Hundreds of Wagner fighters return to Ukraine but impact limited, Kyiv says

Several hundred members of Russia's Wagner private mercenary group have returned to eastern Ukraine to fight but are not having a significant impact on the battlefield, a Ukrainian military spokesp...

Ukrainian forces "gradually gaining ground", NATO head says

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, on an unannounced visit to Kyiv, said Thursday that Ukrainian forces were "gradually gaining ground" in their counteroffensive against Russian forces. Tap f...

US soldier Travis King in US custody after expulsion from North Korea to China

Private Travis King, the U.S. soldier who ran into North Korea in July, is in U.S. custody after being expelled by North Korea into China, U.S. officials said Wednesday. Tap for the full brief.

House Republicans reject latest bipartisan funding bill, shutdown deadline in four days

The fourth partial shutdown of the U.S. government in a decade was four days away on Wednesday, with House Republicans preemptively rejecting a bipartisan bill advancing in the Senate that would fu...

Senator Bob Menendez arrives in court as calls for resignation mount

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine Menendez arrived in federal court Wednesday to face charges of taking bribes from three New Jersey businessman — as calls for the senator's resignation...

Donald Trump found liable for fraud in New York civil case in latest legal blow

A New York judge found Donald Trump and his family business fraudulently inflated the value of his properties and other assets, in a major defeat for the former U.S. president that could severely h...

Philadelphia judge throws out charges against officer in fatal shooting

A Philadelphia judge on Tuesday dismissed all charges against former police officer Mark Dial for fatally shooting a man as he sat in his car in August after being pursued by Dial and another polic...

Canadian parliament speaker to resign after praising Ukrainian SS veteran

The speaker of Canada's House of Commons lower chamber on Tuesday said he would quit, a few days after he publicly praised a former Nazi soldier in Parliament in an incident that Russia said helped...

US working with Kosovo to investigate attackers' motives

The U.S. is working with Kosovo to investigate a firefight that killed four people last weekend, the U.S. ambassador to Kosovo said Tuesday — speaking after the deadliest violence to hit the contes...

Azerbaijan arrests former top Karabakh official as Armenian exodus grows

A former head of the breakaway ethnic Armenian government in Nagorno-Karabakh was arrested by Azerbaijan on Wednesday as he tried to escape into Armenia — as part of an exodus of tens of thousands ...

US-made Abrams tanks arrive in Ukraine, Zelenskiy says

U.S.-made Abrams tanks have arrived in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Monday. Tap for the full brief.

What closes and what stays open in a US government shutdown

U.S. government services would be disrupted and hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed without pay if Congress fails to provide funding for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1. Workers dee...

Russian Black Sea commander shown working after reports of his death

Admiral Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, was shown on Russian state television on Tuesday attending a defense leaders' meeting remotely, a day after he had reportedly been...

Biden, Trump to visit Michigan union workers as auto strikes grow

Joe Biden and Donald Trump will speak to striking auto workers in rare back-to-back events in Michigan this week, highlighting how important unions are to the 2024 presidential election, even thoug...

US told Ukraine it will send ATACMS long-range missiles, NBC reports

U.S. President Joe Biden has informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Washington will provide Kyiv with ATACMS long-range missiles, NBC News reported Friday, citing three U.S. official...