Israel's military seized the strategic Beaufort castle in southern Lebanon, the deepest incursion in more than 25 years, prompting condemnation from France, Germany and the UK and a request for an emergency UN Security Council session.
The U.S. military killed three men in a strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific on Saturday, the fourth such operation in a week. The campaign's total death toll is now about 205, and legal experts and human rights groups dispute its legality.
A Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas paper finds the full cost of US tariffs is now passing through to consumers, the central bank's clearest finding yet that households are absorbing the trade war's price increases.
The Trump administration's Center for AI Standards and Innovation has secured agreements with three major US AI developers to evaluate their frontier models for safety and security risks before public release.
The Department of Justice filed four separate federalism lawsuits Thursday, accusing Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon and Washington of unconstitutionally denying confidential license plates to ICE while granting them to state agencies.
Vice President JD Vance said US and Iranian negotiators are close to an agreement that would extend the ceasefire and open nuclear talks, though enrichment language remains unsettled and Iran disputes that any text has been finalized.
Dong Guangping, a 68-year-old former Chinese police officer turned human rights activist, crossed the Yellow Sea in a small inflatable boat and was detained by South Korean authorities on suspicion of immigration violations. His case is reigniting debate over how democracies handle asylum seekers fleeing Beijing's reach.
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