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The US shot down three one-way attack drones targeting US forces in Iraq, according to the US military, as American embassies face protests in a number of Middle East countries because of the war in Gaza.

California Sen. Laphonza Butler will fill the Senate Judiciary Committee seat left empty by the passing of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a history-making move that also gives Democrats back their razor-thin control of the powerful committee tasked with vetting federal judicial nominees.

A Hilton hotel in Houston has canceled a conference scheduled for next week hosted by the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, amid mounting violence between Israel and Hamas. The hotel cited "escalating security concerns" as the reason for the cancellation.

The US government assesses that Israel "was not responsible" for the blast at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday, according to the National Security Council, following President Joe Biden's comments that a Palestinian militant group was behind the strike.

Prosecutors dropped the charges against a 69-year-old Black woman arrested last month on voter fraud charges in Tallahassee, Florida.

A New York court employee was arrested Wednesday for disrupting the Donald Trump civil fraud trial after walking toward the front of a Manhattan courtroom and trying to get the attention of the former president.

A group of Republican-led states, fossil fuel industry groups and utilities filed an emergency request with the Supreme Court, asking it to block the implementation of the Biden administration's "good neighbor" pollution rule.

The House of Representatives remains in a state of paralysis. There appears to be growing momentum to give some additional power to the placeholder, Rep. Patrick McHenry, whose chief qualification may be that he says he has no real interest in the job of House speaker.

Elementary schools can choose to exclude certain books with content related to racism and LGBTQ identities when hosting this year's Scholastic book fairs, the children's book publisher said.

The United States has vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council which called for a humanitarian pause in besieged Gaza -- sparking more criticism of political paralysis in the powerful global body.

The US government is receiving dozens of reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs, each month, according to the director of the office established to investigate the incidents, with the potential for "hundreds, if not thousands" more reports expected in the near future.

Apple quietly announced its next-generation Pencil that works with iPads and now includes USB-C charging.

The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled new sanctions targeting Iran's ballistic missile and drone programs as the United States and dozens of other partners vowed to continue to counter those programs as a set of United Nations restrictions expired.

Workers and their employers are paying a lot more for job-based health insurance this year.

When Jane Fraser became CEO of Citigroup nearly two years ago, in the middle of the pandemic, she established the kind of flexible hybrid work culture that's mostly unheard of among elite Wall Street bankers.

Venture capitalist David Magerman is the latest major donor to the University of Pennsylvania cutting off financial support to the Ivy League school, and he's calling for all "self-respecting" Jews to do the same.

Is it the return of Dunder Mifflin or not?

The Israeli airstrikes on Gaza that have followed Hamas' deadly Saturday terror attack have caused widespread devastation throughout the enclave. Satellite images show some of the devastation.