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US President Joe Biden has announced a further $800 million in taxpayer-funded military aid to Ukraine, adding to the $200 million promised to the embattled nation on Saturday.  Among the lethal items promised to the US ally on Wednesday are 9,000 anti-armor systems, 7,000 small arms, 800 anti-aircraft missiles, 20 …

The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs Alexander Schallenberg announced on Wednesday that a new package of economic sanctions against Russia was in the pipeline in the European Union. “We have already introduced powerful sanctions. We are working on the fourth package,” he told journalists. According to Schallenberg, the new package …

President Biden’s chief medical aide, Anthony Fauci, the senior US Covid-19 adviser and national institute director, is slated to receive over $350,000 in annual retirement benefits – the largest in the US government’s history. An estimate by OpenTheBooks.com – a Chicago-based non-profit devoted to transparency in public spending – published …

The White House had prepared a package of $200 million worth of additional military assistance to Ukraine, but held off on delivering the aid, NBC News reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. According to the report, the US has other options for helping Ukraine, including a much larger aid …

The alert was called in to police at around noon local time. Officers have since cleared a two-block area around the building, which is located on First Avenue in Manhattan. The object was later reported to be a box of flowers, according to preliminary information shared by police with reporters. Turk …

The Pentagon announced on Monday that the US will send $125 million worth of “lethal aid” to Kiev as part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), including “training, equipment, and advisory efforts to help Ukraine’s forces preserve the country’s territorial integrity, secure its borders, and improve interoperability with NATO.” …

President Joe Biden’s relief package, known as the American Rescue Plan, was passed by the House early on Saturday in narrow 219-212 vote. No Republicans have voted for the legislation, while two Democrats broke ranks and voted against it. The legislation includes $1,400 checks for most Americans, as well as …

At over 5,500 pages (around twice the length of the previous longest bill, passed in 1986), the bill has passed both House and Senate without being read by the vast majority of those voting in favor. Congressional leaders took the must-pass nature of the $900 billion package of long-overdue Covid-19 assistance as …

The long-awaited second coronavirus relief package, revealed on Monday, is shot through with problematic aspects that favor large corporations, including liability protection if the employer was “trying to conform to public health standards and guidance.” Opponents have argued this means letting the rich get away with murder as long as …

Maxwell’s attorneys filed a bail application with the US District Court in Manhattan on Monday, offering $28.5 million in exchange for her freedom, the majority of which would be secured by assets belonging to Maxwell and her husband. “Ms. Maxwell wants to stay in New York and have her day …