Two heat domes will combine to form big US heatwave next week
The heatwave is expected to bring several days with heat index values between 100 and 110 from the Gulf Coast to the Southern Great Lakes.
The heatwave is expected to bring several days with heat index values between 100 and 110 from the Gulf Coast to the Southern Great Lakes.
President Trump late Wednesday offered assistance to Venezuela after two earthquakes hit the South American country. “The two major earthquakes that just hit the great people of Venezuela are both mas...
Eliminating Flores would remove one of the last safeguards standing between children and indefinite, unchecked government detention.
On matchdays, drones are prohibited within a three-mile radius of stadiums.
Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela about 100 miles west of Caracas on Wednesday, killing dozens of people, injuring hundreds and causing widespread damage.The big picture: The U.S. Geological S...
Tuesday marked the third anniversary of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny against Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prigozhin failed and paid with his life. But Russia as a whole, and Russian-occupied Crimea...
The Democratic Socialists of America had a moment in the New York House primary elections, but the vast majority of Democrats still remain closer to the middle on Israel and most issues, and moderate ...
More Americans under 35 are living with their parents, but it's not because they don't have jobs.
Tempers boiled over between President Trump and Republican senators after the president ambushed GOP lawmakers on Wednesday by refusing to sign a popular bill to address housing costs. Trump then blew...
American politics, reordered and reimagined by a decade of President Trump's rise, fall and resurrection, is imploding in substantial ways.MAGA is splintering between Trump enthusiasts and true "Ameri...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is aiming to advance a grant program tied to the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act in a Republicans reconciliation package, betting that the party-li...
The left won big in New York on Tuesday, adding new fuel to a fiery national debate roiling the Democratic Party. The argument pits those who say Democratic voters are hungry for a more aggressive, tr...
The Hill brings you special coverage of the ultimate gathering of “who’s who” in the UFO world. Lawmakers, military and agency leaders will gather in Washington, D.C,. to discuss cutting-edge insights...
The Trump administration is sending mixed signals on the role Iran plays in Lebanon, with the Islamic Republic inserting itself into Israeli-Lebanese talks to preserve its proxy military force Hezboll...
The clock is ticking for Congress to pass kids online safety legislation before the end of the year, but clashing priorities between the Senate and House are complicating a path forward. In a rare bre...
Four states could have abortion ballot measures in November, giving Democrats an opportunity to push the issue back into the national spotlight and make life uncomfortable for Republicans. Voter anger...
Water is fast becoming one of the defining fights around the AI buildout.Why it matters: After spending much of the past year defending data centers' electricity demands, major tech companies driving ...
Data: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Chart: Neil Irwin/AxiosThe big-picture indicators of the U.S. economy — GDP, unemployment and so on — are doing fine while public opinion on economic conditions is at...
AI is moving from chat and web search to delegated work.Why it matters: The frontier AI labs have spent years promising that effective AI agents will act as our minions in the workplace and at home an...
Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela on Wednesday evening.
A rally to push the Tax the Rich movement was held in Albany earlier this year, but Mayor Zohran Mamdani did not attend.
Donald Trump is not exactly a health influencer: The 47th president famously loves fast food and Diet Coke, and reportedly eschews both sleep and exercise. But Trump’s political power comes in part fr...
President Trump visited Capitol Hill Wednesday and faced off with Senate Republicans upset about his handling of the Iran War, after scrapping plans to sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with political strategist Alex Conant about President Trump's tense meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill.
A passenger told ABC World News Tonight he and others restrained a pilot during an apparent seizure after an Air Canada flight diverted to Boston.
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Over the past few weeks, Sydney and Joe have picked up millions of views online, after Joe felt proposing during their vacation abroad in Italy would be too obvious.
New York Assembly member Alex Bores lost his election to represent the state’s 12th District. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images New York’s congressional primaries on Tuesday were supposed to ...
Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, with President Trump and other officials in the Oval Office on Wednesday. The organization’s summit starts on July 7 in Turkey.
President Trump blew up what could have been a win for his party — and he did it to force lawmakers to pass an elections overhaul bill that has been all but doomed in the Senate.(Image credit: Laura B...
Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization. '/>A confusing patchwork of state laws began to take shape hours after the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022. Here's where thin...
A Trump executive order pushes involuntary treatment for homeless people; the VA denies that would include homeless vets.(Image credit: Scott Olson)
Representative Thomas Kean Jr., absent from Congress for nearly four months, was back at his New Jersey home on Wednesday evening.
Data: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 population estimates; Chart: Russell Contreras/AxiosAmerica's child population fell by 1.8 million from 2020 to 2025 — with the under-18 population shrinking in e...
President Trump traveled to the Capitol for a tense closed-door lunch with Senate Republicans on Wednesday.
The Senate late Wednesday night in a 47-50-1 vote opted not to rebuke the Trump administration a second time over its military conflict in Iran, as leaders convinced some Republican swing votes that d...
