Gerald Yellowhawk says a prayer in Lakota at the Central States Fair opening ceremony on Friday, Aug. 15.

Echoing Putin, Trump shifted to saying a peace agreement — not a ceasefire — is the next step in ending the 3½-year-old war ...

A police department in Southern California recovered about $30,000 worth of Labubu dolls that were stolen from a warehouse, ...

In Alaska, President Vladimir Putin walked on a red carpet, shook hands and exchanged smiles with his American counterpart.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday described his talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska as “very frank” ...

Russia summit in Alasks, saying it was hard to understand how the Russian president was welcomed in the U.S.

On Ukrainian social media, memes of Putin and Trump walking down a red carpet strewn with dead Ukrainian bodies were widely shared.

"The debt is why, supposedly, that we allowed a team of 20-somethings with no government experience called DOGE to take a meat cleaver to federal agencies." ...

Even though rural students graduate from high school at higher rates than their peers in cities and suburbs, fewer of them go on to college.

Some public health workers say the shooting that killed a police officer at the CDC campus shouldn't be surprising in the face of ongoing misinformation and animosity about immunizations.

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Many of Trump's picks to be federal judges have revealed anti-abortion views, been associated with anti-abortion groups or defended abortion restrictions.