Russian troops have launched their anticipated attack on Ukraine. Big explosions were heard before dawn in Kyiv, Kharkiv and Odesa as world leaders decried the start of an invasion that could cause massive casualties.
A local woman with ties to Ukraine says her family there is preparing for a full-scale invasion. Fort Mill resident Kathi Matiaszek continues to follow the latest from Ukraine, where her father grew up, and where her brother and his family live today.
BREAKING -- Putin has approved a "special military operation" in Ukraine.
Prosecutors in New York say dozens of looted antiquities seized from collector and billionaire hedge fund founder Michael Steinhardt after a years-long investigation are being returned to the people of Greece.
The White House had begun referring to Russian troop deployments in eastern Ukraine as an “invasion” after initially hesitating to use the term.
Separatist leaders in eastern Ukraine have ordered a full military mobilization while Western leaders made increasingly dire warnings that a Russia invasion of its neighbor appeared imminent.
Sui Wenjing and Han Cong captured the Olympic gold medal that eluded them by a razor-thin margin four years ago.
U.S. President Joe Biden says he’s “convinced” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch a further invasion of Ukraine, saying he has “reason to believe” it will occur in the “coming days” and will include an assault on its capital, Kyiv.
President Joe Biden says there is a “very high” risk of a Russian invasion of Ukraine and that could happen within “several days.”
he U.S. government has suspended imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat.
Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have begun their closely watched call on Ukraine as the U.S. warns that a Russian invasion of its neighbor may be imminent.
President Joe Biden is expected to use executive authority to move $7 billion of the Afghan central bank’s assets frozen in the American funding system to fund humanitarian relief in Afghanistan and compensate victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Scientists say artifacts found inside a cave in southern France show modern humans came to that part of Europe almost 10,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Charlotte families with close ties to Ukraine are watching closely as tensions accelerate along the Russia-Ukraine border. Tens of thousands of Russian troops remain positioned near the border amid fears of a possible invasion.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned Sunday that Russia could invade Ukraine “any day,” triggering a conflict that would come at an “enormous human cost.”
The U.S. is accusing the Kremlin of an elaborate plot to fabricate an attack by Ukrainian forces that Russia could use as a pretext to take military action against its neighbor.
President Joe Biden says a U.S. special forces raid in northwestern Syria early Thursday killed the top leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.
New Zealand’s government will end its quarantine requirements for incoming travelers and reopen its borders.
President Joe Biden is sending about 2,000 troops from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Poland and Germany this week and sending part of an infantry Stryker squadron of roughly 1,000 troops based in Germany to Romania.
The State Department is ordering the families of all American personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv to leave the country and allowing non-essential staff to leave Ukraine.
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