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The most hotly anticipated event so far in the 2022 primary season will unfold today in Pennsylvania, where voters of both parties will make crucial decisions in competitive races for Senate and governor. The results will help clarify the mood of the country: Pennsylvania, a longtime swing state, has often…

“I don’t think America has anything against Ukraine,” Mr. Hagerty said on Fox News. “We don’t want to see them fail, but we have problems right here at home that we need to be paying attention to.” Senator Roger Marshall, Republican of Kansas, said in a brief interview that he…

The Covid-19 vaccines authorized for use today were developed at unprecedented speed and surpassed expectations in how well they worked. The billions of people who are protected by them have avoided severe symptoms, hospitalization and deaths. These vaccines are a scientific success beyond measure. And yet they could be even…

HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — Rick Griswold, a 74-year-old lifelong Republican, doesn’t know much about Ted Budd, the congressman he plans to support on Tuesday in the party’s Senate primary election. But he knows exactly why he’ll cast his ballot for Mr. Budd. “Trump endorsed him,” Mr. Griswold, an Army veteran, said…

Here are the stories of some of the other victims: Katherine Massey, 72: Ms. Massey was known for her civil rights advocacy. Almost one year ago, after the cousin of a state lawmaker was fatally shot near the lawmaker’s district office, Ms. Massey had written a letter to the editor…

Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history of antisemitic internet posts gunned down 11 worshipers, blaming Jews for allowing immigrant “invaders” into the United States. The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers…

After more than three decades in Russia, McDonald’s — an icon of U.S. lifestyle and capitalism — is selling its Russia business as it looks to leave the country completely. The move is a significant departure for a brand whose growth across the world became the symbol of globalism and…

COBARGO, Australia — On a recent sunny day in the hills behind Cobargo, a village in southeastern Australia, local volunteers were hard at work installing a bathroom for the Jee family, which had waited more than two years for a proper one. Tammie and Brett Jee and their five sons…