The following is the Dec. 8, 2025, Congressional Research Service in focus report, Defense Primer: Geography, Strategy and ...

A 1956 eruption collapsed much of the Bezymianny volcano in Kamchatka, Russia, but frequent eruptions since — including a ...

Russia wants all of the Donbas, and more. Ukraine is loath to cede any land to Moscow, let alone areas Kyiv’s forces control. The US is pushing for an end to the war. Here’s a look at the tense issue ...

WASHINGTON/KYIV, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he was ready to advance a U.S.-backed framework for ending the war with Russia and discuss disputed points ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggested Moscow could reject the White House’s latest Ukraine peace deal framework if it doesn’t uphold the "spirit and letter" of the understandings reached at ...

Multiple earthquakes struck off the southern coast of Alaska on Monday, marking the latest cluster of seismic events in a region already known as one of the world’s most active earthquake zones. The ...

If we are to dodge the ultimate bullet of a civilization-ending U.S.-Russia conflagration, handshakes and nice gestures won’t suffice. The erstwhile adversaries must agree to build something jointly ...

President Trump reiterated his call on Sunday for an immediate halt to the three-and-a-half-year full-scale war in Ukraine, saying the battle lines should be frozen where they currently stand, with ...

Oct. 18 (UPI) --On this day in history: In 1776, the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania was established. Dubbed the "Mason-Dixon" line, it became the unofficial boundary between North and South.

President Donald Trump said Friday he would consider a far-fetched proposal for Elon Musk’s Boring Company to build an undersea rail tunnel connecting Alaska and Russia — an idea pitched by an envoy ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was ambivalent when asked about a possible tunnel from Russia to Alaska, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy didn’t like the proposal. “That’s an ...

To say President Trump is easily distracted is to say, oh look, a butterfly. Wait, what were we talking about? You get the point and it appears the Russians do too. How else could you explain an envoy ...