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Breaking news from the U.S. and around the world, reported as it happens.
WatchThe tech pioneer shed roughly $69 billion in market value Tuesday — a steeper single-day plunge than the 1987 crash — after CEO Arvind Krishna admitted the company "faltered" as customers redirected spending toward AI hardware.
Forecasters issued a rare Level 4-of-4 flood risk as up to a foot of rain swamped Uvalde and Kerrville, triggering door-to-door evacuations and dozens of water rescues across 59 counties under a state of emergency.
Brent crude climbed toward $84 a barrel and pump prices rose again as the president moved to choke off Iranian oil exports, even as cooler inflation data lifted U.S. stocks.
Air quality alerts stretch from Minnesota to Maine as drifting smoke turns skies yellow and threatens millions with hazardous particulate pollution through Friday.
WatchConsumer prices unexpectedly fell 0.4% last month, dragging the annual rate down from May's three-year high and pushing the S&P 500 back toward record territory as bets on a rate increase faded.
WatchFederal authorities acknowledge the man shot dead in the coastal town of Biddeford was not the person immigration agents had come to arrest, in what has become ICE's second fatal shooting in a week.
Sam Altman's company has quietly proposed giving the U.S. government equity in the ChatGPT maker, part of a broader 'public wealth fund' idea that could extend to Anthropic, Google and Meta.
Attorney Ben Crump says students recorded an altercation on the boats and that messages vanished from the 18-year-old's phone, as the family orders an independent autopsy.
Mayor Cherelle Parker signed a disaster declaration as sudden, violent downbursts tore through West and South Philadelphia, downing trees, crushing cars and leaving crews working for days to clear the wreckage.
Illinois State Police say five relatives were gunned down across three scenes over the weekend and two other family members were critically wounded. Two teenagers are in custody.
Cases of cyclosporiasis, an intestinal illness that causes explosive, weeks-long diarrhea, have already blown past the entire 2025 total, with Michigan hit hardest and no contaminated food yet identified.
Gov. Mike Kehoe declared a state of emergency after up to a foot of rain fell in under a day, as the National Guard airlifted 202 children and counselors to safety and at least one woman was found dead.
New York City health officials have ordered dozens of buildings in Carnegie Hill, Yorkville and Lenox Hill to disinfect cooling towers found to harbor Legionella bacteria, with 22 people hospitalized so far.
WatchThe five-term South Carolina Republican and close Trump ally died Saturday night after what his office called a 'brief and sudden illness'; the D.C. medical examiner's preliminary findings point to a torn aorta.
More than a dozen states, led by New Jersey, are collecting and incinerating decades-old stockpiles of PFAS-laced foam tied to elevated cancer rates among firefighters — and replacing it with a soybean-based alternative.
The reticle-sized inference processor, co-designed with help from OpenAI's own models, is the first in a multi-generation compute platform the two companies aim to begin deploying by the end of 2026.
WatchPresident Trump, at the NATO summit in Ankara, declared the month-old ceasefire 'over' as Central Command struck air defenses, radar sites and roughly 60 Revolutionary Guard boats. Iran fired projectiles toward Bahrain and Kuwait and shot down a U.S. drone.
WatchSan Mateo police say the driverless car's interior cameras caught two 15-year-olds drinking and shooting a gel-pellet gun painted to look real — so Waymo disabled the vehicle and called 911, reigniting a fight over who is watching inside autonomous cars.
A federal jury could not agree on whether Jonathan Rinderknecht sparked the blaze that killed 12 people and leveled thousands of homes. Prosecutors say they will retry him in October.
The Long March 10B's booster returned to a floating platform after reaching orbit, a milestone Beijing has chased for years as it races the U.S. back to the Moon.
WatchLorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52, was driving to a job site when an ICE agent shot him during a traffic stop. Federal investigators have now opened two probes as his family demands answers.
A slide in semiconductor stocks — triggered by Samsung's earnings and reports that China's DeepSeek is building its own AI chip — knocked the Nasdaq down more than 1% as oil prices jumped.
A DEA agent serving a drug warrant at a hotel fatally shot a man on Wednesday, the second deadly shooting by the federal crime unit in less than a week and the fourth death tied to it since September.
WatchTwo nights of American airstrikes killed at least 14 people in Iran after Tehran attacked commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, collapsing a month-old truce as Khamenei was laid to rest.
The largest cyclospora outbreak in Michigan history has driven the U.S. total past 1,000 confirmed cases, with roughly 40 hospitalizations and investigations underway in 28 other states.
WatchTwo weeks after twin quakes flattened swaths of the country, acting President Delcy Rodríguez has declared national mourning while rescuers still pull survivors from the rubble.
WatchTehran said it fired missiles and drones at American installations across the Gulf after U.S. forces bombed Iran's coast for a second straight night. President Trump, speaking from the NATO summit in Turkey, declared the ceasefire 'over.'
The Aspen Acres Fire has forced 11,000 people from their homes and destroyed 180 structures, while a punishing heat dome that spawned deadly storms has stretched extreme-weather advisories from Alaska to the East Coast.
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican immigrant on his way to a construction job, was shot dead during a Houston traffic stop. The FBI is investigating the second ICE-involved shooting in a week.
WatchProsecutors used a third day of preliminary hearings in Provo, Utah, to trace nearly every move the 23-year-old accused assassin allegedly made — as Erika Kirk watched from the gallery.