U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff will lead a delegation for talks in Russia next week, a Kremlin official said, as Donald Trump pushes for a deal to end the war in Ukraine.

“As for Witkoff, I can say there is a preliminary agreement that he will visit Moscow next week,” Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Putin, said in a video clip of an ...Read more

Two dozen students abducted from a school in Nigeria were freed after more than a week in captivity, but hundreds of others seized in separate incidents remain missing as the West African nation reels from a spate of mass kidnappings.

The secondary-school pupils who were captured in the northwestern Kebbi state on Nov. 17 were released on ...Read more

JENIN, West Bank — After 15 months in an Israeli jail, Mustafa Sheta drove home with his brothers to Jenin. A lot changed while he was in prison, they said.

The fighters that once had daily run-and-gun battles with Israeli soldiers? Gone. The bustling population of the refugee camp that gave Jenin its reputation as the martyrs' capital? Gone...Read more

SEATTLE — He hasn’t yet, but if President Donald Trump invited Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson to the White House, she would accept.

She won’t say what she would tell him, but as she transitions from campaigning to governing, she’s made a pledge not to shut any doors.

“I'll meet with anyone,” she said from her new office in the ...Read more

Generative artificial intelligence has quickly permeated much of what we do online, proving helpful for many. But for a small minority of the hundreds of millions of people who use it daily, AI may be too supportive, mental health experts say, and can sometimes even exacerbate delusional and dangerous behavior.

Instances of emotional dependence...Read more

In 1968, inventor Robert McCulloch purchased the decommissioned London Bridge for $2.4 million and began to move it to newly founded Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

Each of the bridge’s 10,276 granite blocks were shipped by sea to Long Beach, then trucked to Arizona.

Back then, moving the London Bridge to the desert elicited chuckles and ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After returning from what felt like the best internship of her life, Danae Daniels was excited to unwind and settle into a new semester at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. But when she opened the door to her off-campus apartment, she was met with an overwhelming smell — and a devastating reality.

“There ...Read more

DENVER — Amid the Trump administration’s crackdowns on both immigrants and nonprofit groups, organizations in Colorado are hiring lawyers, limiting data collection and locking their doors to ward off federal threats to them or the people they serve.

One statewide nonprofit that works with the immigrant community considered giving disposable...Read more

CHICAGO — For nearly 16 years, María Irma Pérez Padilla set up her tamale cart at a busy intersection in Pilsen, selling the beloved Mexican dish to help support her family. The 52-year-old mother worked long days to pay for her diabetes medication and provide for her children after her husband’s death two years ago.

Like many older ...Read more

The founder of an anti-abortion group has been charged in connection with a shooting outside a Planned Parenthood in South Carolina earlier this month.

Mark Baumgartner, 56, was arrested Tuesday in connection with the Nov. 14 incident, during which a man was shot during a confrontation outside the Columbia Planned Parenthood, according to local...Read more

The Trump administration plans to review the cases of all refugees resettled under President Joe Biden and freeze their green card applications, the latest clampdown on legal migration to the U.S.

The effort is aimed at determining whether the refugees were lawfully admitted, according to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown led a multistate lawsuit Tuesday challenging new homelessness funding restrictions by the Trump administration that could put 170,000 formerly homeless people nationally at risk of returning to the streets.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Rhode Island, seeks to block a policy shift...Read more

Vice President JD Vance is in Kentucky this week.

Vance and his family, along with Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and his family “will visit with and provide remarks to servicemembers at U.S. Army Fort Campbell” Wednesday, Fort Campbell said in a news release.

Vance and his family are scheduled to join troops for a Thanksgiving meal at the ...Read more

CoreCivic won’t be filling its empty Leavenworth detention center with immigrants anytime soon.

U.S. District Court Judge Toby Crouse dealt the private prison company its latest in a string of legal defeats Tuesday when he dismissed a federal lawsuit against the city of Leavenworth.

The ongoing state court case between the two parties is ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday it was opening an investigation into SeaWorld Orlando’s parent company after complaints that its parks’ ban on “rollator walkers” discriminates against guests with disabilities.

The investigation will look into whether SeaWorld Orlando, Aquatica Orlando and Busch Gardens...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A bipartisan group of lawmakers on the state and federal levels spoke out Tuesday against plans by the Trump administration for new offshore drilling in the Golden State, including parcels in Southern California and San Diego.

“There’s very little support for drilling on our coastline,” California Assembly member Laurie ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The founder of an anti-abortion group who shot and wounded a man during a confrontation in front of Planned Parenthood in Columbia has been arrested.

According to records from the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center in Columbia, Mark Baumgartner was taken into custody Tuesday.

Baumgartner is being charged with assault and ...Read more

The search for the next leader of the United Nations has officially begun.

In a letter on Tuesday, the presidents of the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council invited member states to nominate candidates to succeed Secretary General Antonio Guterres after his second five-year term expires next year.

“Our choice will send a powerful ...Read more