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Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner private military contractor, made his most direct challenge to the Kremlin yet on Friday, calling for a rebellion aimed at ousting Russia's defense minister.

NPR's Miles Parks talks to Mark Cancian, a retired Marine colonel, about Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russian forces.

On Feb. 5, 2022, Charles Givens was found unresponsive in his cell at Marion Correctional Treatment Center. An autopsy and other documentation indicate Givens suffered a beating, a lawsuit alleges.

Mercenary leader launched a failed rebellion against Russia's military leaders. White House promotes infrastructure and other projects. Activists in Atlanta protest against a police training facility.

The leader of the Wagner Group, who launched a rebellion against Russia's military leadership, ultimately called it off. Besides Russia, no country was watching more closely than Ukraine.

In an effort to end gender segregation, the Marine Corps recently decommissioned a historic recruit training battalion that for decades was the only one open to women.

Reaction from Ukraine to tensions in Russia over the prominent head of a Russian mercenary group.

The centrist political group No Labels is getting on the ballot in individual states, causing consternation among members of the major political parties about the organization's endgame.

As Russia advances on Bakhmut, the loved ones of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war's longest battle mourn at an ever-growing cemetery in Kyiv, and pin their hopes on an imminent counteroffensive.

Bogdan Bitik was shot while on the Antonivka bridge in Kherson. He was working with an Italian journalist who was also shot but survived. Ukraine has launched a war crimes investigation.

Ukraine presses on with its offensive in the east while it watches the aftermath of the Russian mutiny a week ago.

An estimated $2 billion has been spent on television campaign ads this year. That's, by far, the most ever spent in one election year, including presidential campaigns.

Speaking from Snake Island, Zelenskyy honored the Ukrainian soldiers who fought for the island and all other defenders of the country.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was more involved than he had previously acknowledged in the decision to dismiss eight U.S. attorneys in 2006, according to his former chief of staff. Kyle Sampson faced hours of questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

The former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will testify Thursday before a Senate panel investigating the firings of eight federal prosecutors. Kyle Sampson will likely be asked if the dismissals were politically motivated.

President Bush invites 15 countries to the White House to talk about ways to slow global warming. But he has been criticized for moving too slowly to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. There's skepticism that the meeting will bring real progress.

In an effort to meet a Kyoto Protocol pledge, Japan managed to cut about 1.4 million tons of CO2 emissions last year. The nation reduced summer air-conditioning use, overturning a decades-old "suit and tie" tradition along the way.

Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change were awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.

Israel Wednesday again closed the border crossings into the Gaza Strip in retaliation for rocket attacks from Gaza into the southern city of Sderot. Hamas called the move a violation of a truce, but urged Palestinian factions to hold their fire.

Representatives from around the world have gathered to hammer out a strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions after the Kyoto treaty expires in 2012. One idea that seems to be gaining strength is a fund to help the poorest and most vulnerable countries adapt to a changing world. Negotiations in Kyoto started 10 years ago this week.