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The Pentagon has paused some shipments of U.S. weapons to Ukraine as part of an internal review to assess the impact on America’s own military stockpiles, Defense Department officials confirmed Wednesday. The move comes as the Trump administration prioritizes recalibrating U.S. defense commitments in light of strategic needs, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.

The U.S. economy added 147,000 jobs in June, beating forecasts of 115,000, while the unemployment rate edged down to 4.1%, according to Labor Department data released July 3. Economists had expected a rise to 4.3%.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to take up two cases in its next term on laws banning transgender women from participating in girls and women’s sports, based on biological sex.

Three leaders of a prominent house church in China’s Shanxi Province have been sentenced to prison on what advocates call baseless fraud charges, highlighting ongoing persecution of unregistered Christian groups under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Dozens of people were feared dead Thursday after a ferry sank and five people died the previous night near Indonesia’s tropical resort island of Bali.

Audio has been released from the scene in the Kootenai County of the U.S. state of Idaho, where firefighters responding to a blaze were killed and another wounded in a sniper ambush.

Concerns remained Wednesday about likely more restrictions on groups trying to spread the Gospel in North Korea and support Christians there, after the arrest of six Americans in South Korea.

U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure have delayed Tehran’s nuclear ambitions by up to two years, according to the Pentagon’s chief spokesperson, who briefed reporters Wednesday on the aftermath of the operation.

President Donald Trump announced a sweeping new trade agreement with Vietnam on Wednesday that imposes steep tariffs on imports but grants the U.S. full access to Vietnamese markets–a move Trump hailed as a “Great Deal of Cooperation” and a major breakthrough in ongoing global trade negotiations.

In a speech during a visit to the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Hamas’ rule over Gaza would come to an end, asserting that the terror organization would be “eliminated down to its very foundations.”