KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A peace deal that requires Kyiv to accept swapping Ukrainian territory with Russia would not only be deeply unpopular. It also would be illegal under its constitution. That's why President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has categorically rejected any deal with Moscow that could ...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 13, the 225th day of 2025. There are 140 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1961, on what would become known as Barbed Wire Sunday, East Germany sealed the border between Berlin's eastern and western sectors before building a wall that would divide the city ...

On a sunny morning in May 1984, I reported for a job as first lady Nancy Reagan's speechwriter. I drove my Toyota Corolla up to the Ellipse, careful to display the special tag permitting me to park quite close to the East Wing, and ventured inside, past the line of visitors awaiting their ...

Today is Tuesday, Aug. 12, the 224th day of 2025. There are 141 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2017, a driver sped into a crowd of people peacefully protesting a white nationalist rally in the Virginia college town of Charlottesville, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and ...

"The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." — Ninth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When the Texas legislature decided to engage in the reapportionment of congressional districts in the middle of ...

Today is Monday, Aug. 11, the 223rd day of 2025. There are 142 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a former military prison, in San Francisco Bay; the island would be home to more than 1,500 prisoners over the next three ...