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When he travels to Texas Tuesday, President Biden will be greeted with near-record gas prices as the Russia-Ukraine war stretches into a thirteenth day. Before he leaves Washington for Fort Worth, Biden is expected to announce a ban on Russian oil imports to the United States. Americans are experiencing the highest gas prices since the 2008 financial crisis, with the national gas price average reaching more than $4 per gallon – the highest average to date, according to AAA.

President Joe Biden was greeted with “Let’s go, Brandon!” chants in Kentucky on Wednesday as he arrived to view the damage caused by last week’s deadly tornadoes. As Biden exited his motorcade in Mayfield, Kentucky, two people shouted “Let’s go Brandon!” according to reporters on the scene.

WASHINGTON - Gen. David Petraeus went before Congress on Monday to deliver his long-awaited assessment of Iraq, greeted by Democrats who praised him while sharply criticizing the war he commands. The four-star general sat a few feet away as Rep. Ike Skelton, D-Mo., described him as "almost certainly the right man for the job in Iraq." But, he added, "he's the right person three years too late and 250,000 troops short." Rep. Tom Lantos, D-Calif., hailed Petraeus and a second witness, Ambassador Ryan Crocker, as "two of our nation's most capable public servants." And yet, he quickly said, "military progress...

TUCSON — Case is home. The body of Army Cpl. Casey Lee “Case” Mellen came back to Arizona around 2 p.m. Monday as a Navy cargo aircraft landed at Tucson International Airport and taxied to the executive terminal. Although it was a sad day, the soldier’s father, Casey Edward Mellen, said, “I’m happy my son’s home.” The war is claiming many American men and women, he said. Case is just one of the dead and is part “of all the future dead soldiers,” Mellen said. It was not a political statement against the war, just a reality as GIs remain...

Clinton greeted by anti-war protesters A group of anti-war demonstrators gathers outside the Hall of Springs in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2005, as U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., attends a luncheon inside. (AP Photo/Tim Roske) SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was greeted by anti-war protesters today at a local Democratic fundraiser in Saratoga Springs. More than a dozen Iraq war protesters waved signs and called on her to support an immediate withdrawal of troops. Barbara Murphy, a retired state worker from Clifton Park, said she voted for Clinton in 2000. But she said she won't...