28 min ago - June 19, 2026 10:32 PM EDT Updated 24 mins ago ZURICH/DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 20 (Reuters) - Israeli strikes killed at least 10 people in Lebanon on Saturday, hours after a ​truce took effect, Israel saying it was reacting to attacks from Hezbol ... (Reuters)

1 hr ago - Friday 19 June 2026 21:12 EDT Trump administration plans to build parts of the border wall near Big Bend National Park could expose a small town to “potentially devastating” flooding, a federal lawsuit argues. The suit, filed Wednesday by t ... (The Independent)

1 hr ago - June 19, 2026, 8:34 PM EDT HAVANA — Observers on Friday called Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of former President Ra&uacu ... (NBC News/AP)

1 hr ago - Kennedy Center says it isn’t required to reschedule shows after judge blocks 2-year closure The Associated Press June 19, 2026, 10:05 PM WASHINGTON (AP) — The Kennedy Center’s management isn’t making a commitment to scheduling new ... (Associated Press via WTOP)

2 hrs ago - Jun 19, 2026, 08:03 PM EDT June 19 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday blocked the Trump administration's plans to immediately slash the workforce at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by about two-thirds, delivering a setback to ... (Huff Post/Reuters)

2 hrs ago - Fri 19 Jun 2026 13.26 EDT Last modified on Fri 19 Jun 2026 17.59 EDT A global framework for reparatory justice has been adopted at a conference in Ghana. Heads of state and government and other officials formally approved the strategy on Friday at a ... (The Guardian)

3 hrs ago - Jun 19th, 2026, 5:21 pm Yonit Levi, the veteran Israeli journalist and news anchor, spoke with Bridgewater CEO Nir Bar Dea this week and asked the head of the world’s largest hedge fund if Israel betting on the U.S. was a “mistake.” B ... (MEDIAite)

4 hrs ago - Updated 4:21 PM EDT, June 19, 2026 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African officials must step up financing to respond and develop vaccines for the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda, the continent’s top health agency said on Friday, warning t ... (AP)

4 hrs ago - Posted 3:29 PM, Jun 19, 2026 Planned talks between the U.S. and Iran in Switzerland were called off Friday after Israel launched strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon. However, Israel and Hezbollah later agreed to renew their ceasefire, setting up the ... (Scripps News)

7 hrs ago - Updated 9:54 PM CDT, June 19, 2026 SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A large fire almost completely destroyed a luxury resort in the Dominican Republic on Friday, forcing the evacuation of almost 1,700 tourists, authorities said. Local me ... (AP)

10 hrs ago - 'Correct the record': Judge Cannon 'made a number of errors' and 'inappropriate' accusations while burying Jack Smith's report, appeals court told Story by Matt Naham • 3h • Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats on Thursday expressed an urg ... (msn)

11 hrs ago - By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON, June 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will make a rare trip to Camp David this weekend, returning to the presidential ‌retreat for only the second time since retaking office last year. Trump ‌will hold polic ... (Reuters)

11 hrs ago - 12h Democratic lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee are growing frustrated with chair Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) over his leadership — including “barely-veiled personal jabs” and other provocations — and are already "vowi ... (msn/Rawstory)

12 hrs ago - Friday 19 June 2026 10:37 EDT Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s relationship with the White House has become “non-existent,” fueling speculation that he could be the next member of President Donald Trump’s cabinet to get the ... (The Independent)

12 hrs ago - Updated on: June 19, 2026 / 6:15 PM EDT / CBS News Washington — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Justice Department from giving a conservative think tank a redacted transcript and recordings of former President Joe Biden's decad ... (CBS News)

12 hrs ago - June 19, 2026 3:55 PM EDT Updated 3 hours ago June 19 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said he might have viewed artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a national security threat last ​week, but he no longer does, according to an & ... (Reuters)

13 hrs ago - 06/19/26 2:07 PM ET NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is set to travel next week to Washington to meet with President Trump amid tensions over the U.S. cutting the number of troops and equipment it would provide to its European allies should they be ... (The Hill)

13 hrs ago - Jun 19, 2026, 04:27 PM EDT A Missouri judge this week struck down a series of restrictions on abortion, finding they violated a constitutional amendment that voters approved in 2024. Many of the provisions were already on hold because of an earlier, ... (Huff Post/AP)

14 hrs ago - June 19, 2026 1:10PM ET Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled for a printer inside the Palace of Versailles after President Donald Trump went to the sign his Iran deal — without bringing a copy with him. A new report sheds light on the chaot ... (Raw Story)

14 hrs ago - Friday 19 June 2026 05:32 EDT The U.S. Department of Defense requires $80 billion to cover costs from the Iran conflict and other non-war-related bills, Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg informed lawmakers this week, the Wall Street Journal r ... (The Independent)