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Paul Epstein is a retired teacher and musician living in Charleston.

Trump’s Odious New Demand of the Civil Service: Loyalty Oaths They were a disaster when Harry Truman forced them on federal workers—but at least he demanded loyalty to the United States, not ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) threw his support behind renewed congressional efforts to sanction the Kremlin over Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal war against Ukraine.

The European Union has just imposed a new package of sanctions against Russia—now the seventeenth. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. and EU had already imposed ...

US President Donald Trump has suggested he could impose harsh new sanctions on Russia if he runs out of patience with the Kremlin’s slow-motion approach to Ukraine peace efforts and resistance ...

Maryland stewards declined to take action against two jockeys in a bumpy running of the 150th Preakness Stakes that was won by favorite Journalism on Saturday at Pimlico Race Course.

Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the U.S. would lift sanctions on Syria. This was in advance of the U.S. president's meeting with the country's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, who previously led ...

President Trump announced this week he will drop sanctions on Syria — surprising some senior U.S. sanctions officials, sources tell CBS News.

Leading sovereign debt lawyers say those Assad-era obligations could be struck off as “odious” war debt — debt incurred without the consent of the Syrian people or for their benefit given much it went ...

Explainer-Syria's Economy: the Devastating Impact of War and Sanctions By Karin Strohecker, Libby George and Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will lift long ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he will lift long-standing sanctions on Syria that severed the country from the global financial system under toppled former President Bashar al-Assad.