President Vladimir Putin is set to visit India this week for the first time since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a rare trip that underscores the countries’ defense and energy ties as New Delhi seeks to finalize a trade deal with Washington.

The Russian leader is eager to show that Moscow still has strong relationships that matter beyond ...Read more

China has upgraded surveillance and electronic warfare systems across several occupied reefs in the disputed South China Sea as it seeks to strengthen its defenses and expand intelligence capabilities, a new report shows.

Satellite images reviewed by the Washington-based Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative reveal new radar sites, antenna ...Read more

The Trump administration on Tuesday issued one of its most sweeping immigration crackdowns to date, ordering a pause of all immigration applications, including pending asylum claims, from nationals of Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and 16 other so-called “high risk” countries.

The Department of Homeland Security directive affects everything from ...Read more

Two men grazed by bullets during a birthday party shooting in Stockton that killed four people, including three children, later walked into a nearby hospital for treatment, authorities said. The total number of victims has now risen to 17.

As the days pass and the manhunt continues for the shooters responsible for Saturday’s massacre, ...Read more

An unlikely bipartisan Senate duo is spearheading a push for employers to donate to the new “Trump accounts” created under the GOP’s “big, beautiful” reconciliation package last summer.

Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Cory Booker, D-N.J., teamed up on a letter sent to Fortune 1000 CEOs on Monday encouraging their companies to contribute ...Read more

An Ohio missionary who frequently traveled to Haiti where he once oversaw a schools program, was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on four counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors in the Caribbean country.

Jeriah Mast, 44, of Millersburg, Ohio, traveled from the United States to Haiti on multiple occasions between 2002 ...Read more

Donald Trump’s favored candidate, Nasry Asfura, lost his lead in Honduras’ ongoing presidential vote count, falling behind a rival the U.S. leader attacked as a “borderline communist.”

Salvador Nasralla, the focus of Trump’s ire, had 40.1% in an update published Tuesday afternoon, while Asfura had 39.7%. With about 67% of the ballots ...Read more

To visitors, the Caribbean is a post card of white sand, sun-soaked beaches and tranquility. But millions who call the region home are confronting a much harsher and grimmer reality: the rise of lethal violence.

A new report released on Tuesday finds that firearm-related violence make up 86% of killings in countries that are part of the ...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed legislation that formally establishes a process for state-level vaccine guidelines and expands pharmacy access to COVID-19 and other shots for young children across Illinois.

“While RFK Jr. and his QAnon-inspired colleagues, spreading conspiracy theories and dangerous misinformation about vaccines, are ...Read more

More than a dozen new cases of measles in the Upstate have been reported to the South Carolina Department of Public Health since the day after Thanksgiving.

Fourteen new cases have been reported to the department, bringing the total number of cases the state has seen this year up to 79, with 76 from the Upstate, according to a news release. One...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to announce his selection to lead the Federal Reserve in early 2026 and teased National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett as his possible choice on Tuesday, fueling further speculation about the next leader of the U.S. central bank.

“We’ll be announcing somebody, probably early next year, for the ...Read more

Netflix released its long-awaited 50 Cent-produced documentary “Sean Combs: The Reckoning” on Tuesday, featuring unseen footage, major revelations and exclusive insider interviews.

The four-part docuseries covers everything from the rap mogul’s troubled childhood to the tragedies that shaped his career.

Here’s a rundown of the doc’s ...Read more

Elizabeth Holmes, serving a lengthy prison sentence for fraud, claimed Tuesday on social media that one of the most-damaging pieces of evidence against her — that she appropriated drug-companies’ logos and affixed them to internal Theranos reports to deceive investors — was a “false claim” and “(expletive) thrown against the wall” ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth previously emphasized the same military law that the Trump administration has been calling Pennsylvania lawmakers seditious for citing.

Hegseth noted the military rule not to obey unlawful orders during a forum in 2016, when he was a Fox News contributor, in recorded remarks CNN unearthed on Tuesday.

Hegseth ...Read more

A cannabis retail market could be coming to Virginia as soon as next November, if the General Assembly passes the legislation and Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger signs off on it. Since 2021, Virginians have been able to legally possess marijuana for personal use but unable to legally purchase it.

The Joint Commission to Oversee the Transition of ...Read more

A class-action lawsuit has been filed by a group of Texas families in the third legal challenge over displays of the Ten Commandments in classrooms across the state.

On Tuesday, a group of 18 multifaith and nonreligious families filed the class-action suit, which requests a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against any ...Read more

In what appears to be a longer-term legal strategy, the plaintiffs in an injunction case limiting the use of force by immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz on Tuesday abruptly moved to dismiss the underlying lawsuit in the midst of an appeal by the Trump administration.

In the request, lawyers representing a consortium of media ...Read more

St. Paul police will face more scrutiny for their role in the chaotic ICE raid last week on St. Paul’s East Side, where city officers sprayed chemical irritants and rubber projectiles on protesters.

City Council members say St. Paul police officers’ conduct at the scene crossed a line, and on Wednesday they’re expected to call for an ...Read more

U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday that her department will soon withhold funding that helps administer SNAP benefits in states run by Democrats, including Minnesota.

Those states have refused to share participants’ personal data with the federal government. Roughly 440,000 Minnesotans rely on the ...Read more