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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Saudi Arabia for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, one of the few world leaders to have met Vladimir Putin since Russia’s invasion in 2022.

Without leap years, the Fourth of July would eventually be in the winter. Leap days, which are tacked on at the end of February every four years, ensure our calendars remain in sync with the Earth’s orbit, said Shauna Edson, an astronomy educator at the National Air and Space Museum. Our standard calendar year is 365 days long - but the Earth actually takes “365.256ish” days to orbit the sun, she said.

Is a frozen embryo a child? The Alabama Supreme Court says yes. In ruling this month that three couples who lost frozen embryos in a storage facility accident could sue for wrongful death of a minor child, the court wrote that the "natural, ordinary, commonly understood meaning" of the word "child" includes an "unborn child" — whether that's a fetus in a womb or an embryo in a freezer. Hospitals and clinics across the conservative state have since paused in vitro fertilization services as they scramble to figure out the legal and ethical ramifications of the decision.

Many Americans view illegal immigration as a "very serious" problem, and a majority support building a border wall, new polling has found a week before the Super Tuesday primaries.

This is the way to persuade Disney to shoot the next “Star Wars” movie in your state. “The Mandalorian & Grogu” is slated to be the first “Star Wars” feature ever filmed in California thanks to the state’s Film and Television Tax Credit Program, the California Film Commission announced Monday. 

NEW YORK — Students at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx will no longer have to pay tuition after a longtime professor donated $1 billion to the school, removing a major financial hurdle to becoming a physician in a historically underserved borough. The gift by Ruth Gottesman, chairwoman of Einstein’s Board of Trustees, is considered the largest gift made to a medical school in ...

WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is planning to make a rare visit to the southern border Thursday, his press secretary said, traveling to Brownsville, Texas, on the same day that former President Donald Trump has scheduled a border trip.

Concerns among medically vulnerable people are growing as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepares to drop its long-standing recommendation that those with covid isolate for five days.

Hours after a New York judge ordered Donald Trump to pay a $355 million penalty for submitting false data to financial institutions, the former president railed against the decision during a fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago Club with some of the Republican Party’s wealthiest donors.

The longtime leader of the Republican National Committee confirmed Monday that she is leaving her post before the 2024 election, as the party faces a cash crunch and people close to former president Donald Trump attempt to wrest control of the organization.

A majority of Americans support building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since Donald Trump popularized the idea during his 2016 presidential bid, according to a Monmouth University poll.

Alexey Navalny had been close to release in a prisoner exchange with the U.S. and Germany shortly before his death in an Arctic prison, a top aide to the Russian opposition leader said.

In February alone, Donald Trump encouraged Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to NATO allies that do not contribute sufficiently to the military alliance.