Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Thursday, July 3rd, 2025. This is USA TODAY's The Excerpt. Today the latest on Trump's mega bill as House lawmakers continue working, plus breaking down ...

With President Donald Trump’s budget megabill all but wrapped up and the Iran crisis subsiding, trade wars are back ...

Sean 'Diddy' Combs has been found guilty of two counts of transportation for prostitution but cleared of the more serious ...

The PHD student turned murderer, 30, is set to avoid the death penalty after making a plea deal - we asked two legal experts ...

The monstrous, recently constructed immigrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades, flippantly dubbed “Alligator ...

Deborah Pearlstein of Princeton University noted that Moss’s ruling exemplifies how courts may still rein in Trump’s unlawful ...

After Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution, but acquitted him on sex trafficking and racketeering charges, a sentencing date was set for Oct. 3.

Though Mr. Combs, 55, still faces a potential sentence of as much as 20 years in prison, he and his lawyers were jubilant ...

The Prime Minister’s first year in office has been marked by a series of domestic and global challenges after Labour’s ...

Six months since the collapse of the Assad regime, the Russian military presence in Syria has remained entrenched in strategic locations such as the Hmeimim airbase and Tartous port on the coast, as ...