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Putin’s troubled war sees battlefield, diplomatic reverses

Ukrainian servicemen squat during a patrol in a recently retaken village, north of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s nearly three-month invasion of neighboring Ukraine suffered reverses on the battlefield and in the halls of power Sunday, as long-neutral Finland said it would apply to join the NATO military alliance and neighboring Sweden signaled it wouldn’t be far behind.

Attorney Michael Sussmann leaves federal court in Washington, April 27, 2022. A criminal case brought by special counsel John Durham, the prosecutor appointed to investigate potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, heads to trial in Washington's federal court on May 16. The case centers on a single false statement that Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who represented the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, is alleged to have made to the FBI during a meeting that year. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Durham prosecution of Clinton campaign lawyer Sussmann also puts FBI on trial

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A due to limited supplies sign is shown on the baby formula shelf at a grocery store Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Parents across much of the U.S. are scrambling to find baby formula after a combination of supply disruptions and safety recalls have swept many of the leading brands off store shelves. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Baby formula crisis punctuates steep decline in support for Biden, Dems, with suburban moms

By Susan Ferrechio and Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Police walk outside the Tops grocery store on Sunday, May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at the supermarket, killing and wounding people in what authorities described as racially motivated violent extremism. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex)

Buffalo shooter previously on authorities’ radar in threat investigation

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

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White House press secretary Jen Psaki speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) pose with President Joe Biden in a group photo on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, May 12, 2022. From left are, Secretary-General of the Association for Southeast Asian Nations Dato Lim Jock Hoi, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Thailand Prime Minister Prayut Chan-ocha, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, Sultan of Brunei Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, Biden, Indonesian President Joko Widodo, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Laos Prime Minister Phankham Viphavan, Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri bin Yaakob and Philippines Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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A man wears a face mark as he fishes near docked oil drilling platforms, on May 8, 2020, in Port Aransas, Texas. A federal court has rejected a proposed lease auction for offshore oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, saying the Biden administration failed to conduct a proper environmental review. The decision on Jan. 27, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras sends the proposed lease sale back to the Interior Department to decide next steps. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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Attorney Michael Sussmann leaves federal court in Washington, April 27, 2022. A criminal case brought by special counsel John Durham, the prosecutor appointed to investigate potential government wrongdoing in the early days of the Trump-Russia probe, heads to trial in Washington's federal court on May 16. The case centers on a single false statement that Sussmann, a cybersecurity lawyer who represented the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign in 2016, is alleged to have made to the FBI during a meeting that year. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

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Kathy Barnette, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, takes part in a forum in Newtown, Pa., Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

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In this Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, file photo Young Kim, is shown smiling outside her campaign office in Yorba Linda, Calif. Ms. Kim lost her 2018 congressional bid but won in 2020 and is seeking reelection in 2022, this time in the state's 40th Congressional District. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson, File)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin looks on during the Victory Day military parade marking the 77th anniversary of the end of World War II in Moscow, Russia, Monday, May 9, 2022. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

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A due to limited supplies sign is shown on the baby formula shelf at a grocery store Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Salt Lake City. Parents across much of the U.S. are scrambling to find baby formula after a combination of supply disruptions and safety recalls have swept many of the leading brands off store shelves. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

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Police walk outside the Tops grocery store on Sunday, May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. A white 18-year-old wearing military gear and livestreaming with a helmet camera opened fire with a rifle at the supermarket, killing and wounding people in what authorities described as racially motivated violent extremism. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex)

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Orange County Sheriff's deputies guard the parking lot of Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, Calif., Sunday, May 15, 2022, after a fatal shooting. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

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In this Aug. 25, 2020, file photo, the 'Fearless Girl' bronze sculpture, commissioned by State Street Global Advisors, looks towards the New York Stock Exchange from its roadside perch in New York. Amid the push to get U.S. boardrooms to look more like companies’ customers and employees, advocates are finally seeing just how steep the task will be. Boards of directors at publicly traded U.S. companies are much more white and much less diverse than the overall population, often starkly so. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

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Ukrainian servicemen squat during a patrol in a recently retaken village, north of Kharkiv, east Ukraine, Sunday, May 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

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