President Donald Trump led tributes Tuesday to the late Sen. Lindsey Graham at Washington National Cathedral, remembering his longtime political ally as a towering figure in the Senate and a “true American original.”

The Senate confirmed Jay Clayton on Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, placing a permanent leader over the nation’s intelligence community after weeks of uncertainty surrounding the post.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched multiple ballistic missiles at American forces stationed in Jordan early Wednesday, prompting the United States and Saudi Arabia to carry out joint airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias operating inside Iraq.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described his latest White House meeting with President Donald Trump as “one of the best” the two leaders have ever held, saying the discussions demonstrated close cooperation and a shared determination to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

A municipal beach worker searching Israel’s Mediterranean coastline for items lost by swimmers discovered something far older than expected: an exceptionally rare 2,500-year-old coin minted in ancient Cyprus.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said federal investigators spent approximately eight months locating Dr. Anthony Fauci’s private journals, which Kennedy claimed had been scattered across 11 separate government servers.

Skywatchers are preparing for one of the most remarkable astronomical nights of the decade as a total solar eclipse, the peak of the Perseid meteor shower and a broad gathering of six planets converge around August 12.

The United States has condemned the “horrific killing” of nine relatives of Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo, a Nigerian pastor whose earlier appeal warned that “fear has become a way of life” in Nigeria’s violence-plagued Plateau State.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un marked the 73rd anniversary of the Korean War armistice by paying tribute at war memorials and cemeteries, accompanied for the first time by his daughter, Ju Ae, in a move that analysts say further underscores her increasingly prominent public role.

President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran is seeking negotiations after two weeks of sustained American airstrikes, portraying Tehran’s diplomatic outreach as evidence that the U.S. military campaign has forced the Islamic regime back to the bargaining table.