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What to know about Axiom Space, the company behind the first all-private mission to the ISS

In a historic first, a crew of four civilians are set to launch to the International Space Station this week as part of an inaugural mission for the commercial spaceflight company Axiom Space.

Boris Johnson: UK Prime Minister says transgender women should not compete in female sports

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that transgender women should not compete in female sports in comments he said he knew could be seen as "controversial."

The West is running out of ways to punish Putin

Western outrage, new sanctions, and promised state-of-the-art weapons came too late to save the man found shot dead next to his bike on a grassy bank outside Kyiv. The man was pictured in a weekend of horrific imagery from Ukraine.

Russia says it will reduce military operations around Kyiv following talks with Ukraine

Russia said it would "drastically reduce" its military assault on the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Chernihiv after talks took place between representatives of the two nations on Tuesday, as Ukrainian officials claimed Russian troops were withdrawing from battlefronts there …

Ukraine's first lady emerges as a staunch defender of her nation on social media

Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, posted an open letter addressed to the world's media on Tuesday, detailing what she described as the "mass murder of Ukrainian civilians."

Russia accused of 'atrocity' in alleged bombing of maternity and children's hospital

Russian forces bombed a maternity and children's hospital in southern Ukraine, authorities there said Wednesday, an attack described by the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky as an "atrocity."

US basketball star Brittney Griner's supporters call for her release after she was detained in Russia

Friends and family of two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner are demanding the US basketball star's release after she was detained in Russia on drug charges.

Putin is wreaking carnage in Ukraine and no one can stop him

Millions of lives could be destroyed to slake Vladimir Putin's Cold War obsession.

One arrested with weapon at Joint Base Andrews after VP Harris' arrival, another at large

Security personnel at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday night arrested one person with a weapon, while another remains at large, according to a news release, shortly after Vice President Kamala Harris had arrived on the base.

At a secret airfield in Eastern Europe, a multinational effort to send weapons to Ukraine proceeds at high speed

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley went last week to an undisclosed airfield near the Ukrainian border that has become a hub for shipping weapons, a senior Defense Department official said, seeing firsthand the multinational effort …

Black immigrants chose Ukraine for quality of life, education. War leaves them fearful.

After having studied in India, Heidi Nguema visited Ukraine a few years ago with no plans to make it his home. But as an African from the country of Gabon, in the central part of the continent, he said, he …

Ukraine wants Russia to be severed from the global internet. Experts say it's a risky idea

Over the past week, Ukraine's government has pressured major tech platforms to rethink how they operate with Russia, and it has been pretty successful. Social media companies have reduced the reach of Russian state-backed media outlets, for example, and Apple …

Ukraine presents Republican leaders with a crucial choice

The horrifying invasion of Ukraine by Russian armed forces has united much of the world in opposition to Ru

Putin ratchets up Ukraine grievances in TV broadcast with top security officials

Russian President Vladimir Putin publicly stepped up his rhetoric in the Ukraine crisis Monday in a highly choreographed meeting, accusing Kyiv of carrying out acts of aggression and saying he was considering a request to officially recognize the breakaway regions …

US says it has credible information about Russian 'kill list' in potential Ukraine invasion

The US has written to the top United Nations human rights official that it has "credible information" that Russian forces are identifying Ukrainians "to be killed or sent to camps" if it further invades Ukraine and occupies it.