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In a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv last week, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll delivered a grim assessment. Driscoll told his counterparts their troops faced a dire situation on the battlefield and would suffer an imminent defeat against Russian forces, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News. The Russians were ramping up the scale and pace of their aerial attacks, and they had the ability to fight on indefinitely, Driscoll told them, according to the sources. The situation for Ukraine would only get worse over time, he continued, and it was better to negotiate a peace...

The Indiana man behind bars for allegedly killing two teenage girls on a hiking trail in 2017 admitted to the gruesome murders multiple times in prison phone calls to his wife and mother, documents released Wednesday reveal. Richard Allen allegedly told his wife, Kathy Allen, and his mother “no less than 5 times” that he was responsible for killing 13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German after he found them hiking alone just outside their hometown of Delphi more than six years ago. In one April phone call, Kathy — who told reporters last week that her allegedly murderous husband...

DELPHI, Ind. (WISH) — Law enforcement searched the home and property of the man where two teens were found murdered last month. Ron Logan, who owns the 40-acre Delphi property, was arrested last week on a probation violation after a 2014 OWI charge unrelated to the murders. He’s due in court Monday morning for an evidentiary hearing.