A prolonged heat wave blanketed a swath of the U.S. stretching from California to South Florida.

Democratic and Republican senators renewed an effort to block any U.S. president from leaving NATO.

One of Britain’s leading television news anchors, Huw Edwards, was identified by his wife as the BBC presenter facing allegations he paid a young person thousands of pounds for sexually explicit photos, the broadcaster reported.

Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said that he and CIA counterpart William Burns had discussions on a phone call late last month.

President Joe Biden accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of having a “craven lust for land and power” at the end of a NATO summit where Ukraine won new security assurances from the U.S. and its allies for its defence against Moscow.

High rates of pregnancy-related deaths among women of African descent in North and South America are likely due largely to racism in the form of verbal and physical abuse from health care providers, denial of quality care, and refusal of pain relief, a U.N. report found.

Iowa’s Republican-controlled legislature passed a bill in a special session banning abortions as soon as fetal cardiac activity can be detected, after around six weeks of pregnancy and before most women know they are pregnant.

NATO leaders have agreed at a summit in Vilnius that Ukraine’s future lies within the alliance but stopped short of handing Kyiv the invitation or timetable for accession that the country has been seeking.

Solomon Islands opposition leader Matthew Wale has accused the country’s Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare of mocking Solomon Islanders.

Leslie Van Houten, a former follower of notorious cult leader Charles Manson, was released on parole after serving more than five decades of a life sentence for two brutal murders.

Thieves have stolen the lighting system for one of the runways at Nigeria’s busiest airport just months after it was installed, an airport authority spokesman has confirmed to the BBC.

Former President Donald Trump and his aide Walt Nauta have asked a federal court in Florida to postpone their criminal trial in the case of a classified document, saying Trump’s busy presidential campaign schedule ahead of the 2024 election will make the current trial schedule “untenable.”