Vice President JD Vance cast the deciding vote Wednesday to effectively kill a Venezuelan war powers resolution after the Senate deadlocked on the matter.

Sudan peace efforts resumed in Cairo on Wednesday with Egypt and the United Nations calling on warring parties to agree to a nationwide humanitarian truce, as the war between the army and its rival paramilitary nears the three-year mark.

The comments came after President Trump said he was “ looking at some very strong options” to curb the Iranian authorities’ harsh repression of anti-government protests.

With the sides far apart on key issues as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the four-year mark, analysts say the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War II is unlikely to end in 2026.

Last summer, after more than two years of terrible fighting, it looked like the United States might finally have landed on a viable approach for ending the civil war in Sudan. Since the conflict began in April 2023,

Pope Leo XIV has said the prohibition on countries violating one another’s borders has been “completely undermined,” in an important speech to diplomats gathered in the Vatican.

As Russia continues to target Ukraine's energy infrastructure, thousands have been left without power as temperatures plummet well below freezing. Any hopes of an end to the war may be premature, with Moscow again putting progress in doubt with its latest comments.

Four historians told The Washington Post that while the British were defeated in Yorktown, Virginia — not in South Carolina — the full story is more complicated.