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The Supreme Court ruled states aren't required to ban transgender athletes from girls' sports, even though they're allowed to. Here's why several blue states say nothing will change.

An explosive device was detonated Thursday in a cafe in the Syrian capital of Damascus, killing at least nine people, Syria's Health Ministry said.

Massachusetts lawmakers are questioning whether people can sue individual ICE agents in state court over alleged constitutional violations during civil immigration enforcement, a remedy that would not be limited to illegal immigrants.

Just days after authorities removed 16 children from a squalid home and arrested four adult relatives, the question looms over their southern Ohio village: How could this have happened, for years, unnoticed, right here?

Multiple Junior ROTC cadets in New York riding on a coach bus were hospitalized with heat-related illness Wednesday after the air conditioning failed.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined members of the National Guard Thursday to highlight the work of the Trump administration's D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force as the city kicks off the 250th anniversary celebrations.

Heat as oppressive as British colonial rule is bearing down on the eastern U.S. heading into the long Fourth of July weekend, prompting some communities to cancel, postpone or otherwise alter their Independence Day plans.

Iran's joint military command warned Thursday that all oil tankers moving through the Strait of Hormuz must use its approved routes or face a "forceful response," ratcheting up tensions again over a waterway crucial for international energy supplies.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 10,000 people over a five-day period at the end of June, marking a major push by the agency tasked with carrying out the Trump administration's mass deportations agenda.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding is slated to begin at 5 p.m. Friday at New York's Madison Square Garden and could last until 4 a.m. the next morning, according to a copy of a city permit obtained by The Associated Press.