Author: Victor I. Nava, Washington Examiner

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is leading calls to expand the Supreme Court after a draft opinion leaked on Monday, signaling the high court would undo the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion case. Omar is a frequent advocate of congressional legislation allowing for court-packing. Her latest call to expand the court of nine justices comes…

Russia’s highest-ranking uniformed officer made a secret trip to the front lines in eastern Ukraine last week and narrowly escaped a Ukrainian attack, according to a report on Sunday. Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of the Russian military, traveled to the Russian-controlled city of Izyum and made a stop at a…

Unexplained explosions were heard, fires broke out, and a railway bridge collapsed near the Ukrainian border in Russia on Sunday and early Monday morning, in three separate incidents, according to Russian officials. One person was reportedly injured after a large fire engulfed a Russian military facility in the Belgorod region of Russia on Sunday, according…

The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Sunday it struck a military airfield in southern Ukraine loaded with weapons and ammunition from the United States and Europe. The ministry claims a “high-precision” Onyx missile was used by Russian forces to destroy the airfield’s runway and a hanger holding the weapons and ammunition. The alleged attack…

An operation has been planned to evacuate perhaps as many as 1,000 civilians holed up with Ukrainian soldiers underneath a steel plant in Mariupol on Friday. The office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the planned operation on Friday but did not reveal any details about how the evacuations from the Azovstal steel works facility…

Russian missiles struck Ukraine’s capital as the head of the United Nations visited on Thursday, according to Ukrainian officials. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that five Russian missiles were fired into Kyiv immediately after his meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. One of the missiles struck the lower floors of a residential high-rise, and…

A former U.S. Marine fighting in Ukraine was killed in combat this week, his family said, according to a report on Thursday. Willy Joseph Cancel, 22, had been working for a private military contracting company in Ukraine since March 12 or 13. He was killed in fighting on Monday, and his body has not been…

A top U.S. official said on Wednesday that there is “credible information” that Russian troops executed Ukrainians attempting to surrender in the eastern part of the country and have committed systematic war crimes across Ukraine. Beth Van Schaack, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, told the United Nations Security Council that a Russian military…

The only entrance into the Black Sea remains off-limits to non-Turkish warships, preventing Russia from replacing its sunken cruiser, the British Ministry of Defense said on Thursday. However, Russia continues to have the firepower to strike targets in Ukraine from the Black Sea. After the devastating losses of the Moskva and the Saratov, Russia now…

Satellite images show Russia is using trained dolphins to guard a naval base in the Black Sea, according to a report. A U.S. Naval Institute report on Wednesday said that the Russian Navy placed two dolphin pens at the entrance to Sevastopol harbor, off the coast of Crimea. Satellite images provided to the Washington Examiner…