A former county sheriff has been selected to lead the Los Angeles Police Department, taking charge of the nation's third-largest police force.

The U.S. ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, ended his tenure as America’s top diplomat in Moscow on Sunday after nearly three years, spanning the Trump and Biden administrations, and will retire from a lengthy career in government service.

The Biden administration and NATO have told Russia there will be no U.S. or allied concessions on Moscow's main demands to resolve the crisis over Ukraine.

A Moscow court has rejected an imprisoned American’s appeal against his nine-year sentence for assaulting police officers.

A South Florida school district is encouraging eligible students to get vaccinated by brining the COVID-19 shots to their campuses.

The U.S. ambassador to Russia says he will head home for consultations this week to discuss U.S.-Russian relations with colleagues in the Biden administration and to visit his family.

Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch arrives at the U.S. Capitol on Oct.11, 2019, in Washington, DC. "With respect to Mayor Giuliani, I have had only minimal contacts with him -- a total of three that I recall. In her statement, Yovanovitch said after being asked to extend her tenure until 2020, she was told in April to get "on the next plane" back to Washington. There had been drama over whether Yovanovitch, who is a State Department employee, would appear for the deposition into Friday morning. Democrats are eager to bring in other State Department witnesses as part of the probe.