JERUSALEM — The intensive phase of Israel’s war against Hamas is “about to end,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a Sunday night interview on Israeli television, although he said that did not mean the conflict was coming to a close.

Pets are more popular than ever. Roughly two-thirds of American homes have at least one pet, up from 56% in 1988, according to the American Pet Products Association, and Americans spent $136.8 billion on their pets in 2022, up from $123.6 billion in 2021. An estimated 91 million households in Europe own at least one pet, an increase of 20 million over the past decade. The pet population in India hit 31 million in 2021, up from 10 million in 2011.

The debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump this week will be the highest-stakes moment of their rematch, plunging two presidents into an extraordinarily early confrontation before a divided and angry nation.

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump addressed the evangelical Faith & Freedom Coalition in Washington on Saturday, presenting himself as a champion of religious freedom and a martyr for Americans of faith while denouncing what he described as a mass persecution of Christians.

WASHINGTON — The floor of the United States House of Representatives is supposed to be a dignified place, where lawmakers refer to each other as “gentleman” or “gentle lady,” speak only to the presiding officer, and never engage in personally disparaging remarks against rivals, an offense known as “engaging in personalities.”

Former President Donald Trump outraised President Joe Biden for the second consecutive month in May, outpacing his successor by roughly $81 million in donations over the last two months as he rode a surge of financial support after his felony conviction.

NEW YORK — Manhattan prosecutors said Friday that a judge should keep in place major elements of the gag order imposed on Donald Trump before his criminal trial, citing dozens of threats that have been made against officials connected to the case.

The Biden administration will rush advanced air defense missiles to Ukraine by delaying certain weapons shipments to other countries, a move that a White House spokesperson described Thursday as “difficult but necessary” given Russian advances in the war.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia directly warned the United States and its allies that he is willing to arm North Korea if they continue to supply Ukraine with sophisticated weapons that have struck Russian territory, raising the stakes for the Western powers backing Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a tax on foreign income that helped finance the cuts President Donald Trump imposed in 2017 in a case that many experts had cautioned could undercut the nation’s tax system.

A few minutes into his speech at a campaign rally on Tuesday, Donald Trump asked a question of the few thousand who’d turned up to hear him speak. “Is anybody going to watch the debate?”

There are hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the United States who have been living in the country illegally for years, working and making a living, starting families and sending their children to school. President Joe Biden says they can stay.

KYIV, Ukraine — It was a whale of an evacuation. Actually, two.

From the Midwest to the northern tip of Maine, millions of Americans sweltered under a springtime heat wave Wednesday that stifled the Eastern portion of the United States for a third consecutive day.

When U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy announced Monday that he was planning to push for a mental health warning label on social media platforms, he was met with cheers from many parents and teachers, who described a long, lonely struggle to wrench children away from a habit that was hurting them.

Smoke in the cabin. A tire blowout. A cracked windshield. No shortage of problems can affect a flight, fueling traveler anxiety and contributing to thousands of daily delays and cancellations around the world.