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The conjecture is fueled by U.S. assessments of other wars, notably Afghanistan, where officials often sidestepped questions of whether success was sustainable.

Economic prospects in Central America have grown so dim that even the college-educated are attempting the perilous journey to the United States.

In May, the State Department reclassified Griner as wrongfully detained, shifting the case to the government’s hostage team.

Leisure travel has bounced back this year, and that means particularly big crowds over three-day holiday weekends.

Sky watchers in Oregon, Washington, England and Canada have spotted "noctilucent clouds," the rarest on Earth

Soldiers love system's superior range and accuracy but say that they arrived too slowly and that many more are needed.

U.S. climate envoy John Kerry says setbacks for President Joe Biden’s climate efforts at home have “slowed the pace” of some of the commitments from other countries to cut climate-wrecking fossil fuel pollution in diplomacy abroad.

American basketball star Brittney Griner went on trial in Moscow Friday, months after her arrest on charges of possessing cannabis oil while returning to play for a Russian basketball team. (July 1)

Viktor Bout, whose wild exploits once inspired a Hollywood film starring Nicolas Cage, is serving a 25-year sentence in a U.S. prison.

The U.S. has announced it will provide Ukraine with $820 million in new military aid, including new surface-to-air missile systems and counter-artillery radars to respond to Russia’s heavily reliance on long-range strikes in the war.

In a letter to senators on Thursday, TikTok acknowledged that its non-U.S. employees had access to data of U.S. users

The Supreme Court decision Thursday to limit how the Environmental Protection Agency may regulate carbon dioxide emissions could make an already grave situation worse for those most affected by air pollution and climate change, community residents and advocates fear.

The president will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, who also include Oscar-winning Denzel Washington, the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and soccer Olympian Megan Rapinoe.

The awards will be presented Thursday, July 7.

A U.S. official says the tractor-trailer that was attempting to smuggle migrants across the border had passed an inland Border Patrol checkpoint.

Viktor Orban’s foreign minister says he is ‘constantly’ consulting Republican lawmakers on opposition to plan to tax multinational firms

The full list includes honorees from Hollywood, sports, politics, military, academia, and civil rights and social justice advocacy.

In Madrid this week, NATO laid out a bold plan for military expansion in response to Putin’s war. But can its member states overcome political divisions at home?

The White House says President Joe Biden will present the nation's highest civilian honor to 17 people, including gymnast Simone Biles, actor Denzel Washington and the late Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain, with whom Biden served in the Senate.

Some 2,000 migrants, most Venezuelans, have walked out of the southern Mexico city of Tapachula en masse to pressure authorities into allowing them to continue to the United States border at a time attention is focused on immigration

A simmering spat with Russia over the placement predates this year’s conflict.

Hundreds have taken to the streets in Sudan’s capital of Khartoum, a day after nine people were killed in anti-military demonstrations

Griner could face 10 years in jail if convicted for possessing a “significant amount” of hashish.

Western leaders and the Kremlin traded heated rhetoric, as the trial of detained WNBA star Brittney Griner nears.

Chicago immigration leaders cheered when the Supreme Court gave the green light to the Biden administration to end Trump's ‘Remain in Mexico’ immigration policy. But they cautioned that it changed little for those migrants already living at the border.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is threatening to derail a bill designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the United States if Democrats revive their stalled package of energy and economic initiatives.

Kaitlin Marie Armstrong (shown), suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson at an Austin home, has been arrested in Costa Rica, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday.

The United States Space Force has activated a new unit that is tasked with providing "critical intelligence on threat systems, foreign intentions and activities in the space domain."

Armstrong was captured in a hostel and will be deported to face first-degree murder charges

A U.S. official says the tractor-trailer at the center of a disastrous human-smuggling attempt that left 53 people dead had passed through an inland U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint with migrants inside earlier in its journey.

The French and Americans once saw eye to eye on reproductive rights. Today, not so much.

With the summer in full swing, and borders experiencing high traffic due to loosened COVID-19 restrictions, customs officials are offering tips to make tra

The Treasury Department has blocked a $1 billion Delaware-based trust connected to sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov.

The U.S. Marshals Service says a Texas woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson at an Austin home has been arrested in Costa Rica.

A Texas woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson at an Austin home has been arrested in Costa Rica, the U.S. Marshals Service said Thursday. Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34, was arrested Wednesday at a hostel on Santa Teresa Beach in Provincia de Puntarenas, the Marshals Service said in a statement. “The Marshals Service elevated the Kaitlin Armstrong investigation to major case status early in this investigation, which likely played a key role in her capture after a 43-day run,” said U.S. Marshal for the Western District of Texas Susan Pamerleau.

