Iran said it reached a revenue-sharing agreement with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, as the two sides push for a wider deal on the management of the crucial waterway.

“Agreements have been reached regarding each country’s share of the strait’s waters as well as Iran and Oman’s share of its revenues,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard ...Read more

Russia is expanding its campaign of hybrid attacks against countries that supply weapons and money to Kyiv and has caught Europe without a plan to respond.

From cyber attacks to armed drones and mysterious cases of arson, tensions are rising across the continent as the war in Ukraine is set to enter its fifth winter. Just this month, Poland ...Read more

A former Compton gang homicide detective testified Tuesday in the trial of Duane "Keffe D" Davis that he had "no doubt" that the gang Davis led was behind the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur because of the bloody gang war that followed.

Shakur was riding with Death Row Records mogul Marion "Suge" Knight on Sept. 7, 1996, just off the Vegas Strip. ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX drove the Space Coast’s record 109 launches last year with a frenetic pace of missions dedicated to its Starlink internet constellation.

That spigot has been turned off, the company’s vice president of launch said after a Starlink mission that launched early Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

“This ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — At a Walgreens in this city’s bustling Japantown neighborhood, pharmacist Margaret On stocks two boxes of long-acting insulin pens from California’s new prescription drug label, CalRx, emblazoned with the state’s iconic grizzly bear.

Although she hasn’t dispensed any, On plans to keep them on hand. “It’s good to ...Read more

California is weighing stiff penalties for hospitals and other healthcare entities that don’t stay under state spending limits, potentially levying hundreds of millions of dollars in fines if these providers don’t take steps to rein in rising healthcare costs.

If the state Office of Health Care Affordability adopts the fines next week, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The first significant test of a new Minnesota law making it illegal to charge children under 13 with a crime came this month when an 11-year-old stabbed an 18-year-old multiple times in the entrance to a St. Cloud grocery store.

The victim and store patrons held the 11-year-old down until police arrived and took the boy to St. ...Read more

Northwestern University economist Chuck Manski studies decision-making amid uncertainty. That prepared him better than many other cancer patients to decide whether to stay on an immunotherapy treatment that was making him very ill.

For six months in 2022, Manski received monthly infusions of nivolumab to fight advanced melanoma. The drug ruined...Read more

Dolly Parton had reportedly been battling cancer before her death.

A spokesperson for Parton's estate confirmed the cause of death to the New York Times.

In a statement, also shared with People, a representative for the country music icon said: "After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said Tuesday that her office will not file felony riot charges against far-right activist Jake Lang and others over Lang’s latest confrontation in Minneapolis, citing “prior communication” between police and Lang’s security detail.

Moriarty’s office did not detail the nature of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House said it is set to take away as many as 200,000 visas from foreigners, in what it called the largest mass revocation in U.S. history.

The move, which the White House previewed on social media Tuesday, is expected to target asylum-seekers who hold U.S. visas. It would escalate President Donald Trump’s second-term...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court delivered a jolt to the impending midterm elections by reviving President Donald Trump’s push to restrict mail-in voting while creating a tangle of new legal and logistical questions as states prepare to make ballots available.

The court’s conservative majority on Monday agreed with the Justice ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A 73-year-old man suspected in the vandalism of political campaign signs across the Las Vegas Valley has been arrested.

David Smith was arrested and booked Monday into the Clark County Detention Center for placing graffiti or defacing property, $5,000 or greater, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.

Campaign ...Read more

Remember when the toilet on NASA’s manned, moon-bound rocket ship malfunctioned this spring?

Well, the astronauts who were there do. NC State students got the full, behind-the-scenes story on Tuesday from mission specialist Christina Koch, who dealt with the toilet malfunction firsthand.

Koch, who flew to the dark side of the moon on the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles is looking to regulate another "gas station drug" on commercial shelves.

In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the L.A. City Council instructed the City Attorney to draft new regulations for phenibut, a Cold War-era drug that is said to have been used by Soviet cosmonauts, but abused now as a central nervous system depressant...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. —A bill to ban marriage under the age of 18 awaits a vote on the California Assembly floor after passing the Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.

Currently, California, Mississippi and New Mexico are the only U.S. states that have no minimum age requirement for marriage. In California, a minor may get married if they ...Read more

The state of Utah is looking for places to site 1-megawatt nuclear reactors small enough to fit inside standard 20-foot shipping containers.

The state’s Office of Energy Development signed an agreement with Houston-based Deployable Energy Limited last week to explore the feasibility of deploying Unity Nuclear Batteries around the state.

“...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The Michigan House on Tuesday attempted to intercept an initiative petition that would bar state-regulated corporations from making political contributions before the proposal made it to the November ballot.

The Republican-led state House adopted the Michiganders for Money out of Politics proposal in a 77-26 vote on Aug. 25. ...Read more