Day: May 15, 2026

Rescue workers ended search operations Friday at the devastated building, which was struck this week during Russia’s heaviest air attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.

How close did the world come to nuclear war in the autumn of 2022? At the time, officials in President Joe Biden’s administration were seriously alarmed that Russian leader Vladimir Putin might use nuclear weapons to stave off defeat in Ukraine. Biden himself invoked the dangers of the Cuban Missile Crisis; years later, former administration officials are offering their own accounts of what happened. Those accounts can’t conclusively answer whether Putin was really on the verge of going nuclear.

The conflict in the Middle East is both accelerating and complicating trends in the region that have been in motion since 2020.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday that a Russian missile attack on a Kyiv apartment building the previous day killed 24 people, including three children.

COMMENT: With some investors taking a near 90% hit when their frozen Russian equities fund was finally liquidated, have we allowed complacency to creep back into markets?

President Donald Trump said he would install his proposed sculpture garden of “American Heroes” in West Potomac Park, a stretch near the National Mall that includes the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.