Blog Verité

Remarks by President Biden on the Safer America Plan  The White House Post Politics Now: Biden stresses police funding, crime prevention in visit to political battleground Pennsylvania  The Washington Post Biden to give prime-time speech about ‘soul of the nation’ as voters

Last Soviet leader Gorbachev, who ended Cold War and won Nobel prize, dies aged 91  Reuters Mikhail Gorbachev, former Soviet president who took down the Iron Curtain, dies  CNN Mikhail Gorbachev, last Soviet Union president, dead at age 91  CNN Opinion | Gorbachev

Republicans in key races scrap online references to Trump, abortion  The Washington Post Republican Senate candidate Blake Masters scrubbed language on campaign website saying the 2020 election was stolen from Trump  CNN Arizona GOP Senate nominee Blake Masters quietly scrubs abortion and

Mr. Wood said he would appear before the special grand jury in Atlanta.

The water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi, has gotten so bad, the city temporarily ran out of bottled water to give to residents  CNN Jackson water crisis: Mississippi’s largest city’s water system fails  WHAS11 Jackson State’s Deion Sanders says team is in ‘crisis

NPR’s Ailsa Chang speaks with former U.S. diplomat to Russia Thomas Graham about the life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet leader.

The architect of “perestroika” and “glasnost”—restructuring and openness—unleashed a wave of unstoppable forces that led to the bloc’s demise in 1991.

Iraq witnessed bloody street violence for nearly 24 hours spurred by loyalists of a powerful Shiite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, that was the culmination of a 10-month power struggle.

A U.S. Navy helicopter and patrol ship stopped an Iranian vessel from capturing an American sea drone in the Persian Gulf on Tuesday, marking the latest high-profile clash between the two nations as they negotiate a possible return to the

U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the seized cocaine totaled more than $11.8 million in street value. (Image credit: U.S. Customs and Border Protection)