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Breaking news from the U.S. and around the world, reported as it happens.
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.
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.