Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ABC News’ Martha Raddatz his country is ready for a ceasefire brokered by the United States, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of aiming for the “total defeat” of Ukraine. In the exclusive sit-down interview in Kyiv with Raddatz, co-anchor of ABC News’ “This Week,” Zelenskyy said Putin is uninterested in…
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a key progressive member of the House whose district covers swaths of the Bronx and Queens, endorsed New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani on Thursday for the city’s upcoming Democratic mayoral primary — one day after the candidate clashed with front-runner former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other candidates…
LONDON — At least 10 Ukrainian drones were shot down on their approach to Moscow overnight into Sunday morning, according to the city’s mayor, with temporary restrictions introduced at two of the capital’s airports. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said emergency services were dispatched to the impact sites of the downed drones. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the…
Less than two days after Elon Musk slammed President Donald Trump over the megabill moving through Congress, the billionaire appeared to remove several of his most scathing posts on X that targeted the president, including one that insinuated Trump was in the Epstein files. Musk posted on Thursday, without providing evidence, a claim that the…
The Trump administration is deploying the California National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles over immigration enforcement operations that have resulted in some clashes between demonstrators and authorities, the White House said in a statement. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum “deploying 2,000 National Guardsmen to address the lawlessness” in California as demonstrations…
Multiple rounds of severe weather are targeting a large swath of the South this weekend. More than 40 million Americans are in the threat zone through Saturday night, stretching from Texas to the Carolinas. Damaging wind gusts, large hail and isolated tornadoes are possible with any severe thunderstorms that move through. Earlier Saturday, torrential rain…
Even by the standards of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s relationship — an unprecedented alliance punctuated by a meme-inspired reshaping of the government, numerous rocket launches, assassination attempts, a quarter-billion-dollar political gamble and electric car photo-ops — it’s been an unusual week. For months, Musk had been the closest of Trump’s advisers —…
Pentagon investigators are looking into whether Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally wrote the text messages detailing the military’s plans to strike Houthi targets in Yemen or whether other staffers typed out those details, according to two people familiar with the ongoing probe. The Defense Department’s Office of Inspector General has spent several weeks…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native living Maryland, was mistakenly deported in March to a mega-prison in his home country of El Salvador — despite a 2019 court order barring his deportation to that country due to fear of persecution — after the Trump administration claimed he was a member of the criminal gang MS-13,…
LONDON — At least seven people were killed and 41 others were injured in massive Russian strikes across Ukraine overnight, which targeted civilian and energy infrastructure, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday morning. “Russia continues its terror against civilians,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a social media post on Saturday morning. “Hundreds of drones and…
