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3:35 PM on Saturday, August 16

Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska

2:23 PM on Saturday, August 16

10:51 AM on Saturday, August 16

West Virginia governor is sending 300 to 400 National Guard members to Washington at the Trump administration's request

9:58 AM on Saturday, August 16

An Italian hospital says a 20-year-old Palestinian woman has died after being transferred from Gaza for treatment

9:42 AM on Saturday, August 16

Canadian government intervenes in Air Canada flight attendant strike as minister orders arbitration

9:13 AM on Saturday, August 16

In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump

8:06 AM on Saturday, August 16

Ukrainians in Kyiv have been shocked by the U.S. welcoming Russian President Vladimir Putin with a red carpet in Alaska

7:18 AM on Saturday, August 16

The Congolese government has rejected Kenya’s appointment of a consul general to Goma, citing a violation of international law

3:08 AM on Saturday, August 16

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine, but reached no agreement

2:24 AM on Saturday, August 16

Thousands of Afghans, British troops, and civil servants may have fallen victim to another data breach

12:34 AM on Saturday, August 16

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says he will meet Trump in Washington on Monday after Trump’s summit with Putin

11:48 PM on Friday, August 15

President Donald Trump reversed course in the wake of his meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin and now says an overall peace agreement is the next step in ending the war in Ukraine, rather than the ceasefire the American has long championed

10:15 PM on Friday, August 15

Canada’s government has forced Air Canada and the union representing flight attendants into arbitration after a work stoppage stranded more than 100,000 travelers around the world during the peak summer travel season

9:03 PM on Friday, August 15

Months before New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell was set to leave office, she has been indicted in what prosecutors allege was a yearslong scheme to conceal a romantic relationship with her bodyguard

9:01 PM on Friday, August 15

The left sees President Donald Trump’s attempted takeover of law enforcement in Washington as part of multifront march to autocracy

9:00 PM on Friday, August 15

President Donald Trump has said little about his idea of relocating much of the Gaza Strip’s population to other countries since he stunned the world by announcing it in February

7:17 PM on Friday, August 15

The much-anticipated summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin began with a warm welcome a military flyover but ended with a thud after the two leaders conceded they had failed to reach any agreements on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war

1:11 PM on Friday, August 15

5:53 AM on Friday, August 15

The Trump administration has reversed course and agreed to leave the Washington, D

8:31 PM on Thursday, August 14

Japan is paying tribute to more than 3 million war dead as the country marks its surrender 80 years ago, ending World War II