Taiwan’s foreign minister says China and Russia are supporting each other’s ‘expansionism’

Russia and China are helping each other expand their territorial reach, and democracies must push back against authoritarian states that threaten their rights and sovereignty, Taiwan’s outgoing foreign minister, Joseph Wu, said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Clarence Sasser, medic in Vietnam battle awarded Medal of Honor, dies at 76

Clarence Sasser, an Army medic in Vietnam who was awarded the Medal of Honor for saving injured soldiers despite his own injuries from gunfire, dies at 76.

American doctor who refused to leave Gaza says he ‘cannot abandon my team’

“As a doctor, I cannot abandon the remaining members of my team, and as a former soldier, I cannot abandon my fellow Americans.”

With its energy network nearly destroyed, Ukraine already fears the winter

While the rolling plains of Ukraine’s countryside are in full spring bloom, officials already fear what the distant winter will bring as a major energy crisis grips the country and power companies resort to phased blackouts to conserve supplies.

Member of Israel’s War Cabinet says he’ll quit the government June 8 unless there’s a new war plan

Benny Gantz, a popular centrist member of Israel’s three-member War Cabinet, threatened Saturday to resign from the government if it doesn’t adopt a new plan in three weeks’ time for the war in Gaza, a decision that would leave Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more reliant on far-right allies.

Zelenskyy’s chief aide flexes power, irks critics — and makes no apologies

If actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s top credential when he was elected in 2019 was that he’d played a president on TV, the top qualification of his all-powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, was being Zelenskyy’s friend.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels launch a missile that strikes an oil tanker in the Red Sea, US military says

Yemen’s Houthi rebels hit an oil tanker in the Red Sea with a ballistic missile early Saturday, damaging the Panama-flagged, Greek-owned vessel in their latest assault over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, officials said.

Ukraine’s divisive mobilization law comes into force as a new Russian push strains front-line troops

A divisive mobilization law in Ukraine came into force, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive that some fear could close in on Ukraine’s second-largest city.

Georgia’s president vetoes media legislation that has provoked weeks of protests

Georgia’s president vetoed the so-called “Russian law” targeting media that has sparked weeks of mass protests.

US intelligence suggests American who vanished in Syria in 2017 has died, daughter says she was told

U.S. officials have developed specific and highly credible intelligence suggesting that an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died, the man’s daughter said Saturday.

US-based troops’ fast setup of field hospital in Europe puts skills on unique display

U.S. Army medical professionals had spent four years planning an exercise in which reserve soldiers based stateside deploy to Europe and build a temporary field hospital with supplies already stored on the Continent.

Army presents Purple Heart to Minnesota veteran 73 years after he was wounded in Korean War

After 73 years and a long fight with the U.S. Army, Korean War veteran Earl Meyer, who still has shrapnel in his thigh, finally received his Purple Heart medal during a ceremony at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn.

Blue Origin set for human spaceflight return this weekend

t’s been nearly two years since Blue Origin flew humans to space on its New Shepard rocket, but the next six passengers are set to go Sunday as the Jeff Bezos company gets back to the business of space tourism.

Report on Key Bridge collapse raises questions with potential legal ramifications

Experts are divided in their interpretations of a preliminary report released by the National Transportation Safety Board, but say the answers investigators dredge up could have profound implications both for understanding the tragedy and for an ongoing legal battle.

Analysis: Arab leaders’ Gaza demands give Biden another election-year headache

Key Arab leaders’ desire for what one senior White House official describes as a new “political horizon” for Gaza is only complicating President Joe Biden’s fraught efforts in the region — and his bid for a second term.

David DePape sentenced to 30 years in attempted Nancy Pelosi kidnapping, hammer attack on husband

A federal judge on Friday sentenced David DePape to 30 years in prison, six months after a jury found him guilty of attempting to kidnap former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and using a hammer to bludgeon her husband in a bloody October 2022 assault.

Vindicated by Supreme Court, CFPB director says bureau will add staff, consider new rules on banks

Since its creation roughly 14 years ago, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has faced lawsuits and political and legal challenges to the idea of whether the Federal Government’s aggressive consumer financial watchdog agency should be allowed exist at all.

The graduate! Barron Trump accepts diploma at heavily guarded ceremony in Palm Beach

Former President Donald Trump made it to his youngest son’s graduation on Friday morning, after all, arriving at Oxbridge Academy in West Palm Beach with just minutes to spare, the Daily Beast reports.

Senegal’s new prime minister criticizes French military presence in the West African country

Senegal’s new prime minister, who was freed from jail weeks before the presidential election earlier this year and propelled his party to victory, has criticized the French military presence in the West African country.