Confirmed: two US service members killed, one missing, four evacuated after an IRGC ballistic missile and drone strike on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan overnight July 17-18, the first US combat deaths from a direct IRGC host-nation base strike since March.

The main suspect in the Monaco bombing targeting a sanctioned Ukrainian oligarch was killed in Ukraine by an SBU officer who then confessed; French investigators now suspect the SBU organized the original attack.

Eight defendants from six states face conspiracy charges for a drone-and-sniper plot against the White House timed to the UFC Freedom 250 event, naming the President, Vice President, and five members of Congress as intended targets.

Designated US FTO the FAI claimed a June 27 parcel bomb targeting the chief executive of Leonardo SpA, Italy's top NATO defense contractor, three weeks after the designation and one day before a State Department ministerial targeting the group.

Three Jersey City teenagers on a moped threw sulfuric acid at six women in June; all six were burned and one sustained serious facial injuries, with three juvenile suspects now charged with aggravated assault.

Canadian and Minnesota wildfire smoke has driven hazardous air quality conditions across 12 states for an estimated 124 million Americans, canceling court sessions and school programs and triggering statewide alerts, with the event forecast to persist through at least July 17.