Nation and World
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Zelenskyy offers partial ceasefire with Russia to restart peace talks
Mar 04, 2025 3:56 pm - KYIV — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed a new framework for a partial ceasefire with Russia on Tuesday, posting on X that Kyiv would be willing to release...
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French prime minister again lashes out at US over Ukraine, says pause in aid is ‘unbearable’
Mar 04, 2025 3:56 pm - PARIS — France’s prime minister decried the U.S. pause on providing military aid to Ukraine as “unbearable” on Tuesday, describing it as tantamount to abandoning Ukrainia...
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Arab leaders endorse a counterproposal to Trump’s Gaza plan, with ceasefire uncertain
Mar 04, 2025 3:44 pm - CAIRO — Arab leaders on Tuesday endorsed Egypt's postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain, in a counterproposal to U....
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David Johansen, singer from the seminal punk band the New York Dolls, dies at 75
Mar 01, 2025 9:10 pm - NEW YORK — David Johansen, the wiry, gravelly-voiced singer and last surviving member of the glam and protopunk band the New York Dolls who later performed as his campy, ...
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Thousands report outage affecting Microsoft services like Outlook
Mar 01, 2025 9:01 pm - Thousands of Microsoft 365 customers reported having issues with services like Outlook on Saturday. In a series of posts on the social platform X, the company said it wa...
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DOGE presses to check federal benefits payments against IRS tax records
Mar 01, 2025 7:39 pm - Officials from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have expressed interest in using personal tax records to check federal benefits payments for fraud, which would mobilize the ...
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Pentagon orders up to 3,000 troops, Stryker combat vehicles to border
Mar 01, 2025 7:35 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered about 3,000 active-duty troops to the southern U.S. border, including soldiers from a motorized brigade equipped with 20-ton ar...
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As Trump warms to Putin, U.S. halts offensive cyber operations against Moscow
Mar 01, 2025 6:42 pm - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to halt offensive cyber and information operations against Russia as President Donald Trump seeks to end Pre...
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Zelenskyy embraced by British prime minister a day after White House blowout
Mar 01, 2025 6:26 pm - LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer embraced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Saturday and told him he had the nation's unwavering support a day after ...
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Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Zelenskyy shows limits of Western allies’ ability to sway US leader
Mar 01, 2025 5:23 pm - WASHINGTON — All it took was 90 seconds for weeks of tortured diplomacy to unwind in spectacular fashion. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukraine's Volo...