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KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks overnight killed at least three people in Ukraine, local officials said Friday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was expecting U.S. envoys in Kyiv in the coming days as part of renewed diplomatic efforts to end the war. The air war between Russia and Ukraine has intensified as the conflict stretches into its fifth year following Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor. Russian forces have relentlessly struck civilian areas. Previously, these attacks occurred mostly at night, but now they are happening during the day as well. The front line in eastern and southern Ukraine remains…

There’s one big problem with many Republicans, and that’s how the only way they’re better than Democrats on guns is that they don’t inherently want every bit of gun control that comes down the line. They’re open to talking, and they’ll even vote for it from time to time, but they’ll vote against others. They’re not good, just less bad. But not all are cut from that cloth. There are some who are truly pro-gun, which is something you just don’t see from Democrats anymore.That’s how we got suppressors and short-barreled long guns without tax…

Eugene Lucas spent about a decade working inside the Department of Veterans Affairs, treating veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder from conflicts spanning Vietnam through Iraq and Afghanistan. In a recent interview with Military.com otherwise focused on emerging GLP-1 research and alcohol use disorder, Lucas, a psychiatric nurse practitioner who is now associate professor and coordinator of the Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program at Wilkes University, made a clinical observation that stood apart from the rest of the conversation: In his experience, the number of times a veteran deployed to a combat zone tracked closely with how much trauma they carried…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Treasury announced Friday it has imposed sanctions on a Turkish financial institution as part of its latest effort to sever “critical financial lifelines” for the Iranian government. The actions against Golden Global Yatirim Bankasi Anonim Sirketi come nearly a week after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced “Operation Economic Outcast, ” Washington’s new effort to get Tehran to capitulate to its demands after more than six months of war. The department accused the bank and its entities of being established to enable Iran’s efforts to transfer oil revenues from China to Turkey, where they could then…

Former Navy sailor Patrick “Tate” Adamiak was serving a decades-long sentence for weapons possession charges that, based on my own view of the evidence, were completely bogus. He violated no laws that I can see, yet he was in prison with the worst of the worst. Notice, however, that I used the past tense.Now, Adamiak is free and clear thanks to President Donald Trump.Lee Williams at The Gun Writer, who has done more to free Adamiak than anyone, has the story.Former U.S. Navy sailor Patrick “Tate” Adamiak has been pardoned by President Donald J. Trump—effective…