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RIGA, Latvia - Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most formidable opponent, vowed on Monday to carry on her husband’s crusade against the Russian regime, striving to build “a free, peaceful, happy Russia, a beautiful Russia of the future, which my husband dreamed of so much.”

President Joe Biden said he would be willing to meet House Speaker Mike Johnson to discuss an emergency funding package for Ukraine and Israel, after White House officials previously dismissed the utility of direct talks.

A mass shooting at an Indianapolis Waffle House left one woman dead and at least five people injured Monday morning.  

More than two years after Taliban fighters streamed into the Afghan capital, seizing power here and vowing to cleanse the country of Western decadence, many of them have come to embrace the benefits of urban life.

Oscar nominee Lily Gladstone is taking aim at the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, criticizing the team’s name and its fans’ use of the tomahawk chop in a series of comments made public since the big game.

Advances in drone warfare have helped Ukraine partly neutralize Russia’s military advantage two years into the Kremlin-ordered invasion.

The United States struck five Houthi military targets, including an undersea drone, in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Saturday, the U.S. military announced Sunday.

A new poll of historians coming out on Presidents Day weekend ranks Joe Biden as the 14th-best president in American history. While that may not get Biden a spot on Mount Rushmore, it certainly puts him well ahead of Trump, who places dead last as the worst president ever.

Israel’s days-long raid inside Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza has collapsed services and swept up scores of people - including patients and doctors - in mass arrests, the Gaza Health Ministry and a senior U.N. official said.

MOSCOW – Ahead of the third day of mourning for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died suddenly in an Arctic prison, activists sent out safety tips for Russians wishing to lay flowers at memorials that have sprung up across the country, from St. Petersburg in the northwest to Magadan in the Far East; in the capital, Moscow, that was Navalny’s beloved home – and even in the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine.

Donald Trump has blamed President Biden for making everyday items unaffordable. The former president, for his part, is now selling $399 shoes. Trump appeared at a footwear convention in Philadelphia this weekend, where he introduced his latest business venture: high-top shoes and sneakers.

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones (D) brought two resolutions to the floor of the lower chamber on Monday, both of them congratulating Nashville-area musicians on winning their first Grammy awards the week before.

Several atmospheric rivers have soaked California this month, and another one is about to drench the Golden State. A dayslong spate of active weather will bring downpours and possible flooding to California, as well as significant mountain snow, the chance of mudslides and even the risk of an isolated tornado.

Two police officers and one first responder in Burnsville, Minnesota, have been shot and killed responding to a domestic abuse call.

Flanked by armed National Guard members, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) announced on Friday plans to build a base housing up to 1,800 troops in Eagle Pass, close to the riverfront area where state leaders have been at loggerheads with the Biden administration over immigration enforcement.

New video has emerged from the deadly shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, which appears to show teenagers in a heated exchange just moments before shots were fired.