Special Update: Humanitarian Crisis in UkraineAlight has sent a team of aid workers to Poland to support Ukrainian families who have had to flee because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. They are talking to Ukrainian families and organizations responding to...
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — The director of Ukraine's largest art museum walked its hallways, supervising as staff packed away its collections to protect their national heritage in case the Russian invasion advances west. In one partially empty gallery of the Andrey...
By VISAR KRYEZIU, KAREL JANICEK and RENATA BRITO Associated Press MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — The Ukrainian father of two took off with a sprint when he saw the GPS coordinates from his wife's cellphone draw nearer to the border crossing into Poland. Yevgen Chornomordenko...
By ELDAR EMRIC Associated Press SIRET, Romania (AP) — Life or death choices leave little time for sentiment. War refugees fleeing Russian ordnance in Ukraine grabbed only the essentials for their journeys to safety: key documents, a beloved pet, often not even a...
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press ROME (AP) — The head of the Polish bishops' conference has done what Pope Francis has so far avoided doing: He publicly condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine and urged the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to use his influence...
By MICHAEL TARM AP Legal Affairs Writer WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — Under penalty of a beating or death, Erik Eck pledged at age 13 to adhere to the Latin Kings' first rule: "Once a King, always a King." Tattoos that bedeck his entire body express his fealty forever to one...
By DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The acquittal of an ex-Louisville police officer tied to the botched drug raid that ended with Breonna Taylor's death is stirring the frustrations of her family and protesters who marched for months in her name....
By FLORENT BAJRAMI Associated Press MEDYKA, Poland (AP) — Walking the final 14 miles to Ukraine's border and to safety, Ludmila Sokol was moved by the mounds of clothes and other personal effects that many others discarded as they fled the fighting before her. "You...
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Yan Skvyrskyi talks on the phone to his mother in Ukraine at least 12 times a day, spends sleepless nights worrying about her but fears it may be too dangerous to help her flee the war-torn country right now. "We...
More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine, and at least 160,000 have been displaced inside the country as fighting continues between Russian and Ukrainian forces in Europe's largest ground war since World War II. The United Nations issued an appeal this week for...
