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Russia has made a key battlefield breakthrough in Ukraine as Vladimir Putin races to secure as much as land as possible before Friday's Alaska summit with US President Donald Trump that could finally end war after three gruelling…

The House voted to pass a rule vote to begin debate on four separate spending bills after two rules votes failed last week, prompting Republicans to burst into applaus on the floor.  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., was the only…