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Breaking news from the U.S. and around the world, reported as it happens.
Crude jumped about 8% toward $80 a barrel after the president threatened to blockade the world's most important oil chokepoint, through which roughly a fifth of global supply flows.
Two support beams on the 21st floor of the former Pfizer HQ at 235 East 42nd Street began bending under a rooftop expansion, sagging floors and triggering a nine-building evacuation.
Atlantic City hit 106 degrees over the July Fourth weekend — the hottest stretch in more than a decade — with tens of millions still under heat alerts.
Three second-half goals rescued the defending champions in one of the tournament’s great comebacks, as Switzerland edged Colombia on penalties to complete the last eight.
WatchPresident Trump ordered retaliatory strikes and reimposed oil sanctions after Iranian forces attacked three commercial vessels near the world's most important oil chokepoint. Tehran vowed a 'decisive' response as explosions rocked the port of Bandar Abbas.
Elon Musk's rocket company became the first mega-IPO to enter the index under its new fast-track rule, triggering an estimated $4.3 billion in automatic buying from index funds.
Getty Images' board voted to terminate the blockbuster stock-photo tie-up rather than sell off Shutterstock's editorial business, as British competition officials demanded. Shutterstock shares tumbled on the news.
About 2% of Microsoft's global workforce is being eliminated, with some 1,600 losses at Xbox, as the company spins off four studios and its gaming chief warns bluntly: 'Our business today is not healthy.'
WatchProsecutors began laying out DNA and rifle evidence against Tyler Robinson on Monday, with Kirk's widow and parents in the courtroom for the first time as a five-day preliminary hearing gets underway.
Micron plunged about 13%, dragging Intel and AMD down with it, after signs of softening memory demand and Meta's move into selling spare AI computing power rattled a sector that had soared through the spring.
The eyewall of one of the most powerful storms on Earth this year passed over Rota as residents of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam were ordered to shelter in place against catastrophic winds and flooding.
Jude Bellingham struck twice in 98 seconds and Harry Kane converted a penalty as England held on with 10 men to hand Mexico its first-ever home defeat at a World Cup and end a 40-year Azteca curse.
WatchA shooter dressed in black and wearing a ski mask sprayed a family cookout along Surf Avenue in Brooklyn late Saturday, leaving a 21-year-old woman in critical condition. No arrests have been made.
The fast-moving blaze southwest of Pueblo has destroyed at least 180 structures and remains uncontained as shifting winds drive flames toward mountain towns.
Erling Haaland scored twice in the closing minutes in East Rutherford as five-time champion Brazil crashed out in the round of 16 — its earliest World Cup exit since 1990.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed to an all-time high to close a first half in which the blue-chip index gained more than 21% — its strongest start to a year in 34 years.
The French captain converted from the spot in the 70th minute in Philadelphia for his seventh goal of the tournament, as Paraguay bowed out after a bruising, ill-tempered round-of-16 clash.
WatchA new analysis from crypto data firm Nansen finds two-thirds of the wallets that bought the TRUMP token are underwater, even as the coin generated a fortune in fees for the president.
The co-hosts pressed Morocco relentlessly in Houston, but Azzedine Ounahi's two goals off Achraf Hakimi and Brahim Diaz service ended Canada's historic run in the Round of 16.
WatchPlaying a man down for much of the second half, the co-hosts advanced on home soil and will face Belgium next, igniting belief during America's 250th-anniversary weekend.
Thousands were ordered to seek shelter as thunderstorms rolled into Washington, hours after extreme heat forced organizers to cancel the capital's Independence Day parade.
The competitive-eating legend crushed the field at Coney Island, while Miki Sudo captured her 12th women’s crown.
Maj. Jason Watson, in uniform, refused police orders to stop demonstrating and became the first serving officer to publicly demand the president's removal from office.
An extreme heat dome pushed heat-index readings toward 115 degrees from the Midwest to the East Coast, forcing cities to cancel parades and Amtrak to scrap trains as the nation marked its Semiquincentennial.
The sharp slowdown from May's gains rattled economists and revived worries about the labor market, with wage growth trailing inflation for a third straight month.
More than half the country is trapped under dangerous heat through the holiday weekend, with sweltering nights leaving little relief and forecasters warning of record-breaking temperatures.
WatchThe largest wildfire burning in the United States has forced the evacuation of the entire town of Eureka and damaged a ski resort as crews battle single-digit humidity and 45 mph winds.
WatchU.S. Central Command said six American aircraft hit four missile, drone and radar targets along Iran's coast after an IRGC drone struck a Singapore-flagged vessel, putting a fragile ceasefire to the test.
WatchA magnitude 7.2 quake struck the country's coast Wednesday evening, followed 39 seconds later by a 7.5 — Venezuela's most powerful in more than a century — flattening buildings across Caracas, La Guaira and Valencia.
A 17-year-old opened fire on a crowd near Broadway on Thursday afternoon as revelers packed Midtown Manhattan; police say no one was struck by bullets, but a man was slashed in the neck.