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Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia’s Federal Security Service, a statement said. The colonels were recruited before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to the statement.
Jacque Berry and her daughter, Breanna Berry, are Black women who say they have been surrounded by cancer all their lives. "My great-grandmother had breast cancer," Breanna Berry, 30, told "Good Morning America." "I remember when I was like 10 and she'd say, 'Sweetie, go get me some tissue to stuff in my bra.' Years later, Breanna Berry said she watched as a friend, also a Black woman, was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 28, and as her father died after being diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, a diagnosis she said took over one year as his symptoms were misdiagnosed.
French President Emmanuel Macron was on Tuesday hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping at one of his beloved childhood haunts in the Pyrenees mountains, pressing a message to Beijing not to support Russia's war against Ukraine and to accept fairer trade.Xi, who is due to host Russian President Vladimir Putin in China later this month, warned against using the Ukraine crisis "to cast blame, smear a third country and incite a new Cold War".
A Moscow court says a U.S. man has been jailed for drunkenly crashing through a kid's library window, as an American soldier is also detained.
Young Americans’ outrage over the Israel-Hamas war has dominated the political conversation for weeks. Democratic and Republican lawmakers have made pilgrimages to Columbia University and other campuses to offer support to demonstrations in solidarity with the Gaza Strip or to denounce them, and President Joe Biden addressed the upheavals in remarks Thursday. But these headlines are not reflective of young voters’ top concerns this election year, according to recent polls. Surveys taken in recen
"Puigdemont, president!"The president should be allowed to go where he needs to go, to Catalonia, which is why it's very important that we're here," explained Angels Lores, a 58-year-old teacher who refers to Puigdemont as if he were still regional leader.
WASHINGTON — Over the course of a few hours, the news from the Middle East came into the White House Situation Room fast and furious. Israel orders 100,000 civilians out of Rafah in prelude to invasion. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times Hamas “accepts” cease-fire deal, potentially precluding invasion. Israel conducts strikes against Rafah, possibly opening invasion. The war-is-on-off-on-again developments Monday left White House officials scrambling to track what was hap
As the third week of witness testimony in Donald Trump's hush money trial takes place, all eyes are on who will be called next and whether the former president will be able to abide by the terms of his now twice-broken gag order that bars him from speaking publicly about jurors, witnesses and some others connected to the case. Before Monday's testimony began, Judge Juan M. Merchan found Trump in contempt of court for a second time, fining him $1,000 for a single violation and sternly warning the loquacious former president that jail time would be considered for future violations “if necessary and appropriate.” Two people tied to the Trump Organization took the stand on Monday — former controller Jeffrey McConney and accounts payable supervisor Deborah Tarasoff — elaborating on a key piece of the charges against Trump: Michael Cohen's reimbursement for the $130,000 Stormy Daniels payment.
Stock markets extended the week's rally Tuesday on optimism that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates this year.UBS shares rallied on the Swiss stock exchange, rising more than nine percent at 27.20 Swiss francs each in midday trading.
Palestinian civilians told to evacuate eastern Rafah by the Israeli military have described their fear and despair at being uprooted from their homes and shelters, as Israel airstrikes hit Gaza’s southernmost city.
Global warming has brought Argentina's corn farmers a dangerous new enemy: a yellow insect just four millimeters (0.16 inch) long that thrives in hotter temperatures and is threatening harvests of the crop. Meet the leafhopper. The world's No. 3 corn exporting country has slashed millions of tons from its harvest projections for the current crop due to a rare plague of the insect that can carry a stunt disease that damages the cobs and kernels of the plant.
Rescuers said Tuesday they had made contact with 11 people as they raced to save dozens still unaccounted for nearly 24 hours after the deadly collapse of a building in the South African city of George.Contact has been made with 11 people who are under rubble among 48 still unaccounted for, they said.
Noelia Voigt, who was crowned Miss USA in November 2023, has announced she is resigning from her role, saying the decision is in the best interest of her mental health.
The Russian leader began a record breaking fifth term on Tuesday, a day after announcing military exercises with tactical nuclear weapons.
Results from Disney took center stage as the media giant posted the first profit for a key part of its streaming business.
Federal highway safety investigators want Tesla to tell them how and why it developed the fix in a recall of more than 2 million vehicles equipped with the company's Autopilot partially automated driving system. Investigators with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration have concerns about whether the recall remedy worked because Tesla has reported 20 crashes since the remedy was sent out as an online software update in December. In a l etter to Tesla posted on the agency's website Tuesday, investigators wrote that they could not find a difference between warnings to the driver to pay attention before the recall and after the new software was sent out.
The Walt Disney Co. swung to a loss in its second quarter because of restructuring and impairment charges, but its adjusted profit topped expectations and its streaming business turned a profit. Theme parks also continued to do well and the company boosted its outlook for the year. While Disney said Tuesday that it foresees its overall streaming business softening in the current quarter due to its platform in India, Disney+Hotstar, it expects its combined streaming businesses to be profitable in the fourth quarter and to be a meaningful future growth driver for the company, with further improvements in profitability in fiscal 2025.
The union head who represents university custodians accused Columbia of failing to protect workers from pro-Palestinian protesters.
In Indiana, open races for governor and Senate as well as some key House primaries are on tap Tuesday.
President Vladimir Putin vowed at a lavish inauguration on Tuesday to deliver victory to Russians, embarking on a record-breaking fifth term with more power than ever.In a video minutes before the inauguration, Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya described Putin as deceitful and said Russia was doomed to remain in a state of conflict so long as he remains in power.