NATION & WORLD

U.S. officials provided a written briefing in late February to President Donald Trump laying out their conclusion that a Russian military intelligence unit offered and paid bounties to Taliban-linked militants to kill U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan, two officials familiar with the matter said. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/politics/trump-russia-plot-afghanistan.html

The FBI has issued a warning about scammers who advertise fraudulent COVID-19 antibody tests as way to obtain personal information that can be used for identity theft or medical insurance fraud. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/29/us/fbi-warning-fraudulent-coronavirus-antibody-tests.html

The United States on Monday reported 38,800 newly confirmed infections, with the total surpassing 2.5 million, or about a quarter of the more than 10 million cases worldwide.

A former police officer who terrorized California as a serial burglar and rapist and went on to kill more than a dozen people while evading capture for decades pleaded guilty Monday to murders attributed to a criminal dubbed the Golden State Killer.

If the result holds up, it would mark the first time that colliding black holes have produced light as well as gravitational waves.

George Floyd’s dying words have prompted a national outcry over law enforcement’s deadly toll on African American people.

For anti-abortion activists, who have been working to restrict the procedure nationwide through a deluge of local laws, Monday’s Supreme Court ruling against a Louisiana law delivered a stinging and surprising setback.

A Minnesota judge on Monday warned that he's likely to move the trials of four police officers charged in George Floyd's death out of Minneapolis if public officials and attorneys don't stop talking about the case.

Two people were shot Monday at an Amazon facility in Jacksonville, Florida, ities said.

Reddit, one of the largest social networking and message board websites, on Monday banned its biggest community devoted to President Donald Trump as part of an overhaul of its hate speech policies.

Some residents of The Villages retirement community say they've never seen anything like the politically inspired hostilities that have surfaced over the past several months.

Colorado Supreme Court upholds the state’s ban on large capacity gun magazines passed after Aurora theater shooting.

One man was killed and and a teenager was wounded early Monday in Seattle’s “occupied” protest zone.

Abortion opponents vented their disappointment and fury on Monday after the Supreme Court issued a 5-4 decision to strike down a Louisiana law that would have curbed abortion access.

“We’re in uncharted territory with pricing a new medicine, a novel medicine, in a pandemic,” Gilead’s chief executive, Dan O’Day, told The Associated Press.

During the pandemic, there has been wide variation between what providers bill for the same basic diagnostic test, even in how much a test can cost two patients at the same location.

Life became ever so slightly more normal in Ireland on Monday as pints were pulled and locked-down hair was trimmed for the first time since the middle of March.

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Democrats pushed a strengthening of “Obamacare” patient protections toward House passage Monday.

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics, reasserting a commitment to abortion rights over fierce opposition from dissenting conservative justices.

Iran has issued an arrest warrant and asked Interpol for help in detaining President Donald Trump and others it believes carried out the U.S. drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad.