Cameron Couvillion

1 week ago | tmj4.com | Maya Rodriguez |Cameron Couvillion |Tony Aria

It's been more than a week now since Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran. Since then, the two nations have continued trading attacks in a deadly back and forth. Israel is an ally of the United States, and the Trump administration is now considering possible military involvement. The issue at the center of this conflict — Iran’s ability to make a nuclear weapon — is one that has confronted American presidents for decades.

1 week ago | scrippsnews.com | Jason Bellini |Cameron Couvillion |Linda Pattillo |Nick Refuerzo

Amid the wreckage of war in Ukraine, one pattern stands out: schools, struck again and again, in what Ukraine says is a systematic targeting of the country's children. Using satellite images, maps, photos and Ukrainian data, a Scripps News visual investigation found that since February 2022, nearly 4,000 of Ukraine's 13,000 educational institutions have been damaged by Russian bombs and shells. The Ministry of Education says nearly 400 have been completely destroyed.

1 week ago | scrippsnews.com | Alexandra Miller |Cameron Couvillion |Alex Miller

The conflict between Israel and Iran is now four days old. As the two nations target each other's oil refining infrastructure, ripple effects may be felt here in the U.S. in the form of rising gas prices. “The national average will probably rise somewhere in the ballpark of maybe five, to as much as 10 cents over the next two weeks,” said Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy.

2 months ago | scrippsnews.com | Cameron Couvillion |Elizabeth Landers |Haley Bull

Ambassador Matthew Whitaker, former Acting Attorney General during the President Donald Trump’s first administration, is carving out a place for himself in the President’s second term as the United States' Permanent Representative to NATO. Confirmed earlier this month, Whitaker takes on the role at a crucial time in the alliance, as President Donald Trump enacts his ‘America First’ foreign policy agenda.

2 months ago | scrippsnews.com | Elizabeth Landers |Cameron Couvillion |Nick Refuerzo

Nuclear testing has long been depicted as mushroom clouds emerging and rising above remote desert landscapes or the ground slowly collapsing like a sinkhole as an underground detonation goes off. But those days are long gone, decades away in fact, from how the United States maintains its nuclear weapons in 2025. The U.S. nuclear stockpile is arguably the most important part of the country’s national security, but the government stopped testing nuclear weapons here in 1992.