Karen Caballero told the Associated Press that one of her sons was worried something might happen to them on their journey to America.

In the U.S., it's legal to compensate people for their blood donation. Plasma donations can be a way to make extra income, but some groups can't donate.

The Supreme Court says the Biden administration can scrap a Trump-era immigration policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration courts.

The “Remain in Mexico” policy requires some asylum seekers who enter the country illegally, mainly from Central and South America, to return to Mexico while they await a hearing.

The Supreme Court upheld President Biden's broad power to repeal the Trump-era 'Remain in Mexico' policy.

The doctor who runs Aid Access says she's also pursuing a new long-term strategy to try to get one of the pills used for medication abortions registered as a contraceptive in the U.S.

Metro Phoenix’s Maricopa County had among the biggest growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county.

Moscow framed the withdrawal from the Black Sea island as an effort to create a humanitarian corridor, while Kyiv said it came after intense artillery strikes by Ukraine’s military

Ahead of 4th of July weekend, reporters for The Washington Post spoke to people around the world to see how high fuel costs are affecting their lives.

In February 2021, almost a year into a pandemic that was unprecedented in our lifetimes, MLive began asking “Are you OK?”Even before COVID hit the United States in early 2020, MLive had been reporting on the toll of mental health issues on Michigan residents, families, homes, schools and the strain it put on a health-care system that struggled to keep up with demands for services. The pandemic just amplified the problem, and the need for solutions.

A desperate child-care shortage -- with parents lining up overnight to try to get day-care slots -- is making it harder for women to get back to work. And that's deepening America's labor shortage.

This SC city has BMW racing, restaurants, history and a good-sized downtown public park.

New Zealand said that the Proud Boys' role in the Jan 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot contributed to its blacklisting.

Families of the more than 60 people packed into a tractor-trailer and abandoned in Texas have began to confirm their worst fears.

After NATO leaders formally decided to invite Sweden and Finland to join the bloc, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Vladimir Putin “wanted less NATO,” and now he’s “getting more NATO on his borders.”

Families across Mexico and Central America have begun learning that loved ones who left in search of a future in the United States are among the 53 dead.

At least 53 people died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer, officials said, describing the deadliest migrant smuggling case in U.S. history.

Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that the first probable case of Monkeypox in Michigan has been discovered in Oakland County.

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg’s announcement this week caught the top defense officials of many NATO members off guard, leading them to question which of their forces, if any, were being included.

LIV Golf’s first U.S. event was set to begin Thursday, with a group of survivors and families who lost loved ones in the Sept. 11 terror attacks planning to gather at a nearby park to speak out against the Saudi Arabia-funded tour.

After singer and producer R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison for federal sex trafficking and racketeering, one of his victims, Lizzette Martinez, spoke to reporters and said, “I never thought that I would be here to see him be held accountable for the atrocious things that he did to children.”

Despite a growing recognition of the newspaper industry's problems among politicians and philanthropists, a new report says a downward trend continues.

The US has placed five companies in China on the entity list over their aid to Russia's military.

NATO has for the first time singled out China as one of its strategic priorities for the next decade, warning about its growing military ambitions, confrontational rhetoric toward Taiwan and other neighbors, and increasingly close ties to Russia

The high court on Wednesday allowed a former state trooper to sue Texas over his claim that he was forced out of his job when he returned from Army service in Iraq.

GettyLeaders of NATO member countries, including the United States, are cheering the decision to welcome Finland and Sweden into the alliance Wednesday as a bulwark against Russian aggression in Europe.But Russia might be coming for European countries beyond Ukraine in approximately a year’s time anyway, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Wednesday.“I can say what we need: We need security guarantees, and you have to find a place for Ukraine in the common security space. There will be

The biggest World Lacrosse Women’s World Championship kicks off on the East Coast on Wednesday. Even though it has been a few years since the last World Championship, the U.S.’ dominance in the tournament cannot be overstated. However, in the women’s game, Canada has been unable to get over the hump to win it all on the world stage. The rivalry between Canada and the United States has stretched over many sports over the years, including women’s lacrosse. What: 2022 World Lacrosse Women’s World ChampionshipWho: Canada vs. United StatesWhen: Wednesday, June 29Time: 7:00 p.m.

The women recorded an extraordinary video appeal to local authorities to bring their men home alive.

NATO countries, welcoming Finland and Sweden and announcing a surge of forces, hope to signal to Moscow that their commitment to Ukraine is not waning.

Indirect negotiations between Iran and the U.S. over Tehran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers have ended in Qatar after failing to make significant progress.

