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Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Biden administration’s unusual decision to publicize its offer to Russia to free Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan — the basketball star and former Marine whom the U.S. says are [Read More…]

Courtesy Li family (NEW YORK) — In September 2016, Kai Li stepped off a plane from the United States to his native China to visit relatives and attend a memorial for his late mother. He [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images (LONDON) — A rare pink diamond has been unearthed in Angola and is claimed to be one of the largest ever recovered in the world. The 170-carat precious stone, called the “Lulo Rose,” [Read More…]

Nicolas Asfouri/AFP via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Shortly after U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) officers finally arrested him in a hotel in Thailand in 2008, Viktor Bout turned to one of the agents escorting [Read More…]

ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO/POOL/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In a sharp reversal, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Wednesday that he will hold a call with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov “in the coming days,” which [Read More…]

Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to [Read More…]

Jalal Noory (KYIV, Ukraine) — Jalal Noory, an Afghan refugee in Ukraine who serves in the Ukrainian armed forces, defended the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv from being captured by Russian troops at the onset of [Read More…]

Matt Anderson Photography/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A report released Tuesday by Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee says that China targeted the Federal Reserve for nearly 10 years, working to recruit [Read More…]

Cole Burston/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Pope Francis offered a long-sought apology to the Indigenous community in Canada on Monday over the Catholic church’s role in the generational abuse they suffered at Indigenous residential schools [Read More…]

Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to [Read More…]

Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to [Read More…]

omersukrugoksu/Getty Images/Stock (NEW YORK) — Two Americans thought to have been fighting for Ukraine have died in the eastern reach of the country, according to officials. “We can confirm the recent deaths of two U.S. citizens [Read More…]

Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to [Read More…]

pawel.gaul/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — An American man was recently arrested and charged with the murder of his wife while they were on their honeymoon at a luxury resort in Fiji, ABC News has learned. [Read More…]

Simon Bruty/Anychance/Getty Images (LONDON) — Kensington Palace has released a new photo of Prince George, in celebration of the young royal’s birthday. George, the oldest child of Prince William and Kate, the duchess of Cambridge, [Read More…]

Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — NASA will return to the moon with a new mission planned for August, the agency said at a press conference Wednesday. Fifty-three years after the historic landing of Apollo [Read More…]

Pool Photograph/Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images (LONDON) — The BBC has formally apologized to members of the royal family for the bombshell 1995 interview between the late Princess Diana and then-BBC journalist Martin Bashir. A report [Read More…]

Paul Souders/Getty Images, FILE (HONG KONG) — An An, the world’s oldest giant male panda in captivity and under human care, has died at the age of 35 in Hong Kong. According to officials at [Read More…]

JURE MAKOVEC/AFP via Getty Images (LONDON) — Wildfires continue to rage across Europe, as an unprecedented heat wave and drought conditions threaten efforts to combat flames in some regions. In Greece, 56 forest fires occurred [Read More…]

Metin Aktas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to [Read More…]