New York officials declared monkeypox an impending danger to public health on Thursday as the number of cases in the Empire State surpassed 1,000, more than a third of the total number recorded across the United States.

White House Middle East coordinator Brett McGurk thinks it’s “highly unlikely” that the United States and Iran will join a new nuclear agreement shortly.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is pressing President Joe Biden to campaign against him in Florida in a reaction to the president’s argument that Rubio, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) are “not on the side of police” after the left spent the last two years calling for the defunding of police.

Russia’s top diplomat has admitted that the Kremlin’s overarching goal in Ukraine is to boot out President Volodymyr Zelensky — as Vladimir Putin’s forces proceeded to pound the neighboring nation with artillery barrages and airstrikes.