A Pentagon inspector general report gives Congress its most detailed accounting yet of the war with Iran, documenting costs in the tens of billions, strains on weapons stockpiles, and damage from Iranian strikes, as Republican opposition to the campaign grows.

The fight over how to govern artificial intelligence has drawn in Congress, the Trump administration, state governments, and the technology industry, each pulling in a different direction over questions of risk, innovation, and who holds the authority to set the rules.

Two of the world's most influential central banks moved to raise interest rates, with the Federal Reserve lifting its benchmark for the first time since 2023 and the Bank of Japan pushing its own rate to 1.25 percent.

The Trump administration announced visa restrictions on certain South African officials it accuses of involvement in policies that discriminate against the country's white minority. Pretoria rejected the basis for the measure.

A bus collision in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles killed multiple people, and an NBC4 helicopter covering the scene from the air later crashed. A driver was arrested on a murder charge tied to the collision.