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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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Among the powers the Constitution gives the president, few are stated so briefly or reach so far.

On the eve of the nation's 250th birthday, the president used his clemency power to erase criminal convictions for defeating vehicle pollution controls and to free a fraud-convicted political supporter, completing a broader rollback of emissions enforcement.

The daughter of jailed former strongman Alberto Fujimori won by roughly 50,000 votes out of 18 million, and her defeated rival is alleging fraud, in a country that has churned through nearly a president a year since 2016.