Nation and World
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Fear grips Haitian communities after Supreme Court ruling unwinds protection from deportation
Jun 26, 2026 10:00 pm - A 35-year-old nurse in Kentucky prepared her will. The single mother named a legal guardian for her four children and transferred her properties into their names.She felt like she needed to prepare for death — in case she gets deported back to Haiti, a country she fled at 9 years old.
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Appeals court rejects Trump EPA bid to abandon rule restricting deadly soot pollution
Jun 26, 2026 7:23 pm - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to abandon a Biden-era rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution.
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Ukrainian drones drive Russia to declare emergency in occupied Crimea
Jun 26, 2026 7:17 pm - Authorities in occupied Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed illegally from Ukraine in 2014, declared a state of emergency Friday following weeks of punishing Ukrainian drone strikes.
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US strikes Iran in response to a drone attack on a ship that Trump says violated ceasefire
Jun 26, 2026 6:52 pm - The U.S. struck Iran on Friday in response to a drone attack a day earlier on a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. It's the most significant test yet to an interim understanding reached a week ago by the two countries to begin working to end their monthslong war and reopen the pivotal waterway.
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A Trump commission urges ‘bridges’ between church and state in sweeping draft report
Jun 26, 2026 4:52 pm - A new report by a Trump administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them.
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Trump threatens 100% tax on European imports if countries impose tax on digital services
Jun 26, 2026 4:44 pm - President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 100% tax on imports from any country that imposes a tax on digital services from United States companies.
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Israel and Lebanon sign framework agreement with US in ‘first step’ toward peace, Rubio says
Jun 26, 2026 4:20 pm - Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined Israel and Lebanon’s ambassadors to the U.S. Friday to announce a framework agreement that was described as a first step toward peace following months of conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
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Most of Wall Street rises, but sinking AI stocks send it lower for the week
Jun 26, 2026 3:42 pm - Most of the U.S. stock market rose Friday after oil prices eased back to where they were before the war with Iran, but drops for stocks swept up in the mania around artificial-intelligence technology kept the market in check.
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Ukraine unleashes one of its heaviest drone bombardments of Russia
Jun 26, 2026 7:56 am - Ukraine launched a major nighttime attack on a dozen Russian regions, Russian-held Crimea and the surrounding seas, Moscow’s Defense Ministry said Friday, in what appeared to be one of Kyiv’s biggest drone assaults since the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion more than four years ago.
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Venezuelans take search for the missing into their own hands as earthquake death toll climbs
Jun 26, 2026 7:51 am - In cities across northern Venezuela, neighbors helped each other dig through rubble to search for loved ones, after back-to-back earthquakes killed at least 589 people and left thousands injured.