Andrew Jeong

• War in Ukraine

The Ukrainian and Russian sides have given conflicting statements on whether Ukraine’s counteroffensive has begun, amid fierce fighting for the city of Bakhmut.

• Asia

After a cafe turned away her family, a South Korean lawmaker vowed to ban "no-kid zones," which have generated heated debate around the world.

• Americas

Joran van der Sloot is accused of extorting Beth Holloway, the teen’s mother, for the body’s location. He is in a Peruvian prison for murdering a different woman.

• War in Ukraine

The claimed Ukrainian advance came on the heels of Victory Day, when Russia commemorated the Soviet Union’s role in defeating Nazi Germany in World War II.

• Retropolis

Fort Hood will be renamed after Gen. Richard Cavazos, a Korean and Vietnam War veteran who was the nation’s first Hispanic four-star general.

• National

Police accused Jesse McFadden of shooting all six victims, four family members and two teenage girls who had come to the home for a sleepover.

• National

A woman and her three children, two of them adults and one juvenile, were found with apparent gunshot wounds, the Lake Wales Police Department said.

• War in Ukraine

Half the Russian soldiers killed belonged to Wagner, the Kremlin-backed mercenary group involved in the heavy fighting in Bakhmut, U.S. officials said.

• War in Ukraine

A drone attack hit a fuel depot and sparked a fire in Sevastopol, authorities in the occupied Crimean Peninsula said.