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A destroyer left out of a previous defense spending proposal that could be built in Bath has secured funding.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. officials are examining the ownership of a $700 million superyacht currently in a dry dock in an Italian seacoast town and believe it could be associated with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, according to multiple people briefed on the information.

They say they have indications that the $700 million, 459-foot yacht, which is in dry dock in Italy, is associated with the Russian president, backing an earlier claim by a former crew member.

President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of waging “a war of annihilation” as cities and towns came under sustained bombardment. In one southern city, hundreds took to the streets to protest the detention of its mayor, witnesses said, a sign of Russia’s struggle to subdue even places it captures.

In Melitopol, a mayor who opposed the occupation was kidnapped by Russian soldiers, igniting street protests. Similar protests have broken out in other towns.

Reporting on the former vice president's trip to Israel on the GOP megadonor's private jet didn't ask a key question: Why?

Chapter 4 of "Wobblies on the waterfront-interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia" by Peter Cole, an excellent text about the American IWW in the early 20th century, and interestingly about some Wobblies' support of World War I.

A small Defense Department team had nine months to make a stockpile of Syria’s chemical weapons disappear. They helped save untold lives.

The Russian Navy acted largely in a supporting role as Russian ground and air assault forces entered Ukraine early Thursday morning in what a senior U.S. defense official called an “initial phase” of the assault against Ukraine. The Russian force has made a three-axis assault in invading Ukraine, the official said. Forces moved south to […]

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