Russia

The changes will apply to gay and bisexual men.

COVID hospitalizations up in 42 regions. COVID deaths up from prior day.

President Biden's administration has offered to provide an additional $53 million to bolster Ukraine's war-torn power grid.

The meet-up location of NATO foreign ministers on November 29-30— Bucharest — was where ten years ago, former US President George W. Bush persuaded America’s transatlantic partners that Ukraine and Georgia should one day join their military alliance.

Russia's Federation Council, the upper house of the Federal Assembly of Russia, on Wednesday unanimously approved a law banning indoctrination materials promoting non-traditional sexual relationships, pedophilia, and the dissemination of information about LGBT people in the media, the Internet, ads, literature, and movies.

China is expanding its nuclear force and is on pace to nearly quadruple the number of warheads it has by 2035, rapidly closing its gap with the United States, the Pentagon said in a report released Tuesday.

"NATO's door is open" to the possibility of adding Ukraine, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Morning Consult poll shows rise in number of moderates, slight increase in conservatism.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak on Tuesday said Russia and China are working to avoid the use of SWIFT.

You better believe it — “gaslighting” is the word of the year.