The Israeli prime minister says the country needs to continue its efforts until Hamas is destroyed as a military and political organization.
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A town of 5,200 just inside the California border along Route 66 now boasts a scorching new record — the hottest monthly average temperature in the country.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who is scheduled to visit Las Vegas next week, secured enough votes from Democratic delegates to be the party’s nominee for president.
A Missouri police dog died when the air conditioner failed in the patrol vehicle he had been left in, police said.
A North Carolina man fell 400 feet to his death at Grand Canyon National Park, according to the National Park Service.
The Israeli military said Thursday that it has confirmed that the head of Hamas’ military wing, Mohammed Deif, was killed in an airstrike in Gaza in July.
Hezbollah’s leader warned the conflict with Israel has entered a “new phase,” as he addressed mourners at the funeral of a commander from the group who was killed by an Israeli airstrike.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is proposing a new rule that would ban airlines from charging parents more to sit with their young children.
The United States and Russia completed their biggest prisoner swap in post-Soviet history, with Moscow releasing Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan.
Last year alone, people caused more than 7,000 wildfires in California; nationally, it was more than 50,000.
A three-day human trafficking sting targeting people attending the San Diego Comic-Con Convention resulted in 14 arrests and the recovery of 10 potential trafficking victims — including a 16-year-old girl, authorities said.
As San Francisco’s district attorney, the vice president supported sanctuary cities and the enrollment of criminal illegal immigrants in job training.
Iran’s supreme leader vowed revenge against Israel after Hamas top political leader Ismail Haniyeh was killed Wednesday in a predawn airstrike in the Iranian capital.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, accused as the main plotter in al-Qaeda’s Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, has agreed to plead guilty, the Defense Department said Wednesday.
When Southwest announced that it was changing its decades-old open-seating policy to one in which passengers can pay extra to choose where to sit, the backlash was both expected and fast in coming.