New CDC data shows that the U.S. fertility rate dropped to 1.6 children born per woman in 2024 — a record low and far below the population replacement rate of 2.1. This places the U.S. in line with Western Europe and East Asia, where aging workforces and population declines have long been a concern.

Gaza residents are suffering from man-made mass starvation caused by Israel's restrictions on aid, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday — an assessment echoed by more than 100 humanitarian organizations.

Former Transportation Secretary and potential 2028 presidential nominee Pete Buttigieg says he is concerned about the state of the U.S. democracy.

The U.S. transplant system is under growing scrutiny after reports of premature or mishandled organ retrieval attempts — with some patients reportedly showing signs of life during the process.

The Texas legislature kicked off a special session Monday with redistricting high on the agenda. President Trump is pressing Texas lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map to create as many as five additional Republican-leaning U.S. House districts that could help the GOP maintain congressional control in the midterms.

President Trump called Thursday night for the unsealing of grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein, directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to push for its release in court. It came after dismissing the Epstein story for two weeks and calling on his supporters to stop talking about the issue.

Black-box voice recordings from the cockpit of Air India Flight 171, which crashed and killed 260 people on June 12, indicate that Captain Sumeet Sabharwal likely turned off the switches controlling fuel to the plane's engines

President Trump ramped up attacks on his own supporters Wednesday over their continued focus on the Jeffrey Epstein case. He says they are playing in Democratic hands.

Flash flooding across the Northeast on Monday shut down transit systems, submerged roads, and left two people dead in New Jersey, where Gov. Phil Murphy declared a state of emergency. Flood watches remain in effect for parts of Virginia and Maryland.

The Trump administration’s two-page memo attempting to put to bed the Jeffrey Epstein case has sparked deep divisions within the MAGA base, prompting President Trump to play peacemaker and try to unify his supporters.

Protesters clashed with federal immigration agents during raids on Southern California cannabis farms Thursday afternoon, deploying tear gas. Dozens of farmworkers were detained at two sites owned by Glass House Farms, a large, state-licensed cannabis greenhouse with locations in the California cities of Carpinteria and Camarillo.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams is currently trailing in polls ahead of the November mayoral race — polling in fourth place behind Democrat Zohran Mamdani, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and Republican Curtis Sliwa — but he says the race has only just started.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, Grok, gave several antisemitic responses to X users on Tuesday, prompting condemnation and backlash after a revamped version of the chatbot was released over the weekend

The death toll from the July Fourth weekend flooding in central and southern Texas has risen to at least 95 as of Monday afternoon, while ten campers and one counselor from a summer camp in Kerr County remain unaccounted for. The catastrophic event is raising urgent questions about whether cuts to the National Weather Service impacted its ability to warn the public in time. Though, officials are pushing back on that assertion.

The death toll from the July Fourth weekend flooding in central and southern Texas has risen to at least 95 as of Monday afternoon, while ten campers and one counselor from a summer camp in Kerr County remain unaccounted for. The catastrophic event is raising urgent questions about whether cuts to the National Weather Service impacted its ability to warn the public in time. Though, officials are pushing back on that assertion.

The House of Representatives on Thursday narrowly passed a sweeping multi-trillion dollar bill known as President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ to extend and add tax cuts and slash social safety net programs. Republicans overcame divisions within their party to deliver on President Trump’s central domestic agenda.

Split Verdict: A federal jury found Sean “Diddy” Combs not guilty Wednesday of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking, three of the most serious charges the music mogul faced which would have meant life in prison.

The Senate narrowly passed President Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ 51-50 Tuesday, with Vice President JD Vance casting the tie-breaking vote.

Senate Republicans are racing to pass President Trump’s sweeping tax cut and domestic spending bill, dubbed the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” before the self-imposed July 4 deadline. A vote to pass the bill is expected to reach the Senate floor tonight or early tomorrow morning.

Friday marked the final day of rulings for this Supreme Court term, and the justices tend to save their most divided decisions for last. Notably, all of today’s rulings came down with a 6-3 split (the six conservative Justices on one side, and the three liberals on the other). Here’s a roundup of the most consequential decisions handed down today: