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Florida carries out its 13th execution of the year on a man convicted of killing estranged wife

A Florida man convicted of fatally shooting his estranged wife and wounding his mother-in-law was executed Tuesday, continuing the state's aggressive use of the death penalty in Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis ' final term.

Nonprofit sues U.S. as it pushes to auction massive tracks of water around American Samoa

A legal environmental group sued the U.S. government on Tuesday to halt the Trump administration's plans announced last month to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining.

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

Locked in a competitive reelection race, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was "gaining momentum."

Judge clears Trump administration to end deportation amnesty for roughly one million TPS migrants

President Trump's decade-long project to end deportation amnesties for a large swath of countries has finally come to fruition, after battling from district courts up to the Supreme Court and back down again.

San Diego County will stop letting federal immigration agents train at local firing ranges

A Southern California county will stop letting federal immigration authorities train at a local firing range over concerns about the Trump administration's violent crackdown on immigrants.

Fauci's former chief of staff pleads guilty to hiding records to thwart COVID origins inquiries

Dr. David Morens, who spent years as chief of staff to Dr. Anthony Fauci, pleaded guilty Tuesday to trying to hide critical documents about the origin of the coronavirus pandemic and his attempts to restore funding to a firm that was siphoning U.S. cash to a Chinese virus lab.

Liberia agrees to take 1,200 third-country deportees from the U.S.

Liberia has agreed to accept up to 1,200 third-country deportees from the United States, authorities in the West African country said Tuesday, in one of the largest such arrangements under the Trump administration's broader crackdown on immigration.

Pentagon reviewing plans for low-level nuclear war

The Pentagon is conducting a review of nuclear weapons use that seeks to provide the president and military leaders with greater options for using tactical nuclear weapons in a regional conflict while preventing an escalation into global thermonuclear war, according to a senior defense policymaker.

Before-and-after NASA images show crater carved by a SpaceX rocket that slammed into the moon

A NASA spacecraft circling the moon is providing the sharpest views yet of the crater carved by a crashing SpaceX rocket.

AI-assisted tool helped secure satellite communication system after 2022 Russian hacking

On the same day it invaded Ukraine in 2022, Russia disabled thousands of satellite modems across Ukraine and other European countries, aiming to disrupt communications. A new AI-assisted tool aims to help close that kind of vulnerability amid concerns about continued Russian aggression and newer Iranian threats to cyber infrastructure.

Massachusetts mayor's lawyer ignites fury with 'he doesn't speak English' claim amid fraud case

A video of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Mayor Brian DePena's lawyer telling reporters "he doesn't speak English, no comment" has set off a social media storm, overshadowing the federal fraud case that prompted the exchange in the first place.

U.S. hits ICC president and senior prosecutor with sanctions in another move against the court

The Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the president of the International Criminal Court and one of its top prosecutors as it continues a campaign to dismantle the tribunal, which it accuses of trying to unfairly prosecute U.S. and Israeli soldiers for alleged crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Gaza.