President Donald Trump agreed in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin to start negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine, sweeping aside three years of U.S. policy and blindsiding European allies who feared the more conciliatory American stance amounted to a giveaway to the Russian leader. Trump revealed the conversation — his first publicly announced contact with Putin since…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. The mayor of Ukraine’s capital city is feuding with the president. The defense minister is under investigation as part of a bitter fight over control of weapons purchases. Recruiters are struggling to get enough men to the front. Ukrainians are…
Nevada health officials confirmed the first human case of avian influenza (H5N1) in the state on Monday. The infected person was exposed to dairy cattle while working on a dairy farm in Churchill County, according to a news release from the Central Nevada Health District. The dairy farm worker had pink eye with no other reported…
Nearly five years after commuting former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s federal prison sentence, President Donald Trump granted a full pardon to the disgraced former governor who was convicted more than 13 years ago on an array of corruption charges, including fundraising schemes and attempting to sell a U.S. Senate seat for his personal benefit, The…
Chastina A. Ramos, 30, was identified today as the sixth fatality from the Jan. 1 explosion of illegal aerial. The cause and manner of Ramos’ death is pending. The Department of the Medical Examiner previously identified Carmelita Benigno, 61 ; Nelie Ibarra, 58 ; Jennifer Van, 23 ; and Cassius Ramos-Benigno, 3, as victims who were killed in the Aliamanu fireworks…
This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. The White House expects another American citizen to be released just hours after President Donald Trump welcomed back Marc Fogel, a teacher freed by Moscow after spending 3 1/2 years in a prison. After welcoming Fogel back at a meeting…
