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An angry, emotional U.S. President Joe Biden defended his mental competence Thursday in a rare evening address to Americans to respond to biting comments in a report released hours earlier on his mishandling of classified documents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview released Thursday with controversial right-wing U.S. talk show host Tucker Carlson that the West should understand it is "impossible" to defeat Russia in Ukraine.

They showed that his rival Donald Trump further increased his advantage in the election race.
He had five percent more in a hypothetical general election matchup. Biden is trailing by double digits on the issues that matter most to voters. Trump is ahead by more than 20 percent on the economy. The same applies to the fight against violence.

Iran said Monday it "will not hesitate" to respond in the event of U.S. attacks on its territory after the White House declined to say whether strikes on Iran were ruled out.

White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday the U.S. will press on with its retaliation against Iran-backed groups in Iraq and Syria.

The United States has declared its intention to continue military strikes against pro-Iranian groups in the Middle East.

U.S. senators on Sunday released the text of a much-anticipated deal that would unlock billions in new aid for Ukraine and Israel while tightening U.S. border laws, but the top House Republican quickly vowed to shoot it down.

Mike Gill is in a hospital in critical condition after being shot while picking up his wife, an education lawyer, blocks from the White House on K Street in downtown D.C.

The US still has problems with selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey due to its deployment of the S-400 Russian-made air defense system on Friday, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday.

Fighting in Ukraine during the previous day was fought in the Dnipropetrovsk region, and clashes were also fought in Kharkiv and Kherson, in the east and south of the country.
On the other hand, more than 10 drones of the Ukrainian armed forces attacked the Belgorod region in the past 24 hours, with more than 120 shells fired at towns and villages in the border region.

U.S. President Joe Biden said Tuesday he had decided on a response to a drone strike that killed three American troops in Jordan, while insisting he did not want a wider war in the Middle East.

Facing growing pressure in a U.S. election year, Biden said he held Iran responsible for supplying the weapons to the people who carried out the deadly attack on a military base.