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North Korea is testing new ICBMs and U.S. warns more is coming

By Zeke Miller, Associated Press

The Biden administration says two North Korean missile launches in recent weeks were in fact test-firings of a new long-range ICBM.

South Korea’s president-elect pledges a tougher stance on North Korea

By Hyung-Jin Kim, Kim Tong-Hyung, Associated Press

South Korean President-elect Yoon Suk Yeol says he will solidify an alliance with the United States, build a powerful military and sternly cope with North Korean provocations.

WATCH: Senate Republicans criticize Biden’s refusal to transfer Poland’s fighter planes to Ukraine

By Associated Press

Senate Republicans are criticizing the Biden administration's refusal to facilitate the transfer Poland's Soviet-era fighter planes to the Ukrainians to fight the Russian invasion.

WATCH: Pentagon spokesman John Kirby holds briefing on failures in 2020 Manda Bay attack

By Lolita C. Baldor, Associated Press

Two military reviews of the attack by al-Shabab militants are scathing in their conclusions that there were failures across the board at the Manda Bay air base.

U.S. colleges cut programs, financial ties with Russia

By Collin Binkley, Associated Press

Colleges across the U.S. are pulling students from study abroad programs in Russia, ending research partnerships and cutting financial ties to condemn the invasion of Ukraine.

British sanctions on Roman Abramovich leads to restrictions on Chelsea Football Club

By Rob Harris, Associated Press

Unprecedented restrictions have been placed on Chelsea’s ability to operate by the British government after owner Roman Abramovich is targeted in sanctions.

Under Russian siege and heavy shelling, Ukraine’s Mariupol city uses mass grave

By Evgeniy Maloletka, Associated Press

With bodies piling up in Russia's nine-day siege of Mariupol, the port city of 430,000 in southeastern Ukraine, local authorities are hurrying to bury the dead in a mass grave.

WATCH: VP Harris addresses possible Russian war crimes in Ukraine with Poland’s President Duda

By Aamer Madhani, Zeke Miller, Associated Press

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is embracing calls for an international war crimes investigation of Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and the bombing of civilians, including a maternity hospital.

Deadly Russian attack on Ukrainian hospital draws outrage as peace talks stall

By Evgeniy Maloletka, Mstyslav Chernov, Associated Press

A Russian airstrike on a Mariupol maternity hospital that killed three people drew outrage, with Ukrainian and Western officials branding it a war crime.

WATCH: Senate Energy committee holds hearing on ‘use of energy as a tool and a weapon’

By Associated Press

On Wednesday, the House overwhelmingly approved legislation that would ban Russian oil imports to the United States, an effort to put into law the restrictions announced by President Joe Biden in response to the escalating war in Ukraine.