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Volunteers are trying to mark all of the estimated 7,000 Revolutionary War veteran graves in Ohio. The project is part of Ohio's 250th Commission, one of the 56 state and U.S. territory local planning groups formed for the anniversary. Judy Woodruff reports.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that asks AI companies to give the government early access to their models in order to assess their national security risks.

For nearly a year, Matthew Lucas has logged more than 6,000 miles on the hunt for specific markers of Ohio's Revolutionary War-era history. He is part of a statewide project of volunteers trying to mark all of the estimated 7,000 Revolutionary War veteran graves in Ohio. Judy Woodruff reports.

The Strait of Hormuz has been the focus of the Iran war since the first days of the conflict. Rarely do American reporters actually get to visit the crucial body of water. Special correspondent Reza Sayah is in Iran and got permission from Iranian authorities to explore the waters.

A Jeff Bezos-backed Blue Origin rocket exploded during a launch pad test in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Thursday evening. The New Glenn rocket was undergoing an engine fire test to eventually be able to deliver 48 low-orbit Amazon Leo satellites for the companies’ internet service.

Uganda is closing its border with the Democratic Republic of Congo as authorities try to slow the spread of Ebola. There are now nearly 1,000 suspected cases in the DRC and at least 220 suspected deaths, and the WHO has started construction on a treatment facility in the east of the country.

The annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca is officially underway.

President Donald Trump honored the 13 soldiers killed so far in the Iran war during remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, calling them “tremendous” and “brave” people.

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV called for artificial intelligence “to be disarmed,” a word choice he called “strong” but “deliberately chosen.” “This moment needs words capable of attracting attention,” Leo said.

CBS News Radio is shutting down Friday night after nearly a century on the air. The storied service started in 1927 and gave rise to such icons as Douglas Edwards, Walter Cronkite and Edward R. Murrow.

Two police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a lawsuit on Wednesday to try to block the government's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

The WHO says there are now more than 600 suspected cases from an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa and at least 139 suspected deaths. But at a briefing, WHO officials said, "The scale of the epidemic is much larger." They also warned that a vaccine likely won't be available for up to nine months.

Vice President JD Vance said that President Donald Trump's comments last week on not caring about Americans' finances were "totally taken out of context."

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is commuting the sentence of election denier Tina Peters. The former Mesa County clerk had served less than two years of her roughly nine-year sentence for her role in a plot to examine voting machines after the 2020 election.

President Donald Trump announced plans for a sculpture garden honoring prominent Americans in Washington, D.C.'s West Potomac Park. The president said the National Garden of American Heroes would feature statues of "our illustrious founding fathers, military warriors, religious leaders and more."

The Senate has unanimously passed a measure to withhold its own pay during future government shutdowns. The resolution would block senators from getting paid whenever a shutdown affects one or more agencies. But like federal employees, they would get back pay once the government reopens.

In Cuba, rare protests have broken out over fuel shortages and crippling blackouts made worse by the Trump administration's energy blockade. Hundreds marched in the streets of Havana overnight, banging pots, burning trash and shouting, "Turn on the lights."

FBI Director Kash Patel reportedly took what's being called a "VIP snorkel" session at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor last summer, according to government emails obtained by the Associated Press. @amnanawaz.bsky.social has more, including the FBI's response to the AP report.

Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke has died. He was 29.

The U.S. Supreme Court is extending access to the widely used abortion pill mifepristone until at least Thursday. The pause gives the justices more time to consider an emergency request to halt a lower court ruling that would restrict access to the drug.

A reporter asked President Donald Trump on Tuesday to what extent Americans' financial straits are motivating him to make a deal with Iran. “Not even a little bit,” Trump said. “The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon.”

The Pentagon on Friday began releasing what it calls "new, never-before-seen" files on unidentified anomalous phenomena, more commonly known as UFOs.

Health authorities on at least four continents are tracking more than two dozen passengers who left the cruise ship at the center of a hantavirus outbreak.

Lawmakers in Tennessee passed a new congressional map that could help Republicans win all nine congressional seats in this year's midterms. Tennessee became the first state to adopt a new map since a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week that weakened the Voting Rights Act.

Senate Republicans are requesting $1 billion to fund security improvements for President Donald Trump's White House ballroom. The money is attached to a broader measure they hope to pass this month aimed at funding ICE and Border Patrol.

Where does Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn keep her medals? Here's what she told @amnanawaz.bsky.social.

The State Department is rolling out a new limited-edition passport that includes a picture of President Donald Trump.

A former adviser to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland for conspiring to hide records related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In London, two long-distance runners shattered a historic barrier, completing a marathon in under two hours.

WATCH: President Donald Trump told @elizlanders.bsky.social he doesn't like prediction market bets on world conflicts, but "it is what it is"

Where was William Shakespeare's London home? A British scholar has solved the mystery.

A new class of music legends is heading to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Phil Collins will enter this time as a solo artist. In 2010, he was inducted as part of the band Genesis. He will be joined by artists Sade, New Order, and Oasis, plus Luther Vandross and the Wu-Tang Clan, among others.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette will be able to continue publishing after a nonprofit journalism group stepped in to buy the newspaper. The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism on Tuesday said it will buy the paper and run it as a nonprofit.

The Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of a number of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, including founder Stewart Rhodes. They were convicted and sent to prison for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

A federal judge has dismissed President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the publisher of The Wall Street Journal for a story on the president's ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Trump administration says it will allow the Stonewall National Monument in New York to fly a rainbow Pride flag once again.

President Donald Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV over the weekend for speaking out against the war in Iran, saying he is "weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy."

Experts say despite the U.S. and Iran ceasefire largely holding, gas prices are unlikely to drop right away. Even when oil tankers can pass freely in the Strait of Hormuz again, energy production infrastructure in the Middle East will take months, if not years, to recover.

The nation's fertility rate fell to another record low last year. According to provisional data from the CDC, there were just over 53 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age in 2025. That is down from nearly 54 births the year before and continues a trend that dates back to 2007.

K-pop supergroup BTS has kicked off its reunion world tour after a nearly four-year hiatus. Tens of thousands of fans from all over the world braved the rain at Thursday's kickoff performance near Seoul. They head next to Tokyo before bringing their tour to North America.

Is the Strait of Hormuz actually open? That's a key question as a ceasefire deal reached Wednesday has halted the Iran war for two weeks. Iran has had a chokehold on the strait, a critical passage for global oil flow.

Shelly Kittleson, the American journalist kidnapped in Iraq last week, has reportedly been released. AP and other outlets said she was freed Tuesday afternoon. Earlier on Tuesday, the Iran-backed militia group Kataib Hezbollah said it would release Kittleson so long as she leaves Iraq immediately.

U.S. and Iraqi officials say an American journalist was warned of threats against her in the days before she was kidnapped from the capital of Baghdad. An Iraqi official says Shelly Kittleson entered Iraq from Syria prior to her abduction. She remains missing.

Humanity's first crewed lunar mission in more than half a century lifted off Wednesday. Over the next 10 days, the crew of the Artemis II mission will fly around the moon and back while setting a new record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth.

President Donald Trump's big ballroom project is on pause — for now. He faced a major setback on Tuesday when a federal judge ordered that construction could not begin on the White House ballroom that he's been eager to build. Liz Landers @elizlanders.bsky.social has more.

Rape survivor Gisèle Pelicot says the videos of her being assaulted by her husband and dozens of strangers are "etched in my memory forever."