Air travel safety . There was a close call at Chicago’s Midway International Airport on Tuesday as a private jet entered a runway without authorization and forced a Southwest

Ukrainian refugees, elected officials, and former politicians said supporting Ukraine against Russia is a matter of global stability, especially as the Trump administration begins talks on ending the conflict.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago, shared the following remarks during tonight’s  Interreligious Prayer Service at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago commemorating the third anniversary of the war in Ukraine: “Our hearts are heavy as we mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Cardinal Blase Cupich, the archbishop of Chicago, spoke at Holy Name Cathedral on Monday, marking the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with a call for truth, justice and lasting peace.

"Since when do we let tyrants like Putin dictate the terms of any peace agreement?" a leader in Chicago's Ukrainian community writes after the president blamed Ukraine for Russia's unprovoked invasion.

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance tried to bully Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky. The interaction was a day of shame for America's foreign policy.

And, for that matter, for the people of the Republic of Georgia, who have been watching the war in Ukraine with growing horror, realizing that their own fledgling democracy is yet more vulnerable to the same force, to the same man with a friend now back in one of the world’s highest places, if not the highest.

Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, three senior Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.

Trump said going through what he called the the "Russia hoax" ordeal gives him confidence he can trust Putin in talks about the war in Ukraine that the Kremlin launched three year ago.

Analysts questions the size of Ukraine’s natural resources deposits, how accessible they are and easy to extract, and the ultimate value of a potential deal.

Ukraine and the United States reached an agreement over access to Kyiv’s deposits of rare earth minerals, according to media reports.