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Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Andrew Roth The US has sanctioned Rosneft and Lukoil, Russia’s two largest oil companies, as the Trump administration increased pressure on the Kremlin to negotiate an end to its war against Ukraine. The sanctions were the first against Russia since Donald Trump returned to the White …

Jon Cryer had an extensive career before starring in CBS sitcom hit Two And A Half Men with Charlie Sheen, and he’s had a pretty good career since then. (Notably having a lot of hammy fun as the Lex Luthor of the now-defunct Arrowverse.) But he’s now once again picking up attention, not for his own life, but for the ways it’s been pulled into …

President Donald Trump waves while meeting with members of law enforcement, including National Guard soldiers, in Washington on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2025. | Jacquelyn Martin / AP Not since the days of Hitler’s S.A.—the “Brownshirt” stormtroopers—has a leader in an advanced capitalist country wielded a private political army outside the regular military and police forces that is answerable only to …