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McConnell says the Senate will pass the largest Ukraine aid package yet on Wednesday

The GOP leader spoke from Stockholm following a trip to Kyiv. He backed Sweden and Finland joining NATO and pushed back on more isolationist voices in his party.

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Mitch McConnell visits Kyiv with delegation of Republican US senators

Senators meet Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who praises US bipartisan support for his country

The Guardian - US

Rand Paul blocks $40B in Ukraine aid

Both parties' leaders stressed that Ukraine urgently needs more aid but Paul delayed the package over his demands

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US defence chief urges Ukraine ceasefire in call with Russian counterpart – as it happened

Lloyd Austin urges immediate ceasefire and emphasises ‘the importance of maintaining lines of communication’ – follow the latest news

The Guardian - US

US senator delays $40bn Ukraine aid package

Senator Rand Paul delayed a vote on the package, which has bipartisan support in the US legislature.

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: Joe Biden expresses support for right of Finland and Sweden to join Nato– as it happened

Ukraine president ready to speak to Putin ‘but only to him’; electricity supplier RAO Nordic says decision to suspend Finnish supply is ‘exceptional’

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 79 of the invasion

UK says failed Russian crossing of river shows pressure on troops; first war crimes trial begins in Kyiv

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Republican senator Rand Paul blocks $40bn aid package to Ukraine despite GOP move to pass it

Comes despite the fact both parties agreed to pass it

The Independent UK

Congress leaps to action after Supreme Court protests - Roll Call

Members of Congress have moved particularly quickly to beef up Supreme Court security and address a wave of protests at homes of justices.

Roll Call

Ukraine aid vote pushed to next week amid Senate snarl - Roll Call

Senators headed home for the weekend without clearing a $40.1 billion emergency spending package for Ukraine.

Roll Call

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Likely Senate contest in Kentucky pits ideological opposites

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul rarely targets his likely Democratic challenger by name in Kentucky

The Independent UK

Ukraine aid bill faces familiar Senate procedural obstacles - Roll Call

The Senate finds itself in a familiar position after a $40.1 billion emergency funding package for Ukraine passed the House.

Roll Call

GOP ‘ministry of truth’ slurs against Biden’s disinformation board expose their own political tricks, experts say

Republicans are upset about a Biden administration initiative to tackle disinformation because it hits close to home, experts tell Andrew Feinberg

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Heart of the Primaries 2022, Republicans-Issue 20 (April 28, 2022)

Welcome to The Heart of the Primaries, Republican Edition

The Independent UK

Blinken tells Rand Paul that Russia has no right to invade ex-Soviet countries in tense exchange

Secretary of State was giving testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Tribune News Service

Sen. Rand Paul says Putin only invades countries that ‘were part of Russia’

Memo to Sen. Rand Paul: Ukraine is an independent country, not a Soviet puppet state.

Salon

Rand Paul goes to bat for Putin – again

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Kentucky’s voter guide for the 2022 primary elections

Reason

The CDC Extends Its Mask Mandate on Planes, Trains, and Buses…Again

Plus: Elon Musk offers to buy all of Twitter, China's "zero COVID" policy is reaching its limits, and more...

Tribune News Service

Democrats revel in history during Supreme Court confirmation vote

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris couldn’t hold back a broad smile and a crack in her voice as she guided the Senate’s final steps to confirming the first Black woman to the Supreme Court Thursday.

The Independent UK

Crowd, cheers, history as Senate confirms Supreme Court pick

Moments before the Senate began Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation vote to become the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, the chamber filled with the swell of history

Roll Call

Democrats revel in history during Supreme Court confirmation vote - Roll Call

Democrats marked Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation to the Supreme Court with smiles, tears and cheers.

Tribune News Service

Biden signs federal anti-lynching bill into law

President Joe Biden has signed legislation to finally define lynching as a federal hate crime.

Reuters

U.S. senators try to avoid weeks-long delay in Russia trade measure

U.S. senators scrambled on Tuesday to reach a compromise to avoid further delays before passing legislation revoking "most favored" trade status for Russia and Belarus over the invasion of Ukraine, after Republican lawmakers blocked efforts to pass it quickly.

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