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Prime minister of Finland Sanna Marin holds a press conference in Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 19, 2022. Marin, who in December 2019 became Finland’s youngest prime minister ever, said Friday she has taken a drug test “for her own legal protection” after a video was leaked of her at her private party dancing and mimicking singing. (Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)

Finland asks: Does a prime minister have a right to party?

By Kostya Manenkov and Karl Ritter - Associated Press

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right, welcomes Paivi Nevala, minister counselor of the Finnish Embassy, left, and Karin Olofsdotter, Sweden's ambassador to the U.S., center, just before the Senate vote to ratify NATO membership for the two nations in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Senate approves NATO expansion to Finland, Sweden in rebuke to Putin

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, left, Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attend a media conference after the signature of the NATO Accession Protocols for Finland and Sweden in the NATO headquarters in Brussels, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Senate set to vote to ratify adding Sweden, Finland to NATO

By Lisa Mascaro - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a media conference at a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on Thursday, June 30, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state met for the final day of a NATO summit in Madrid on Thursday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Turkey warns it can ‘freeze’ Sweden, Finland’s NATO process

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Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, left, Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attend a media conference after the signature of the NATO Accession Protocols for Finland and Sweden in the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Finland to boost security at Russia border with amended law

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

Illustration on Biden's arms sales to Turkey by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden makes NATO look weak with arms sales to Turkey

By David L. Phillips

Finland's Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto, left, Sweden's Foreign Minister Ann Linde, right, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg attend a media conference after the signature of the NATO Accession Protocols for Finland and Sweden in the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

NATO gets a big new border with Russia in major expansion

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives for the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday, June 30, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state will meet for a NATO summit in Madrid from Tuesday through Thursday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Live updates | Trudeau: Canada to up Latvia troop presence

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

President Joe Biden, right, meets with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, during the NATO summit in Madrid, Wednesday, June 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden thanks Turkey’s Erdogan for dropping objection to Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg arrives for a NATO summit in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, June 29, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state will meet for a NATO summit in Madrid from Tuesday through Thursday. (AP Photo/Paul White)

Live updates | Putin warns on NATO troops in Sweden, Finland

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, second left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg before signing a memorandum in which Turkey agrees to Finland and Sweden's membership of the defense alliance in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state will meet for a summit in Madrid from Tuesday through Thursday. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

NATO expansion on course as Turkey OKs bids for Sweden, Finland

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a media conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. Seven decades after it was founded, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is meeting in Madrid on June 29 and 30, 2022 with an urgent need to reassert its original mission: preventing Russian aggression against Western allies. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys, File)

Live updates | Swedish PM: Now NATO accession must move fast

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Police forces drive to Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Monday, June 27, 2022. The G-7 leaders will begin Monday's session of their three-day summit with a focus on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Live updates | Erdogan adamant on Sweden, Finland NATO bids

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson meet in Stockholm, Saturday, June 4, 2022. (Fredrik Persson/TT News Agency via AP)

NATO holds Baltic Sea naval exercises with Finland, Sweden

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

A sign warning of radioactive materials is seen on a fence around a nuclear reactor containment building on Monday, April 26, 2021, a few days before it stopped generating electricity at Indian Point Energy Center in Buchanan, N.Y. The Biden administration is launching a $6 billion effort to save nuclear power plants at risk of closing, citing the need to continue nuclear energy as a carbon-free source of power that helps to combat climate change. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Finland gets nuclear; why don’t we?

By Jack Spencer

Ukrainian tanks move in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Live updates | Biden explains providing Ukraine with rockets

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A woman is evacuated by volunteers of Vostok SOS charitable organisation in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine, Thursday, May 26, 2022. Residents in villages and towns near the front line continue to flee as fighting rages in eastern Ukraine. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Live updates | Luhansk gov. denies Russians surround city

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu scratches his head during an informal meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Foreign Ministers' session in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

NATO: Turkey urges ‘concrete steps’ from Sweden, Finland

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Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on oil industry development via a video conference at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia cuts gas exports to Finland

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Iryna Martsyniuk, 50, stands next to her house, heavily damaged after a Russian bombing in Velyka Kostromka village, Ukraine, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Martsyniuk and her three young children were at home when the attack occurred in the village, a few kilometres from the front lines, but they all survived unharmed. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Live updates | Zelenskyy: Russia should pay for destruction

By The Associated Press - Associated Press