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The United States is rapidly building what it calls a “smart wall” on the Mexico border, combining tall steel fencing with advanced technology like sensors and cameras

5:14 AM on Thursday, July 2

Iranian state television claimed this week that a foreign ship got stuck in the Strait of Hormuz after ignoring instructions to use a route laid out by the Islamic Republic’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard

5:01 AM on Thursday, July 2

South Korea’s government has disputed a U.S. congressional report accusing Seoul of discriminating against Coupang

4:09 AM on Thursday, July 2

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen says she won’t run for president next year if a Paris appeals court orders her to wear an electronic bracelet

3:07 AM on Thursday, July 2

A young couple in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province were publicly caned after an Islamic Shariah court convicted them of violating Islamic law by kissing during a TikTok livestream

11:05 PM on Wednesday, July 1

U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Italy’s premier have had an unintended consequence

11:01 PM on Wednesday, July 1

New Jersey is set to charge companies whose workers have Medicaid health coverage

11:01 PM on Wednesday, July 1

President Donald Trump has increasingly adopted a contradictory communication style even as it roils financial markets and causes consternation among top Republicans trying to retain control of Congress in November's midterm elections

7:24 PM on Wednesday, July 1

Lawmakers have released a federal audit that found that only 25% of some $14 billion in federal funds obligated for Puerto Rico’s power grid after Hurricane Maria razed it almost a decade ago has reached the U.S. territory

5:08 PM on Wednesday, July 1

Gabriel García Luna, Guatemala’s new attorney general, pledges to dismantle his predecessor Consuelo Porras’ administration, which he calls “repressive and vengeful.”

4:15 PM on Wednesday, July 1

A federal judge in Arkansas is throwing out some state laws that put extra restrictions on efforts to gather signatures for ballot initiatives

3:11 PM on Wednesday, July 1

The Trump administration has sued California and Virginia over new laws in both states that restrict the sale of semiautomatic firearms

2:11 PM on Wednesday, July 1

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12:16 PM on Wednesday, July 1

Former CIA Director John Brennan is suing the Trump administration, demanding a court order that would require officials to preserve records from investigations that are targeting him

11:49 AM on Wednesday, July 1

Authorities say 16 children from the same family who were rescued from a run-down home in rural Ohio were living in horrific conditions and were confined to just one room over much of the past four years

10:11 AM on Wednesday, July 1

A Democratic member of Congress is calling for a federal investigation into the "rent now, pay later" industry

8:25 AM on Wednesday, July 1

President Donald Trump has taken his maiden voyage on a new Air Force One

7:10 AM on Wednesday, July 1

A federal filing shows President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses

4:04 AM on Wednesday, July 1

President Donald Trump visited the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota on Wednesday