December 28, 2025 7:52 am
WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — President Donald Trump will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to try to close out a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia that would end nearly four years of war. The two men will meet Sunday in Florida, where the U.S. president is spending the holidays. In announcing the meeting, Zelenskyy said he will raise “territorial issues” as Moscow and Kyiv remain fiercely at odds over the fate of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine. Trump has been working to end the war for much of his first year back in office, showing irritation with both Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
December 28, 2025 7:51 am
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia struck Ukraine’s capital with missiles and drones in an attack that killed at least one person. The barrage came a day before the leaders of Ukraine and the United States meet. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack “really shows that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin doesn’t want peace.” Authorities said that Saturday’s assault hit residential buildings and energy infrastructure in Kyiv. Moscow said the strike was in response to Ukraine’s attacks on “civilian objects” in Russia. Poland scrambled fighter jets and closed airports in Lublin and Rzeszow near the border with Ukraine for several hours during the Russian attacks but there was no violation of Polish airspace.
December 28, 2025 7:47 am
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal rights activist, has died. She was 91. Bardot rocketed to international stardom in the 1956 movie “And God Created Woman.” Directed by her then-husband, Roger Vadim, it triggered a scandal with scenes of the long-legged beauty dancing on tables naked. As an animal rights activist, she earned her compatriots’ respect and was awarded the nation’s highest honor. Later, however, she fell from public grace as her animal protection diatribes took on a decidedly extremist tone and her far-right political views sounded racist. (Photo: AP)
December 27, 2025 8:26 am
An accident along Interstate 79 occurred Saturday morning leading to an unresponsive female patient. According to Washington County 911, the vehicle ran off the road into a ditch just after 8 a.m. on the northbound ramp at the Marianna exit in Amwell Township. No word on the woman’s identity or cause of that incident.
December 27, 2025 5:27 am
BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia says that Thailand hit a site in the country’s northwest with an airstrike on Saturday even as the two sides pursue talks to end clashes. Cambodia’s Defense Ministry said that Thailand deployed fighter jets to bomb targets in its Banteay Meanchey province on Friday and Saturday. Thailand confirmed the Friday attack and cited defense needs. Each country blames the other for breaching a ceasefire that ended a previous round of fighting in July. The two sides are holding talks this week that defense ministers were expected to join on Saturday to possibly formalize an end to the fighting. The combat has caused numerous casualties and mass displacements.
December 27, 2025 5:26 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — The president of the Kennedy Center is criticizing musician Chuck Redd for canceling a Christmas Eve performance. Redd withdrew days after the White House announced President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the venue. On Friday, the center’s president, Richard Grenell, called the decision “classic intolerance” and threatened to seek $1 million in damages. Redd, a drummer and vibraphone player, has led holiday “Jazz Jams” at the center since 2006. The renaming, approved by Trump’s board, reportedly violates a law prohibiting changes to the center’s dedication to President John F. Kennedy.
December 27, 2025 5:20 am
JABO, Nigeria (AP) — A U.S. airstrike that targeted an alleged camp of the Islamic State group in Nigeria has caused panic in the village of Jabo, close to where the strike hit. The residents witnessed the sky glowing red from the attack late on Thursday night. U.S. President Donald Trump announced the strike. The Nigerian government has since confirmed that it cooperated with the U.S government in its strike but didn’t disclose details about the militants targeted. Jabo’s residents say the village had never been attacked by armed gangs as part of the violence the U.S. says is widespread, though such attacks regularly occur in neighboring villages. Locals remain anxious, fearing further attacks and uncertainty.
December 27, 2025 5:23 am
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attorneys for the man accused of killing iconic rapper Tupac Shakur are pushing to suppress evidence that was collected in what they say was an unlawful nighttime search. The attorneys claim the affidavit seeking to search Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ home in 2023 mischaracterized Davis as a dangerous armed drug dealer in order to get the rare nighttime search approved, when in reality he was a retired cancer survivor living with his wife outside of Las Vegas. Davis was arrested for the 1996 murder of Shakur in 2023, a major development in one of the country’s most well-known unsolved murder cases. He has pleaded not guilty.
December 27, 2025 5:24 am
TOKYO (AP) — A man has been arrested after stabbing eight people and injuring seven others with a chemical believed to be bleach at a tire factory in central Japan. The attack happened Friday at the Yokohama Rubber Co. in Mishima, Shizuoka prefecture. Eight people were taken to hospitals with stab wounds, and five are in serious condition. The Fujisan Nanto Fire Department provided these details but did not have further information. The attacker’s identity and motive remain unknown. Seven additional people were injured by a substance believed to be bleach thrown during the attack. Police arrested the suspect at the factory.
December 26, 2025 1:45 pm
Allegheny County in Pennsylvania will begin using a controversial legal tool for involuntary mental health care in the community, beginning Jan. 1. County officials are implementing assisted outpatient treatment. They’re the first county to do so after state lawmakers voted for it in 2018. Officials were motivated by people’s calls for helping someone before they reach the legal threshold of being a danger to themselves or others. The county will establish an advisory group to monitor implementation and review progress through 2026. Opponents argue involuntary care can destroy a patient’s trust in the public mental health system and has serious implications for the civil rights and individual autonomy of those in need of care.
