Columbia University will pay $221 million to settle a federal probe into antisemitic harassment on campus. It is the first of such settlements and could set a precedent for other schools that President Trump has scrutinized, including Harvard.

Federal prosecutors seeking new information in the Jeffrey Epstein case spoke Thursday with his former girlfriend, Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence for aiding Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.

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 Trump administration released around 230,000 pages on Monday related to the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The National Archives said more files are expected to follow.

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.

CBS announced Thursday that it is canceling 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.' The comedian's run and the overall 32-year-old 'The Late Show' franchise are set to end in May 2026 — after the next season. Colbert took over hosting duties in 2015 from David Letterman, who started the show in 1993.

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

The United Kingdom plans to lower its voting age from 18 to 16 by the next general election in 2029, British officials announced Thursday. The move would fulfill a Labour Party campaign promise after the party returned to power last July.

Just a week after announcing an end to the post-9/11 shoe removal policy, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggested Wednesday that the 3.4 oz liquid limit through security may soon be reconsidered 🙌.

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.

House Republicans have until the end of the week to rescind $9 billion in previously allocated funds — $8 billion for foreign aid and about $1 billion for PBS and NPR — or the government must spend the funds as originally appropriated.

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.

Air India and two Indian pilot associations are warning not to jump to conclusions after investigators said Friday that the fuel to both engines of Air India Flight 171 was cut off just seconds after takeoff, leading to the June 12 crash that killed all but one of the 242 on board and 19 people on the ground.

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

Murder rates are down in many major U.S. cities halfway through 2025. New York City experienced the lowest number of shootings and murders in recorded history from January through May 2025. Baltimore has recorded just 68 homicides as of July 1st — the lowest number in more than 50 years.

After nearly two decades, the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) is already dropping one of its most hated airport rules: removing your shoes at security.