senator bernie sanders and california democratic congress member ro khanna are urging fellow lawmakers to vote against the $738 billion national defense authorization act. in a joint statement, the two lawmakers said -- "congress should have used this national defense authorization act to stop our endless wars. instead, this bill does nothing to rein in out-of-control military spending, prevent unconstitutional war against iran, limit the poisoning of americans' drinking water, or end the obscenity of innocent children in yemen being killed by u.s. bombs." russian president vladimir putin and ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky met in paris monday and agreed to a full and comprehensive ceasefire in eastern ukraine by the end of this year. the ceasefire aims to end 5.5 years of fighting that have killed at least 13,000 people. russia and ukraine agreed to release all conflict related detainees by the end of the year and to resolve a dispute about