Nation and World
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Supreme Court OKs fee that subsidizes phone, internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas
Jun 27, 2025 9:34 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the fee that is added to phone bills to provide billions of dollars a year in subsidized phone and internet services in sc...
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DOGE loses control over government grants website, freeing up billions
Jun 27, 2025 7:26 pm - The U.S. DOGE Service has lost the power to control the government’s process for awarding billions of dollars in federal funds, the latest sign of the team’s declining in...
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Supreme Court upholds Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing pornography online
Jun 27, 2025 7:13 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children from seeing online pornography. Nearly half the states have passed similar laws req...
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1 killed and 11 wounded in intense Israeli strikes on south Lebanon
Jun 27, 2025 4:12 pm - NABATIEH, Lebanon — Israel’s air force carried out intense airstrikes on mountains overlooking a southern city in Lebanon on Friday, in an attack that the Israeli militar...
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Trump says Iran must open itself to inspection to verify it doesn’t restart its nuclear program
Jun 27, 2025 3:50 pm - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he expects Iran to open itself to international inspection to verify that it doesn’t restart...
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Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada over its ‘egregious Tax’ on technology firms
Jun 27, 2025 3:42 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms, which he called ...
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RFK Jr. made promises about vaccines. Here’s what he’s done as health secretary
Jun 27, 2025 3:28 pm - During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines. “I am not going to go into HHS and impose my pre...
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Supreme Court preserves key part of Obamacare coverage requirements
Jun 27, 2025 10:14 am - The Supreme Court preserved a key part of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive health care coverage requirements on Friday, rejecting a challenge from Christian employers to the provision that affects some 150 million Americans.
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An Israeli strike kills 18 Palestinians in central Gaza as turmoil mounts over food distribution
Jun 27, 2025 9:37 am - An Israeli strike hit a street in central Gaza on Thursday where witnesses said a crowd of people was getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from gangs looting aid convoys. Hospital officials said 18 people were killed.
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Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear
Jun 27, 2025 9:23 am - A united conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled Friday that federal judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear whether President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship could soon take effect in parts of the country.