Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov [PhotoAgencies] MOSCOW - Discussing security guarantees for Ukraine without Russian involvement is a "road to nowhere", Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday. "We cannot agree that now it is proposed to resolve questions of security, collect...
Washington — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday declined the Justice Department's request to unseal grand jury material in the case of late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying prosecutors had failed to demonstrate that "special circumstances" warranted the disclosure. Judge Richard Berman ...
President Trump expanded his criticism of the Smithsonian Institution to include other museums in a long social media post on Tuesday. "The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE," he wrote. The post emphasized his ongoing disp...
Hurricane Erin is moving closer to the Eastern seaboard, bringing dangerous rip currents and flood risks that have prompted evacuation orders and states of emergency in two North Carolina counties. Hurricane Erin was 615 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., as of 5 p.m. ET, the National Hu...
PhotoGettyImages The US director of national intelligence says the UK has withdrawn its controversial demand to access global Apple users' data if required. Tulsi Gabbard said in a post on X the UK had agreed to drop its instruction for the tech giant to provide a "back door" which would have "e...
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, speaks with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, Wednesday, July 23, 2025, in Washington. AP PhotoAlex Brandon WASHINGTON AP — The Trump administration said Tuesday that it was revoking the security clearances of 37 ...
The White House launched an official TikTok account on Tuesday, less than a month before President Trump's deadline for the social media app — owned by China-based ByteDance — to either find a new owner or face a U.S.-wide ban. The account posted its first video Tuesday afternoon: a 27-second monta...
Washington — The House Oversight Committee intends to release some of the documents from the Justice Department about the case involving convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a spokesperson said Tuesday. The committee expects to receive the documents later this week after issuing a subpoena in Au...
Among the surprising delights a traveler to Wuhan, Hubei province, experienced recently was a 5-month-old golden retriever she rented from a local hotel to keep her company during her stay. "I was initially concerned that the puppy might be too energetic," said the traveler, who asked to remain ano...
The union for 10,000 striking Air Canada flight attendants said on Monday they won’t return to work even though the strike, now in its third day, has been declared illegal. The strike at Canada’s largest airline is affecting about 130,000 travelers a day at the peak of the summer travel season. T...
Jasveen Sangha is the last person in the case to plead guilty. Jasveen Sangha, the so-called "Ketamine Queen," has agreed to plead guilty to five federal charges, including selling "Friends" actor Matthew Perry the dose of ketamine that led to his death in October 2023, according to the Justice Dep...
MOSCOW, Aug. 19 Xinhua -- Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump voiced support for continuing direct negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in a phone call, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said on Tuesday. The call was initiated by Trump following h...
President Trump promised Monday to work to end mail-in voting and said work is already underway on an executive order to ban it before the 2026 midterm elections, although the Constitution does not give him this power. "We, as a Republican Party, are going to do everything possible that we get rid ...
Concessions stressed for agreement as Europe backs Ukraine in Washington This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on August 18, 2025 shows Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky R during his meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House in...
After completing an eye wall replacement cycle, Hurricane Erin has now restrengthened to a Category 4 hurricane. Erin had max sustained winds of 130 mph, the National Hurricane Center said in an update on Sunday evening. An eye wall replacement cycle is a natural cycle that normally weakens a hurr...