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Medal of Honor recipient Dakota Meyer re-enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve after nearly 15 years, joined at a ceremony by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Afghan Christians in the U.S. face imminent deportation after the termination of TPS, prompting urgent appeals from faith leaders to the Trump administration.

A soldier from Virginia who died on D-Day has been accounted for 81 years after he was killed, officials said in a news release. 

The death toll from US airstrikes on an oil port in western Yemen has risen to at least 74 people, the Houthi-run health ministry reported, marking one of the deadliest days since the United States escalated its aerial military campaign against the Iranian-backed group in recent weeks.

Hamas terrorists running Gaza are reportedly facing a financial crisis as Israel intensifies its military campaign against the group, and public protests grow.

The secretary of state warns the Trump administration may “move on” because “it’s not our war.”

Researchers carrying out excavation work in southern Peru found a tomb filled with the remains of two dozen people believed to be battle victims. 

A Japanese bus driver with 29 years of service lost his retirement package worth $84,000 after being fired for stealing $7 from passengers' fares.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that the U.S. could "move on' from trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal if peace doing so do does not appear to be possible.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates — U.S. airstrikes targeting the Ras Isa oil port held by Yemen's Houthi rebels killed 38 people and wounded 102 others, the group said early Friday.

Aid groups are raising new alarm over Israel’s blockade of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

A U.S. veteran was fatally shot after he hijacked a small passenger plane in Belize on Thursday, officials in Belize and the U.S. confirmed.

Bashar Masri has resigned from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government Dean's Council after a lawsuit alleged he provided aid to Hamas via his companies.

London — The U.K. military has conducted a successful field test of a new type of weapon designed specifically to take down multiple drones launched in a coordinated attack, the government said Thursday. In a statement, the government said British soldiers had "successfully tracked, targeted and defeated swarms of drones" for the first time using "a new directed energy weapon developed in the U.K."

An American YouTuber who was arrested after visiting an off-limits island in the Indian Ocean with hopes of establishing contact with a reclusive tribe was further detained in custody on Thursday. The 24-year-old was initially arrested more than six years after another American was killed with arrows by the tribe on the same island.

All 1.4 million customers were affected, Hugo Sorrentini, spokesman for Luma Energy, which oversees the transmission and distribution of power, told The Associated Press.

An island-wide blackout hit Puerto Rico on Wednesday as the largely Catholic residents of the U.S. territory prepared to celebrate the Easter weekend, a power company spokesman said.

Hundreds of people suspected of witchcraft in Ghana, especially older women, face rampant human rights abuses including murder, Amnesty International said Monday, asking the government to criminalize accusations and ritual attacks.

The Ukrainian president called on Donald Trump to visit his country before engaging in any further negotiations to end the conflict.

Lima, Peru — Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters, died Sunday. He was 89.

Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel literature laureate and a giant of Latin American letters for many decades, has died, his son said Sunday.

Russian missiles struck the heart of the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy as people were gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday. At least 34 people were killed in the second large-scale attack in Ukraine to claim civilian lives in just over a week.

Two ballistic missiles struck the heart of the city at around 10:15 a.m. as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, according to officials.

Pope Francis, still recovering from respiratory illness, met with people for a short time following the Palm Sunday mass at Saint Peter's Square in Rome on April 13, 2025.

A pre-dawn Israeli airstrike hit a hospital in northern Gaza early Sunday, forcing patients to quickly evacuate after staff said they had received a warning only 20 minutes before the attack.

A convalescing Pope Francis made a surprise in-person appearance when he greeted the crowd in St. Peter's Square on Palm Sunday, another reassuring sign of his recovery from a life-threatening battle with double pneumonia.

At least 20 people were killed in the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Palm Sunday after a Russian missile strike that struck the heart of the city, officials said.

Sudan's notorious paramilitary group launched a two-day attack on famine-hit camps for displaced people that left more than 100 dead, including 20 children and nine aid workers, in the Darfur region, a U.N. official said Saturday.

On the eve of a too-close-to-call presidential election, Ecuador declared a state of emergency Saturday in seven of its 24 provinces, including the capital Quito, saying it was needed to fight a dramatic rise in drug-linked violence.

The Israeli military is extending its ground operations deep into Gaza, creating a large buffer zone between the Strip and Israeli territory and pushing hundreds of thousands of civilians into an ever-smaller area on the Mediterranean coast.

Ukraine has endorsed a broader U.S. ceasefire proposal, but Russia has effectively blocked it by imposing far-reaching conditions.

Envoys from Iran and the United States began negotiations Saturday in Oman over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Retired Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith offered tips on how Tesla owners facing potential vandalism can protect themselves from violent radicals.

Gazans are speaking out against Hamas at great personal risk, Fox News' Mike Tobin reports.

A small group of reservists from Israel’s elite military intelligence unit joined a call for an immediate return of the hostages in Gaza even if it requires an immediate end to the war, in a sign of a growing protest movement after more than 18 months of war.

Monash IVF, one of Australia’s biggest IVF providers, called it a “human error.”

A convicted murderer who escaped from California corrections custody last year is believed to have killed the leader of an elite Mexican police unit charged with finding and arresting fugitive Americans, officials said.

The LIABLE Act, championed by Senator Ted Cruz, aims to hold accountable organizations funding terrorism by allowing American victims to pursue legal action against them.

Trump’s Iran policy has mirrored Reagan’s doctrine in countering the Soviets. Like the former president, Trump has consistently increased his leverage against Tehran.

U.S special envoy Steve Witkoff has traveled to Russia on Friday, according to the Kremlin.

Shares in Asia have fallen in early trading after U.S. stocks surrendered a chunk of their historic gains from the day before.

Ecuadorans go to the polls on Sunday under the shadow of surging drug violence and a troubling explosion in the number of local gangs and mafias.

Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates at the United Nations’ top court of violating the Genocide Convention by supporting paramilitary forces in its Darfur region.

“If negotiations are not satisfactory, our countermeasures will kick in," said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

The Prada Group announced a deal Thursday to buy Italy's Versace from the U.S. luxury group Capri Holdings under terms that value the fashion house at 1.25 billion euros ($1.4 billion).

Suspected would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh will now face state charges in the Sunshine State after Florida officials said they were stymied by the Biden Justice Department.

A spokesperson for China's Commerce Ministry said Thursday that Beijing hoped the U.S. would work to de-escalate the trade war between the world's two largest economies after President Trump announced a pause on higher tariffs he had imposed on many other countries.

Russia has released Ksenia Karelina, a dual U.S.-Russian national who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for treason in August last year, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a social media post early Thursday, offering no information about the terms of her release. The Wall Street Journal first reported Karelina's release, saying she was freed in a prisoner swap orchestrated by the two countries' intelligence agencies.

Trump told reporters Wednesday from the Oval Office that if Iran does not give up its nuclear weapons program, then military action led by Israel will be a real possibility.

London — The British government's broadcasting regulator Ofcom announced Wednesday that it is investigating an online suicide forum reportedly linked to 50 deaths in the U.K. Ofcom said it was using new powers granted under British law to look into whether the site's service provider had "failed to put appropriate safety measures in place to protect its U.K. users from illegal content and activity."