Here are some of the top Taylor Swift updates from the day

A controversial bill — that at one point had been presumed dead — banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender youths in Louisiana was passed by the Senate on Monday and is likely to reach the governor’s desk

Costa Rica’s days of living beyond its means and running up reckless amounts of debt are over, said

By David Morgan WASHINGTON U.S. House Republicans turned aside an attempt by hardline conservatives to force an impeachment

By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel BOSTON A U.S. federal appeals court on Wednesday largely overturned the convictions

Amelia Giordano from Carpenter Elementary School, as charged following the suicide of Paul Pine in January

With nearly 400 people still unaccounted for after catastrophic wildfires ravaged most of Maui earlier this month, Hawaii officials released a list of names, hoping the public can help identify any of the missing individuals.

Rodolfo Sancho Aguirre's 29-year old son is accused of murdering a Colombian surgeon in Thailand.

South African amateur Christo Lamprecht has surprised by taking the early opening-round lead with a 5-under 66 at the British Open

Russia is likely building new defences in southern Ukraine, amid “growing concern” among Vladimir Putin’s forces about Kyiv’s success in breaching its first defensive line, Britain’s Ministry of Defence has said. Moscow’s troops are believed to be “deploying additional checkpoints, ‘hedgehog’ anti-tank defences and digging new trenches” near the Zaporizhzhia village of Tokmak, which is situated just 16km from Ukraine’s forces, and is set to become a “lynchpin” of Russia’s second defensive line, the ministry said. In Donetsk, Ukraine’s armed forces celebrated the recapture of Andriivka, a village near Bakhmut, after a battle in which they claimed Russia had suffered “significant losses” – a liberation the military said was “key to success in all further directions”. The comments came as Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky hailed the destruction of a Russian air defence system in the annexed Crimea peninsula, as a Ukrainian minister vowed that “there will be more drones, more attacks, and fewer Russian ships”. Read More Kim Jong Un stops to see a fighter jet factory as Russia and North Korea are warned off arms deals She danced with Putin at her wedding. Now the former Austrian foreign minister has moved to Russia What is a Storm Shadow cruise missile?

Going makeup-free, the 34-year-old rocked a straw hat and Ray-Ban Blaze Round sunglasses for a relaxing lunch with a male friend

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday says the Biden administration's racial equity work is not just the morally right thing to do but also is in the country’s best economic interests