July 2026

Two NASA astronauts spent more than seven hours working outside the International Space Station on Monday to replace a faulty joint on Canadarm2 — the Canadian-built robotic arm that is indispensable to the orbiting laboratory — completing the repair successfully.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill has enacted the largest budget in state history — a $60.7 billion plan for the coming fiscal year that leans heavily on property-tax relief and education spending — over Republican objections about its size and the closed-door process that produced it.

Paula Reid, CNN's chief legal affairs correspondent and one of its most visible on-air journalists, is expected to leave the network after declining to renew her contract, according to multiple reports — an early, high-profile departure as CNN braces for a change of ownership.

A 25-year-old Lancaster man was convicted on five felony counts by a Ventura County jury for coercing a woman he was dating into commercial sex work and physically abusing her over several months, prosecutors said.

In a remote corner of southern Mexico's Calakmul reserve, archaeologists have documented a previously unknown ancient Maya city — one so untouched by looters that its carved monuments still stand where they were left more than a thousand years ago, offering a rare, unspoiled window into the civilization's final century.

One of the world's largest liquefied natural gas exporters has again told buyers it cannot deliver contracted cargoes — extending a suspension into September — as damage from the spring's Middle East conflict and instability around the Strait of Hormuz turn a short-term shock into a lingering strain on global gas markets.

A senior Iranian official says the country is now selling its crude oil at a roughly 20% premium after a U.S. blockade ended — and that it couldn't export a single barrel while the blockade was in force. Both claims are self-reported, and oil analysts say they warrant skepticism given Iran's long practice of selling at a discount.

The United Nations' relief agency for Palestinians is being pushed toward the brink, Secretary-General António Guterres warned at a donor conference, as a record funding shortfall and Israeli operating restrictions threaten services that millions of Palestinian refugees rely on.

Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old attorney and democratic socialist, has defeated Rep. Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary for Denver's House seat, according to a race projection — a stunning upset that would end DeGette's nearly three decades in Congress and extend a wave of insurgent left-wing primary wins.

President Trump announced that the Republican National Committee will hold the party's first-ever national convention in a midterm year — a two-day event in Dallas in September — an unusual off-year gathering meant to fire up the GOP base and defend its narrow congressional majorities ahead of November.

Five years ago, Korean and Western acts ruled the streaming charts across Southeast Asia. Today, from Manila to Jakarta to Bangkok, local artists are surging past them — a shift that culminated this spring when the Filipino group BINI became the first all-Filipino girl group to play Coachella.

A year and a half after her son was found dead in a Compton parking lot the week of Christmas, Jaqueline Bluthenthal is asking anyone with information to come forward — and Los Angeles County is offering a $15,000 reward to help solve the case.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has struck down a Trump administration rule that would have let the Education Department strip loan-forgiveness eligibility from certain nonprofits and public employers — preserving, for now, a decades-old benefit relied on by teachers, nurses, firefighters and other public servants, including a large share in California.

Crowds of hundreds have been descending on a stretch of unincorporated Gardena with growing regularity, blocking intersections for car stunts late into the night, and residents say the recurring 'street takeovers' have become a safety crisis that authorities are not moving fast enough to stop.

A quarter-century after a nearly four-hour epic about villagers challenging their British rulers to a cricket match became one of the few Indian films ever nominated for an Academy Award, its star and producer, Aamir Khan, is marking the anniversary with festival tributes on two continents.

Algerians are set to elect a new parliament this week in a vote widely seen as a measure of how much — or how little — the country's politics have shifted since the mass pro-democracy protests of 2019, with turnout likely to matter more than the result.

As millions plan holiday-weekend getaways, Airbnb has again switched on the machine-learning system it uses to block bookings that look like they could turn into unauthorized house parties — a tool it has refined every year since a deadly 2019 shooting at a rental put the issue on the map.

State Rep. Manny Rutinel, a 31-year-old progressive born in Los Angeles, won the Democratic nomination in Colorado's 8th Congressional District on Tuesday, setting up a marquee November contest for a seat both parties see as central to control of the House.

A 31-year-old woman slid roughly 1,500 feet down one of Mount Shasta's steepest snowfields and survived, rescued in a multi-hour operation by Forest Service climbing rangers and a California Highway Patrol helicopter — a remarkable outcome on a peak whose approachable reputation belies its dangers.

The United States has mounted one of its largest international disaster responses in years for earthquake-ravaged Venezuela — three urban search-and-rescue teams, including one from Los Angeles County, plus military support and $150 million in aid — a striking effort given the administration's deep cuts to foreign assistance and the near-absence of normal ties with Caracas.

Los Angeles County has agreed to pay $9.6 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit brought by the family of Samuel Herrera Jr., a 41-year-old Compton man fatally shot by sheriff's deputies during a 2020 search-warrant operation — a large payout the county approved without admitting wrongdoing, even as its own lawyers' account of the shooting differed sharply from the family's.

President Trump took in more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency ventures in the first year of his second term, according to his own annual financial disclosure filed this week — a windfall that has intensified conflict-of-interest concerns from ethics experts and Democrats, even as the White House insists there is no conflict.

From a Pasadena café to a downtown arepa kitchen, Venezuelan immigrants across Southern California have turned their businesses and churches into relief hubs for the thousands left homeless by the deadliest earthquake to strike Venezuela in a century.

The U.S. Commerce Department has lifted export controls it imposed on two of Anthropic's most advanced AI models, ending an unusual, weeks-long episode in which the government forced the company to cut off worldwide access on national-security grounds — and reopening a debate over how Washington should govern frontier artificial intelligence.