The U.S. budget deficit increased 23 percent to $1.7 trillion, an increase of $320 billion, in the year after the Biden administration pushed through the Inflation Reduction Act which it claimed would close the government’s funding gap.
In a move referred to as "historic" by MP Ina Shofshun, the Ukrainian parliament took unprecedented strides today by approving a bill that targets the Orthodox Church linked to the Moscow Patriarchate.