News for August 18, 2025

The wife of slain NYPD officer Didarul Islam has given birth to their third son, bringing a new moment of hope after a deadly shooting that killed him last month.

Newsmax has agreed to pay $67m to settle Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit over false claims about the 2020 US election.

President Donald Trump said he wants to lead a movement to ban mail-in voting, reigniting a fight over how U.S. elections are run.

Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are suing Meta and TikTok, saying the platforms wrongly banned their accounts in 2022 and caused major financial and reputational harm.

The FDA’s repeated delays in reviewing Stealth BioTherapeutics’ drug elamipretide have left families of children with Barth syndrome fearing they will run out of time and treatment.

Rachel Maddox says raw milk from Keely Farms Dairy made her toddler seriously ill and led to the loss of her unborn baby, and she is now suing the farm and a retailer over the incident.

Keegan Bradley says a famous Ryder Cup putt from his childhood inspired his golf career, and now he is leading the United States team as captain for this year’s match.

Trump and Zelensky met at the White House to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, but they left without any firm peace deal or security pledge.

Jasveen Sangha, known as the “Ketamine Queen,” has agreed to plead guilty in the drug case tied to Matthew Perry’s fatal overdose.

President Donald Trump expanded his federal crackdown in Washington, DC, as more Republican-led states sent National Guard troops to support the operation.

Police say there are inconsistencies in Rebecca Haro’s account of her 7-month-old son Emmanuel’s reported kidnapping, and investigators have not ruled out foul play.

Former Michigan State student LingLong Wei says the university’s handling of pesticide exposure led to her thyroid cancer.

Trump said he is arranging direct talks between Zelenskyy and Putin, with the goal of moving toward an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

University of Nebraska Omaha basketball player Deng Mayar drowned in a Utah reservoir after a weekend rescue attempt failed.

Roberto Carlos Montoya Valdez died after being struck by an SUV while running from a U.S. Border Patrol immigration raid at a Home Depot in Monrovia, California.

Texas Democrats ended their walkout, letting Republicans move ahead with a redistricting plan that could add GOP seats, while California Democrats push a rival map fight in response.

Newly unsealed records show Bryan Kohberger was linked to the Idaho student killings through a surviving roommate’s account and other evidence, while key questions about motive remain unanswered.

Texas House Democrats returned to Texas, giving the House a quorum and ending a two-week standoff over Republicans’ redistricting push.

The Donbas region is at the center of Trump’s push to end the war, but Ukraine says it will not give up the territory to Russia.

Hurricane Erin is expected to stay offshore but still bring dangerous surf, rip currents, and coastal flooding to the U.S. East Coast, with Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands also facing impacts.