July 16 (UPI) -- A Connecticut-based shipping company pleaded guilty to pollution charges after crew members on one of its ships deliberately dumped more than 10,000 gallons of oil waste into the Gulf of Mexico.

WASHINGTON,, July 16 (UPI) -- A fiery House Homeland Security Committee hearing Wednesday exposed deep partisan divisions over the role of nongovernmental organizations in aiding migrants.

The tropical development in the northern Gulf of Mexico this week is expected to be limited due to its close proximity to land, but it will still pose a danger for the millions who reside across the region.

July 16 (UPI) -- Five people in Louisiana, including four in law enforcement, were indicted on 62 federal charges of fraud to get U visas by filing false police reports.

July 16 (UPI) -- The state of New York joined several other states Wednesday in a lawsuit against the Trump administration's closure of a protective arm of FEMA.

July 16 (UPI) -- The European Commission advanced a $2.3 trillion budget proposal that would boost EU defense spending through the next three years.

July 16 (UPI) -- A dog who fled into the wilderness during a camping trip in Alaska was found nine days later by a pilot who decided to go searching in his small plane.

July 16 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutor releases a letter to FBI director Kash Patel claiming Gov. Tim Walz made him shoot the lawmakers. Prosecutor calls the claims "a delusion."

SEOUL, July 16 (UPI) -- The South Korean government could deploy its "manufacturing partnership card," linking tariffs to industrial and technological cooperation with the U.S.

July 16 (UPI) -- Firefighters and marine mammal specialists came to the rescue of a dolphin named Lucky who was found stranded in a shallow tidal lagoon in South Carolina.