The U.S. said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire in the Black Sea, even as the Kremlin said its involvement would depend on a series of preconditions including sanctions relief.

In separate statements, the White House said Tuesday that three days of technical-level talks in Saudi Arabia with teams from Russia and Ukraine had yielded ...Read more

DENVER — Federal prosecutors defended U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s ability to deport Jeanette Vizguerra in a new legal filing this week, but argued the petition challenging her detention is being litigated in the wrong court.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado filed its response to the immigration ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — In the latest drop of court filings in Bryan Kohberger’s criminal case, the prosecution hinted that it might call members of the 30-year-old’s family to testify at his upcoming trial.

Latah County Senior Deputy Prosecutor Ashley Jennings asked in the Friday filing, which was published on the court’s website Monday, that ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Alaska State Medical Board is asking the Legislature to ban hormonal and surgical treatments for minors seeking to transition from one gender to another.

The board — whose members were chosen by Gov. Mike Dunleavy — on Thursday agreed to state that it “opposes hormonal and surgical treatments for gender dysphoria...Read more

ATLANTA — The father of the Apalachee High School shooting suspect is requesting a change of venue for his upcoming trial due to Barrow County being a community where a feeling is “strongly set against him," attorneys said in a motion.

Colin Gray is facing 29 charges, including two counts of second-degree murder, two counts of involuntary ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams has quietly expanded the portfolio of Kaz Daughtry, his controversial public safety deputy, granting him the power to help run the law enforcement units of a slew of civilian New York City agencies, including the departments of Sanitation and Parks.

The deputy mayor for public safety, a position Adams reintroduced ...Read more

The Trump administration scrambled Tuesday to contain spreading political, diplomatic and intelligence damage from the shocking leak of secret American military attack plans shared by top officials on an unsecure group chat on Signal that included Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg.

As angry lawmakers demanded answers, Donald Trump officials on ...Read more

BOSTON — Prosecutors in the Karen Read murder case will not be given communications between the defendant and her lawyer in the early days of the case.

Special prosecutor Hank Brennan verbally argued in a hearing Tuesday that Read had “waived” her right to the privileged communications by speaking publicly about the contents of ...Read more

CHICAGO — Veteran Chicago lawyer and former federal prosecutor Andrew Boutros is expected to be appointed by the Trump administration to serve as interim U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, sources told the Chicago Tribune.

Boutros, 47, now the co-chair of the government investigations and white collar group at Shook Hardy & ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Kentucky man pardoned after a state homicide conviction but later convicted in federal court over the same deadly shooting should not get a new trial, a federal judge has recommended.

Attorneys for Patrick Baker, 46, filed a motion arguing his federal conviction and sentence should be set aside and he should get a new trial...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey questioned Trump border czar Tom Homan’s “fixation” on Massachusetts after he visited the state last week amid a series of immigration-related arrests carried out by federal authorities.

Homan was in town last week as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 370 people who were allegedly living in ...Read more

Hamdan Ballal, one of the two Palestinian filmmakers who co-directed the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” is free. He was released Tuesday from Israeli custody, less than a day after Israeli military and police detained him and three other people following a brutal attack Monday by settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Ballal was ...Read more

Is the U.S. angling for a repeat of the Sino-Russian split?

In an Oct. 31, 2024, interview with right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, President Donald Trump argued that the United States under Joe Biden had, in his mind erroneously, pushed China and Russia together. Separating the two powers would be a priority of his administration. “I...Read more

Heads of state are the symbolic leader of a country. Some of them, like King Charles III of the United Kingdom, carry out largely ceremonial roles these days. Others, like Saudi Arabian King Salman, are absolute monarchs and involved in governing the country’s day-to-day activities and policies. It also means that the Saudi monarch gets to ...Read more

Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the United States finds itself in the midst of another public health crisis. This particular pandemic is a psychological one: widespread loneliness and isolation.

About half of adults in the U.S. report feeling lonely – what former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has characterized as an ...Read more

The slow race of getting NASA’s Space Launch System rocket pieced together for next year’s Artemis II moon mission jumped a big hurdle over the weekend.

The 212-foot-tall core stage was placed Sunday alongside two solid rocket boosters at Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building — meaning the rocket that provides the oomph for ...Read more

NEW YORK — Columbia University faculty members sued the Trump administration Tuesday to restore $400 million in federal funding withdrawn over antisemitism concerns — and stop the government from meddling in university affairs.

The lawsuit, brought by the faculty members’ union in Manhattan federal court, accused several agencies of ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Columbia University junior who participated in pro-Palestinian protests is suing to block her imminent arrest and possible deportation after federal agents searched her dorm room.

Yunseo Chung, 21, was born in South Korea and after a decade in the U.S. became a lawful permanent resident in 2021. Earlier this semester, she ...Read more