A judge is pressing the U.S. government to explain why a portion of the memo authorizing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of foreign election interference and former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign remains classified seven years after it was issued.

Special Forces soldiers trained in mountaineering are assisting the Navy in its search for the crew of a crashed Growler jet that went down Tuesday near Mount Rainier.

After the killing of Yahya Sinwar, conflicting stands by Hamas and Israel signal continued deep resistance on both sides to ending the war in Gaza, even as world leaders press the case that Sinwar’s death is a turning point that should be used to unlock stalled cease-fire negotiations.

Western components include integrated circuits crucial to missiles’ navigation and communication systems, Ukrainian researchers told a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday. All analyzed parts fall under export controls, she said.

Russia on Friday returned to Ukraine the bodies of 501 soldiers, Ukrainian authorities said, in what appeared to be the biggest repatriation of war dead since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

South Africa has asked Taiwan to move its unofficial embassy out of the administrative capital, Pretoria, in a move that’s seen as appeasing ally China.

The Biden administration recently warned that it could suspend military assistance to Israel if it does not ramp up the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza within a month. Israel allows in only a small number of international aid workers through the Kerem Shalom crossing.

U.S. President Joe Biden said it’s important for Ukraine’s Western allies to “sustain our resolve” in supporting the country as he held meetings Friday with European partners, with the upcoming U.S. presidential election casting a long shadow over his visit to Germany.

The Kremlin could not have asked for better publicity at a better time when Ben Swann, a self-described independent journalist who promotes conspiracy theories, released a 12-part video series he promised would reveal dark truths about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Britain’s foreign secretary raised concerns about China’s support of Russia in its war against Ukraine on Friday, urging his Chinese counterpart to prevent Chinese firms from supplying to Russia’s military in a meeting in Beijing.

Moldova’s chief negotiator in talks to join the European Union said Russia’s priority is to prevent Moldova from becoming an E.U. member state. His warning comes days before Moldova’s presidential election and a referendum on E.U. accession.

Ukraine’s economy requires large amounts of outside help to stay afloat. The country receives billions in Western financial aid each year. This goes to paying for health care, pensions and other nonmilitary expenditures, allowing the government to spend all its tax revenue on defense.

“Hopefully, countries in the region will step up,” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. For now, Austin said the U.S.’s top priority is getting the remaining hostages held by Hamas released.

Chris Arthur is one of more than 480 people with a military background accused of ideologically driven extremist crimes from 2017 through 2023, including the more than 230 arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Google, Meta and TikTok have removed social media accounts belonging to an industrial plant in Russia’s Tatarstan region aimed at recruiting young foreign women to make drones for Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

The U.S. Army trimmed its watercraft fleet by half over the past six years, even as demand for those vessels increased, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region, according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is on its way to Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, where it will take the place of the USS Ronald Reagan in the U.S. 7th Fleet, the Navy announced Friday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reminded his troops to treat South Korea as a hostile foreign enemy and insisted that the North wouldn’t hesitate to attack its rival if the South infringes upon its sovereignty, state media said Friday.

Five ski-equipped airlifters and 400 airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing are headed to Antarctica for Operation Deep Freeze, an annual mission supporting research on the frozen continent.