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Russia’s military divided as Putin struggles to deal with Ukraine’s counteroffensive, US sources say

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Russia’s military is divided over how best to counter Ukraine’s unexpected battlefield advances this month, according to multiple sources familiar with US intelligence, as Moscow has found itself on the defensive in both the east and the south. Russian President Vladimir Putin is himself giving directions directly to generals in

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Exclusive: New book reveals Trump’s business practices included once being paid with gold bars

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s business practices included some eyebrow-raising moments, such as once being paid with gold bars that were wheeled into his Trump Tower apartment, according to reporting obtained by CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. Haberman reveals new details about Trump’s business dealings

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Russia’s military divided as Putin struggles to deal with Ukraine’s counteroffensive, US sources say

By Katie Bo Lillis, CNN Russia’s military is divided over how best to counter Ukraine’s unexpected battlefield advances this month, according to multiple sources familiar with US intelligence, as Moscow has found itself on the defensive in both the east and the south. Russian President Vladimir Putin is himself giving directions directly to generals in

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Macron warns of ‘crisis of democracies,’ including in US, in exclusive US interview

By Paul LeBlanc, CNN French President Emmanuel Macron is warning about a “crisis of democracies,” including in the United States, following years of “pressure” and “destabilization” efforts in an exclusive US interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. Asked by Tapper if he’s worried about American democracy, Macron replied, “I worry about all of us.” “I hate

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Exclusive: New book reveals Trump’s business practices included once being paid with gold bars

By Jeremy Herb, CNN Former President Donald Trump’s business practices included some eyebrow-raising moments, such as once being paid with gold bars that were wheeled into his Trump Tower apartment, according to reporting obtained by CNN from a forthcoming book by New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman. Haberman reveals new details about Trump’s business dealings

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Families of captured Americans freed in Ukraine prisoner swap describe the moment they found out they were coming home

By Jamiel Lynch and Nouran Salahieh, CNN For months, the families of American veterans Alexander John-Robert Drueke and Andy Tai Ngoc Huynh, who were captured while fighting in Ukraine, had heard nothing from them. Then, they got unexpected phone calls. “I have your son standing right next to me,” Bunny Drueke recalled a woman from

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Biden tells the United Nations that Putin’s attempts to ‘extinguish’ Ukraine should ‘make your blood run cold’

By Kevin Liptak, CNN President Joe Biden on Wednesday declared Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a violation of the global order, sharpening his rebukes of President Vladimir Putin as the war entered a tense new moment. Biden’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly came hours after Putin announced an expansion of his war effort, lending

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Mastermind of Navy bribery scheme captured in Venezuela after escaping house arrest in San Diego

By Josh Campbell and Mary Kay Mallonee, CNN Leonard Francis, the former military contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who orchestrated the largest corruption scandal in US Navy history, was arrested Tuesday morning by authorities in Venezuela at the request of the US Marshals Service, according to the agency. Francis is currently detained by authorities in

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US Army implements most recommendations from Fort Hood report to improve handling of sexual assault and harassment

By Ellie Kaufman, CNN The US Army has implemented “63 of the 70” recommendations from the Fort Hood report released in December 2020 and “four of the six priority” Independent Review Commission recommendations to improve the military branch’s handling of sexual assault and harassment, Undersecretary of the Army Gabe Camarillo told lawmakers during a House

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What to know about the civil fraud lawsuit Donald Trump and family face in New York

By Tierney Sneed An intricately detailed, 200-plus page civil lawsuit lays out New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case that former President Donald Trump, three of his children, his companies and his business executives defrauded lenders, insurers and other entities. “This conduct cannot be brushed aside and dismissed as some sort of good-faith mistake,” James

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DOJ can resume criminal probe of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago, appeals court says

By Katelyn Polantz and Tierney Sneed, CNN A federal appeals court is allowing the Justice Department to continue looking at documents marked as classified that were seized from former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and resort. The emergency intervention upends a trial judge’s order over those documents that had blocked federal investigators’ work on the

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Here are the Trump properties at the center of the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against the former President and his family

By Ariella Phillips, Kaanita Iyer and Curt Devine, CNN New York Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday filed a civil fraud lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, three of his children and his business. In more than 200 pages, the lawsuit alleges that the defendants were involved in an expansive fraud lasting over a decade

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GOP congressional candidate said US suffered from women’s suffrage and praised organization trying to repeal 19th Amendment

By Andrew Kaczynski, CNN A Michigan candidate for the US House backed by former President Donald Trump once railed against giving women the right to vote, arguing that America has “suffered” since women’s suffrage. John Gibbs, who defeated in the primary an incumbent Republican who had voted to impeach Trump, also made comments in the

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