Newark police officers at a protest outside Delaney Hall this month.
Brad Lander, Claire Valdez, Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani and Darializa Avila Chevalier at a rally earlier this month in New York City.
President Trump claimed that a call he made to a U.S. attorney in California helped Steve Hilton advance to the runoff for governor. Mr. Hilton said he had no knowledge of any such call.
House Democrats are preparing themselves for a caucus in 2027 that is significantly more outspoken and left-wing than the one they have now.Why it matters: It wasn't all that easy to integrate the fou...
The Trump administration asked Congress on Wednesday for $87.6 billion in supplemental funding, most of it to cover costs related to the Iran war.Why it matters: The request is likely to intensify deb...
Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York campaigning with Claire Valdez. “We will stand up to the genocide,” Ms. Valdez told supporters after winning her Democratic House primary on Tuesday.
President Trump is making life hell for Senate Republicans, and they're returning the favor."I make no apologies for standing up to the president," Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told reporters after he go...
When it comes to the deal, there is a political divide, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll.
President Trump canceled a bill signing on Thursday to pressure Republicans to pass a voting bill that critics say would make it harder for eligible voters to cast ballots.
Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana at the Capitol on Wednesday, ahead of a meeting with President Trump and other Senate Republicans.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has met privately with Republicans recently to make the case that the Pentagon urgently needed funding to buy additional weapons.
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President Trump's lunch with GOP senators devolved into a lengthy shouting match between him and outgoing Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.).Why it matters: Trump's handling of the war in Iran and the Senate's...
The co-pilot diverted to Boston and safely made an emergency landing, but passengers on board knew the moment something was wrong.
Gen. Christopher T. Donahue greeting members of the 82nd Airborne Division in 2023.
Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York, casts his ballot at a polling location inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art during early voting for a primary election in New York, on June 20, 2026. | Michael Nagl...
President Donald Trump stops to speak to reporters at Reading Regional Airport in Reading, Pennsylvania, on June 23, 2026. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsl...
Republicans hoped to celebrate passage of a bipartisan spending bill on Wednesday — until President Trump scuttled their plans. It was the latest in a series of rifts between Trump and his party.
The top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee sent letters Wednesday to the contractors overseeing the renovation at the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall.
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Zohran Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, the day after all three Congressional candidates he endorsed won their Democratic primary elections.
President Trump cancelled Wednesday's planned signing of a landmark bipartisan housing bill, demanding Congress pass the unrelated SAVE America Act first.Why it matters: Trump has been angling for Con...
In a speech in New York on Tuesday night, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that a long-running bet on cheaper goods and deeper economic integration making America richer and safer had failed.Why ...
President Trump has cancelled a signing planned for today of the 21st Century Road to Housing Act, the largest housing affordability in decades passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress.
Data: Gallup; Chart: Avery Lotz/AxiosBack in 2001, most Americans thought the Founding Fathers would be pleased with how our country turned out.Today, fewer than one in five agree, according to a rece...
The 19-year-old phenom and former University of North Carolina Tar Heel talks about his plans for a career in the NBA.
People watch a North Korean military parade celebrating the 75th anniversary of its armed forces at the Seoul Railway Station on February 9, 2023, in Seoul, South Korea. | Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images ...
The U.S. Postal Service is no longer set to be out of cash in 2027, the agency's head says. But its finances remain shaky as Trump officials keep putting it in political hot water.(Image credit: Joe R...
Just ahead of closely contested midterms, Texas is about to get a new top voting official. Many locals there fear the frontrunner is a state lawmaker and pastor with no election experience.(Image cred...
The Miami Marlins hosted a "Bark at the Park" event, encouraging fans to bring their pups to the ballpark, where one dog was clearly not pleased another was enjoying a hot dog.
The cast of "The Bear" reflects on the show's final season and says goodbye as the acclaimed series concludes.
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What looked like a typical round of President Trump insulting European leaders last weekend could turn into a wholesale reordering of the trans-Atlantic relationship.Why it matters: Administration off...
The AI job apocalypse may make for an "incredible headline," AI investor and "All-In" podcast co-host Chamath Palihapitiya said on "The Axios Show" — but he says it ignores history.Why it matters: The...
In 1954, years after he led the project that created the atomic bomb, physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was called to testify before the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The ostensible subject of the hea...
Tennessee state Rep. Justin Pearson, a Democrat from Memphis, speaks to demonstrators in Nashville, Tennessee, on May 7, 2026, following the approval of a new Tennessee congressional map. | Madison Th...
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Drone video captured the moment a great white shark followed two paddleboarders off the coast of Santa Barbara, California.
The first round of the 2026 NBA draft has concluded, and AJ Dybantsa headlined the group as the No. 1 overall pick for the Washington Wizards.
The victims, who range in age from 15 to 70, survived. The suspect faces several charges, including 10 counts of attempted murder.
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ABC News political director Averi Harper breaks down what's at stake as voters head to the polls.