U.S. Treasury nominee Scott Bessent on Thursday faced sharp questions from both Democrats and Republicans on tax policy, ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) raised his voice at Republicans who want to pass tax cuts at the same time as border security measures.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Senate Budget Committee Chairman, said this in opposition to House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to combine almost all of the Trump agenda into a single "big, beautiful" budget ...

Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, warned Republicans pushing for ...

Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine, striking the capital and other regions with multiple missiles and drones KYIV, Ukraine -- Russia launched an aerial attack on Ukraine on Tuesday ...

When Russia’s first democratically elected president, Boris Yeltsin, resigned on New Year’s Eve in 1999, he publicly implored Vladimir Putin, his handpicked but little-known successor ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Add to the tension that Putin’s Russia has been engaged in a covert war against Ukraine since 2014, which he had turned into a full-scale ...

Nearly three years into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia's military has taken painful hits, but has poured resources into making sure it can regenerate its military forces battling on ...

The leader of Azerbaijan criticized the Russian response to the crash of a passenger jet that Azerbaijani officials said had most likely been hit by Russian air defenses. By Anatoly Kurmanaev ...

Pokrovsk is an important hub for the Ukrainian military. Last year’s fight for Bakhmut, which cost the lives of many thousands of Russian soldiers, served no known military purpose. Pokrovsk is of a ...

Kursk - it's a region some want to hold at all costs while others question the value of having gone in at all. Battles are so intense that some Ukrainian commanders can’t evacuate the dead.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Russia next year as the neighbours seek to put up a “double resistance” to pressure from the US-led West, Igor Morgulov the Russian ambassador to China ...