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WASHINGTON — The U.S. war against Iran has cost the United States about $37.5 billion, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, giving the most up-to-date official estimate for a conflict that shows no signs of ending soon. ...Read more

South Carolina Republican Sen. Darline Graham has collected several key endorsements since announcing Monday she would run for the seat of her late brother, Lindsey Graham.

But the political newcomer, who entered the race...Read more

LOS ANGELES —A group claiming to represent California fire survivors began sending mailers and paying for social media ads this spring, calling on lawmakers to take action to reduce the rising cost of wildfires.

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East Carolina University’s Brody School of Medicine is among five medical schools newly under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, the department announced Tuesday. The ...Read more

CHICAGO — A dozen progressive aldermen have signed on to a demand for their colleagues to reject contributions from corporations tied to federal immigration enforcement, in the latest political fallout over the recent U....Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield's chief of staff told state investigators the Republican lawmaker's travels featured trips with lobbyists, the use of a private jet, a yacht rental in Miami, ...Read more

SEATTLE — Multiple Gates Foundation employees warned senior leaders of the nonprofit, including Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, about the risks of associating with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, according to ...Read more

SpaceX sent up a Tuesday evening launch of a Northrop Grumman robotic vehicle featuring a pair of swiveling arms with clampy hands that aims to become an all-purpose Mr. Fix-It in space.

The Mission Robotic Vehicle (MRV) ...Read more

NEW YORK — Council Speaker Julie Menin bashed the Mamdani administration’s handling of the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Tuesday, after a fourth New Yorker died from the disease.

Menin argued the city moved too ...Read more

Hundreds of thousands of Haitians in the U.S. are living in uncertain times. On June 25, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could proceed with a plan to end Temporary Protected Status – a...Read more

Washington’s Gulf Arab allies are increasingly frustrated as hostilities between the U.S. and Iran intensify, jeopardizing their national security and economies.

The Gulf states’ exasperation is underscored by their ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s lone Republican in Congress told The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday that he is skeptical the Francis Scott Key Bridge can be rebuilt by late 2030 and wants clearer answers about the project’s cost as...Read more

The Trump administration on Tuesday said it is withholding more federal Medicaid payments to Minnesota and California, citing suspected fraud and compliance concerns involving more than a dozen high-risk Medicaid programs....Read more

California and 19 other attorneys generals are suing the Environmental Protection Agency for reversing action on high-polluting refrigerants.

President Donald Trump announced in May that grocery stories and air ...Read more

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed off on the annual state budget Tuesday, giving the final stamps of approval to the last yearly state spending plans in her eight years as governor.

The Democratic ...Read more

Lake Mead and Lake Powell, the country’s two largest reservoirs, have fallen to their lowest combined levels on record, a grim marker in the deepening water crisis across seven states that depend on the Colorado River.

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MIAMI — The operator of a tugboat that was pushing a construction barge that ran over a sailboat last summer in Biscayne Bay, killing three summer campers, pleaded guilty to seaman’s manslaughter in federal court on ...Read more

The government of Guyana continued to search its coastal waters Tuesday for dozens of people still missing after a government ferry capsized over the weekend in one of the deadliest disasters to it the South American ...Read more

MIAMI — Despite ongoing diplomatic tensions between the Trump administration and the government of Cuba, a flight carrying the first batch of $100 million worth of U.S. humanitarian assistance to the Cuban people was ...Read more