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Protesters with signs gather outside the venue for Rep. Bryan Steil's town hall in Elkhorn

GOP lawmaker faces raucous crowd in Wisconsin, critical questions over tariffs and immigration policy

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By Betul Tuncer, Eric Bradner, CNN (CNN) — Republican Rep. Bryan Steil faced a rowdy crowd at a town hall-style event in Wisconsin on Thursday, with attendees angrily confronting him over a wide range of topics, including tariffs, President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful Bill,” the war in Gaza and immigration policy. Audience members frequently interrupted

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Judge blocks Trump administration from ending protections for 60,000 from Central America and Nepal

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By JANIE HAR and JAIMIE DING Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge ruled on Thursday against the Trump administration’s plans and extended Temporary Protected Status for 60,000 people from Central America and Asia, including people from Nepal, Honduras and Nicaragua. Temporary Protected Status is a protection that can be granted by the

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Utility workers in Peru unearth pre-Incan tomb with 1,000-year-old remains

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By FRANKLIN BRICEÑO Associated Press LIMA, Peru (AP) — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand underground gas networks in Peru’s capital unearthed two pre-Incan tombs on Thursday. One was empty, but the other held the 1,000-year-old remains of an individual, alongside four clay vessels and three pumpkin shell artifacts. This isn’t the first time Cálidda,

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Elon Musk attends a news conference with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House

Elon Musk gave $15 million to Republican allies just before announcing his own America Party

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By Fredreka Schouten, CNN (CNN) — Billionaire Elon Musk donated a total of $15 million in June to super PACs favoring President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans ahead of next year’s midterm elections, new campaign finance reports show. The donations of $5 million each to MAGA Inc., the Senate Leadership Fund and the Congressional Leadership

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Scientists in South Africa are making rhino horns radioactive to fight poaching

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MOKOPANE, South Africa (AP) — A South African university launched an anti-poaching campaign Thursday to inject the horns of rhinos with radioactive isotopes that it says are harmless for the animals but can be detected by customs agents. Under the collaborative project involving the University of the Witwatersrand, nuclear energy officials and conservationists, five rhinos

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Magdalena Zernicka-Geotz is the Bren professor of biology and biological engineering at Caltech.

Lab-grown embryo models are getting more realistic. Scientists are getting more concerned

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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists are exploring ways to mimic the origins of human life without two fundamental components: sperm and egg. They are coaxing clusters of stem cells – programmable cells that can transform into many different specialized cell types – to form laboratory-grown structures that resemble human embryos. These embryo models

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People walk by the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue during sunset in New York City. Apple reported strong iPhone sales and rebound in revenue from China.

Apple got a much-needed iPhone and China boost, but expects a $1.1 billion tariff hit this quarter

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By Lisa Eadicicco, CNN (CNN) — Apple reported strong iPhone sales and rebound in revenue from China, giving a much-needed boost to two parts of the company’s business that had struggled over the past year. That better-than-expected performance reassured Wall Street investors that key parts of its business are holding steady as Apple struggles to

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The National Transportation Safety Board fact-finding hearing on January's midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

NTSB hearing reveals air traffic controllers should have warned passenger plane about helicopter before collision, but didn’t

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By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN Washington, DC (CNN) — The National Transportation Safety Board questioned witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of the investigation into January’s deadly midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. It was the second of three days of investigative hearings into what happened in the

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U.S. President Donald Trump gestures on the day he signs an executive order on prescription drug pricing during a press conference in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington

Trump is demanding drugmakers lower prices within 60 days. Pharma experts say it’s unlikely to happen.

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By Tami Luhby, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is ratcheting up the pressure on major drugmakers to bring their US prices in line with the far lower ones available to patients in other countries — though industry experts don’t expect the pharmaceutical companies to acquiesce. Trump sent letters to 17 major pharmaceutical company CEOs

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