A federal appellate panel blocked Tennessee from executing Christa Pike, citing childhood sexual abuse, but the US Supreme Court could allow the state's first female execution in centuries to proceed.

The family of Tierra Walker filed a lawsuit against Texas officials and doctors over her "preventable death" linked to the state's abortion ban—the first case of its kind.

"The Missouri Supreme Court should throw the secretary of state in jail if this extremist continues to defy the law and multiple court orders," said US House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.

The United States has endured its hottest summer on record, a new peak that scientists said should send alarm bells ringing over the increasingly dire impacts of climate change.

A new union survey shows US teachers are struggling with underinvestment in schools and high prices under a Republican-controlled government.

With over 1,000 dead and thousands missing in Nepal and Tibet due to glacial collapse, campaigners and scientists argue climate action is urgently needed.

"We call upon the court to hold President Trump accountable and affirm a fundamental principle on which this country was founded: No one, not even a president, is above the law," responded one watchdog leader.

One critic said the administration clearly plans to weaken restrictions requiring "the Forest Service to carefully manage our natural resources and listen to the public, then open the gates to industry and extraction."

"This is a massive win for Dutch pensioners—not to mention all living creatures on Earth."

Canada and some European governments condemned Israel's E1 settlement project, but will they take real action? Some critics are calling for sanctions.

"Today's report is yet another reminder that Trump's promise to lower costs on 'Day One' was a lie," said the House Budget Committee's top Democrat.

"This is money they're taking out of your healthcare, your jobs, and your education," the California Democrat noted, calling on Republicans in Congress "to do their jobs."

July 2026 marked the hottest month documented in the contiguous United States, breaking a Dust Bowl record.

"A ceasefire should ensure that hostilities are paused, weapons are silenced, and that people are safe from strikes across the strip."

Economists and scholars called for immediate action to unfetter Venezuela's humanitarian response and reconstruction from sanctions and debt burdens.

"The reason the grid has so little headroom is that data centers are consuming electricity at a scale it wasn't built for, around the clock, every day of the year," said a 350.org campaigner.

"This country needs an alternative to the Liberal-Conservative consensus that is doubling down on a future of climate-wrecking corporate welfare," said New Democratic Party Leader Avi Lewis.

"The American people are hungry for bold ideas that reform fundamental institutions that have failed them for too long. And they are looking for leaders who will take on powerful interests and fight for working people."

"He's never given up his primary role: Donald Trump’s chief defender in court," said Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats.

"Oh look—Republicans helping private-jet billionaires avoid paying taxes," said one Senate Democrat. "If only they worked that hard for consumers."

"Apparently our nitwit secretary of war(drobe) thinks a D-Day commemoration is an appropriate time to push his far-right ideology in Europe," said US Sen. Tim Kaine.

Reporting on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s leadership at HHS sparks fresh calls for resignation.

"I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike, and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one," said President Donald Trump.

"The murder of a seven-month-old baby by Israeli forces in the illegally-occupied West Bank and an Israeli massacre at a wedding in Gaza are horrific crimes that should shock the conscience of every person," said a US-based group.

"This protects every Oregon family who depends on these programs to put food on the table," said the state's attorney general, who is among the 21 AGs behind the case.

"If Graham Platner and all of you find a way to build that redemption through this campaign," Congressman Ro Khanna told a Maine crowd, "maybe you would show a way for this country to start to redeem itself."

"Plastic pollution is not just wrecking our environment, it's entering our bodies, starting from infancy," said one campaigner. "How our food is packaged is designed for profit, not for people's health."

The union leader "is running a campaign focused on raising wages for working people, expanding healthcare, protecting Social Security, and building a strong labor movement," said the progressive senator.

After Senate Republicans helped advance a Democratic war powers resolution on Iran, the House GOP canceled a related vote, seemingly due to key absences.

"They've built a billion-dollar industry on stolen voices because they thought no one would make them pay for it," said a lawyer for the plaintiffs.

"We are relieved that access to mifepristone remains protected for now, but this should never have been on the table in the first place," said one campaigner.

White House officials "just straight up fabricated shit," said the Democratic senator from Connecticut.

"Unlike GOP-led states that redrew their congressional maps in backroom deals, Virginia let the people decide," said Sen. Tim Kaine. "But the Virginia Supreme Court has blocked the people's choice."

"Reckless actions on the economy and the expensive fallout from the war in Iran has made it harder for working families to purchase a car and has left millions more feeling major pocket pain at the pump," one researcher said.

Democracy defenders are sounding the alarm as Trump's Department of Justice demands the names of 2020 election workers from Fulton County, Georgia.

"This should be a clear-cut case, and all Floridians should see justice for this blatant attempt to reduce their rightful voting power even more than before," said the head of one voting rights group.

"The American people deserve a Department of Justice that fights for us, and it's a tremendous shame that Trump's DOJ would rather sell us out to Big Oil," said Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison.

A Costs of War Project report details how Trump's xenophobic mass deportation campaign reflects "specific law and policy options created and strengthened among all three branches of the US government, on a bipartisan basis, since 9/11."

"Republicans are out of excuses and should join Democrats and stop this war," said one congressional Democrat. "Let's put the pressure on."

"More pipelines mean more drilling, more waste, and more spills. And when spills happen, it's communities, landowners, and tribes who are left dealing with the contamination, not the companies profiting from it," said one critic.

The "politically driven" ruling, warned one campaigner, "overrides medical expertise and years of research, and threatens to upend how abortion care is delivered nationwide."

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Sen. Cory Booker said it "will overturn President Trump's executive order that prioritizes pesticide company profits over public health and ensure that people who have gotten cancer from glyphosate can seek justice."

Support for stripping the pesticide provisions, said one advocate, "is proof that the Farm Bill should strengthen our food system, support farmers, and safeguard public health—not serve as a vehicle for corporate giveaways."

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth testified at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about the administration's unprecedented Pentagon budget request, President Donald Trump's illegal war on Iran, and more.

"Our bipartisan movement in defense of civil liberties is holding strong, and we won’t accept anything less," said a Demand Progress campaigner.

"From the dismantling of critical federal agencies and laws to the expansion of unregulated, untested AI technology, the protections that workers fought and died for are under serious threat," said the AFL-CIO president.

"Bayer is intent on preserving its right to harm at all costs—a pursuit the Trump administration is all too willing to endorse," said a Food and Water Watch campaigner.