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* Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the administration will soon announce ramped-up sanctions on Russia. “I can tell you that this will be one of the largest sanctions we’ve done against the Russian federation,” Bessent said in an interview this afternoon. * The entire East Wing of the White House will be demolished “within days,” according to two Trump administration officials. The demolition marks a significant expansion of the ballroom construction project from what Trump said earlier this summer. * Vice President JD Vance is again in Israel today as the Trump administration seeks to shore up the ceasefire it brokered between Israel and Hamas. * The U.S. military launched its eighth strike against an alleged drug-carrying vessel, killing two people in the waters of

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