Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order freezing state permits for new data centers of 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first state to pause the AI build-out while regulators write new rules on grid costs, water, and who pays.

A federal judge in Florida ruled that President Trump's lawsuit against his own IRS was never a genuine legal dispute, barred all sides from treating their deal as a court-blessed settlement, and referred lawyers for possible discipline.

A federal officer fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian motorist in Biddeford, the second ICE killing in a week, and the Trump administration responded by ordering officers to pause most vehicle stops even as the account of the shooting shifted and no body camera recorded it.

President Trump refused to sign the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to protest Senate inaction on the SAVE America Act, so it became law automatically under the Constitution's 10-day rule, without a veto and without his signature.

Senator Lindsey Graham died the night after brokering a White House deal to revive his long-stalled bill imposing a 500 percent tariff on countries that keep buying Russian oil, gas, and uranium; this explains what the bill does, why it stalled for more than a year, and what losing its lead sponsor means for its chances.

On July 10, 2026, a Chinese Long March 10B put a satellite in orbit and then flew its first stage back to a net strung across a ship at sea, making China the second country after the United States to recover an orbital-class booster, though reflying the stage, the real proof of reusability, is still to come.

A U.S. aid worker in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has tested positive for a rare species of Ebola with no approved vaccine or cure, the second American infected as the country's fastest-growing outbreak on record tests a global response that experts warn has been weakened by U.S. funding cuts.

A ranking senator has released whistleblower allegations that the Trump-controlled Kennedy Center rushed renovations and bypassed federal contracting rules to meet deadlines for the president's December events, while the Center and the White House say the work was lawful and long overdue.

The rockets that lifted the first satellites and the first astronauts into space were not designed for exploration.

A sitting US congressman says armed settlers and Israeli soldiers detained him in the occupied West Bank, days after Israel ordered the seizure of Palestinian land to expand a road linking settlements.