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Lawmakers from both parties last December may have been anticipating former President Donald Trump’s current NATO trash talk when they quietly slipped language limiting a president’s power to pull the US out the alliance into the annual defense policy bill, which passed with bipartisan support.

When the report from special counsel Robert Hur was released yesterday, the initial headline was that President Joe Biden would not face criminal prosecution despite the finding he “willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) plans to try again to move ahead with a $95 billion international aid bill that includes $60 billion for Ukraine as well as funding for Israel, Taiwan, and Indo-Pacific partners. Schumer had hoped to move the bill to the floor for debate and amendments yesterday but adjourned the Senate last night when it appeared he was short of the 60-vote threshold necessary to advance the measure, reportedly saying Democrats would "give our Republican colleagu...

After months of fierce fighting, Russian forces are on the verge of their most significant victory since they captured Bakhmut in May as Ukrainian troops, short of bodies and ammunition, struggle to hold off a determined assault on the besieged city of Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region.

Senate Republicans face a dilemma on border compromise: McConnell originally characterized it as the "most substantial policy in 30 years" but now calls for senators to vote "no."

Ukraine is running out of money. Max Bergmann, a program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins CBS News to discuss what a $40 billion budget shortfall could mean for the war as foreign aid stalls in the West. Source

Even though Trump would find it hard to limit US support to NATO, the US has deep-seated problems with its ability to project power

According to a recent POLITICO news report, during the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, then US President Donald Trump told European Commission

For at least three days last week, the second link in the U.S. military chain of command, the man the president would call to order military action in a crisis, was missing in action with no explanation.

Six northern European nations signed defense pacts with the United States to facilitate deployment of American troops.