President Joe Biden says the U.S. is enhancing its military presence in Europe for the long haul to bolster regional security after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A Mexican immigration official says that in the chaotic minutes after dozens of migrants were found dead inside a tractor-trailer sweltering in the Texas heat, the driver tried to slip away by pretending to be one of the survivors.

U.S. health officials are expanding the group of people recommended to get vaccinated against the monkeypox virus.

Abortion pills smuggled into the United States from Mexico inside teddy bears.

President Joe Biden says the deaths of migrants who were in the back of a tractor-trailer in Texas are "horrifying and heartbreaking."

The man considered to be the wealthiest oligarch in Russia, who has been photographed playing ice hockey with President Vladimir Putin, has joined a growing list of those transferring — or, sailing — their prized assets to Dubai.

Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America are seeking word of their loved ones as authorities begin identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the sweltering Texas heat.

Forty-six people have been found dead after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer on a remote back road in Texas.

Senior Biden administration officials have quietly traveled to Caracas in the latest bid to rebuild relations with the South American oil giant as the war in Ukraine drags on, driving higher gas prices and forcing the U.S. to recalibrate other foreign policy objectives.

The Biden administration is stepping up efforts to combat illegal fishing by China and ordering federal agencies to better coordinate amongst themselves in a bid to promote sustainable exploitation of the world’s oceans.

A $325 million superyacht seized by the United States from a sanctioned Russian oligarch has arrived in San Diego Bay.

A top South Korean official says North Korea is increasingly targeting the South with its nuclear arms program, and urged China and Russia to persuade the North not to conduct a widely expected nuclear test.

In 1975, leaders of the world’s wealthy democracies gathered outside Paris to deal with an energy crisis sparked by a war and rampant inflation.

The United Nations says that the death toll of children in last week’s devastating earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan has risen to 155 as the scope of the deadliest quake to hit the impoverished country in two decades comes into focus.

Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf is getting a chilly reception in Oregon, its first stop in the United States.

Some Iranians say they're banned from travel to the United States due to military service they were forced to perform years ago as conscripts to a branch of Iran's military that the U.S. has branded terrorist.

One Group of Seven family photo didn’t seem to be enough for the leaders of leaders of the United States, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.

United States swimmer Justin Ress has gone through all the emotions after winning his first individual gold medal on the last day of racing at the world swimming championships in Budapest.

Protests continue across the United States Friday night after the Supreme Court made a landmark decision, overturning Roe V. Wade. A crowd of people gathered outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., which can be seen in the video player above. Nearly a thousand protestors showed up at protests in Detroit and Ann Arbor.

Katie Ledecky has extended her record haul of medals from the world swimming championships to 22 with her latest 800-meter freestyle win.

Back-to-back world leader summits in Europe opening this weekend will focus on uniting Western nations behind Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion and overcoming Turkey’s opposition to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden.

The head of the United Nations has warned the world faces “catastrophe” because of the growing shortage of food around the globe.

The U.S. envoy to Israel has moved into a new rental property in Jerusalem.

A heat wave that's already lasted more than a week keeps on baking the US, Asia and even the Arctic.

The United States says it is sending another $450 million in military aid to Ukraine, including some additional medium-range rocket systems, to help push back Russian progress in the war.

Serena Williams’ competitive preparation for Wimbledon will amount to two doubles matches.

Andrea Fuentes prevented a tragedy at the swimming world championships with her quick reaction.

As midterm elections approach, Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says she is committed to her work, which she defines as defending the democratic process and ensuring each Michigander’s vote is counted.

Players who have joined the new Saudi Arabia-funded league will still be allowed to compete at the British Open next month.

Two men have pleaded guilty in New Zealand to their involvement in running the once wildly popular pirating website Megaupload.

Hungary’s Kristóf Milák has thrilled home fans by lowering his own world record in the men’s 200 butterfly at the swimming world championships.

Elite swimmer Mykhailo Romanchuk doesn’t know if his father was able to see him winning a medal for Ukraine at the swimming world championships.

It’s one of the United States’ few enduring alliances in an often-turbulent Latin America, one built around a decades-long partnership combating the nation’s drug cartels.

U.S. Forest Service employees made multiple miscalculations, used inaccurate models and underestimated how dry conditions were, causing a planned burn to reduce the threat of wildfires to turn into the largest blaze in New Mexico's recorded history.

Beer lovers now have a chance to celebrate the anniversary every Wednesday from June 29 to August 31. Those interested can enter the Experience Grand Rapids 10 years of Beer City USA contest. Winnings include a Grand Rapids beer experience, an overnight stay in a Grand Rapids hotel, two culture passes and a visa gift card.