U.S. Southern Command said the USS Helena, a nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, pulled into the waters near the U.S. base in Cuba on Thursday, just a day after a Russian frigate, a nuclear-powered submarine, an oil tanker and a rescue tug crossed into Havana Bay.

A tropical disturbance that brought a rare flash flood emergency to much of southern Florida delayed flights at two of the state’s largest airports and left vehicles waterlogged and stalled in some of the region’s lowest lying streets.

Get some R&R America, says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which will waive day fees more than 2,850 USACE-operated recreation areas nationwide in observance of the USACE birthday, June 16, and Juneteenth, June 19.

The number of Americans filing for jobless benefits reached its highest level in 10 months last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday, in a sign that the labor market is likely cooling under the weight of high interest rates. Unemployment benefit applications for the week ending June 8 rose by 13,000 to 242,000, up from 229,000 the week before.

Donald Trump made a triumphant return to Capitol Hill on Thursday, his first meeting with lawmakers since the Jan. 6, 2021 attacks, embraced by energized House and Senate Republicans who find themselves reinvigorated by his bid to retake the White House.

The Supreme Court on Thursday unanimously preserved access to a medication that was used in nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the U.S. last year, in the court’s first abortion decision since conservative justices overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.

Russian officials say U.S. reporter Evan Gershkovich, jailed in Russia for over a year on espionage charges, will stand trial in the city of Yekaterinburg. The Wall Street Journal Reporter is accused of spying for the CIA. Officials gave no evidence to back up the accusation

Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies have agreed to engineer a $50 billion loan to help Ukraine in its fight for survival that would use interest earned on profits from Russia’s frozen central bank assets as collateral.

Mirsad Hariz Adem Ramic of Bowling Green, Ky., was convicted this week on charges of providing material support to the designated terrorist group ISIS, conspiracy to support the organization and receiving military training.

Veterans advocacy groups on Wednesday urged House lawmakers to update eligibility rules and payment rates for a little-known program that gives a tax-free monthly benefit to veterans who are unable to work but lack a 100% disability rating.

The military’s nearly 400 V-22 Ospreys will not be permitted to fly their full range of missions until mid-2025, the leader of the aircraft program told House lawmakers on Wednesday.

The House voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview in his classified documents case, Republicans’ latest and strongest rebuke of the Justice Department as partisan conflict over the rule of law animates the 2024 presidential campaign.

Authorities anticipate that commercial shipping traffic through the Port of Baltimore will soon return to normal levels after its main channel fully reopened earlier this week.

A fugitive leader of MS-13 will be hauled back to New York to face terrorism charges after his arrest in Texas over the weekend, according to federal prosecutors.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit of the last two survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre who were seeking reparations. The nine-member court on Wednesday upheld the decision made by a district court judge in Tulsa last year. The suit was an attempt to force the city of Tulsa and others to make recompense for the destruction by a white mob of the once-thriving Black district known as Greenwood.

Senate lawmakers will not support an effort by the House to give junior enlisted service members a nearly 20% pay raise, proposing a 5.5% pay hike instead.

Former president Donald Trump plans to return to Washington on Thursday to meet with congressional Republicans near the U.S. Capitol, as the GOP tries to present a united front and coalesce around a policy agenda heading into the November elections.

The White House isn’t ruling out a potential commutation for Hunter Biden, the president’s son who was convicted on three federal gun crimes. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said that “the sentencing hasn’t even been scheduled yet.” On a commutation, she said, “I just don’t have anything beyond that.”

Inflation in the United States eased in May for a second straight month, a hopeful sign that a pickup in prices that occurred early this year may have passed. The trend, if it holds, could move the Federal Reserve closer to cutting its benchmark interest rate from its 23-year peak.