Once Kyiv is surrounded, US intelligence believes the plan will be for Russian special forces to move in and seize an airport - likely Sikorsky or Boryspil - which would then be used to fly in a much larger force of up to 10,000 paratroopers who would assault the capital.

The government has announced that the owner of Chelsea FC will also be prohibited from transactions with UK individuals and businesses.
The government could still grant him a licence to sell the club, but will need to be assured that he will not benefit financially and any proceeds would remain frozen.

(AP) - The Delaware judge overseeing a voting machine company´s $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News delayed the opening of the trial Monday, raising the prospect that the two sides might attempt to settle before the eagerly watched case goes before a jury.

Bottoms, who served as mayor of Atlanta from 2018 to 2022, previously blamed the 50 percent increase in homicides in 2021 on lax gun laws, teenagers having too much free time on their hands and the state lifting its COVID-19.

Jim Carter, a director at the conservative America First Policy Institute, said that Congress typically ignores presidential budgets and he expects Biden's plan to be more of a 'liberal messaging document.'

envoy Volker Perthes told reporters. The two sides are using tanks, artillery and other heavy weapons in densely populated areas. Fighter jets swooped overhead and anti-aircraft fire lit up the skies as darkness fell.

The plan appeared to be underway in the early hours, as explosions sounded before dawn with the city under bombardment from what the defense minister called 'horrific rocket strikes' not seen since 1941.

Meanwhile, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has promised to deliver 500 units of temporary housing to the city, while the Biden administration has sent the city and county more than $200 million for homeless programs, she added.

In some of the most harrowing scenes of the conflict so far, at least eight civilians fleeing the town of Irpin, near Kyiv, were killed in Russian attacks alongside the suitcases they had packed for their escape.

BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) - Russia´s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday expressed gratitude to Brazil for its approach in pushing for an end to hostilities in Ukraine - an effort that has irked both Kyiv and the West, and by afternoon prompted an unusually sharp rebuke from the White House.

As forecasters have warned that Medicare won't be able to pay out its promised benefits in just five years, Biden says that with his proposal, the program will be bolstered for at least another 25 years. 

A man crosses a deserted street in central Kyiv as Russian troops approached the capital on Friday morning. The Russian troops are thought to have arrived from the north-west, having pushed down from Chernobyl which was captured late yesterday

'Until we deal with the systemic issues of gun violence in this country - how easily young people with mental illness can access guns in this country, I'm afraid that this will not be the last summer that we are having this conversation,'  Bottoms told  .

Ukrainian troops took up defence positions in the capital on Friday morning as the country's ministry of defence urged residents in Kyiv to make Molotov cocktails to 'repel the occupiers' and asked citizens in Obolon to share information with Ukrainian military about the movement of Russian vehicles and troops

Keisha Lance Bottoms says a stray bullet nearly hit her nephew after it penetrated his bedroom wall and landed beside his bed in Atlanta - just years after another nephew was tragically shot and killed.

A person who was trying to flee with his family lies on the ground after the shelling of the Russian army at the evacuation point of Irpin, several members of the same family have been killed in this attack today 

President Joe Biden will propose raising taxes on Americans earning more than $400,000 to boost funding for Medicare and expand the program's ability to negotiate lower costs for prescription drugs in a bid to fix an imminent funding crisis.

A Russian attack on the capital would likely be coordinated with a push by troops on southern and eastern fronts - Crimea and Donbass - aimed at pinning down Ukrainian armed forces so they cannot retreat and reinforce the city, officials told author Michael Weiss.

'This modest increase in Medicare contributions from those with the highest incomes will help keep the Medicare program strong for decades to come,' Biden writes in the Times. The plan is also intended to close what the White House describes as loopholes that allow some incomes to avoid Medicare taxes.

The former mayor also said the pandemic 'left a lot of people battered and bruised, not just physically, but also emotionally,' which led to an increase in personal disputes that could easily be exacerbated by guns.

The funding to be included in the mayor's upcoming budget could be used in part to buy hotels or motels that would be converted to housing, while the city combs through its inventory of properties for those that could be used for sheltering homeless people.