News for June 18, 2025

Fired Massachusetts State Police investigator Michael Proctor rejected claims that he was corrupt or helped frame Karen Read in the death of her boyfriend.

Several Senate Democrats now say they regret voting to confirm Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary after her leadership at the Department of Homeland Security drew sharp criticism.

The Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on certain medical care for transgender minors, but the ruling leaves major legal questions open for future cases.

President Donald Trump is refusing to say whether he will order U.S. strikes on Iran, while warning that a decision could come soon as tensions rise over Iran’s nuclear program.

Trump is weighing a U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear sites, but experts say destroying the hardest target would be very difficult and could widen the war.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is giving President Donald Trump options as Trump weighs whether to join Israel’s conflict with Iran.

CDC data show that fall deaths among Americans 65 and older rose sharply, with more than 41,000 deaths in 2023.

Charles Dalzell, a North Dakota man, was charged after allegedly sending threatening emails to a federal prosecutor that referenced the Minnesota lawmaker shootings.

The Supreme Court ruled that Texas cannot challenge a federal license for a private company to store nuclear waste in the state because Texas was not part of the earlier agency proceeding.