U.S. News Headlines

• New York Times reporters are subpoenaed after Air Force One reporting, newspaper says July 11, 2026
  The New York Times reports the Trump administration has subpoenaed several of its journalists after their report over security concerns with the new Air Force One
• A July 4 boat trip, an 18-year-old's death and a family's search for answers in the Deep South July 11, 2026
  A week ago, 18-year-old Nolan Xavier Wells took a boat trip with friends to celebrate the Fourth of July on an island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast
• As gas plants rise to power AI, renewable energy allies are fighting for cleaner alternatives July 11, 2026
  Renewable energy allies are trying to ensure that massive data centers will be powered by climate-friendly sources
• Mexican builder fatally shot by an ICE officer is mourned after making a life in the US July 11, 2026
  The builder got up every morning long before dawn, left home to pick up his construction crew and then headed out to work on yet another house somewhere across the sprawl of Houston
• Trump threatens Iran after Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral saw open calls for his killing July 11, 2026
  U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened Iran after the funeral of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei saw open calls for his killing
• Martha Lillard, last US polio patient using iron lung, dies at 78 in Oklahoma July 11, 2026
  Martha Lillard, the last U.S. polio patient using an iron lung, has died at 78 in Oklahoma
• Rapidly growing wildfire in Los Angeles County prompts evacuations in remote high desert July 11, 2026
  A fast-spreading blaze has prompted evacuations in a sparsely populated area of Los Angeles County
• Trump administration rolls back a key protection for imperiled wildlife July 11, 2026
  The Trump administration has finalized a rule that changes how agencies enforce the Endangered Species Act
• Emergency crews rescue about 20 after campground building collapses in flooding July 10, 2026
  Emergency crews in Missouri rescued about 20 people on Friday after a building collapsed at a campground
• Both engines flamed out before small jet crashed in June on highway, NTSB report says July 10, 2026
  Both engines flamed out on a small business jet that crashed on a Texas highway in June, killing one person and injuring six, preventing the pilots from being able to reach the Laredo airport
• County seeks help to care for 16 siblings from squalid home, prosecute their family July 10, 2026
  The discovery of 16 siblings who authorities say were held at a home for years in squalid conditions is straining their rural Ohio county’s resources as it works to prosecute their parents and two grandparents and address the needs of so many children ...
• Lawyers for man charged with killing Charlie Kirk question reliability of evidence July 10, 2026
  Lawyers for the man accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk plan to call a final witness on Friday as they try to raise doubts about the prosecution’s case
• As the country turns 250, retired judges hit the road to defend judicial independence July 10, 2026
  A group of retired federal and state judges has been barnstorming through Ohio and Pennsylvania on the nation's 250th anniversary to defend judicial independence and bolster the rule of law
• Man charged with killing National Guard member hospitalized after refusing food July 9, 2026
  Federal prosecutors say a man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House, killing one of them, has been taken to a hospital for treatment of a potentially life-threatening medical condition after he refused to eat food in jail
• Death toll from Tropical Storm Maysak in southern China jumps to 39 July 9, 2026
  Death toll from Tropical Storm Maysak in southern China jumps to 39
• Trump flies partway home from Turkey in an old Air Force One, not the new Qatari-gifted jet July 9, 2026
  President Donald Trump has flown partway home from a NATO summit in Turkey on an old baby blue Air Force One plane instead of making the full trip aboard the new Qatari-gifted and retrofitted jet he arrived in
• Maine Democrats plan convention to replace Platner: What to know about Senate race July 9, 2026
  The Maine Democratic Party has voted to hold a convention now that Graham Platner has announced he'll drop out of the U.S. Senate race
• Family demands an independent probe after ICE officer fatally shoots a man in Houston July 9, 2026
  The son of a Mexican national fatally shot by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Houston says he was a hardworking father who had been working toward a work permit after 35 years in the U.S. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving to a constr...
• Judge sets February trial for man charged with planting pipe bombs on the eve of the Capitol riot July 8, 2026
  A federal trial is scheduled to start in February for a Virginia man charged with planting pipe bombs near the national headquarters of the Democratic and Republican parties in Washington on the eve of Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021
• Mississippi residents in DeSoto County file lawsuit over majority-Black judicial subdistrict July 8, 2026
  Several Mississippi residents in DeSoto County have filed a federal lawsuit against the creation of majority-Black subdistricts for the state judiciary