President Donald Trump's political wartiest has spent much of the 2026 midterm election campaign cycle on the sidelines despite pleas from Republicans.
The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican is back in Washington after a fall, hospitalization, pneumonia and weeks of rehabilitation kept him away from the Senate.
The new Russian bank sanctions follow a small handful of other actions that the Trump administration has taken since vowing to inflict "economic D-Day" on Iran.
President Trump has been using his social media site to sound off on Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's suggestion that the AI industry slow its pace of development.