WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden meets with the top Republican leaders in Congress this week to discuss the debt ceiling in an effort to avoid a catastrophic default on the nation’s debt, he’s also preparing to take the fight directly to some of the rank-and-file GOP lawmakers whose votes could become crucial.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that there are “no good options” for the U.S. to avoid an economic “calamity” if Congress fails to raise the nation’s borrowing limit.

Days after he launched a furious tirade against Russia’s military leadership and threatened to withdraw his forces from Bakhmut, the head of mercenary group has said it would continue to lead the offensive on the city in eastern Ukraine.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Sunday wouldn’t commit to supporting a short-term solution of the debt ceiling and insisted on a “clean” deal.

Arab government representatives in Cairo voted Sunday to return Syria to the Arab League after a 12-year suspension, according to the organization.

The “sisterhood” of Democratic power brokers was thrilled: President Biden had just tapped one of their own, Julie Chavez Rodriguez, to run his 2024 campaign.

A multi-vehicle crash in southern Turkey’s Hatay province killed at least 12 people and injured 31 others, including three seriously, officials said.

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The death toll from flash floods and landslides in eastern Congo has risen beyond 200, with many more people still missing, according to local authorities in the province of South Kivu.

In a ceremony steeped in a millennia of tradition and pageantry, King Charles III was crowned monarch of the United Kingdom on Saturday.