U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon, whom Trump appointed to the federal bench in Florida in late 2020, is separately overseeing the federal classified document and obstruction case against the former president.

The 72-year-old owner and operator of several medical clinics specializing in pain management was convicted of bilking federal programs of $35 million for medically unnecessary injections given to opioid-dependent patients, including veterans and troops, according to the Justice Department.

Lebanese militant group Hezbollah announced that Naim Qassem will become its new leader, replacing long-standing chief Hassan Nasrallah, who Israel assassinated just over a month ago.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s open to a short truce in the country’s war with Hamas that would lead to the release of a small number of the around 100 hostages still held by the Iran-backed militant group in Gaza.

The al-Qaeda affiliate JNIM released a statement afterward declaring the attack that killed 77 people had been driven by vengeance — for “slaughters committed by this ruling clique and its Russian allies against our Muslim people,” referring to Russia’s Wagner Group.

More than 300 installations stateside could have threatened or endangered bat species living on them within the next five years, according to Defense Department data. In the U.S., the DOD is bound by federal law to keep those species safe.

A federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed the case on several grounds, including that the members of Congress lacked standing and they filed the lawsuit too close to the election.

The Military Family Readiness Center spouse hub is the first facility of its kind in the Air Force. Among other things, it provides a venue for spouses to explore career advancements and to build lasting relationships.

Finland’s president said North Korea’s dispatch of troops to Russia represents an escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war that goes against China’s own stated position on the conflict, following talks Tuesday with the Chinese president.

Latinos face misinformation from political actors at home and abroad. But a lie in English-language media is likely to be corrected more quickly than one in Spanish-language media, simply based on the resources dedicated to such efforts in the U.S.

Sunday’s election could result in a weak ruling coalition that raises doubts about whether Japan would continue to take a leadership role on global issues, like the war in Ukraine and supporting Taiwan against a more assertive China.

Israel’s attack on Iran likely damaged a base run by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that builds ballistic missiles and launches rockets as part of its own space program, satellite images analyzed by the Associated Press showed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday launched a massive exercise of the country’s nuclear forces featuring missile launches in a simulation of a retaliatory strike, as he continued to flex the country’s nuclear muscle amid spiraling tensions with the West over Ukraine.

Two Israeli airstrikes in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday killed at least 88 people, including dozens of women and children, health officials said, and the director of a hospital said life-threatening injuries were going untreated because a weekend raid by Israeli forces led to the detention of dozens of medics.

A woman found dead in a Fukuoka hotel room was the wife of a U.S. service member, according to Japanese police and local media reports.

More patients are being seen at Camp Humphreys’ hospital, officials say.

Philippine facilities made available to U.S. forces under a decade-old defense pact may serve as disaster-relief command centers, according to a Philippine military spokeswoman.

Three Marines were aboard a Japanese Osprey tiltrotor aircraft when it hit the ground and was damaged during a joint U.S.-Japanese exercise over the weekend.

D-Day veteran George Chandler, who sought to counter sometimes glamorous depictions of the landings by recalling the horrors he witnessed escorting U.S. troops to the beaches of northern France as a young British navy gunner, has died, his family said. He was 99.