SEOUL and LONDON — North Korea fired “multiple” ballistic missiles on Monday, according to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, as U.S.-South Korea war games began nearby. The missiles, which were “unidentified,” were fired from the North’s Hwanghae Province at about 1:50 p.m. local time, the South Korean military said. They were aimed inland, toward…

LONDON — The U.S. is “just about” ready to lift its freeze on intelligence sharing with Ukraine, President Donald Trump said Sunday, as American and Ukrainian negotiators prepare for bilateral talks in Saudi Arabia intended to move toward a peace deal to end Russia’s three-year-old invasion. “Well, we just about have,” Trump told reporters on…

Congress has one week to pass a spending bill that would avert a government shutdown, but lawmakers from both parties are not on the same page about how they’ll move forward. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he aims to hold a vote on Tuesday in the House on a clean short-term bill that would…

ROME and LONDON — Pope Francis on Sunday spent his 24th consecutive day in the hospital receiving therapy and getting an update on world and church affairs, the Vatican’s press office said in a brief statement. “The night was quiet, the pope is resting,” the Holy See said Sunday morning. Catholic worshippers pray during a…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil — a leader in Columbia University’s encampment movement — on Saturday night, claiming that his student visa had been revoked, according to attorney Amy Greer in a statement to ABC News. However, Khalil is in the United States on a green card and not on…

House Republican leaders on Saturday unveiled a GOP-led stopgap funding bill, known as a continuing resolution, that will fund the government at current levels through the end of September. Congressional Democrats, however, have vowed to block it citing major cuts to critical services such as health care. The 99-page bill moderately increases defense spending by…

President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico are an “attempt to stop the bleeding” in the American economy, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain told “This Week” on Sunday in defense of the controversial measures. “We’re in a crisis mode in this country,” Fain said, suggesting America’s trade system is “broken” and in need…

LONDON — Russia launched a fresh wave of drone strikes into Ukraine overnight into Sunday morning as the country reeled from a bloody weekend of aerial attacks that Kyiv said killed at least 24 people. Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 119 Shahed attack drones into the country overnight, 73 of which were shot down…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will study whether vaccines cause autism, despite numerous existing studies already showing there is no link. HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon confirmed the effort in a statement overnight, saying the agency plans to leave “no stone unturned.” “As President Trump said in his Joint Address to Congress, the…

International alarm is growing over fighting in western Syria, where hundreds of civilians have been reportedly killed amid intense clashes between the country’s new government and loyalists to the regime of former President Bashar al-Assad. Pro-government forces have been accused of killing scores of residents in revenge massacres. In an update Saturday, the Syrian Observatory…