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Erica Schwartz testifies during a Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions committee confirmation hearing to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Senate committee postpones vote on whether to advance CDC director nominee

11:56 AM on Thursday, July 23

The Senate health committee has delayed a vote planned for Thursday on whether to advance the nomination of Dr. Erica Schwartz to lead the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

FILE - The headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service is in Washington, August 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Democrats urge IRS watchdog to find out why a top lawyer who clashed with White House left his job

11:47 AM on Thursday, July 23

Senate Democrats want a watchdog at the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the recent departure of a high-ranking IRS attorney who clashed with President Donald Trump's White House after the attorney raised concerns about influence over taxpayer audits

The Okefenokee is about to be honored, but some locals aren’t celebrating

11:44 AM on Thursday, July 23

The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia is poised to become a World Heritage Site, joining iconic U.S. landscapes like the Grand Canyon

People load pallets containing food and hygiene kits for a humanitarian assistance flight to Cuba organized by the Trump administration as the U.S. continues to put pressure on the island's government, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Caritas starts distributing US humanitarian aid in 2 towns near Havana

11:40 AM on Thursday, July 23

The Catholic Church organization Caritas says hundreds of boxes of humanitarian aid from the U.S. are being distributed in two towns near Havana

FILE - A Social Security card is displayed Oct. 12, 2021, in Tigard, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

Democrats say Social Security boss' message pushed misleading statements on Trump tax law's benefits

11:29 AM on Thursday, July 23

Congressional Democrats are squaring off with President Donald Trump's administration over one of the most potent political issues in the country ahead of this year’s midterm elections: Social Security

Vice President JD Vance listens as President Donald Trump meets with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun in the Oval Office at the White House, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

A member of Vance's Secret Service detail is being investigated over a suspected news leak

9:59 AM on Thursday, July 23

The Secret Service says a member of Vice President JD Vance’s security detail is being investigated over a suspected news leak

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks on before his meeting with Ireland's Prime Minister Micheal Martin in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine's ousted defense minister rejects Zelenskyy's offer of a different government role

8:57 AM on Thursday, July 23

Ukraine’s fired defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, has rejected President Zelenskyy's offer to rejoin the government in a different role

From left, Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, talk to reporters just after the House narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House again passes a resolution seeking to halt military action in Iran as the conflict escalates

7:26 AM on Thursday, July 23

The House has narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain

FILE - Residents and rescue workers inspect the site of a late-Monday airstrike at a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai, File)

Pakistan rejects Amnesty call for war crimes probe into Kabul airstrike

6:17 AM on Thursday, July 23

Pakistan has rejected Amnesty International’s call for an investigation into a March airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center in the Afghan capital that the rights group said could amount to a war crime, dismissing the allegations as unsupported

FILE - A woman walks by a giant screen displaying the Google logo at an event at the Paris Google Lab on the sidelines of the AI Action Summit in Paris, Feb. 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

EU hits Google with $1 billion fine over its Play app store and search

3:08 AM on Thursday, July 23

The European Union has fined Google $1 billion for breaking digital antitrust regulations

An archivist works to safeguard testimonies from victims of the internal armed conflict between 1960 and 1996, who sought reparations for the abuses they suffered, in Guatemala City, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Guatemala races to save 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses during armed conflict

12:24 AM on Thursday, July 23

Guatemala is racing to preserve 60,000 case files of testimony about abuses from its decades of armed conflict before President Bernardo Arévalo's term ends in January 2028

CHECKING DATE - In this photo released by the Press, Media and Information Bureau of the Indonesian Presidential Secretariat, several repatriated artifacts are presented during the meeting between Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto and FBI Director Kash Patel in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (Indonesian Presidential Secretariat via AP)

FBI Director Patel returns looted cultural artifacts to Indonesian President Prabowo

10:54 PM on Wednesday, July 22

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has received a collection of repatriated cultural artifacts from FBI Director Kash Patel during a meeting in Jakarta

This image taken from video provided by Internal Security Operations Command Region 4 shows a group of the alleged attackers riding on a back of a black pickup truck before they opened fire and threw pipe bombs at soldiers at a security checkpoint in Narathiwat province, Thailand, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (Internal Security Operations Command Region 4 via AP)

Thai authorities hunt for suspects after an attack in troubled south kills 5 soldiers

10:00 PM on Wednesday, July 22

Thai authorities are searching for those responsible for a deadly attack in the country's troubled deep south

Democratic candidate for Texas governor Gina Hinojosa, third from the left, listens to Stephen Sanders, right, during a roundtable discussion on data centers, Saturday, July 18, 2026, in Lubbock, Texas. (AP Photo/Justin Rex)

Democrats seize on AI data center backlash that's dividing rural Republicans in places like Texas

9:08 PM on Wednesday, July 22

Democratic Texas governor's race nominee Gina Hinojosa is focusing on artificial intelligence data centers as a key issue in her campaign against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, from left, acting Minister of Defense Major General Yevhen Khmara, former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Oleksandr Syrskyi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and new commander-in-chief of Ukraine's Armed Forces Mykhailo Drapatyi, pose for a photo during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

How protests over a popular minister's firing sparked Ukraine's sudden military reset

9:03 PM on Wednesday, July 22

In just a week, the dismissal of a Ukrainian defense minister set in motion a transformation of the country’s armed forces that replaced the old guard with a new generation of leadership

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