Ukraine will likely have to wait a year before it's able to launch another counteroffensive, NATO official says

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the NATO summit in Washington, DC, in July 2024.

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Democrats could suffer a 'landslide' defeat, sweeping them out of office everywhere, former Obama advisor says

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David Axelrod, former advisor to President Barack Obama, moving his hands at an event at the University of Chicago in 2019
David Axelrod, former advisor to President Barack Obama, says Democrats could suffer a 'landslide' defeat.

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Russia targeting Ukrainian airfields before F-16s arrive shows its fear of the jets, experts say

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A screen grab captured from a video shows a missile strike hit on the Dolgintsevo airfield in Ukraine's Dnepropetrovsk region on July 3, 2024.

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Putin's war of attrition is coming at a massive cost, with 5,000 soldiers killed or injured in the battle for one neighborhood

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A view of Chasiv Yar in Ukraine, which has been left ruined after ferocious fighting between the Ukrainian and Russian military.

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One of Biden's most faithful allies appears ready to break

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President Joe Biden addresses union workers in 2023 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Biden aide suggests that the president has more stamina than George Clooney: report

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President Joe Biden holds a microphone and gestures as he stands in front of a blue curtain at a Los Angeles campaign fundraiser on June 16, 2024.
Biden takes the mic at the Los Angeles fundraiser described in a devastating op-ed by George Clooney.

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Ukrainian soldiers survived 70 days of encirclement by being air-dropped ammo and supplies by drone

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A group of Ukrainian soldiers of the 225th Separate Assault Battalion and the 223rd Marine Battalion stand in uniform in a forest in front of an armored vehicle.
Soldiers of the 225th Separate Assault Battalion and the 223rd Marine Battalion after their 70-day ordeal near Chasiv Yar, 2024.

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NATO just accused China of enabling Russia's invasion of Ukraine for the first time

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Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin in 2023. NATO has accused China of being "a decisive enabler of Russia's war against Ukraine."

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My identical twin and I only started dressing alike as adults. It's the way it should be.

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The author and her twin, in 2020. The sisters once pledged never to be caught together wearing the same outfit.

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You can now pay $95 to peer out over the UK's most famous royal balcony — but you still can't stand on it

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Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their children joined King Charles and Queen Camilla, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace after attending the King's Birthday Parade in London on June 15, 2024.
Prince William, Kate Middleton, and their children joined King Charles and Queen Camilla, on the balcony of Buckingham Palace on June 15, 2024.

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