The Washington Mail

Live Updates: Putin’s Inner Circle Targeted by E.U. Sanctions

BRUSSELS — Western leaders sought to deter a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine by punishing prominent members of President Vladimir V. Putin’s inner circle on Wednesday, imposing new sanctions and promising worse penalties should the Kremlin begin a new military offensive. The European Union revealed new sanctions on Russia’s defense minister, Sergei K. Shoigu; Mr. […]

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How China and Xi Jinping Have Turned on the Outside World

The miracle of modern China was built on global connections, a belief that sending young people, companies and future leaders to soak up the outside world was the route from impoverishment to power. Now, emboldened by its transformation, the country is shunning the influences and ideas that nourished its rise. The country’s most dominant leader […]

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2 Louisiana Deputies Are Arrested and Fired After Fatal Shooting

A number of cities have recently taken up measures designed to reduce the enforcement of low-level traffic offenses, which advocates say would limit the number of potentially combustible interactions between officers and motorists. For example, Pittsburgh’s City Council passed an ordinance prohibiting officers from stopping a driver for a secondary violation, including a broken taillight […]

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N.C.A.A. Tournament Peek: Gonzaga Remains the Favorite, but the Blue Bloods are Back

The N.F.L. and college football have crowned their champions, with the Los Angeles Rams and the University of Georgia winning titles. The Winter Olympics are in the rearview mirror. And the start of the Major League Baseball season is in flux because of a lockout. But the men’s college basketball season is just heating up, […]

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Oil prices jump, nearing $100 a barrel, as Ukraine developments roil energy markets.

Federal Reserve officials are coalescing around a plan to raise interest rates steadily starting in March and then move swiftly to shrink the central bank’s big bond holdings as policymakers look to cool the economy at a moment of rapid inflation. While policymakers are likely to keep an eye on the conflict in Ukraine as […]

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Republican Candidates Split Over Ukraine-Russia Crisis

Surveys in recent years have shown that Republican voters are much less likely than Democrats to support an active U.S. leadership role in world affairs, and Trump’s pollsters have argued that the base is not interested in policing other countries. At the same time, establishment Republicans venerate the party’s Cold War stance of “peace through […]

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U.S. and Allies Impose Sanctions on Russia as Biden Condemns ‘Invasion’ of Ukraine

WASHINGTON — The United States and its allies on Tuesday swiftly imposed economic sanctions on Russia for what President Biden denounced as the beginning of an “invasion of Ukraine,” unveiling a set of coordinated punishments as Western officials confirmed that Russian forces had begun crossing the Ukrainian border. Speaking from the White House, Mr. Biden […]

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Russia-Ukraine Crisis Shakes Markets, but Long-Term Outlook Is Better

Even so, long-term investors with well-diversified portfolios of stocks and high-quality bonds — whether held directly or through low-cost mutual funds and exchange-traded funds — will probably be able to ride out this crisis, as they have so many others. While stocks often fall amid global turmoil, U.S. Treasury bonds tend to rally as investors […]

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Biden Interviews 3 Supreme Court Candidates as His Search Narrows

WASHINGTON — President Biden has interviewed at least three candidates for his Supreme Court nomination, a signal that he intends to fulfill his promise that he would choose a nominee by the end of the month. But the end of the month is less than a week away. The interviews began late last week, according […]

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