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MIDDLE EAST | Updates from regional conflicts:

• The Israeli navy carried out missile strikes today on docks at the Houthi rebel-held port city of Hodeida, Yemen, which Israel says are used to transport weapons, but that reports note are also key to the delivery of food and other humanitarian aid to residents. [more]
• Palestinian health officials say at least 17 people were killed, and dozens of others were wounded, by Israeli gunfire today as thousands of people approached aid distribution sites in central Gaza. [more]

UKRAINE | Today is day 1202 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Here is your update:

• Ukrainian officials say at least three people were killed, and 13 others were injured, in large-scale Russian drone and missile attacks overnight that struck the capital Kyiv and the southern port city of Odesa. [more]

U.S. PROTESTS | Following a fourth day of protests against immigration raids and detentions in Los Angeles yesterday, President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of some 4,100 federalized National Guard troops and 800 active-duty Marines to the city to protect federal property and personnel. State and local officials continue to say the federal forces are not needed in Los Angeles and that the moves by the Trump administration risk further inflaming protests. More than 100 people were arrested last night as protests continued, according to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass. Reports note that related protests were held in multiple locations around the U.S. yesterday, including in New York City and Dallas, Texas. [more]

U.S. DEI | Saying that Trump administration anti-diversity and anti-transgender executive orders "reflect an effort to censor constitutionally protected speech and services," a federal judge in California yesterday temporarily blocked enforcement of Trump orders to suspend federal grant funding over DEI and LGBTQ+ provisions while related court proceedings play out. [more]

NEW YORK | The state senate gave final legislative approval yesterday to a measure that would allow New York residents with an incurable illness to be prescribed life-ending drugs if he or she requests the medication and gets approval from two physicians. Gov. Kathy Hochul's office says she will review the legislation. [more]

U.S. VACCINES | Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced yesterday that he has removed all 17 members of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines and that he intends to appoint his own picks for the panel. [more]

U.S. GENETIC DATA | Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit yesterday seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data without customer consent by 23andMe as part of the DNA testing company's proposed $256 million sale to Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. [more]

U.S. AND CHINA | As part of ongoing efforts to build on negotiations in Geneva last month, top economic and trade representatives from the U.S. and China are meeting for a second straight day in London today for talks aimed at ending the countries' trade dispute. [more]

AUSTRIA | Authorities in the southeastern Austrian city of Graz say at least nine people, including at least seven students, were killed today in a shooting incident at a high school in the city. Mayor Elke Kahr says the suspected shooter is among the dead. [more]

CANADA | Prime Minister Mark Carney said yesterday that Canada will meet the NATO defense spending target of 2% of gross domestic product by early next year – five years earlier than previously planned – and suggested that his country's defense spending should diversify from its reliance on the United States. [more]

MEXICO AND GUATEMALA | Government officials in both Mexico and Guatemala say investigations are ongoing into a Sunday incident in which Mexican state police killed four gunmen near the border with Guatemala and then pursued additional suspects into that country in armored vehicles. Additional exchanges of gunfire took place in the Guatemalan border town of La Mesilla before the Mexican police returned to their country. [more]

U.K. | Following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's pledge of the U.K.'s largest sustained increase in defense spending since the end of the Cold War, finance minister Rachel Reeves said in a speech today that the U.K. will invest more than 6 billion pounds ($8.13 billion) to increase the "capacity, capability, and productivity" of its submarine production. [more]

PERU | The Peruvian government has reversed its recent controversial decision to significantly reduce the protected area surrounding the Nazca Lines – part of a UNESCO-recognized World Heritage Site containing massive geoglyphs etched into the desert over 1,500 years ago. [more]

AI | Amidst ongoing questions over what constitutes 'fair use' of copyrighted materials for training artificial intelligence systems, opening arguments are scheduled to begin today in London in a case brought by Getty Images, which claims that AI company Stability AI unlawfully used its images to train its systems for image generation. [more]

HOCKEY | The Florida Panthers beat the Edmonton Oilers, 6-1, last night to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven NHL Stanley Cup final. [more]

ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS | Among the winners at last night BET Awards 2025 ceremony were: SZA and Chris Brown for best female and male R&B/Pop artist, respectively and Denzel Washington for Best Actor and Cynthia Erivo for Best Actress. Leon Thomas was named Best New Artist, and the Album of the Year award went to Kendrick Lamar for "GNX." [full list of awardees] [more]

R.I.P. | Musician Sly Stone, whose group Sly and the Family Stone released hits including "Everyday People," "Hot Fun in the Summertime," and "Dance to the Music" in the 1960s and 70s, died yesterday at the age of 82. [more]

TODAY IN HISTORY | On this date in 2018, after functioning for over 14 years, traveling some 28 miles across the planet, and revealing important geological information, NASA's Opportunity rover sent its last message from the surface of Mars. [more history]