U.S. authorities on Thursday announced criminal charges against former Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez, who was in office from 2019 to 2021, for alleged corruption during her 2020 election campaign.

While prices are dropping, Americans are still paying $1.72 more per gallon than when President Biden first took office in January 2021. The national average then was $2.39. 

The U.S. nonfarm payrolls for the month of July shocked economists on Friday, as the latest report showed an increase of 528,000 new jobs. Some expect the Federal Reserve to use the over 500,000 jobs added as ammunition to continue raising federal funds rates.

U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones should pay parents of a child killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre at least $4.1 million for falsely claiming the shooting was a hoax, a Texas jury said on Thursday.

On a rain-soaked field at Tom Benson Hall of Fame Stadium in Canton, Ohio, the Las Vegas Raiders beat the Jacksonville Jaguars 27-11, giving coach Josh McDaniels a homecoming victory.

Democratic U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema said on Thursday she agreed to “move forward” on a $430 billion drug pricing, energy and tax bill, subject to a Senate arbiter’s approval of the bill, which Democrats intend to pass over Republican objections.

In a parade of pessimism, FBI Director Christopher Wray admitted the situation at the southern border has reached the point of chaos, lamented an uptick in violence, and sought to mitigate allegations his agency has an anti-conservative bias during his hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

China’s firing of missiles during military drills around Taiwan was an unjustified escalation, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, as Beijing said it would impose sanctions on House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi for visiting the island.