Cuba suffered a nationwide blackout on Friday, the second in less than a week, as the communist-run country grapples with an aging power grid, chronic fuel shortages and the threat of further U.S. sanctions that have already hampered access to fuel and financing.

Authorities have activated protocols to recover service, the Energy Ministry said...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, renewed his call for Mitch McConnell, the senior Republican senator from his state, to release information about his health after he was hospitalized on June 14 and hasn’t been seen publicly since.

“Let’s end the crazy speculation,” Beshear wrote on social media. “Just tell us ...Read more

The Trump administration finalized a rollback of the Endangered Species Act on Friday, paving the way for drilling, mining and other human development across protected wildlife habitats.

The move redefines "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, the landmark conservation law that protects threatened and endangered plants and animals. For years...Read more

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said armed Israeli settlers detained him and other U.S. citizens during a recent tour of the occupied West Bank in an incident that is thrusting the California congressman into the international debate over human rights in the Palestinian territories and U.S. foreign aid to Israel as he openly weighs a 2028 presidential...Read more

Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling four New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

A U.S. humanitarian worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola and will be sent to Europe for treatment, the religious humanitarian aid group Samaritan’s Purse said Saturday.

The person has worked with the group’s disaster response team for 15 years and has been in Congo for the past month, the group said in a...Read more

ST. LOUIS — More than 350 people have been rescued from flooded areas of southeast Missouri as of Saturday morning, officials said.

One woman from Crawford County, Faith Gregory, 23, was found dead at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department said.

Gregory was discovered by volunteer searchers in Huzzah Creek about 1.8 ...Read more

BEULAH, Colo. – Tom Laca doesn’t remember much about the first day and night of the Aspen Acres fire. But he remembers the explosions.

“We had so many propane tanks exploding, so many things exploding that by the end of the night we didn’t even flinch when things went boom. Just, nothing hit me, we’re good to go, we continue on,” ...Read more

After nearly a decade of mounting heat-related deaths, Arizona’s Maricopa County, one of the nation’s hottest and most populous counties, finally saw its first drop in fatalities in 2024 and again in 2025.

But 2026 will be a crucial test. That’s not only because the county faces another brutally hot summer, but also because it's the final...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The owner and operator of the Keystone Pipeline has agreed to pay over $26 million for violating the Clean Water Act after the pipeline’s rupture in Washington, Kansas.

On behalf of the state and the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed settlement with South Bow LP and South Bow...Read more

A sweeping housing bill became law on Saturday without Donald Trump’s signature, or any White House fanfare, after the president soured on a package of dozens of affordability provisions that he derided as “a yawn.”

Trump’s scuttled support and the dead-of-night enactment are setbacks for his allies on Capitol Hill, who’d been looking...Read more

It wouldn’t make much sense to prohibit people from shooting a threatened woodpecker while allowing its forest to be cut down, or to bar killing endangered salmon while allowing a dam to dry out their habitat.

But that’s what the Trump administration is doing by changing how one word in the Endangered Species Act is interpreted: ...Read more

Andy Burnham is now certain to be the U.K.’s next prime minister. What’s uncertain is almost everything else concerning his plans for government, with their detail still obscure to allies just 10 days out.

The former mayor of Manchester very quickly secured the backing of so many fellow Labour MPs that, while the contest for Keir Starmer’...Read more

Iran rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s contention that peace talks could continue without a ceasefire, saying Washington must meet Tehran’s conditions for resolving transit issues through the Strait of Hormuz and normalizing its oil exports.

While Trump said he wanted to continue talks, he also threatened late Friday to shower Iran ...Read more

For the past decade, scarcity was the U.S. housing industry’s most powerful marketing tool. The less there was to buy, the greater the urgency to keep bidding, even as prices hit record highs.

Demand was supercharged by record-low pandemic-era mortgage rates that sparked bidding wars and sent prices soaring, crushing affordability. Recent ...Read more