  • Microsoft

    China government hackers worked for months to infiltrate Microsoft accounts for U.S. officials—and succeeded

    By Frank Bajak, Matthew Lee, and others
  • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Monday, June 19, 2023. (Leah Millis/Pool Photo via AP)Politics

    Biden says Secretary of State Blinken did a ‘hell of a job’ on China trip even though Beijing rebuffed the top U.S. request

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) shakes hands with China's President Xi JinpingPolitics

    Antony Blinken and Xi Jinping vow to stabilize deteriorated U.S.-China ties in high-stakes talks

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • Roger WatersPolitics

    Biden’s State Department rips Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters for ‘long track record of using antisemitic tropes’

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • Northern lights are seen over Tromsoe on November 2, 2022. – Norway OUT (Photo by Rune Stoltz Bertinussen / NTB / AFP) / Norway OUT (Photo by RUNE STOLTZ BERTINUSSEN/NTB/AFP via Getty Images)

    U.S. is opening its first diplomatic post above the Arctic Circle and it will be staffed by a single ‘consul’

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • Evan GershkovichPolitics

    Blinken has ‘no doubt’ that WSJ reporter accused of being a spy is wrongfully detained—but there’s no formal declaration yet

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich is shown in this undated photo. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeated his call for Russia to immediately release Gershkovich on Wednesday at NATO headquarters following two days of talks among the alliance’s foreign ministers.  Russia accuses Gershkovich of espionage, a claim Americans deny. (The Wall Street Journal via AP, File)Politics

    U.S. secretary of state says WSJ reporter was ‘wrongfully detained’ by Russia—but a formal decision hasn’t been made yet

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • FILE – In this file photo taken from a video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, on Dec. 9, 2020, a rocket launches from missile system as part of a ground-based intercontinental ballistic missile test launched from the Plesetsk facility in northwestern Russia. The United States and Russia have stopped sharing biannual nuclear weapons data under the faltering New START arms control treaty. U.S. officials say they had offered to continue to provide such information to Russia even after President Vladimir Putin suspended Russia’s participation in the treaty, but that Moscow had declined to share its own data. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP, File)Politics

    America and Russia have stopped sharing nuclear weapons data as the last arms control pact between them falls apart

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • U.S. Secretary of State Antony BlinkenTech

    America’s top diplomat is cancelling his high-stakes trip to China because of their mystery balloon flying over Montana

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • A soldier walks past a line of M1 Abrams tanks, Nov. 29, 2016, at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colo.Politics

    Biden reverses course and gets ready to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine—but it could take years before they can be used against Russia

    By Lolita C. Baldor, Matthew Lee, and others
  • Grant WahlLifestyle

    The body of Grant Wahl, top American soccer writer who died covering World Cup, returns to U.S. with ‘no indication of foul play or anything nefarious’

    By Matthew Lee and The Associated Press
  • Brittney GrinerPolitics

    ‘She’s safe, she’s on a plane, she’s on her way home’: Russia frees WNBA star Brittney Griner in dramatic prisoner exchange

    By Eric Tucker, Matthew Lee, and others