A one-year Republican ban on federal Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood expired on its own on July 4, and billing for contraception, testing, and cancer screenings resumed the next day.

A civil rights group alleges in federal court that U.S. agencies gave Iran confidential details from the asylum claims of Iranians they were trying to deport, a charge the Department of Homeland Security calls false.

The federal government is buying the detention centers it already runs, its internal watchdog is investigating people who criticize it online, and a citizen who sent an angry email got a visit from officers, three moves that together narrow outside scrutiny of immigration enforcement.

Hamas says it has dissolved the emergency committee that ran Gaza's ministries and offered civilian control to a UN-backed committee that Israel has so far barred from entering the territory, while making no promise to give up its weapons.

Beijing freed Zion Church founder Ezra Jin Mingri and let him fly to Los Angeles after President Trump pressed his case with Xi Jinping, a rare release of a Chinese citizen that leaves at least eight fellow church leaders behind bars.

To understand any fight over data centers and electric bills, you have to start with a fact most people never have reason to learn: the price you pay for electricity is not a market price in the ordinary sense.

A new White House report accuses the Smithsonian's flagship history museum of ideological capture, and the left and right disagree sharply on what the same document means.

On July 4 Trump spoke by phone with both Putin and Zelenskyy ahead of the NATO summit in Turkey, even as Russia claimed to have captured the Donbas "fortress belt" city of Kostiantynivka and Ukraine flatly denied the city had fallen.

Two federal task-force soldiers shot and killed Tyrin Johnson during a Memphis foot pursuit, the first known death by Guard troops in the Trump administration's domestic urban deployments, and the investigation has only begun.

A bipartisan bill would push states to make AI data centers pay for the grid upgrades they trigger, but supporters call it a real consumer safeguard while critics call its protections optional and its alarming price figures overstated.