Russian troops are inching closer to capturing the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Fighting around the city has ramped up in recent days with a Ukrainian military commander calling the situation ‘extremely tense.’

Stripped of their citizenship and forced to abandon their lives in Nicaragua for opposing President Daniel Ortega’s government, Nicaraguans living in exile are calling on the Canadian government to offer them safe refuge.

A group of U.S. Republicans are banding together to call attention to what they say is a surge in human trafficking from Canada into the U.S., forming what they’re calling a Northern Border Security Caucus.

A panel of top civil servants has concluded there were foreign attempts to interfere in the 2021 federal election but that those attempts did not influence the outcome. Their report suggests Canadians should be alerted to election interference sooner.

A passenger train and a freight train collided in northern Greece early Wednesday, killing at least 32 people and injuring 85 others as flames and plumes of smoke swelled the night sky.

The University of St. Thomas men’s and women’s basketball teams will get their first taste of Division I postseason play at this weekend’s Summit League Tournament in Sioux Falls.

Family and friends are holding out hope that a Walton County man will be found soon. Nathan Millard was on a business trip in Baton Rouge when he vanished, according to officials.

Surveillance video from Feb. 17 shows the final moments of James Dean’s life. Police say two men targeted the father in an armed robbery. Officials say the duo took his life, but left his jewelry and wallet.

Lori Lightfoot has conceded and will not be in the April 4 runoff.

Police in Italy have arrested three men for allegedly trafficking up to 200 people on a boat that crashed in southern Italy, leaving at least 64 people dead.

Police said they have detained a Turkish man and two Pakistani nationals who sailed the boat …