Tennis legend Serena Williams has revealed that she turned to GLP-1 weight loss medication after years of struggling to lose weight post-pregnancy — even while training hours a day as a professional tennis player. She has been taking the medication consistently since April, and has lost 31 pounds to date.

President Trump directed his attorneys on Tuesday to review the Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C, which are free to the public, criticizing them as being too “woke” and focused on negative themes like slavery rather than highlighting positive aspects of American history.

Texas Democrats returned to the state House this week, where a controversial plan to redraw congressional maps is expected to pass as soon as tomorrow. More than 50 state Democrats had fled Texas for two weeks to deny the GOP-controlled legislature a quorum.

President Trump, hosting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday, opened the door to deploying U.S. troops as part of security guarantees for Ukraine to enforce a peace deal with Russia.

President Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are currently meeting in Anchorage, Alaska — the first meeting between the two nations’ leaders since Putin’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On the flight over, Trump told reporters that his goal for Friday’s talks was to secure a “ceasefire rapidly.”

Southern Europe is battling major wildfires fueled by historic heat, including in countries like France, Spain, Portugal, and Greece — as Europe is on track for its worst wildfire season on record.

President Trump warned Wednesday there would be "very severe" consequences for Russia if a ceasefire deal is not agreed upon during the upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday. However, he admitted that preventing Putin from targeting civilians is unlikely, based on their past conversations.

The gunman who opened fire at the CDC’s Atlanta headquarters Friday wrote about his “discontent” with the COVID-19 vaccine before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot wound at the scene, Chris Hosey of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.

President Trump announced Monday that he would place the D.C. police under direct federal control and deploy the National Guard to the streets of Washington to fight crime and clear the city of its homeless population.

Israel’s security cabinet approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial plan to seize control of Gaza City by October 7. The plan is aimed at weakening Hamas, demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, and returning the hostages. It comes as Hamas has withdrawn from ceasefire negotiations, as Israel faces growing international criticism over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping new tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners took effect today, marking a historic shift in American trade policy. “10% is really the new zero,” CNN reporter Matt Egan explained, describing the minimum tariff for countries the U.S. has a trade surplus with.

A shooting at a Georgia military base injured several service members Wednesday. All five soldiers wounded in today’s shooting at Fort Stewart in Georgia are in stable condition and expected to recover, according to Brig. Gen. John Lubas, commanding general of the 3rd Infantry Division.

Electricity prices are rising across the country amid the explosion of data centers to accommodate artificial intelligence, according the latest available data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The Texas State House voted Monday 85-6 to track down and arrest more than 50 Democratic lawmakers who left the state over the weekend, aiming to prevent the body from voting on a plan that could eliminate five Democrat-held U.S. House seats.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs did not take effect today — but the many countries that failed to make a deal with him ahead of the August 1 deadline will face even higher levies in a week.

A Senate committee has narrowly approved a bill that would ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks — a move aimed at restoring public trust in a group that has profited from privileged access to information. But the bill still faces a major uphill climb before it passes the full Senate and House.

For many experienced politicians, a 12-point loss in a party primary to a political upstart would have led them to give up. But, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is doubling down on his campaign to become the next mayor of New York City. He says the reason is simple. Cuomo views Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old Democratic Socialist assemblyman, as an “existential threat” to the future of the city.

We learning more details about the gunman who opened fire inside a Midtown Manhattan skyscraper early Monday night, killing four people — including a New York City police officer — before taking his own life. One person remains in critical condition.

Israel is halting daily military operations for 10 hours a day, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., in parts of Gaza to allow greater access for humanitarian aid, amid warnings from aid groups of escalating famine in the enclave.

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.