30 min ago - Updated: 8:53 AM EDT Jul 8, 2026 Kaitlin Gehlhaus AND Ted Wayman BOSTON -- Around 4,000 nurses at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston went on strike for one day Wednesday, with negotiations over wages, benefits and working conditions still unresol ... (WCVB)

50 min ago - July 8, 2026 2:34 AM EDT Updated 3 hours ago ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine, July 8 (Reuters) - Russian forces are trying to counter Ukrainian "mid-strike" drone attacks by camouflaging cargoes and installing powerful jamming systems to disrupt Elon Mu ... (Reuters)

1 hr ago - Published Wed, Jul 8 2026 6:09 AM EDT Updated 3 Hours Ago Attorneys for President Donald Trump in a late Tuesday night court filing urged a New York federal judge not to disburse nearly $5.8 million to E. Jean Carroll to satisfy a May 2023 civil verd ... (CNBC)

1 hr ago - Wednesday 08 July 2026 05:13 EDT Private prison operator CoreCivic has completed the $1.5 billion sale of two of California's largest immigration detention centers to the Department of Homeland Security, the company announced Monday. The deal, which ... (The Independent)

2 hrs ago - An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Mexican immigrant in Houston on Tuesday during an attempted traffic stop arrest, federal authorities said. ICE identified the man as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and said he was in the United St ... (Washington Post)

2 hrs ago - Published Jul 08, 2026 at 05:14 AM EDT updated Jul 08, 2026 at 05:16 AM EDT A historic Washington, D.C., fountain restored at President Donald Trump's direction has turned brown, multiple photos and videos shared to social media show. In May, the U.S ... (Newsweek)

2 hrs ago - Aaron Sanderford 4 mins ago A recording of a now-former staffer of Dan Osborn's nonpartisan campaign acknowledging that Osborn helped "recruit" Maine Democrat Graham Platner has dragged Nebraska's U.S. Senate race into the morass of Maine's. The ex-s ... (Omaha World Herald)

2 hrs ago - July 8, 2026, 12:14 AM EDT The Justice Department sent letters warning election officials in all 50 states and the District of Columbia that they could face criminal prosecution over noncitizen voting, a spokesperson for the Justice Department confir ... (NBC News)

3 hrs ago - Updated 10:55 PM EDT, July 7, 2026 CHICAGO (AP) — George E. Johnson Sr., a pioneer in Black hair care whose multimillion-dollar business was the first Black-owned company to be listed on the American Stock Exchange, has died at age 99, according ... (AP)

3 hrs ago - By Rachel Spears July 8, 2026 For the second year in a row, many Affordable Care Act insurers are proposing double-digit premium increases, driven by rising medical costs as well as policy changes by Congress and the Trump administration. In prelim ... (KFF)

3 hrs ago - 07/07/2026 08:18 PM EDT|Updated: 07/07/2026 09:18 PM EDT MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The Southern Poverty Law Center, best known for monitoring hate groups, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to federal charges that it defrauded donors by not disclosing that ... (Politico)

4 hrs ago - Updated 8:06 PM EDT, July 7, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — A National Guard deployment to Washington, D.C., has ballooned during the celebrations of the country’s 250th anniversary of independence, bolstered in part by contingents from Democratic- ... (AP)

4 hrs ago - U.S. NEWS Buckling Manhattan high-rise deemed 'stable' for now after evacuations ordered The building, formerly Pfizer's global headquarters, is being converted into a luxury rental complex. It was evacuated, along with neighboring buildings, and no ... (NBC News)

4 hrs ago - By Sam Spratford | Jul 07, 2026 The majority of employees at Hachette Book Group have voted 388 to 130 to unionize with the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, Local 32035, the union announced today. The Hachette Workers Coalition (HWC) will soon elect ... (Publishers Weekly)

4 hrs ago - Updated on: July 7, 2026 / 6:16 PM EDT The U.S. Postal Service on Sunday will raise the price of a first-class Forever stamp from 78 cents to 82 cents, the latest in a series of increases aimed at stemming the agency's mounting financial losses. The ... (CBS News)

5 hrs ago - Trump says he doesn't want anything to do with Spain: 'Cut off all trade' PUBLISHED WED, JUL 8 2026 4:16 AM EDT UPDATED 24 MIN AGO Elsa Ohlen KEY POINTS * President Trump slammed Spain for not contributing enough to NATO or spending enough on defense ... (CNBC)

5 hrs ago - July 7, 2026, 5:46 PM Maryland lawmakers will meet for a special session next month to consider a constitutional amendment dealing with future congressional redistricting, legislative leaders announced Tuesday, following a failed effort earlier this ... (ABC News/AP)

5 hrs ago - Jul 7th, 2026, 5:10 pm The Texas Tribune reported on Tuesday that Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate in the state, may have broken the very voter registration laws he’s seeking to tighten. Zach Despart, who writes ... (MEDIAite)

5 hrs ago - US President Donald Trump said his tentative ceasefire with Iran is over. “For me, I think it’s over,” he said on Wednesday in Ankara, sitting next to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the military alliance’s annual summit.
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6 hrs ago - July 7, 2026, at 4:59 p.m. WASHINGTON, July 7 (Reuters) - The ⁠U.S. ⁠Treasury Department is no longer ⁠planning to put anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman on a $20 bill, Treasury Secretary ​Scott Bessent has told Spectrum Ne ... (US News & World Report/Reuters)