The annual spending battle will dominate the September agenda, along with a possible effort by Senate Republicans to change their chamber’s rules to thwart Democratic stalling tactics on nominations.

The raids were the latest in a long-running Houthi crackdown against the United Nations and other international organizations working in rebel-held areas in Yemen.

Britain will supply Norway with the Type 26 frigates, creating a joint force of eight British and at least five Norwegian ships that will operate jointly in Northern Europe.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that a spokesperson for Hamas’ armed wing, Abu Obeida, was killed in Gaza

In September 1942, the crew of a B-17 was declared missing in action. Over eight decades had passed since the disappearance when in April 2023, a logging company’s equipment hit the engine of the lost plane in Papua New Guinea.

An Israeli official said Israel will stop airdrops over Gaza City in the coming days and reduce the number of aid trucks arriving in the strip’s north as it prepares to evacuate hundreds of thousands, a move likely to bring more global condemnation.

Among other locations hit in southern Ukraine, a Russian assault struck a five-story residential building, killing at least one civilian and wounding 28 people, including children. Meanwhile, Ukraine continues to strike Russian oil refineries.

The Houthi rebels say an Israeli airstrike earlier this week has killed the prime minister of the rebel-controlled government in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, along with several ministers. An acting prime minister has been appointed.

The USS George Washington steamed into Tokyo Bay, signaling the halfway point of the aircraft carrier’s annual Indo-Pacific patrol.

A grand jury has indicted two civilian workers on charges they caused the Navy to provide the Hawaii Department of Health with false information about jet fuel that spilled from a Pearl Harbor storage facility before it later seeped into drinking water and sickened 6,000 people in 2021.