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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over the weekend provided reasons for the ouster of Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General CQ Brown. President Donald Trump fired the top U.S. military officer Friday via a social media post. VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb has details.

Ambassadors squabble over competing resolutions at the U.N. Monday mark the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron visits President Donald Trump in Washington. How are Americans feeling about the economy now that Trump has been in office for a month? Plus, the prime minister of the DRC spoke to a meeting of the Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday about the violence in her country’s east.

Many had hoped the top two U.S. trading partners could persuade Trump's administration to further delay tariffs that would apply to over $918 billion worth of U.S. imports from the two countries

Creative industries globally are grappling with the legal and ethical implications of AI models that can produce their own output after being trained on popular works without necessarily paying the creators of the original content

US president urged Europe to take a larger role in ending the war

Trip designed to expand and improve frayed ties between two nations

Record rainfall has hit the semi-arid country over the last week

Republican majorities in Senate, House disagree on budget

Why China commended direct US-Russia talks on Ukraine

Ongoing freezes in federal funding are impacting the U.S. agricultural industry. VOA’s Kane Farabaugh has more from the Midwestern state of Wisconsin.

Zones are used to protect access to clinics, limit harassment of patients

The Academy Awards will be held March 2, at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles

Doctors Without Borders on Monday halted its operations in Sudan's famine-stricken Zamzam camp due to an escalation of attacks and fighting in the vicinity. The international medical aid group, also known by its French name Medecins Sans Frontieres and acronym MSF, said fighting between the Sudanese military and its rival paramilitary the Rapid Support Forces intensified in the camp, located in North Darfur. The escalation made it "impossible" for the group to provide life-saving...

The AP sued three senior Trump aides on Friday, arguing that the decision to block its reporters from those locations violates the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protections

The Secret Service agent was praised for his actions that day, but ultimately retired early because he remained haunted by memories of the 1963 assassination

A group of leaders from Europe and Canada are in Ukraine's capital to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion. In Washington, President Donald Trump hosted French President Emmanuel Macron as the anniversary marked a dramatic shift in policies on Russia and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Kyiv and the U.S. are working productively on an economic rare earth minerals deal at the center of an effort to end Russia's war on Ukraine. The U.N. General...

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who has ruled the republic since 2007, said he wants to remain in power for life. VOA Russian spoke to regional experts who believe that despite this being illegal according to Russian laws, Kadyrov will resist stepping down in 2026 when his term ends. Oleg Orlov from the Nobel Prize-winning Memorial group draws parallels between Kadyrov and Russian President Vladimir Putin, both relying on repression to continue their rule. Click here for the full...

VOA Russian spoke to independent analyst Jakub Janovsky who documents Russian military equipment losses in the war with Ukraine. He noted that Russia has lost 136 military planes and 151 helicopters in three years of the war, reducing its aviation fleet so Moscow now relies more on long-range missiles and drones. Janovsky also said Russia has noticeably reduced the use of the heavy military equipment, such as tanks and armored fighting vehicles, on the frontline in Ukraine in the past...