President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. and Iran are on the cusp of a deal to end their conflict. The reality has proved more elusive — in part because of the nature of the negotiations themselves.

The latest confusion came as Trump claimed a deal was imminent on Thursday, saying an agreement could be signed as early as this ...Read more

Amid a tense standoff with the Trump administration, Cuba’s leader, Miguel Díaz-Canel, has announced sweeping reforms that would grant more autonomy to state enterprises, expand private-sector activities and allow Cubans on the island and abroad to invest on equal footing with foreign investors.

In comments to reporters, Díaz-Canel outlined...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services has joined a chorus of California hospitals and health systems lobbying the state for a $500-million emergency payment to public hospitals bracing for massive financial losses.

The California Assn. of Public Hospitals and Health Systems is requesting a one-time general fund ...Read more

In northern Oregon, just before dawn in October 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers arrested and shackled two farmworkers on their way to work. The man and woman were Guatemalan citizens who spoke no English and very little Spanish. They spoke Mam, an Indigenous Mayan language.

Despite the man trying to tell an ICE ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran may sign an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz on the sidelines of the Group of Seven world leaders summit next week, according to senior officials.

A senior Iranian official indicated overnight that a deal is likely, said a G7 official and a diplomat from outside the group, who both asked not to be named discussing ...Read more

In a rousing speech in Munich in February, Keir Starmer vowed to “spend more, faster” to counter the threat from Russia. Four months later, his defense secretary quit over the embattled U.K. premier’s failure to follow through, destroying his best shot at a lasting legacy.

Starmer and his allies have long paraded U.K. leadership in NATO ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center said Friday an area of low pressure had formed off the coast of Mexico with a chance to develop when it moves into the Gulf next week.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the broad area of low pressure had formed over the far southern Bay of Campeche with disorganized showers and ...Read more

Authorities are unable to determine the true extent of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo because emergency workers can’t find all the missing contacts of patients infected by the virus, Africa’s top health official said.

Congo reported 676 confirmed cases and 136 deaths as of June 10, the National Institute of Public ...Read more

President Donald Trump, who once declared he had “saved” flavored vapes, grew his stock holdings this year to as much as $1.64 million in tobacco giant Philip Morris.

He also had holdings in Altria and a third leading tobacco company, though an apparent discrepancy in his disclosures clouds the extent of his investments. In 2025, tobacco ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — For more than a century, antibiotics have been medicine's go-to weapon against bacterial infections.

But as drug-resistant bacteria become increasingly common, researchers are looking to an oft-overlooked ally: viruses.

At the University of Pittsburgh, scientists are helping lead a national effort to advance phage therapy, a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democratic leaders in the Assembly and Senate announced an agreement Thursday on a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that rejected or delayed many of the healthcare cuts proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The step does not mark an end to budget negotiations, but instead brings the two chambers in line on their proposals to ...Read more

As South Bay communities continue to grapple with closed beaches, toxic air and raw sewage, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday that $46 million in voter-approved funding is now available to help clean up the polluted Tijuana River that flows from Mexico into the U.S. — though local officials caution relief won’t come overnight. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Democratic leaders in the Assembly and Senate announced an agreement Thursday on a budget for the upcoming fiscal year that rejected or delayed many of the healthcare cuts proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The step does not mark an end to budget negotiations, but instead brings the two chambers in line on their proposals to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pulled back threatened military strikes against Iran, a stark reversal that came just hours after he vowed to hit the Islamic Republic “VERY HARD” and threatened to seize its oil infrastructure.

U.S. forces had already pounded Iran with airstrikes for two straight days when Trump on Thursday morning ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Human Services on Thursday said it’s restoring payments to more than 2,000 Medicaid providers after cutting off thousands of providers in programs considered high risk for fraud earlier this month.

Around 3,400 providers of services like home disability and mental health care lost access to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. and Iran are on the cusp of a deal to end their conflict. The reality has proven more elusive — in part because of the nature of the negotiations themselves.

The latest instance came Thursday, when Trump claimed that a deal was imminent, telling reporters that an agreement ...Read more

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday challenges a new Illinois law set to go into effect in September that would allow doctors to prescribe medication to terminally ill people to end their own lives.

Two disabled patients, a doctor and various disability and patients’ rights organizations allege in the lawsuit that the state’s controversial End...Read more

CHICAGO — Hillary Clinton used an audience at the Rainbow PUSH Coalition’s annual convention to lash out at the Trump administration Thursday, saying Democrats must combat a “revolution to turn the clock back,” a revolution that she said is eroding the building blocks of civil and voting rights established decades ago.

Clinton, a former...Read more