The U.S. Navy is dispatching its most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, to the Mediterranean Sea as part of a significant military buildup near Iran. The deployment, reported Wednesday by CNN, underscores Washington’s heightened alert posture as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies.

British lawmakers on Tuesday approved one of the most radical changes to abortion law in the nation’s history, voting to decriminalize abortion at any stage of pregnancy.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump urged Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to surrender, saying the United States knows where he is hiding and suggested he may be killed one day.

U.S. President Donald Trump made clear Monday night that he is not seeking a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, but rather a permanent end to Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Speaking as he departed the G7 summit in Canada, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One that he wants a “real end” to the nuclear issue — with Iran “giving up entirely” on its nuclear program.

President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer announced Monday the finalization of a major UK-US trade agreement, sealing a deal that both leaders hailed as a “win” for jobs, income, and transatlantic relations.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump reluctantly signed a statement by Group of Seven (G7) allies affirming Israel’s “right to defend itself” but also calling for “restraint, de-escalation and diplomacy” between Israel and Iran.

Israel’s military said Tuesday it has killed Iran’s most senior military commander, in a sign that even the country’s supreme leader might be next.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump told reporters during a photo shoot of the Group of Seven (G7) leaders in Alberta, Canada that he and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be leaving the G7 summit early after he urged Iranian civilians to “immediately evacuate” the Iranian capital Tehran.

Apple announced at its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2025 that iOS 26 will introduce Digital Passports in Apple Wallet, marking a significant step toward integrating official identity documentation into mobile devices. The feature, set to debut this fall, will allow users to store and present digital versions of their passports for select domestic travel and identity verification scenarios.

A team of researchers operating in Antarctica has detected strange and unexplained radio signals emanating from beneath the continent’s vast ice sheets, challenging current scientific understanding.

A massive barrage of Israeli airstrikes hit Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon just after the terrorist group’s leader declared that two days of intense hybrid bombings, including the detonation of pagers and walkie-talkies targeting Hezbollah forces, amounted to a declaration of war.

Amid Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has reiterated that the kingdom would not recognize Israel without the establishment of a Palestinian state, the Times of Israel reports. The Crown Prince made his remarks during an annual speech to the advisory Shura Council on Wednesday (September 18).

Israel has condemned an adopted United Nations resolution demanding that all Israeli forces and civilians pull out of Palestinian areas within a year. The resolution also called for an embargo on arms that Israel might use in those areas.

At least nine people have been killed and some 500 wounded in Lebanon in explosions targeting walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah, deemed a terrorist organization by Israel, Israeli and Lebanese sources said Wednesday.

Amid increasingly high tensions between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon, the Israeli military has announced it moved the 98th Paratroopers Division, an elite fighting battalion, from the Southern Command operating against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to the Northern Command along Israel’s border with Lebanon to face Hezbollah.

At least nine people were killed and about 2,750 wounded by exploding handheld pagers across Lebanon and Syria the Lebanese health minister has said.

At least hundreds of members of Hezbollah have been injured in southern Lebanon and the Lebanese capital, Beirut, after the handheld pagers they used to communicate exploded, Israeli and Arab sources say.

The US House of Representatives on November 20 passed a bipartisan bill to update and reauthorize the 2004 North Korean Human Rights Act, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. With the Act having expired in 2022, US Reps. Young Kim (R-CA) and Ami Bera (D-CA) introduced the bill to renew the legislation.

The FBI announced Wednesday that it is investigating bomb threats and “swatting” incidents, as well as other threats, targeting several of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees and administration appointees.

The now-ending 2024 record-breaking Atlantic hurricane season is estimated to have cost the United States around $500 billion in total damage and economic loss, Accu Weather reports.

America’s consumer confidence increased to a 16-month high in November as optimism about the world’s leading economy increased partly due to Donald J. Trump’s election victory, market watchers announced Tuesday.

A Missouri county court on Monday upheld a new state law that bans sex-change surgeries for minors under the age of 18 as well as hormones and puberty blockers for minors who had not started those treatments by August 2023, the Associated Press reports. Missouri is among 26 states that have passed laws restricting or banning sex-change treatments for minors.

A new study shows there has been a 3,000% increase in antisemitic incidents on US college campuses since the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel triggered the current war in Gaza.

The cases against two men from Jordan accused of illegally attempting to enter Quantico Marine base have been dismissed.