The D.C. Circuit unanimously rejected the EPA's attempt to walk away from the 2024 limit on fine-particle pollution, leaving the stricter standard in place for now.
Newly released internal emails and sworn testimony show the health secretary directing the CDC's vaccine machinery from the top, the latest chapter in a documented record that reaches back to a deadly measles outbreak.
The U.S.-mediated framework lays out a path to disarm Hezbollah and pull Israeli forces back, but the armed group that holds the weapons was not at the table and rejects it.
Two of the strongest earthquakes in a century killed at least 188 people in Venezuela, and the disaster fell on a country whose president was seized by U.S. forces five months ago and replaced by a government Washington installed, reopening the question of what the United States owes the nation it claimed to control.
The Court's conservative majority handed the administration two immigration wins in one day, exposing hundreds of thousands of legally present people to deportation and letting border agents block asylum seekers before they set foot on U.S. soil.
In a 6-3 decision, the justices said states cannot require gun carriers to get a property owner's prior permission, deepening a constitutional test that has unsettled gun laws across the country since 2022.
After an Iranian drone hit a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. forces struck Iranian targets, the first American strikes since a fragile ceasefire was extended a week earlier.
To understand what the North Atlantic Treaty was designed to do, and what it was not designed to do, it is essential to begin in the wreckage of the late 1940s.
The sign at your local station is not a single number so much as a sum, a stack of costs assembled across months and thousands of miles before a drop reaches your tank.
With pump prices still elevated months after the Iran-war oil shock, the President accused Chevron, Exxon, Shell and BP of gouging drivers and said he ordered a DOJ investigation, but retail gas lags crude for well-understood reasons.
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