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Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a ceremony to sign a bill allocating funds for credit lines under a program that supports Brazilian companies affected by U.S. tariffs, in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, July 22, 2026. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil's government denies visas to US officials over upcoming elections

7:10 PM on Saturday, July 25

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry says it denied visas to two U.S. State Department officials that sought to travel to the South American nation next week

President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House, Friday, July 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Airstrikes have paused and talks are pressing forward. But can the US and Iran take the off-ramp?

5:10 PM on Saturday, July 25

The U.S. military has paused its airstrikes on Iran after nearly two weeks of intensifying bombing

FILE - President Bassirou Diomaye Faye addresses the 80th session of the UN General Assembly at United Nations headquarters, Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Angelina Katsanis, File)

Senegal's President Faye launches a new party over deepening split with former ally Sonko

12:24 PM on Saturday, July 25

Senegal's President Bassirou Diomaye Faye has launched his own political party, marking a split with former ally Ousmane Sonko

FILE - A general view of the Meeting of the North Atlantic Council Session with fellow heads of state at the NATO summit at the IFEMA arena in Madrid, on June 30, 2022. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Intern arrested in Belgium on suspicion of spying inside NATO military headquarters

9:55 AM on Saturday, July 25

Belgian authorities have arrested a Canadian woman accused of espionage while working as an intern at NATO's operational headquarters

FILE - The United States Court of International Trade is seen in front of the Jacob K. Javits Federal building in this, March 18, 2015 photo, in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

Small businesses file lawsuits against Trump's new sweeping tariffs

8:38 AM on Saturday, July 25

Trump’s tariffs are headed to court — again

Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico speaks at a rally on Monday, July 13, 2026, in Eagle Pass, Texas. (AP Photo/Brenda Bazán)

Talarico is trying to win back Hispanics along the Texas border who swung toward the GOP

5:23 AM on Saturday, July 25

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas has toured the state's southern border with Mexico to try to win support from Hispanic voters

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., rushes up the steps at the Capitol for final votes before the House of Representatives leaves for a five-week recess, in Washington, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

How to run for reelection in a messy Congress? It's not easy

5:15 AM on Saturday, July 25

House leaders are sending lawmakers home for the August recess after one of the rockiest sessions in recent memory to campaign for reelection

Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, right, welcomes United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Omar Albam)

The UN chief on a visit to Damascus urges the international community to support Syrian people

3:33 AM on Saturday, July 25

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has appealed to the international community to support the people of Syria

Elizabeth Martínez pushes a shopping cart through a grocery store aisle on Thursday, July 2, 2026, in Cleveland, Texas. (Sandy Guatibonza/La Esquina TX via AP)

The 'rockets and feathers' effect: Inflation eases but grocery bills do not

2:37 AM on Saturday, July 25

Economics has a term for what U.S. grocery prices have done in recent years

Lien Chang feeds her 2-year-old grandson Cairo Miu a bowl of rice next to his dad Jack Chang in her home on Monday, July 13, 2026, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Juliana Yamada)

Americans rewire their grocery shopping routines while digesting the biggest price jump in 50 years

2:15 AM on Saturday, July 25

Living through the biggest jump in grocery prices in a half-century has many Americans changing their eating and food shopping habits

Brazilian Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro greets supporters as he arrives to the Liberal Party convention where he was confirmed as the party's presidential candidate, in Sao Paulo, Saturday, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Ettore Chiereguini)

Brazil's Flávio Bolsonaro secures presidential bid despite challenges

2:10 AM on Saturday, July 25

Brazilian senator Flávio Bolsonaro has been confirmed as the presidential candidate for his father's Liberal Party

Protesters react after India's Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned following nationwide protests as part of the Cockroach Janta Party's protest movement in New Delhi, India, Saturday, July 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Vipin)

India’s 'Cockroach' movement ends protests after education minister resigns

2:10 AM on Saturday, July 25

India’s “Cockroach” movement has called off weeks of protests, saying the government has accepted all of its demands

Novice monks walk in a procession near Dhamek Stupa in Sarnath, India, Sunday, July 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp among new additions to join UNESCO's World Heritage List

10:55 PM on Friday, July 24

The Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia, an ornate 13th-century Buddhist temple in Thailand and tidal flats in western South Korea were among several sites added to the World Heritage List on Saturday at a U.N. committee meeting in South Korea

A protestor holds a placard with the message "Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution" during a demonstration demanding educational reforms as part of the Cockroach Janta Party's ongoing protest movement in New Delhi, India, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Verda Subzwari)

India's 'Cockroach' protests take on Modi with unlikely weapons: Sharp, irreverent humor and memes

10:27 PM on Friday, July 24

India’s young protesters are taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi with humor as much as street demonstrations, flooding social media with memes, parody videos and jokes while thousands rally across the country

Ukrainian border guards patrol Ukraine-Belarus border in an undisclosed location in Ukraine Tuesday, July 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine is still fortifying its border with Belarus years after Russia invaded from there

9:02 PM on Friday, July 24

Ukraine is still fortifying its border with Belarus more than four years after Russia used the country to launch its assault on Kyiv

Troy Jackson, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, speaks at the Maine Democratic Nominating Convention, Saturday, July 25, 2026, in Bangor, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Maine Democratic delegates choose Troy Jackson as new nominee to face US Sen. Susan Collins

9:00 PM on Friday, July 24

Former state lawmaker and logger Troy Jackson has secured the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Maine

MMJ The Reschedule Hearing Shut Out Got Vindicated: DEA's Own Scientist Exposes the Agency's Hypocrisy

8:55 PM on Friday, July 24

FILE - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer delivers the State of the State address at the Michigan state Capitol in Lansing, Mich., Feb. 25, 2026. (Devin Anderson-Torrez/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP, File)

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer endorses Haley Stevens in Democratic US Senate primary

1:01 PM on Friday, July 24

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has endorsed Rep. Haley Stevens in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate over progressive Abdul El-Sayed

President Donald Trump speaks at the White House Correspondents' Association dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Washington DC, Friday, July 24, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Trump returns to correspondents' dinner for a rambling, insult-filled speech 3 months after shooting

8:25 AM on Friday, July 24

President Donald Trump has returned to the stage of the rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner

FILE - A Palestinian visitor takes a photo at the Roman historical site in the West Bank town of Sebastia Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser, File)

UNESCO adds West Bank site and Lebanese castles to World Heritage List despite Israeli objections

2:38 AM on Friday, July 24

A United Nations committee has inscribed a major archaeological site in the West Bank and a set of castles in southern Lebanon as World Heritage sites

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