May 25 Ukraine and Russia complete 3rd prisoner swap hours after major Russian aerial assault By Samya Kullab, Oleksii Yeroshenko, Associated Press Russia and Ukraine swapped hundreds more prisoners on Sunday, the third and last part of a major exchange that reflected a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire in the more than three years of war. Continue reading
May 24 Nine of a doctor’s 10 children are killed in latest Israeli strikes in Gaza, health officials say By Sally Abou AlJoud, Samy Magdy, Associated Press The bodies of 79 people killed by Israeli strikes have been brought to hospitals in the past 24 hours, Gaza's Health Ministry said Saturday, a toll that doesn't include hospitals in the battered north that it said are now inaccessible. Continue reading
May 24 Watch 3:09 News Wrap: Ukraine and Russia exchange hundreds of POWs In our news wrap Saturday, Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners hours after a large-scale Russian attack on Kyiv, dozens of staff members have been removed from Trump’s National Security Council, the U.S. measles outbreak passed 1,000 confirmed cases,… Continue watching
May 24 Russia launches massive nighttime drone and missile attack on Kyiv By Illia Novikov, Alex Babenko, Associated Press Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds more prisoners on Saturday as part of a major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire. The exchange came hours after Kyiv came under a large-scale Russian… Continue reading
May 23 How one UN leader’s mistaken timeline caused confusion about Gaza children’s starvation risk By Grace Abels, PolitiFact Gaza children face dire starvation risk, but a UN leader got the timeline wrong when he said 14,000 babies would die in “the next 48 hours.” The report he referenced projected such severe child malnutrition in the region over 11… Continue reading
May 23 Watch 7:07 ‘We’re playing into Russia’s hands’: Ex-U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on why she resigned By Amna Nawaz, Sonia Kopelev This week's prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine was the largest since the war’s onset. But skepticism of a lasting truce, and President Trump’s peace-making, remains. Bridget Brink resigned as ambassador to Ukraine in April, faulting the Trump administration’s Ukraine… Continue watching
May 23 Why King Charles III is visiting Canada to deliver a rare speech from the throne By Rob Gillies, Associated Press Trump’s repeated suggestion that the U.S. annex its northern neighbor prompted new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to invite Charles to give the speech on Tuesday where he will lay out the Canadian government’s agenda when Parliament reopens. Continue reading
May 23 Kim Kardashian’s robbers found guilty in Paris court, but won’t face prison time By John Leicester, Thomas Adamson, Associated Press The chief judge, David De Pas, said that the defendants' ages — the oldest is 79 and some others are in their 60s and 70s — weighed on the court’s decision to impose sentences that he said “aren’t very severe.”… Continue reading
May 23 China criticizes Trump administration’s move to ban Harvard’s foreign students By Huizhong Wu, Rajesh Roy, Associated Press Harvard enrolled 6,703 international students across all of its schools in 2024, according to the school’s data, with 1,203 of those from China and 788 from India. Continue reading
May 23 Trump’s foreign student ban leaves Belgian princess in doubt about her Harvard future By Associated Press Belgium’s Royal Palace said Friday that Princess Elisabeth, who is first in line to the throne, is waiting to find out whether she can return to Harvard for her second year after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a ban on foreign students… Continue reading