29 sources checked · Left, Center, and Right included · 1h ago
Most headlines neutrally report the Senate's initial actions on Russian sanctions, with one highlighting the 'historic vote' aspect.
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29 sources across Left, Center, and Right all describe the same event.
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The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Capitol, moving forward...
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Capitol
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with…
The US Senate advanced sweeping Russian energy sanctions legislation as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Capitol, seeing the vote as a tribute to the bill's author, the l...
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy watching from the Senate Gallery.
The procedural vote came just hours after the funeral of the bill’s main architect, Sen. Lindsey Graham.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Capitol
As Washington remembered Senator Lindsey Graham, his colleagues cleared away a hurdle to passage of his long-stalled bill to penalize Moscow.
The sweeping sanctions bill, authored by the late Senator Lindsey Graham, was passed on Tuesday when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Capitol.
The Senate, in a rare bipartisan vote Tuesday night, advanced a bill that would impose harsher sanctions on Russia and buyers of Russian oil and gas than the U.S. has previously enforced an...
The procedural vote took place on the same day as Lindsey Graham's funeral service in Washington.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to advance a Russia sanctions package inspired by the late South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, hours after a funeral service for the Republ...
The current draft of the sanctions legislation represents a watered-down version of the measures originally proposed by Graham. It also targets Iran, per Trump's demand.
The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a sweeping Russian sanctions bill on Tuesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Capitol.
In a massive show of bipartisanship, 86 senators voted to move forward with a Russia and Iran sanctions bill that had been championed by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. Why it matters: The vo...
Senators capped off a day of tributes to their late colleague Lindsey Graham by advancing a sanctions bill he spent his final week of life negotiating.
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Now: Wording Gap is 20/99 and story health is stable · 29 sources · all three buckets · comparable news format.