Ukrainian and Russian forces battled in Bakhmut, the devastated eastern city which has become a symbol of Kyiv’s defiance, while seven civilians were reported killed by Ukrainian artillery strikes in Russian-controlled areas.

Stormy Daniels, the adult film star at the center of the criminal case against Donald Trump.

Tension with China has escalated under Taiwan’s government.

Chinese state-owned telecom firms are developing a $500 million undersea fiber-optic internet cable network that would link Asia.

Russia has seized the west bank of the Bakhmutka River.

Republicans who control the Tennessee House of Representatives voted on Thursday to expel Representative Justin Jones, the first of three Democratic members facing expulsion for their role in a gun control demonstration at the statehouse last week.

A man armed with a small axe climbed over a wall into a crèche in Southern Brazil and killed four children, police said, injuring five others in the attack.

U.S. investigators opened a civil rights probe into last month’s fatal shooting of a Black teenager by a U.S. Park Police officer in Washington, they said.

Israeli police clashed with Palestinians at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque a second time, witnesses said, hours after the arrest and removal of more than 350 people in a police raid at the compound and despite a U.S. appeal to ease tensions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said during a trip to Warsaw that Poland would help form a coalition of Western powers to supply warplanes to Kyiv.

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California, becoming the most senior U.S. figure to meet a Taiwanese leader on U.S. soil in decades and stressed the need to speed up arms deliveries to Taiwan in the face of increasing threats from China.

Former President Donald Trump called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to slash funding for the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI, one day after pleading not guilty in New York to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records.