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President Vladimir Putin said Russia remains determined to achieve its military aims in Ukraine, as divisions over U.S. and European aid threaten to undermine Kyiv’s ability to repel the invasion.

 When President Joe Biden touched down in Israel 10 days after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet formally declared war on the Palestinian militant group Hamas, the two leaders shared a warm embrace. That tight bear hug eight weeks ago is now entwined with some of the most hellish aspects of this war.  

The Senate on Wednesday passed an $886 billion defense bill that would set Pentagon policy and defy the demands of hard-right Republicans who had failed to attach a raft of deeply partisan restrictions on abortion, transgender care and diversity initiatives.

WASHINGTON – The House voted Wednesday to formally open an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, pushing forward with a yearlong Republican investigation that has failed to produce evidence of anything approaching high crimes or misdemeanors.

WASHINGTON – The House voted along party lines Wednesday to authorize an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, with all Republicans in favor and every Democrat opposed to the measure, which gives the GOP majority more authority to continue a yearlong investigation that has produced no evidence of the high crimes or misdemeanors for which a president can be impeached.

Testimony concluded Wednesday in a $250 million fraud trial against Donald Trump and his company in New York state, a case in which the presiding judge may issue a bench verdict in January.

As if Oprah Winfrey needed any more immortalizing. The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery on Wednesday unveiled a portrait of Winfrey painted by Chicago artist Shawn Michael Warren to be part of the museum’s permanent collection.

A Missouri Republican lawmaker on Wednesday scrapped a bill that would allow for women to be charged with murder for getting an abortion in the state after facing intense criticism.

The Supreme Court accepted a case Wednesday that could affect hundreds of prosecutions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol as well as one of the federal criminal cases against former President Donald Trump.

The Supreme Court announced Wednesday that it will decide this term whether to limit access to a key abortion drug, returning the polarizing issue of reproductive rights to the high court for the first time since the conservative majority overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

President Biden offered sharp criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conduct of the war on Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday, suggesting that Israel's closest ally and biggest donor is souring on a campaign that has killed thousands of Palestinians and sparked a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

The parents of three Chicago Public Schools students have accused former Federico Garcia Lorca Elementary School gym teacher Andrew Castro, 37, of sexually assaulting three boys from the same family over four years until early 2022.

Ukraine said Russia targeted its capital city with missiles for a second time in three days as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy departed the U.S. where he failed to unlock aid for the war effort.

Nations reached a breakthrough climate agreement Wednesday, calling for a transition away from fossil fuels in an unprecedented deal that targets the greatest contributors to the planet's warming.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is helping lead a new Stanford University initiative to provide “one-stop shopping” for government, businesses and the public to obtain timely information about new and evolving technologies.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy failed on Tuesday to secure a breakthrough with Congress as it remains firmly deadlocked over President Biden’s request for additional U.S. military assistance for Ukraine, even though many lawmakers appeared to agree that the war’s outlook would only worsen without a continuation of American support.

MOSCOW — Supporters of the imprisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny say they have had no contact with him for a week. Navalny was not connected by video to a court hearing in the city of Kovrov on Tuesday, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on the news service X, formerly Twitter. She added that an employee of the IK-6 detention centre had said that the prisoner had "left the ...

President Joe Biden offered sharp criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conduct of the war on Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday, suggesting that Israel’s closest ally and biggest donor is souring on a campaign that has killed thousands of Palestinians and sparked a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

Before Earth had biology, it had chemistry. How the one followed from the other - how a bunch of boring molecules transformed themselves into this special thing we call life - is arguably the greatest unknown in science. It's also a big reason NASA sent a robotic spacecraft, OSIRIS-REx, on a multiyear journey around the sun to fetch some crumbly material from an ancient asteroid named Bennu and then bring it back to Earth.