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Fox News White House reporter Peter Doocy asked President Joe Biden several questions on Thursday about the announcement of sanctions against Russia. Doocy questioned whether Biden "underestimated Putin" and if he still believes that Putin is a "worthy adversary," a comment Biden made last year.

But many observers said that you can't "underestimate" someone if you're calling them a "worthy adversary." It prompted Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin to lament that given the gravity of the moment, she had hoped that Doocy would behave respectably. Again, he didn't rise to the occasion, she said.

Former Trump-era Secretary of State Mike Pompeo lashed out at President Joe Biden in a Fox News column following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

"This invasion was by no means inevitable. We in the Trump administration knew that it was Putin’s aim to establish Russian dominance and influence over all the old Soviet bloc countries, including in Ukraine. We were able to keep an invasion like this one from occurring by establishing a model of deterrence not just with respect to Russia, but with anyone who threatened to harm or undermine our interests," Pompeo wrote. "Make no mistake, Putin is about the business of trying to bring back the Soviet Union. We must not allow that to happen."

US President Joe Biden announced "devastating" Western sanctions against Russia on Thursday and was shortly to address the American people on the unfolding invasion of Ukraine.

After a virtual, closed-door meeting which lasted an hour and 10 minutes, the group of rich Western democracies -- Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States -- said it was standing firm against Russia's "threat to the rules-based international order."

The number three Republican in the House of Representatives on Thursday is under fire after releasing a statement attacking President Joe Biden over Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

"Both U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik issued statements Thursday denouncing Russia’s attack on Ukraine," WWNY-TV reported Thursday. "Republican Stefanik, however, also used the opportunity to attack President Joe Biden, a Democrat, who she called 'weak' and 'feckless.'"

The crisis in Ukraine has gone from bad to worse, with Russian troops, on orders from President Vladimir Putin, now carrying out a full-fledged invasion of the East European country. And President Joe Biden, working closely with the United States’ NATO allies in Europe, has promised to respond to Russian aggression with tough economic sanctions.

But on the MAGA far right, some Republicans have been praising Putin — including former President Donald Trump, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. And retired U.S. Army Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, during a February 23 appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” stressed that no good can come from Trump and Pompeo describing “murderous thug” Putin in glowing terms.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has emerged as Donald Trump's strongest challenger within the Republican Party, and their simmering rivalry will be on full display at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference.

The Florida governor will help open CPAC in Orlando on Thursday afternoon while Trump will address the annual gathering Saturday on its final evening, and those bookend appearances will highlight their behind-the-scenes battle for dominance over the Republican Party, reported CNN.

There is a longstanding custom in US politics that, whatever squabbles are dominating the domestic agenda, Democrats and Republicans rally around the flag when crisis looms overseas.

But the threat of war in Ukraine is severely testing Congress's traditional role as a foreign policy partner to the White House as lawmakers, hobbled by bitter factionalism, struggle to speak with unity.

Energy companies interested in developing offshore wind sites bid more than $1.5 billion Wednesday in by far the biggest US auction for the renewable power.

After launching the auction Wednesday morning, US officials released updates throughout the day as the bids gradually rose on six available tracts involving nearly 500,000 acres off the coasts of New York and New Jersey.

President Joe Biden has told Americans to prepare for the "costs" of Washington's efforts to stop Russia from invading Ukraine, but truck driver Jeremy Rakestraw wonders if he hasn't already paid enough.

He decided to sell his truck when its monthly fuel bill more than doubled to $17,000, and though he's back on the road towing cargo in the vehicle of a company that covers his gas, the high inflation Americans have faced over the past year continues to eat into his pay.

US President Joe Biden in Taliban fighter garb or stumbling over his words or bungling efforts to avert war in Ukraine –- posts on Donald Trump's new social media network "Truth Social" have a go-to target.

For the users who make it past the waitlist to join and then the ubiquitous tech glitches on the freshly launched app, a first scan reveals that the platform calling itself a "big tent" of ideas has a tight focus on Trump's favorite fixations.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz will stop blocking President Joe Biden’s State Department nominees now that the administration is implementing sanctions against a company that built a Russian gas pipeline meant to supply Germany with natural gas.

Still, Texas’ junior senator wants the administration and Congress to issue permanent sanctions on the pipeline as Russian President Vladimir Putin mobilizes forces along the Ukraine border. For months, Cruz single-handedly delayed dozens of key State Department nominees to retaliate against a previous Biden decision to drop opposition to the pipeline.