Articles by Leigha Kucera

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at an event celebrating the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, inside the East Room at the White House in Washington, March 16, 2022.Tom Brenner | ReutersWASHINGTON — President Joe Biden held a nearly two-hour phone call on Friday morning with Chinese President Xi Jinping to discuss Russia’s…

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Saturday rejected calls from Ukraine’s president to sanction Russia now, saying that Moscow should not be sure “exactly” how the West will respond to a potential invasion.Speaking to CNBC’s Hadley Gamble at Germany’s annual Munich Security Conference, Scholz said that Western allies were “well prepared” to sanction Russia — and…