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 It comes as Hamas has withdrawn from ceasefire negotiations, as Israel faces growing international criticism over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.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.

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.