Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the Republican leader, condemned President Biden's policies, calling the November elections a referendum on his presidency.

More than 150,000 people remained without safe and reliable drinking water after flooding overwhelmed the Jackson, Miss., water system. Chronic water troubles in the majority Black city have been exacerbated by decades of underinvestment and mismanagement.

California's governor, Gavin Newsom, warned of a prolonged heat wave bringing triple-digit temperatures across the state.

Severe thunderstorms in northwest Ohio and southern Michigan knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of customers throughout the region.

Multiple people were killed or wounded after a strike near the center of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine.

The launch was canceled after a liquid hydrogen line did not adequately cool one of the rocket's engines.

Muqtada al-Sadr's announcement that he would leave politics sent hundreds of his followers into the streets of Baghdad, where they breached concrete barriers guarding the so-called Green Zone.

Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, said in an address at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium that 'restoring price stability will take some time.'

Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, addresses the annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium.

The Russian missile strike at a train station in Chaplyne, Ukraine, was the deadliest attack on Ukraine's railway since April.