Russian Drone Strikes Cause Major Blackouts in Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian drone strikes temporarily knocked out power to the entire southern Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine and left more than 600,000 households in the central Dnipropetrovsk region without electricity, officials said Thursday.

Trump Wants US to Buy $200B in Mortgage Bonds to Lower Rates

WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump said on social media Thursday that he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he said would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americans are worried about home prices.

Vance calls killing of Minneapolis woman 'a tragedy of her own making'

WASHINGTON (AP) – Vice President JD Vance on Thursday blamed a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed as protests related to her death expanded to cities across the country.

House easily passes spending package to avoid another shutdown

WASHINGTON (AP) – The House passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills on Thursday that would fund parts of the federal government through September, demonstrating the eagerness of lawmakers to avoid another government shutdown near the end of the month.

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Senate Rejects Trump's Military Threats Against Venezuela

WASHINGTON (AP) – The Senate advanced a resolution Thursday that would limit President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks against Venezuela, sounding a note of disapproval for his expanding ambitions in the Western Hemisphere.

Denmark sees Greenland talks with US as 'the dialogue that is needed'

Denmark has welcomed a meeting with the U.S. next week to discuss President Donald Trump’s renewed call for the strategic, mineral-rich Arctic island of Greenland to come under American control. “This is the dialogue that is needed, as requested by the government together with the Greenlandic government,” Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said.

ICE shooting reinforces Minnesota's grim role as Trump's target

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Federal officers have encountered opposition in nearly all of the cities targeted by President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement campaign. But it was in Minnesota – a state in daily conflict with the Trump administration this year – that a 37-year-old woman was shot and killed by an immigration officer.

Protests in Iran's capital after prince's call for demonstration

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – People in Iran’s capital shouted from their homes and rallied in the street Thursday night after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration, witnesses said, a new escalation in the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic.