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Truce talks will begin immediately, Trump says after Putin call, but Moscow has not set a deadline for next steps.

After a two-hour phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on May 19, US president Donald Trump took to social media to declare that Russia and Ukraine will “immediately start negotiations” towards a ceasefire and an end to the war. He did, however, add that the conditions for peace “will…

Joe Biden's announcement about having late-stage cancer ignited questions about why it was not detected before, but a doctor says such a scenario is not unheard of

Hard to argue otherwise at this point.

Trump cleared his own way to be installed as chair of Kennedy Center in February

Excerpts of the book, out May 20, that have leaked before its official release, do not portray the 46th president or his closest advisers in a flattering light

IN FOCUS: In online spaces, antinatalism has been quietly gaining ground — and getting more radical, writes Holly Baxter

The White House asserted during a Monday press briefing that Chinese companies, not American consumers, will bear the cost of Trump's tariffs.

Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok disputed claims from the White House that the GOP's "one big, beautiful bill" contained over a trillion dollars in savings.

Vice president’s closed-door meeting with U.S.-born pontiff comes almost a month after he met with the late Pope Francis

Latin America is undergoing one of its most profound human rights crises in decades. The region’s civic space is shrinking rapidly, from mass surveillance and arbitrary arrests to political repression, enforced disappearances and impunity for state violence.