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Kremlin envoy set to visit Miami for talks on US peace plan for Ukraine

A Kremlin envoy will travel to Florida to discuss a U.S.-proposed plan to end the war in Ukraine, a U.S. official said Thursday, part of the ongoing back-and-forth diplomacy as the Trump adm...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Lion and bear kept as pets in Albania find new homes in German wildlife sanctuaries

PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — A lion and bear rescued from captivity in northern Albania arrived in animal sanctuaries in Germany in early December after authorities in Tirana discovered they were...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

US says price increases eased last month but data may be distorted and Americans aren't feeling it

WASHINGTON (AP) — At a time when Americans are frustrated and angry over the high cost of living, the government released a report Thursday showing that inflation had cooled unexpectedly in ...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Mourners grieve 10-year-old killed in Bondi mass shooting as Australian leader pledges new hate laws

SYDNEY (AP) — Hundreds of mourners bearing bright bouquets and clutching each other in grief gathered at a funeral in Sydney on Thursday for a 10-year-old girl who was gunned down in an anti...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Pope names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as new archbishop of New York

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday made his most important U.S. appointment to date, naming a fellow Chicagoan as the next archbishop of New York to lead one of the biggest U.S. ar...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Turning Point youth conference begins in Phoenix without founder Charlie Kirk

PHOENIX (AP) — Turning Point USA, the conservative youth organization that Charlie Kirk turned into a political juggernaut, will convene its flagship conference on Thursday for the first tim...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Belgium seeks protection from Russian retaliation as EU leaders weigh a massive loan for Ukraine

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgium insisted on Thursday that its European Union partners must provide ironclad guarantees that it will be protected from Russian retaliation before it would back a massi...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Rain creates a crimson spectacle on Iran's Hormuz Island for the first time this year

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Rainfall on Iran's Hormuz Island briefly transformed the coastline of its famed Red Beach into a striking natural scene this week, as red soil flowed into the sea and tur...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

US announces massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion, angering China

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitze...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Israel launches intense airstrikes in Lebanon as deadline looms to disarm Hezbollah

BEIRUT (AP) — Israel carried out a series of airstrikes on southern and northeastern Lebanon on Thursday as a deadline looms to disarm the militant Hezbollah group along the countries' tense...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Bit by bit, small US groups chip away at historic levels of social isolation

Across the country, small groups are working to rebuild social connection amid rising loneliness in their own modest ways. It sounds simple — building relationships. But they’re up against p...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Peter Arnett, who reported on Vietnam and Gulf wars, has died

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietna...

DATE: Dec 18, 2025 | CATEGORY: Associated Press

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