U.S. & World

U.S. arranged flights have brought about 250 Americans and their relatives out of Lebanon this week during escalated fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. That’s as thousands of Americans still there face airstrikes and diminishing commercial flights.

Immigration is one of the key issues of the November election, with many voters concerned over the number of migrants who have entered the U.S. during the Biden administration.

A woman who says she worked as a hair-and-makeup artist for Garth Brooks alleges in a lawsuit that the country music star raped and sexually assaulted her in a Los Angeles hotel in 2019.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has surpassed Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

The former first lady reportedly defends reproductive rights in her forthcoming memoir. She also posted a video Thursday about “individual freedom” for women.

The relief organization Operation Airdrop said its members have logged nearly 600 “missions” in two days to North Carolina and Tennessee.

The Biden administration’s new sweeping student loan forgiveness plan is temporarily blocked again, a federal judge ruled.

The strike was the first by the ILA since 1977, and it impacted port operations at 36 different ports, including the 10 busiest ports in North America.

Kim Porter’s four children — Quincy, Christian, Jessie and D’Lila — denounced the book last month after it became a bestseller.

New court papers in Donald Trump’s federal 2020 election interference case pull back the curtain on his conversations with family members, former Vice President Mike Pence and other close advisers in the weeks leading up to the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

The FBI said that the websites were part of a spear phishing campaign.

FIFA stopped short of suspending the Israeli soccer federation on Thursday, but asked for a disciplinary investigation of possible discrimination alleged by Palestinian soccer officials.

A house owned by a veterinarian on Long Island was found to be filled with more than 200 birds and other animals in a hoarding situation that officials described as among the worst they have ever seen.