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Officials in Sangamon County, Illinois, have agreed to a $10 million settlement with the family of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman who was shot and killed in her home last summer after she called police for assistance. The agreement reached last week between lawyers for Massey’s family and attorneys …

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone Wednesday about ending the nearly three-year-long war in Ukraine. “As we both agreed, we want to stop the millions of deaths taking place in the War with Russia/Ukraine,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth …

The Trump administration has agreed to send a convicted money launderer back to Russia in exchange for the release of American teacher Mark Fogel, a U.S. official told NBC News on Wednesday. Alexander Vinnik is currently in American custody and awaiting transport back to Russia, which is expected to happen …

Republican businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson announced Wednesday that she is running for governor in Arizona, touting support from President Donald Trump in the race.  “I thank President Trump for his strong endorsement and look forward to working with him to secure our border and make Arizona safe again,” Taylor Robson …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday it was “unrealistic” to aim for a return to Ukraine’s borders as they were before 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and supported separatists who took over swathes of the country’s east. The remarks are the clearest indication yet that the United States will support …

More than 100 million people are waking to winter weather alerts and warnings Wednesday morning, as storm systems cause severe conditions, biting cold and travel chaos from coast to coast. The National Weather Service warnings stretch from Colorado to Maine and multiple storms systems have dumped as much as 9 …

A satirical counter offer to President Donald Trump’s proposal to buy Greenland has popped in the form of a petition which suggests that Denmark should buy California. More than 200,000 people have signed up for the plan which says that the Scandinavian country needs “more sunshine, palm trees, and roller …

ROME — Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo, indicating that it has remained a significant criminal force despite setbacks in recent decades. “Cosa Nostra,” the mafia syndicate based in and around Palermo, terrorized Italy in the 1980s and 1990s, but has since been overtaken as …

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to pause a lower court’s order that temporarily halted a massive freeze in federal funding. A judge in Rhode Island blocked the funding freeze Monday and ordered the government to “immediately restore frozen funding.” Follow live politics coverage here …

Liberal Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that courts must use their “soft power” to persuade people to comply with rulings on contentious issues. She made the comments at an event at Miami Dade College in Florida in the wake of a growing chorus among some allies of President …