The Supreme Court put new limits on the power of the Securities and Exchange Commission to enforce securities laws — the latest ruling in a series of cases that take aim at federal agencies.
What would be the nation's largest export terminal for liquefied natural gas won approval from a federal commission Thursday, although when the Louisiana project will be completed remains unclear in light of a Biden administration delay announced this year on such projects. Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass 2 southwestern Louisiana project, often referred to as CP2, was approved with little discussion by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission during a livestreamed meeting.
The healthiest beverages to drink include water, flavored seltzer, mineral water with juice, coffee, tea, milk and fruit smoothies, dietitians say.
Abraham Lincoln's wax statue was present outside Garrison Elementary School on the site of Camp Barker, a Civil War-era refugee camp.
Hezbollah said it fired "dozens" of rockets Thursday at a military base in northern Israel in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Lebanon, one of which killed a fighter from the Iran-backed group.Hamas ally Hezbollah said that "in response to the enemy attacks that targeted the city of Nabatiyeh and village of Sohmor", its fighters bombed "the main air and missile defence base of the northern area command... with dozens of Katyusha rockets".
The U.S. Supreme Court did not settle the debate over whether federal law requires hospitals to stabilize pregnant patients with emergency abortions on Wednesday, despite saying Idaho hospitals can provide abortions in medical emergencies even with the state’s restrictions. Health and legal experts say Thursday’s order that divided the Supreme Court’s conservatives does nothing to protect pregnant women in other states with strict abortion bans, where state bans might conflict with a federal law that the Biden administration argues requires emergency abortions.
Argentina's Congress is set to pass sweeping economic reform measures proposed by President Javier Milei, giving him his first big legislative win just over six months after taking office. The lower Chamber of Deputies started the final debate on Milei's main reform bill and a twin fiscal package on Thursday, with general approval already in hand and the vote now focused on agreeing final details before the measures become law. The legislation, which provides investment incentives, deals with the privatization of a range of state-owned entities and rejigs taxes, will achieve some of the main objectives set by Milei, who won election last year pledging to shake up the country's troubled economy.
A steady rain was falling outside Fordyce High School, but that didn't deter an army of volunteers who raced to hand out jugs of milk and bags of groceries to a line of cars snaked around the parking lot. In the days since a shooter killed four people and injured 10 others at the Mad Butcher grocery, this town of 3,200 people has been grieving and grappling with the shock of a mass killing. While the Mad Butcher’s workers have been cleaning up from the aftermath of the violence in the south Arkansas store, residents have few nearby alternatives.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Thursday issued fresh sanctions targeting Iran in response to "continued nuclear escalations," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. "Over the past month, Iran has announced steps to further expand its nuclear program in ways that have no credible peaceful purpose," Blinken said. "We remain committed to never letting Iran obtain a nuclear weapon, and we are prepared to use all elements of national power to ensure that outcome."
Al Roker lost weight and has kept it off for 20 years. The TODAY weatherman says when it comes to overindulging, it’s not the slip up, but the reset after that matters.
The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission on Thursday rejected an effort to force a recall election of the state's top Republican after determining that not enough valid signatures were collected. The vote by three Republican commissioners and one Democratic commissioner means Assembly Speaker Robin Vos will not have to stand for a recall election unless a court intervenes. Vos was targeted for recall by fellow Republicans and supporters of former President Donald Trump.
All Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their curriculums, effective immediately, the state’s chief education officer announced in a memorandum Thursday.
Pregnant people in Idaho should be able to access abortion in a medical emergency in Idaho, at least for now.
Watch live on CNN's presidential debate livestream June 27 between the current and former presidents, Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
Walgreens is planning potentially sweeping store closures as it faces what its CEO called a “challenging” environment for pharmacies and U.S. consumers.
Iraqi authorities in Baghdad and the administration in the semi-autonomous northern Iraqi Kurdish region have been arbitrarily detaining and deporting Syrian refugees to their country, a leading international rights group said Thursday. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said it has documented cases in which Iraqi authorities deported Syrians even though they had legal residency or were registered with the U.N. refugee agency.
Nearly 26 million people in war-torn Sudan are facing high levels of "acute food insecurity", said a report cited by the United Nations on Thursday."Fourteen months into the conflict, Sudan is facing the worst levels of acute food insecurity" that the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, has recorded, the report said.
The space agency announced Wednesday that it’s abandoning contracts worth more than $100 million with Collins Aerospace to develop next-generation spacesuits.
The Supreme Court allowed emergency room abortions in Idaho for now, sidestepping a ruling on whether the state’s abortion law conflicts with a federal law requiring stabilizing care for women suffering serious complications.
North Carolina’s State Board of Elections voted against giving ballot access to new parties supporting presidential candidates Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Cornel West.