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Mike Blasi, a U.S. Army veteran, former law enforcement officer and small business owner, is intent on representing District 4 in New Jersey. (Image courtesy of Mike Blasi)

An ‘America First’ candidate for a New Jersey seat

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

A Russian armored personnel carrier burns amid damaged and abandoned light utility vehicles after fighting in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The city authorities said that Ukrainian forces engaged in fighting with Russian troops that entered the country's second-largest city on Sunday. (AP Photo/Marienko Andrew)

Pressured Putin hints at nukes but agrees to talks with Ukraine

By David R. Sands, Tom Howell Jr. and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Police detain a demonstrator during an action against Russia's attack on Ukraine in St. Petersburg, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine resumed on Sunday, with people taking to the streets of Moscow and St. Petersburg and other Russian towns for the third straight day despite mass arrests. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

In Russia, protests of invasion persist despite Kremlin crackdown

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

U.S. Marines launch a Stinger missile at the Capu Midia Surface to Air Firing Range, on the Black Sea coast in Romania, Monday, March 20, 2017. About 1,200 U.S. and Romanian troops take part in the Spring Storm 17 exercise, meant to simulate defense of the Romanian Black Sea coastline and urban areas. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

U.S. OKs direct delivery of Stinger missiles to Ukraine

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Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv Mayor and former heavyweight champion gestures while speaking during his interview with the Associated Press in his office in the City Hall in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. A Ukrainian official says street fighting has broken out in Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv. Russian troops also put increasing pressure on strategic ports in the country's south following a wave of attacks on airfields and fuel facilities elsewhere that appeared to mark a new phase of Russia's invasion. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Kyiv mayor: We are ‘hunting’ these Russian saboteurs

By Francesca Ebel - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the nation in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Feb. 21, 2022. Putin ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces put on high alert Sunday, Feb. 27, amid tensions with the West over his invasion of Ukraine. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin order puts Russian nuke deterrence force on high alert

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech on the Russian invasion of the Ukraine during a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. The reflections are caused by a metallic handrail at the press tribune. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

EU shuts airspace to Russian airlines; will buy Ukraine arms

By Emily Schultheis and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A woman carries her child as she arrives at the Medyka border crossing after fleeing from the Ukraine, in Poland, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. The head of the United Nations refugee agency says more than a half a million people had fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on Thursday. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)

Poland takes in most refugees, leads global protests against Russian war on Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro attends a ceremony to present the new national identification card, at the Planalto presidential palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Jair Bolsonaro says Brazil will remain neutral in Russia invasion after Putin talk

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In this photo taken from video provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Street fighting broke out in Ukraine's second-largest city Sunday and Russian troops put increasing pressure on strategic ports in the country's south following a wave of attacks on airfields and fuel facilities elsewhere that appeared to mark a new phase of Russia's invasion. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine agrees to direct talks with Russia on Belarus border as Kyiv clashes intensify

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Governors in some states yank Russian-made vodka from liquor stores

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz comments on the Russian attack on Ukraine during a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb.22, 2022. Russian troops launched the expected attack on Ukraine on Thursday. (Michael Kappeler/dpa via AP)

Once-reluctant Germany boosts military in wake of Russian invasion

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and Russian President Vladimir Putin talk to each other during their meeting in Beijing, Feb. 4, 2022. China is the only friend that might help Russia blunt the impact of economic sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine, but President Xi Jinping’s government is giving no sign it might be willing to risk its own access to U.S. and European markets by doing too much. (Alexei Druzhinin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Putin threat tests China’s nuclear umbrella pact with Ukraine

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba speaks at the general assembly hall, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. Russian President Vladimir Putin has received no support from members of the U.N. Security Council for his actions to bring separatists in eastern Ukraine under Moscow's control. At an emergency meeting Monday night, the U.S. called Putin's moves a pretext for a further invasion. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Ukraine sees win as Russia agrees on peace talks

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz addresses a joint press conference with Ireland's Prime Minister following talks at the Chancellery in Berlin on February 22, 2022. (John MACDOUGALL /Pool Photo via AP)

Germany makes historic shift on defense after Russia invasion

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a media conference at an Eastern Partnership Summit in Brussels, Dec. 15, 2021. (Johanna Geron/ Pool Photo via AP, File)

Zelenskyy’s unlikely journey from comedy to Ukrainian hero

By John Daniszewski - Associated Press

Zakhar Leshchyshyn, a Ukrainian serviceman, reports to a commander via military intercom while in a shelter at the frontline positions near Zolote, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Pentagon: U.S. to send $350 million in additional firepower to Ukraine

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An Aeroflot counter at an airport in Prague, Czech Republic, is shown in thisTuesday, July 2, 2019, file photo. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) ** FILE **

Delta suspends codesharing with Russia’s Aeroflot carrier

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, walks under a camouflage net in a trench as he visits the war-hit Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Dec. 6, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP, File)

Biden has denied, slow-walked arms to Kyiv

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A Ukrainian soldier walks past debris of a burning military truck, on a street in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. Russian troops stormed toward Ukraine's capital Saturday, and street fighting broke out as city officials urged residents to take shelter. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia hits Ukrainian fuel supplies, airfields in new attacks

By Yuras Karmanau, Jim Heintz, Vladimir Isachenkov and Zeke Miller - Associated Press