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INVESTIGATION: Russia's FSB Erases 4 Ukrainian Regions' Border on Paper — But the Line Won't Move an Inch

Not an assault, not an ultimatum, not a televised proclamation from the Kremlin. Two draft administrative orders, quietly filed on August 13 on Russia's…

ANALYSIS: 313 Votes, a 20th Extension — Ukraine Keeps Waiting to Vote for a Peace Moscow Refuses

313 votes to approve the presidential decree extending martial law by 90 days — in force at 5:30 a.m. on August 2, running until…

EDITORIAL: Drug Prices Fall 3.1%, the Sharpest Drop Since Kennedy, and Trump Wants All the Credit

March 1963.

INVESTIGATION: The Senate Confirms 74 Nominees in One Minute, but Brazil Won't Open Its Door to Daniel Perez

On August 7, 2026, at 1:23 in the afternoon, the United States Senate rings the bell on what looks like an ordinary vote.

ANALYSIS: 37 to 36 — Trump loses the economy, the one ground he never lost, three months before the vote

One single percentage point, between the two parties, on the question that makes and unmakes American presidencies.

COMMENTARY: A Court Order Falls and 350,000 Haitians Face TPS Uncertainty

COMMENTARY: Trump’s Bedminster Weekend Shared a Course With LIV Golf

DECODING: Fauci Took the Fifth 100+ Times, but Rand Paul’s DOJ Referral Faces a 60-Vote Problem

EDITORIAL: Kyiv’s 28 Missiles, Zero Intercepts, and 17 Lives Lost