Ukraine and its European allies signaled that key sticking points remained in U.S.-brokered peace talks even as senior officials hailed progress in winning more favorable terms for Kyiv from a proposal backed by President Donald Trump.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said a meeting in Geneva on Sunday where Ukrainian and U.S. negotiators came...Read more

Members of Minnesota’s Karen community are at risk of being sent back to Myanmar after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Monday it was ending temporary asylum protections for the country’s citizens.

The department, under the direction of President Donald Trump, announced it was terminating Temporary Protected Status (TPS) ...Read more

Russia launched a combined missile and drone attack on Ukraine, concentrated heavily on the capital Kyiv, just hours after President Donald Trump struck a positive tone on prospects for a ceasefire deal.

Ukraine’s air defenses worked to shield the city and loud explosions were heard, with authorities instructing residents to stay in shelters....Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The estranged wife of former Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez accepted a plea deal Monday, avoiding jail time in exchange for possible testimony against her husband in his racketeering trial.

Robin Severance-Lopez, initially charged with conspiracy to commit racketeering, pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of money ...Read more

CHICAGO — Hundreds of miles from his normal stomping grounds, a former Chicago police detective was in a cell in the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention center, allegedly screaming at a prisoner who had been waterboarded with saltwater until he threw up.

“I told you not to f--- with me,” Detective Richard Zuley reportedly yelled. “I told...Read more

CHICAGO — Almost two months after the militarized raid that roused them from their sleep and made international headlines, those who remain living — or trying to live — at 7500 South Shore Drive gathered Monday morning in the cold outside their deteriorating apartment building in a show of solidarity.

Amid five floors of mostly empty ...Read more

CHICAGO — Republican President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area may have ebbed in recent weeks, but U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood cautioned Monday against assuming the effort is over after she was granted special access to the federal government’s controversial immigration processing center in ...Read more

SEATTLE — Gov. Bob Ferguson has turned to a longtime colleague and top civil rights lawyer in naming his pick to serve on the Washington Supreme Court.

Ferguson on Monday appointed Colleen Melody, whom he hired more than a decade ago to lead the civil rights division in the attorney general's office, to fill the court vacancy created by the ...Read more

DENVER — In the end, Alex Hunter picked the day of his death.

Boulder’s longest-serving district attorney — who defined more than a quarter century of criminal justice for the region and oversaw the early years of the JonBenét Ramsey case — had exhausted all options for medical care after suffering a heart attack in mid-November.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is still working on a proposal to address a spike in Obamacare health insurance premiums, but the eventual plan may differ significantly from details reported over the weekend, the White House said Monday.

“As you all know, sometimes you report things and then President Trump comes out with an ...Read more

After more than a year after Sean “Diddy” Combs’ arrest and sex crimes trial, video has emerged of Combs at his new prison.

On Sunday, TMZ shared the footage of the fallen rapper at FCI Fort Dix, in New Jersey. He’s seen in one part of the clip surrounded by books and then in another walking down a hallway.

Two things may surprise ...Read more

MIAMI — A lawsuit over whether Miami Dade College violated Florida’s public transparency laws when it voted to transfer land to the state for Donald Trump’s presidential library is set to go to trial next August, a Miami-Dade Circuit Court judge announced Monday.

In a ruling, Judge Mavel Ruiz shot down an effort by the college’s lawyers...Read more

OTTAWA, Canada — Trade talks between the United States and Canada remain stalled, and there’s an emerging belief in both governments that key issues will be rolled into next year’s broader review of the North American trade accord, people familiar with the matter said.

There have been no negotiations since U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday held their first talks since agreeing to a tariff truce last month, discussing trade, Taiwan and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Trump said the telephone call was “very good” and that the leaders spoke about purchases of soybeans and other farm products ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Friday night announcement that he’s ending temporary protected status, or TPS, for Somalis living in Minnesota has officials scrambling to figure out what to do.

His announcement comes as the Department of Homeland Security just announced it’s ending the protected status of citizens from Myanmar, formerly known as...Read more

In the roughly three weeks since Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi commented on a possible Taiwan contingency in parliament, China has unleashed economic reprisals, nationalist barbs and a diplomatic offensive to show its displeasure.

Now, President Xi Jinping’s government is escalating the dispute with an appeal to the United Nations, a...Read more

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Monday unveiled his transition team committees, which included former members of the Adams administration who were pushed out or resigned under the current mayor.

Former Deputy Mayor Meera Joshi, ex-Fire Department Commissioner Laura Kavanagh and Hassan Naveed, Adams’ former hate crimes chief who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A string of early season storms that drenched Californians last week lifted much of the state out of drought and significantly reduced the risk of wildfires, experts say.

It’s been the wettest November on record for Southland cities such as Van Nuys and San Luis Obispo. Santa Barbara has received an eye-popping 9.5 inches of ...Read more

The next trip to space for Boeing’s beleaguered Starliner spacecraft won’t have a crew on board after NASA announced changes to the commercial crew contract that also slashes the total number of missions to the International Space Station.

NASA on Monday announced the update to the 2014 contract that originally called for six operational ...Read more