The 182nd Airlift Wing of the Illinois Air National Guard worked closely with Germany’s Air Transport Wing 62 at massive joint air exercises in Germany last year, and wanted to return the favor by inviting them to the U.S.

After a video of armed men in an Aurora, Colo. apartment building went viral, Mayor Mike Coffman said several apartment buildings have “fallen” to Venezuelan gangs. But other city officials and residents contradicted him about the scope of the problem.

Seven Republican-led states sued on Tuesday to block President Joe Biden’s new policy to reduce or eliminate the balances of millions of student loan borrowers, claiming the Education Department is illegally preparing to start debt cancellation before the rule is finalized.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is traveling to Ramstein Air Base in Germany to meet Friday with allies and discuss further military support for Ukraine in its war with Russia, according to the Pentagon.

The Feres Doctrine has been used to prevent military medical malpractice lawsuits since 1950 and has even limited the ability of people to bring military rape cases to civil courts. Nearly two dozen veterans advocacy groups want to change that.

Elon Musk’s satellite-based internet service provider Starlink backtracked Tuesday and said it will comply with a Brazilian Supreme Court justice’s order to block the billionaire’s social media platform, X.

The Justice Department announced criminal charges Tuesday against Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and other senior militants in connection with the Oct. 7, 2023, rampage in Israel, marking the first effort by American law enforcement to formally call out the masterminds of the attack.

Summers in Phoenix are notoriously hot. But after two punishing summers of record-breaking heat, the latest milestone, set Tuesday, may be the most ominous yet. At 11 a.m. local time, temperatures in Phoenix hit 100 degrees for the 100th day in a row.

A Michigan judge ruled that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must remain on the November presidential ballot, dealing a blow to his crusade to strategically remove his ticket from the battleground state.

The Army knew for two years that it had a serial child predator in its ranks at Fort Cavazos and did nothing to stop him, allowing him to sexually abuse at least 120 children, according to a lawsuit filed by the mothers of two of the soldier’s victims.

Maryland’s six-year capital transportation plan will decrease by $1.3 billion, according to a draft plan released Tuesday, reflecting operating costs that are outpacing revenue growth, state officials said.

A former aide to two New York governors was charged Tuesday with acting as an illegal agent of the Chinese government who used her state positions to subtly advance Beijing’s agenda in exchange for financial benefits worth millions of dollars.

In 2020 and 2021, COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans were a lifeline for small businesses. But now some small businesses are having trouble paying them off.

Three gun shops that sold nearly three dozen firearms to a man who trafficked the weapons in and around Washington, D.C., are facing a new lawsuit jointly filed Tuesday by attorneys general for Maryland and the nation’s capital.

One of the five people who were shot at New York City’s West Indian American Day Parade has died, police said Tuesday.

Joshua Robles, 17, told police he did not intend to carry out an attack, but prosecutors said his actions indicated otherwise.

Columbia University resumed classes Tuesday with students sunbathing and eating ice cream on the lawn that was home to a pro-Palestinian encampment last spring. But there were also fresh demonstrations just off campus, and students and faculty say they’re planning for more as the new school year unfolds.

The Navy-owned property once provided milk to future naval officers and is currently leased to Anne Arundel County. The Navy is seeking proposals for a mixed-use energy generation project on the land.

Vice President Kamala Harris joined President Joe Biden in declaring that United States Steel Corp. should remain domestically owned and operated, the latest headwind to the proposed sale of the company to Japan-based Nippon Steel Corp.