President Joe Biden dismissed calls to end his reelection bid and denied that his debate performance wrought significant damage to his campaign, a defiant posture that risked further alarming Democrats who fear he has not honestly grappled with his biggest political crisis.

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel expressed regret for the handling of two cases of sexual assaults allegedly committed by American military personnel on Okinawa, which have again stoked resentment of the heavy U.S. troop presence on the strategic island in Japan’s far south.

Hamas has given initial approval for a U.S.-backed proposal for a phased cease-fire deal in Gaza, dropping a key demand that Israel gives an up-front commitment for a complete end to the war, a Hamas and an Egyptian official said Saturday.

Israel and Hamas resumed indirect negotiations Friday on a cease-fire and hostage-release deal in Gaza, after the Biden administration said Hamas had made “a pretty significant adjustment” in its position. But new amendments proposed to the framework agreement seemed to temper optimism that a deal was imminent, and the talks in Doha, Qatar, were adjourned until next week.

Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s runoff presidential election Saturday, besting hard-liner Saeed Jalili by promising to reach out to the West and ease enforcement on the country’s mandatory headscarf law after years of sanctions and protests squeezing the Islamic Republic.

The Navy is experimenting with deployed 3D printing during the Rim of the Pacific exercise in pursuit of eventually shortening the supply line for crucially needed parts to mere hours. Stars and Stripes was among media that got an up-close look at several 3D printers that manufacture parts made of metal and polymer.

As legal observers predicted, Donald Trump’s lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for a partial pause of the government’s classified documents case against the former president so she can weigh how it might be impacted by the Supreme Court’s fresh ruling on presidential immunity

Henderson resident Tom Kohnman was a registered Democrat up until a few days ago. After President Joe Biden’s “terrible” debate performance, Kohnman says he switched to nonpartisan. He hopes other Nevada Democrats will follow suit and signal to the party that it needs to find a new candidate.

The CDC’s timeline of the pandemic started Dec. 12, 2019, when patients in Wuhan, China, began having symptoms of a pneumonia-like illness that didn’t respond to standard treatments. Since that time, announcements of mutations of the virus have kept citizens on edge.

A dam in a southeastern Wisconsin community has been breached, and people living downriver are being evacuated. The National Weather Service says the dam in Manawa along the Little Wolf River was breached at about 1:45 p.m. Friday by floodwaters. Meteorologist Scott Cultice said the rains started about 8:30 a.m. Friday and about 5 inches fell in a few hours.

A Western Pennsylvania congressman wants the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether Norfolk Southern intentionally provided misleading information after its train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, leading to what appeared to be an unnecessary release and burn of vinyl chloride.

The 44-year-old drunk driver who barreled into a Lower East Side park on the Fourth of July, killing three people — including a mother and son — is a substance abuse counselor and lecturer who was arrested for assault last year when he punched someone who disagreed with his teaching methods

Authorities say malfunctioning fireworks veered into the stands at a crowded Utah football stadium and struck members of the audience. A spokesperson for the event’s organizer said six people were taken to the hospital following the mishap at a Fourth of July celebration in Provo.

Shootings and other violence during the extended Fourth of July weekend have left at least 26 people dead and injured dozens more nationwide. In Chicago alone, police say at least 11 people have been killed and 55 have been wounded so far. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson says the city is “in a state of grief.”

An Independence Day shootout ended with a gunman dead and a ranger wounded at Canyon Village in the central part of Yellowstone National Park.

As Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin prepares for the first launch of its New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral this year, the company has taken time to voice concerns over future launches of competitor SpaceX’s massive Starship and Super Heavy, also planning to launch from the Space Coast.

Joe Biden’s reelection campaign limped into the U.S. Independence Day holiday, exhausted by a week of the incumbent clawing to maintain his hold on his party’s nomination.

The Hamas-led assault into Israel on Oct. 7 “was, is and will be a generational event that terrorist organizations in the Middle East and around the world use as a recruiting opportunity,” Brett Holmgren, the assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, told The Washington Post in an interview.

For much of this year, Supreme Court justices defused partisan splits even landing 9-0 and 8-1 decisions. But the Court ended its term with the Republican appointees ruling in favor of former President Trump’s claim of immunity, while the three Democratic appointees voiced a bitter dissent.