Donald Trump asked Volodymyr Zelenskyy whether Ukraine could strike Moscow, an inquiry that the White House says was merely a question but one that came hours after he voiced frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s refusal to accept a ceasefire in the war.

During a July 4 phone call with the Ukrainian president, Trump quizzed ...Read more

An Israeli ultra-Orthodox party said it’s walking out of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition, threatening to leave the government with a razor-thin majority in parliament.

The United Torah Judaism party announced late on Monday it would quit in protest at a bill seeking to curtail the exemptions from military draft, long enjoyed ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Thaduba Magdalena Turay, a 21-year-old nursing student, was driving on I-95 in South Philadelphia last year when a driver traveling the wrong way hit her head-on.

Turay, who was studying at Cheyney University and aspired to become a doctor, died at the scene.

The other driver, David Bonilla, 47, pleaded guilty last month to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- For decades, biologists have studied how cities affect wildlife by altering food supplies, fragmenting habitats and polluting the environment. But a new global study argues that these physical factors are only part of the story. Societal factors, the researchers claim, especially those tied to religion, politics and war, also ...Read more

CHICAGO — Abel Orozco was getting home after buying tamales for his family, like he did most weekends for the past 30 years. They would have breakfast and head to church.

Instead, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents detained the Mexican immigrant outside his home in suburban Lyons without a federal warrant. Now, nearly six months ...Read more

The SkinnyPop in the break room may not last. Donald Trump is targeting the office snack.

The president’s signature tax law allows a long-standing business deduction for the cost of food provided to employees to expire, imperiling a workplace perk popularized during Silicon Valley’s dot-com boom that is now an emblem of modern office ...Read more

For nearly a decade, there were hopes that a new FBI headquarters would spur a significant expansion in real estate projects and revenue in the Greenbelt area. Now, the location is once again in limbo, launching another round of the waiting game.

“When a commitment is made, that has impacts,” said Greenbelt Mayor Emmett Jordan. “The back-...Read more

The European Union has finalized a second list of countermeasures to target U.S. goods worth $84 billion, including Boeing Co. aircraft, automobiles and bourbon if it decides to retaliate as transatlantic trade tensions intensify.

The additional duties would also be slapped on machinery products, chemicals and plastics, medical devices, ...Read more

Three Jamaicans are dead and a Bahamian national is in custody in Haiti after a historic drug bust Sunday off the country’s northwest coast led to the seizure of more than 1,000 kilos of cocaine worth tens of millions of dollars in the United States.

Haitian authorities said the men were killed during a joint police operation that triggered a...Read more

For many people who have a serious mental illness or are recovering from one, trying to get or keep a job may be overwhelming and exhausting.

Finding out that you need a job in order to keep accessing your mental health care can feel insurmountable.

Yet that may soon be the case for nearly half a million Washington residents.

Under a new rule...Read more

Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton on Monday added more endorsements in her campaign for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Dick Durbin, with Illinois House Speaker Emanuel “Chris” Welch and a number of other state lawmakers announcing their support.

Backing for Stratton from the Democratic Party of Proviso, a political operation headed by ...Read more

The New York City Council passed a resolution Monday ordering the city’s Department of Investigation to probe what information the city had on Ground Zero toxins after the 9/11 attacks and when they had it.

The resolution’s passage, in a unanimous vote, comes after a yearslong fight to find out what the city knew about dangerous chemicals ...Read more

A key test of Republicans’ appetite to defend Congress’ power of the purse arrives this week with the expected vote in the Senate on a White House proposal to cancel billions in previously agreed-to spending on foreign aid and public media broadcasting.

The Senate could vote as soon as Tuesday on a procedural motion on the Trump ...Read more

Gov. Greg Abbott and other state and local officials held a news conference in Travis County on Monday to update the public on the response to the flooding that has devastated Central Texas.

The number of missing people statewide is 101 as of July 14, and 97 of those missing are from in or around Kerrville, near the Guadalupe River, Abbott said...Read more