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Whitaker first took over the Justice Department on an acting basis during Trump’s first term in office in Nov. 2018, right after the midterm elections, when Trump announced on Twitter that Whitaker would be succeeding Jeff Sessions, whom Trump asked to resign.

President Joe Biden and his Western counterparts are meeting in Washington this week to mark the 75th anniversary of NATO.

Ukraine may have gotten support and vague assurances from NATO leaders in Vilnius this week, but ultimately it received no clear commitment that it will be joining the club any time soon.

President Joe Biden will close out his five-day trip to Europe on Thursday standing alongside Nordic leaders.

NATO leaders have wrapped up a two-day summit with pledges of long-term support for Ukraine but no offer of membership yet.

President Joe Biden spoke from the NATO summit in Lithuania on Wednesday, praising the alliance for its defense of Ukraine against the Russian invasion. “[Putin] was betting NATO would break apart… He thought wrong.”

NATO leaders say they will allow Ukraine to join the alliance “when allies agree and conditions are met.” The plan emerged Tuesday at the annual NATO summit in Lithuania. It came just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy blasted the organization’s failure to set a timetable for his country as “absurd.” Although many NATO members have funneled arms and ammunition...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to send Sweden’s NATO accession protocol to the Turkish Parliament “as soon as possible.”

Sweden gave up a history of non-alignment to apply to join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Turkey accuses Sweden of being too lenient toward groups that Ankara says pose a security threat.