Matthew Lee, Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that Israel has accepted a proposal to bridge differences holding up a cease-fire and hostage release in Gaza, and he called on Hamas to do the same, without saying whether concerns cited by the militant group had been addressed.

The 1989 Neil Young song “Rockin’ in the Free World” is, in fact, a lament about despair caused by homelessness, drug addiction and poverty.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned of the dangers of misunderstandings and miscalculations as the United States and China butted heads over a number of contentious bilateral, regional and global issues.

The State Department says it will impose travel bans on extremist Jewish settlers implicated in a rash of attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that “a cease-fire that simply freezes current lines in place” and allows Russian President Vladimir Putin “to consolidate control over the territory he has seized, and rest, rearm, and reattack — that is not a just and lasting peace.”

U.S. officials said Blinken and Lavrov chatted for roughly 10 minutes, but there was no sign of progress and the conference ended with the group unable to reach consensus on the Ukraine war.

As a suspected Chinese spy balloon sailed over the nation Friday, the U.S. rejected China’s claims that it was being used for weather research. Officials said Biden was initially inclined to blow it out of the sky, before military leaders advised against such a move.

International reluctance to send tanks to the battlefront is beginning to erode.

Asked about what the U.S. sees as success, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that “we want to see Ukraine remain a sovereign country. ... We want to see Russia weakened to the point where it can’t do things like invade Ukraine.”

With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is sending in an additional 3,000 troops to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, officials said Thursday.

As Russia assumed the rotating chairmanship of the Arctic Council on Thursday, the U.S. rallied other members to oppose Moscow’s plans to set maritime rules in the Northern Sea Route.

U.S. officials have played down chances of an imminent deal that would bring Washington and Tehran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal.

President Biden last month moved to expand the eligibility criteria for resettlements, removing one roadblock to refugees entering the U.S. put in place by Trump, but he had initially stopped short of lifting the annual cap,

With 386,452 new cases, India now has reported more than 18.7 million since the pandemic began, second only to the United States.

The order came as the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan told lawmakers that it no longer made sense to continue the 20-year deployment of American troops there.