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ESPN began a new round of layoffs Tuesday, cutting on-air talent and staff as the company continues absorbing the NFL Network operations it acquired from the league earlier this year.

The Alexandria Fire Department responded Monday morning to a report of an unknown white powder substance on the 5300 block of Duke Street.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing more than $1 billion in federal Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota because of suspected fraud and noncompliance, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday.

Federal immigration authorities said they lodged a detainer for the Salvadoran man accused of gunning down a 71-year-old military veteran at his Utah home this year.

An unidentified man attending Morgan Wallen's concert at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore on Saturday allegedly exposed himself and urinated on a family of four, including an 8-year-old girl.

A woman tried to bribe an official at an ICE detention center to release a migrant, offering gifts of money and tequila to try to spring the person free, federal prosecutors say.

A movie theater in Lake Oswego, Oregon, is facing backlash after its marquee stated, "Before there were the Jews, there was The Odyssey," a claim critics said was historically false and, given the current climate, needlessly provocative.

Gov. Tim Walz has signed Minnesota's bipartisan "Grandparents' Happy Hour" law, effective Aug. 1, allowing nursing homes to serve alcohol to residents and their guests at organized social events.

The oil crunch is surprisingly tame amid the Middle East conflict, but governments and the energy industry should gird for further shocks that could send prices soaring, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.

A soldier killed in Iraq during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone has been identified as Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, the Pentagon said Tuesday.