Arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court have ended after more than 2 1/2 hours in Donald Trump’s bid to avoid prosecution over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden. The arguments had been scheduled to last for an hour Thursday but ran more than double the allotted time. The case delved deep into the nuances of immunity, and key questions of when the high court might rule remain unclear. The court usually releases its opinions by the end of June, and the timing of the ruling could be as important as the outcome.

U.S. Army reservists, including one who provided the clearest warning ahead of Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, answered questions Thursday from the commission that's investigating the tragedy. Another fellow reservist also said he witnessed the shooter's decline and tried to intervene. Six weeks before Robert Card killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine, his best friend and fellow reservist Sean Hodgson texted a warning to supervisors saying he feared Card was about to conduct a mass shooting. The commission heard Thursday from Hodgson, other Army personnel and the state’s director of victim witnesses services.

Ukraine is seeking to reverse the drain of potential soldiers from the country. It has announced that men of conscription age will no longer be able to renew their passports from outside the country. The move late Wednesday comes as Ukraine works to get much-needed new supplies of weapons and ammunition from a huge U.S. aid package to the front line. Millions of Ukrainians have fled the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. Poland's defense minister said Warsaw was ready to help ensure “those who are subject to compulsory military service go to Ukraine,” though he did not specify how.

A new port is being built in the Gaza Strip ahead of a U.S. military-led operation to bring more desperately needed food and other aid into the besieged enclave as Israel’s war on Hamas grinds on. That's according to satellite images analyzed by The Associated Press on Thursday. The port sits just southwest of Gaza City, which once was the Gaza Strip’s most-populous area before the Israeli ground offensive rolled through, pushing over 1 million people south toward Rafah on the Egyptian border. Its construction comes as Israel has faced widespread international criticism over the slow trickle of aid into the area, where the United Nations says a quarter of population sits on the brink of starvation.