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Anne Fogel, of Missoula, Montana, stands on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, July 13, 2023, between meetings with U.S. senators about securing the release of her brother, Marc Fogel, who has been detained in Russia since August 2021. (Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)

Family pleads for Pa. teacher imprisoned in Russia: ‘We’re not forgetting my brother’
BY: - July 17, 2023

Pittsburgh-area native Marc Fogel was arrested in March 2021 for possession of a small amount of medical marijuana.

The U.S. Capitol Building on June 1, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Keystone State lawmakers on Capitol Hill join bipartisan effort to free Pa. man held in Russia
BY: - June 28, 2023

Marc Fogel, a teacher from suburban Pittsburgh, has been held in Russia since August 2021 for possession of a small amount of marijuana.

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A farewell to kings? A former Brit, now a Yank, reflects on Charles III’s coronation | Opinion
BY: - May 6, 2023

The current arrangement surely needs to be overhauled, if not abolished.

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LONDONDERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND - APRIL 10: A peace mural is seen prior a Dissident Republican Parade on April 10, 2023 in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. Derry is host to annual parades by dissident republican groups that mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, the armed insurrection against British rule in Ireland that catalysed the creation of an independent state of Ireland. Today's parades also fall on the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, the deal that dissident republicans do not accept, signed on April 10, 1998, which ended most of the violence during the decades-long conflict known as The Troubles. (Photo by Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Twenty-five years ago, hope, history rhymed with Good Friday Agreement. It can again | Opinion
BY: - April 11, 2023

President Joe Biden visits Ireland this week on the anniversary of the agreement that ended ‘The Troubles.’

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Kamala Harris in Africa: High stakes for the U.S. and for her | Fletcher McClellan
BY: - April 4, 2023

Belatedly, Africa has become a major area of concern for the Biden administration.

U.S. Senate in bipartisan vote repeals decades-old Iraq war authorizations
BY: - March 29, 2023

'For too long, Congress has ceded to the executive branch its constitutionally proscribed role in authorizing military force and declaring war,' U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., said.

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Then-President Jimmy Carter came to Kansas for a 1978 rally featuring John Carlin, a candidate for governor, and Senate candidate Bill Roy. (Submitted by John Carlin)

The Panama Canal Treaties were Carter’s biggest foreign policy win | Bruce Ledewitz
BY: - March 9, 2023

They were not only Carter’s greatest achievement, they were a great achievement of a very different America.

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KYIV, UKRAINE - JANUARY 22: Civilian participants in a Kyiv Territorial Defence unit train on a Saturday in a forest on January 22, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Across Ukraine thousands of civilians are participating in such groups to receive basic combat training and in time of war would be under direct command of the Ukrainian military. While Ukrainian officials have acknowledged the country has little chance to fend off a full Russian invasion, Russian occupation troops would likely face a deep-rooted, decentralised and prolonged insurgency. Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops on its border to Ukraine. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Tanks and what they mean for the Ukraine War’s endgame | John A. Nagl
BY: - February 3, 2023

The impact of the Abrams and Leopards tanks from the U.S. and Germany should hasten the end of the fighting, at least in the east.

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KYIV, UKRAINE - JANUARY 22: Civilian participants in a Kyiv Territorial Defence unit train on a Saturday in a forest on January 22, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Across Ukraine thousands of civilians are participating in such groups to receive basic combat training and in time of war would be under direct command of the Ukrainian military. While Ukrainian officials have acknowledged the country has little chance to fend off a full Russian invasion, Russian occupation troops would likely face a deep-rooted, decentralised and prolonged insurgency. Russia has amassed tens of thousands of troops on its border to Ukraine. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The Russia-Ukraine War ends when Russia quits | Opinion
BY: - November 23, 2022

Ukraine’s military has been lethal against Russian forces, but that won’t end the war.

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Queen Elizabeth II Dies At Balmoral Castle

A monarch dies in the new century and a nation clatters on | Opinion
BY: - September 9, 2022

In a moment with little to say, eloquence must suffice.

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In this aerial view, a destroyed apartment building is seen next to an area of heavily damaged houses on April 21, 2022 in Borodianka, Ukraine. (Photo by Alexey Furman/Getty Images)

With counter-offensive, a change of momentum in Ukraine | Opinion
BY: - September 4, 2022

The Russian troops exposed in Kherson are Ukraine’s best chance to knock the support out from under Putin and perhaps bring the war to an end.

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Brittney Griner will be released in about 30 days, not 9 years | Michael Coard
BY: - August 10, 2022

International law regarding prisoner swaps doesn’t apply until a person is formally sentenced, which occurred on Aug. 4.

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