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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday touted new momentum toward ending the country’s war with Russia after a high-level call with President Donald Trump’s envoys, pointing to progress on a U.S.-backed security deal.Zelenskyy announced in an X post that he and his officials had a “positive” conversation with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, along with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte with talks centered around forging a “dignified peace.””We agreed to strengthen security guarantees, and I have already instructed our team to promptly update the documents so that…

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., joined by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks to members of the media on Oct. 7, 2025. The GOP leaders said Wednesday they have found a path forward to end the shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Senate and House Republican leadership have resurrected a stalled plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security after a record 47-day funding lapse. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said in a joint statement on Wednesday that the…

The 2026 Augusta National Women’s Amateur field boasted 48 of the 50 top-ranked amateurs in the world, and that talent showed up in a major way Wednesday in the first round at Champions Retreat. The 72 women in the field began the battle for the top 30 and ties to earn a spot at Augusta National on Saturday for the final round, and 31 of them posted scores under par on a picture-perfect day in Evans, Georgia.Leading the field after the first round were the No. 7 amateur and reigning NCAA individual champion, Maria José Marín, and No. 10 amateur…

Many women business owners around the world can’t get access to the financing they need. The Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative, a World Bank-housed partnership, estimated that 400 million female entrepreneurs struggle to get loans, and serving them could lead to as much as $6 trillion in added value for the global economy.  Yet across Asia-Pacific, banks hesitate to lend to women entrepreneurs. That’s partly due to stereotypes, but it’s also because lending criteria wasn’t designed to capture how female-led small- and medium-sized enterprises operate. As Diana Tjoeng, head of Asia for Sydney-based NGO Good Return points out, demale business owners…

A man who helped stage a cross burning which he says was intended to help elect the first Black mayor of Colorado Springs was sentenced in federal court Wednesday to nearly four years in prison.Derrick Bernard said Mayor Yemi Mobolade knew about his plan, but U.S. District Judge Regina Rodriguez said jurors rejected that claim when they convicted Bernard and his wife in the 2023 plot last year. Because cross burning is protected by the First Amendment, the case came down to whether the cross burning was a threat against Mobolade.Jurors found Bernard, who is also Black, and his wife,…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Stephen A. Smith said on Wednesday’s episode of “The Sage Steele Show” that he regrets voting for former Vice President Kamala Harris, telling Sage Steele he initially believed Harris could work across the aisle before concluding Democrats still did not understand why they lost.Steele asked Smith about his comments prior to the 2024 election on Dave Rubin’s show about voting for former Vice President Kamala Harris. “You went on his show, and you said that you voted for Kamala Harris?” she asked.”Yes,” Smith responded. STEPHEN A SMITH SAYS HE UNDERSTANDS PUTTING AMERICANS FIRST, SAYS…

Mar 30, 2026, 10:45 AM ETAs we approach midseason in college baseball, UCLA remains the top team in the country, and unless USC has anything to say about it this coming weekend, it looks like the Bruins will be there for the remainder of the season. Texas and Georgia Tech held their spots at No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, after strong outings, but after that, the rankings look different.North Carolina jumped back into the top 10 after sweeping Notre Dame, and Oregon State finds itself in the top 10 for the first time this year after an impressive win…

A plan to bring back Voice of America’s employees, who have largely been sidelined by the Trump administration for a year, was halted late Tuesday.A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit stayed part of a March ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth that would have sent 1,000 staffers back to work. However, the panel didn’t touch most of the ruling, in which the judge found that a plan by Trump administration official Kari Lake to wind down the global broadcasting agency to its “statutory minimum” was illegal.

President Donald Trump let slip the big reveal the evening before the Supreme Court’s landmark hearing on birthright citizenship Wednesday: He would be attending the oral arguments, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, making him the first sitting president to do so.

BOGOTA, Colombia — A pile-up at a toll booth on a busy highway in central Colombia on Wednesday morning killed at least two people and injured 19, local authorities said. Witnesses described several explosions while images of the collision showed vehicles engulfed in flames. The crash happened when a milk truck lost control of its brakes and collided with six other vehicles and a motorcycle that were at a toll booth on a road in the Cundinamarca region, 50 kilometers (31 miles) north of the capital, Bogota, Gov. Emilio Rey said on X.Rey said the injured are being treated in…