Charles R. Davis

Russian troops have apparently been firing deadly cluster munitions into Kherson city since they were forced to retreat, watchdog says

The remains of a cluster bomb rocket and other ordnance were collected as the Ukraine Army troops dug in at frontline trench positions to continue repelling Russian attacks, east of the strategic port city of Mykolaiv,...

Ukraine says Russia has abducted more than 13,000 children since the invasion began. A rights watchdog called it a war crime

A girl is seen with a Ukrainian flag at the Svobody Square - Freedom Square as people gather to celebrate the liberation following Russia's withdrawal from Kherson in Ukraine on November 19, 2022.Abdullah Unver/Anadolu...

Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows forced to testify before Georgia grand jury about Trump's effort to overturn 2020 election

President Donald Trump speaks as White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (R) listens prior to Trump's Marine One departure from the South Lawn of the White House July 29, 2020 in Washington, DC.Alex Wong/Getty...

Russia beat, starved, and electrocuted people from a captured Ukrainian nuclear power plant in a web of underground prisons, escaped workers say

A serviceman with a Russian flag on his uniform stands guard near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the course of Ukraine-Russia conflict outside the Russian-controlled city of Enerhodar in the Zaporizhzhia...

Russian soldier spoke of drunkenly killing civilians in phone call near Bucha: 'I think I'm going crazy'

Communal workers prepare to carry a corpse in a body bag in a street of Bucha, not far from the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on April 3, 2022.SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images Intercepted phone calls detail a Russian...

Ukrainian suicide drone boats packed with bombs are threatening Russia's once feared Black Sea fleet, and it may not be able to stop them

A Russian flag waves beside the bay of Sevastopol in occupied Crimea on March 22, 2014.VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP via Getty Images Ukraine last week appeared to attack Russia's Black Sea Fleet using a swarm of naval and aerial...

New Hampshire Republican Don Bolduc claimed a local school has 'litter boxes' for children. The school says that's 'entirely untrue.'

New Hampshire Senate candidate Don Bolduc is the latest Republican candidate to falsely claim schools are providing "litter boxes" to students identifying as cats.Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty...

Weapons in Ukraine aren't flooding Europe's black markets, but that could change

Servicemen of Ukrainian Military Forces move US made FIM-92 Stinger missiles, a man-portable air-defence system (MANPADS) that fires an infrared homing surface-to-air missile designed to down enemy aircraft.SERGEI...

GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano's new ad uses same stock footage as Russian propaganda

An ad from Republican Doug Mastriano uses stock footage that appears to be from Belarus.Facebook/Doug Mastriano campaign An ad posted by the Doug Mastriano campaign uses footage previously featured in Russian...

Local jail warden, twin brother, arrested and accused of shooting migrants in Texas, killing one

The Franklin Mountains loom over Fort Bliss, a vast military installation in the desert on the outskirts of El Paso. Not the road where the shooting occurred.(AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto) A jail warden and his twin...

An Army major's wife had them read up on how to be a Soviet spy so they could leak sensitive US military medical info to Russia, prosecutors say

Russian flagPaul Zinken/picture alliance via Getty Images In a new federal indictment, prosecutors allege a Maryland couple tried to spy for Russia. The indictment says one of the accused told her partner to read the...

'Failing communist regimes' in Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua account for new wave of migration, US says

Nearly half of the people who crossed the US border in August came from three countries. "Failing communist regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Cuba are driving a new wave of migration," a US official...

Veterans criticize Doug Mastriano for wearing 'the uniform of traitors' after a photo of him in a Confederate outfit surfaces

Retired Army colonel Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator from Pennsylvania who is running for governor, poses at left in a Confederate uniform in a 2013-14 faculty photo at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education...

Pro-choice physicians blast Pennsylvania Republican candidates Dr. Oz and Doug Mastriano and warn that abortion rights are on the ballot at both the state and federal level

Dr. Jessica Klemens speaking at a press conference outside City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 15, 2022.Charles Davis/Insider A group of OB/GYNs spoke out Thursday against efforts to ban abortion in...

Fetterman attacks Oz over proposed federal abortion ban, demanding he take a clear stance on a bill introduced by Lindsey Graham

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman addresses a crowd at Montgomery County Community College on Sunday, September 11, 2022.Charles Davis/Insider A bill from Sen. Lindsey Graham would impose a national ban on abortion...

John Fetterman addresses thousands outside Philadelphia, promises to be '51st vote' for abortion rights

Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman addresses a crowd at Montgomery County Community College on Sunday, September 11, 2022.Charles Davis/Insider Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman addressed more than 3,000 people at...

The only country where cluster bombs are actively being used is Ukraine, where Russian use is killing and maiming hundreds of civilians, watchdog reports

A photograph taken on July 3, 2022 shows an tail section of a 300mm rocket which appear to contained cluster bombs launched from a BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher embedded in the ground after shelling in...

Afghanistan's last president, Ashraf Ghani, rejects comparison to Ukraine's Zelenskyy, says he's 'lived an honorable life'

Ashraf Ghani, former president of Afghanistan, waits to take the lectern to address the United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, September 19, 2017 in New York City.Drew Angerer/Getty Images Former Afghan...

Trump has until Friday afternoon to decide to whether to fight the release of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. His team is reportedly consulting outside counsel.

Former US President Donald Trump waves while walking to a vehicle outside of Trump Tower in New York City on August 10, 2022. -STRINGER/AFP via Getty Images The US Department of Justice has moved to unseal the...

Leaders of House January 6 committee hail Steve Bannon conviction: 'No one is above the law'

Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., speak to Wandrea "Shaye" Moss, a former Georgia election worker, on June 21, 2022 in Washington, DC.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via...

John Fetterman accuses Mehmet Oz of recording a Pennsylvania campaign video at his home in New Jersey

Screen captures from a 2020 video tour of his New Jersey home for People Magazine and a campaign video released in July 2022. They both feature similar details.People Magazine/Mehmet Oz campaign for Senate Dr. Mehmet Oz...

What is Lawrence v. Texas? The Supreme Court precedent Justice Clarence Thomas suggested reconsidering after overturning Roe v. Wade

In 2003, the US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state laws prohibiting same-sex sexual activity were unconstitutional. The case, Lawrence v. Texas, centered on a law banning sodomy. The ruling was sparked by the 1998...

Protesters plan to 'carpool to Justice Clarence Thomas' street' in the wake of SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife, the conservative activist Virginia Thomas, arriving at The Heritage Foundation on October 21.Drew Angerer/Getty Image An activist group said on Friday that it intends...

Trump might have to be prosecuted to save American democracy, an expert on authoritarianism argues

Former US President Donald Trump arrives to speak to supporters from The Ellipse near the White House on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a history professor...

Tucker Carlson 'would be prohibited' in Moldova, a disinformation expert said, as the Ukrainian refugee-filled country battles Russian propaganda to level the media playing field

Posters outside the Eugene Ionesco National Theater in Chisinau, Moldova, urge Russia to end its war in UkraineCharles Davis/Insider In March, authorities in Moldova banned news broadcasts from Russia. The parliament...