President Donald Trump will meet Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Aug. 18 at the White House to discuss a possible end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

As leaders of Russia, Ukraine, the United States and Europe met to discuss a possible Russia-Ukraine war endgame, one part of Ukraine drew increasing attention: the Donbas, an industrial region in the ...

Trump said the US is the ‘only country’ that uses mail-in voting. That’s wrong. A report from a Swedish organization that advocates for democracy globally found that 34 countries or territories allow ...

About 45% of violent crime is not reported to the police, according to 2023 NCVS data. Reasons for not reporting include fear of retribution, belief that police won’t be able to help and not wanting ...

Republicans say latest US consumer price report is a boon. Democrats say it’s a bust. Which is it? Does the latest consumer price index report show that Americans are paying more or less for goods?

While running for office in 2016, Trump praised Putin and said Putin praised him. When they met in Helsinki, Finland, in 2018, Trump appeared to take Putin at his word when he falsely said he didn’t ...

Congress caps new H-1B visas at 85,000 per fiscal year, including 20,000 for noncitizens who earned advanced degrees. The government approved 400,000 H-1B applications, including renewals, in 2024, ...

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Aug. 15 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss a possible end to the war in Ukraine. PolitiFact is ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

During a July 2024 Florida campaign rally, Trump promised to "take over the horribly run capital of our nation in Washington, D.C., and clean it up, renovate it, and rebuild our capital city so that ...

Property taxes went up last year, partly because of the $325 per pupil increases in funding for schools. That trend is likely to continue in 2025, especially as school districts face the pressures of ...

Washington, D.C.’s homicide rate is influenced in part by the city’s limits, said James Alan Fox, Northeastern University criminology professor. The city limits are "almost completely urban" compared ...