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The Russian businessman has said sanctions were used as a weapon against himself and his home country Recently-released Russian businessman Viktor Bout told RT on Saturday that his case was an “experiment” in the legal persecution of Russia, with the US deploying sanctions against him and his home country alike.

A feud over the nation’s border crisis has become a test of whether a state can defy the federal government to protect itself An escalating feud between US President Joe Biden and Texas Governor Greg Abbott over the nation’s border crisis has emerged as a major test of where federal authority ends and when a…