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New Images Suggest Iran Rebuilding Key Nuclear Facilities
New satellite imagery indicates Iran has begun rebuilding portions of two suspected nuclear facilities damaged in U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, raising fresh questions about Tehran's willingness to comply with a cease-fire memorandum negotiated by the Trump...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:26:30 EDTTrump Defends White House Renovations Amid Criticism
President Donald Trump on Saturday defended ongoing renovations to the White House, saying the work is restoring the executive mansion after years of neglect and will transform it into a symbol of "Extraordinary Beauty and Pride."
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:08:12 EDTZelenskyy Orders Accountability in Depot Probe
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that officials who allowed a weapons warehouse to operate in a residential area outside Kyiv, where explosions killed 10 people, had been identified and would be held accountable.
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:57:39 EDTProbe Finds Lewandowski Role in DHS Contracts
Department of Homeland Security investigators have found evidence that former Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski may have been involved in improperly awarding government contracts while serving as a senior aide at the agency, according to people familiar with the...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:50:25 EDTMartha Lillard, Last US Polio Patient Using Iron Lung, Dies at 78
Martha Lillard had just turned 5 when she was diagnosed with polio and depended on an iron lung to live. She died June 26 in Oklahoma, the last U.S. polio patient who used the machine, her sister said. She was 78.
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:41:54 EDTTrump Defends Record, Says Democrats Have Turned Communist
President Donald Trump on Saturday lamented what he described as a decade of media refusal to acknowledge his political success while warning that Democrats have been overtaken by what he called a communist faction.
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:41:05 EDTNYC Legionnaires' Probe Includes Guggenheim
New York City's famed Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum was among several Manhattan buildings that recently tested positive for the bacteria that causes Legionnaires' disease amid the city's latest outbreak.The city health department on Friday released a list of 31 buildings on...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:29:41 EDTYale Faces Growing Pressure to Reject Trump Admin Settlement
Yale University is facing mounting pressure from students, faculty, alumni, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal to reject any settlement with the Trump administration over a Justice Department investigation into the university's admissions practices as negotiations between the two...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:04:49 EDTTrump Presses US Retailers, Gas Stations to Slash Prices
President Donald Trump is leaning hard on major U.S. companies to cut consumer prices, recently warning gasoline retailers of "big problems" if they didn't reduce the price of gasoline commensurate with the price of crude, while crediting Walmart for its summer rollback of...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:36:36 EDTVance Would Make Call on Iran if Trump Killed
President Donald Trump is suggesting he has left standing orders for the U.S. military to destroy Iran "at levels they've never seen before" if Tehran follows through on its long-standing threats to kill him.
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 14:24:57 EDTFederal Judge Reluctantly Dismisses Proud Boys Jan. 6 Case
A federal judge on Friday dismissed with prejudice the criminal case against four Proud Boys members convicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, while emphasizing that the decision was compelled by executive authority rather than judicial agreement.
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:38:59 EDTDangerous Heat Dome to Grip Two-Thirds of U.S.
A widespread and dangerous heat wave is building across the U.S., with triple-digit highs expected in the Southwest and Great Plains this weekend before spreading eastward under a dome of high pressure that meteorologists say could trap oppressive temperatures for a week or...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:11:58 EDTAmerican-Born Cartel Boss Poses U.S. Challenge
A U.S. citizen is now the leader of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel, creating a headache for the Trump administration as laws and procedural requirements surrounding the surveillance, apprehension, or potential elimination of a U.S. citizen operating abroad are highly...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:00:42 EDTMeta Limits AI Tool That Accessed Instagram Photos Amid Criticism
Meta has pulled the plug on a feature of a recently launched AI tool following criticism that it made Instagram accounts fodder for use in creating AI-generated images. The move on Friday came less than a week after the parent of Instagram and Facebook rolled out Muse Image,...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:59:11 EDTUK Police Free Suspect in Ex-Minister Widdecombe Case
A 26-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering former British government minister Ann Widdecombe has been released and is no longer part of the investigation, police said on Saturday. The man, a white British national, was arrested in Newton Abbot, a town about 9...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:45:21 EDTTrump's 'Patriot Games' to Bring Teen Boot Camp to Ohio
President Donald Trump's inaugural Patriot Games, a nationally televised teen athletic competition tied to the country's 250th anniversary, will bring together one male and one female high school athlete from each state, territory and tribal nation for a "military-inspired...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:19:56 EDTKhanna Says Israeli Settlers Detained Him in West Bank
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said he was detained by Israeli settlers for more than an hour while visiting the occupied West Bank, alleging members of the Israel Defense Forces spoke with the settlers and moved a vehicle to block the road rather than immediately clearing his...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:21:24 EDTJackson, Maine Dem Pick to Replace Platner, Has GOP Past
Maine Democrats are coalescing behind former state Senate President Troy Jackson as the party's likely replacement for Graham Platner, who formally withdrew his U.S. Senate candidacy Friday after a former girlfriend accused him of rape. The 58-year-old Allagash logger...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:55:40 EDTTrump: '1,000 Missiles' Ready if Iran Tries Assassination
President Donald Trump warned late Friday evening that the United States has "1,000 missiles" prepared to strike Iran if Tehran carries out an assassination attempt against him.In a Truth Social post, ...
Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:06:48 EDTFloods Prompt Missouri Camp Rescue
Heavy rainfall and widespread flooding battered parts of Missouri on Friday, forcing the helicopter evacuations of more than 200 children and staff from a summer camp and the rescues of about 20 people who had moved to safety on a campground building that collapsed.
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