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The United States releases an initial $85 million humanitarian aid package in response to the terrible earthquakes in Turkey and Syria.

The money will come from assets confiscated from Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev after his indictment on sanctions evasions in April.

The war in Ukraine is becoming an invaluable innovation lab for battlefield tactics and Western weapons.

Within NATO, pressure is mounting on members to send more armored weaponry, including tanks. Germany in particular has come under withering criticism for balking at the idea of dispatching its Leopard tanks.

The Ukrainian president hailed ‘a very powerful package’ of military aid.

The Biden administration has approved sending $40 billion in assistance to Kiev, making the US directly involved in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

With U.S. aid to countries devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami now exceeding $350 million, hardly anyone is calling the United States "stingy."

The $113 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine has eclipsed the annual military budget of every country in the world except the United States and China.

In May, Congress introduced a war powers resolution that aims to end the war in Yemen by blocking U.S. support to the Saudi-led coalition. This resolution, which Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) may bring to a vote this week, will not change Saudi behavior in Yemen nor end the war in Yemen, though it will negatively affect the U.S.-Saudi relationship.

A defense official also said the United States has no reason to think military aid to Ukraine is going missing.