MIAMI — Sandra Madjdi remembers fleeing Tehran as a child on the last Pan Am flight out of Iran before the 1979 hostage crisis.

Her family, once living a comfortable life with nannies and chauffeurs, left in fear after her grandfather — a diplomat and congressman with ties to the Shah — was poisoned. The family moved between Turkey, ...Read more

The first bill Missouri lawmakers sent to Gov. Mike Kehoe’s desk would affirm the right of pregnant women to get divorced.

Judges aren’t currently prohibited from issuing divorces to a pregnant couple, but the statute governing dissolutions of marriage includes whether the wife is pregnant in the divorce petition. The inclusion has led ...Read more

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse died from a gunshot to the heart after his body had already been riddled with bullets during the brazen July 7, 2021, attack on his home, Haiti’s top forensic expert testified Thursday in Miami federal court.

Jean Armel Demorcy, one of two of Haiti forensic pathologists, said he performed the autopsy on Moïse...Read more

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging California’s emissions rules, continuing its fight against the state’s autonomy to reduce vehicle pollutants by using what the federal government calls “illegal” methods.

The suit, filed in Sacramento federal court, argues California’s requirement that all new vehicles sold...Read more

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan but controversial housing bill Thursday that would bring broad changes to California but faces an uncertain future.

The measure, called the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aims to speed home construction through grants, limits on environmental reviews and reducing barriers for modular housing...Read more

President Donald Trump and Iran’s new supreme leader both struck defiant tones on the 13th day of the war, offering little relief to energy markets despite fresh U.S. efforts to curb oil prices.

The American president said in a social media post Thursday that preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons and threatening the Middle East is “...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal, state and local officials largely remained in agreement Thursday that there were no imminent threats to California from Iranian drones.

The warning of a drone strike was first reported by ABC News on Wednesday. The report centered on an FBI alert sent to local police departments about a tip that Iran “allegedly...Read more

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington lawmakers approved a partial rollback of last year's increase in top estate tax rates — the highest in the nation — as Democrats advanced a separate proposal to tax the state’s highest earners.

The Senate voted 39-10 Thursday to pass an expedited measure intended to soften last year’s sharp increase in ...Read more

Republicans in the Florida Senate passed legislation Thursday requiring citizenship verification for all registered voters in the state, a central element of President Donald Trump’s demands for sweeping election-law changes.

The measure also would restrict the kinds of IDs Florida voters can use to identify themselves at the polls. Student ...Read more

A KC-135 refueling plane that was part of the American military campaign against Iran crashed over western Iraq after an incident involving another plane, U.S. Central Command said Thursday night.

“This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire,” Centcom said in a statement, adding that rescue efforts were underway and that the episode ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — The U.S.-Israeli strikes have significantly weakened Iran and its clerical leadership but cannot guarantee regime change in the country without an internal uprising, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his first press briefing since the start of the war.

“We are creating the optimal conditions for a toppling of the...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A man once convicted of offering support to a terrorist group burst into an ROTC classroom at Old Dominion University on Thursday morning and opened fire, killing one person and wounding two others. The students disarmed and killed him.

The FBI later identified the shooter as Mohamed Bailor Jalloh. A former Army National ...Read more

Two 12-year-old sisters born in the United States were deported to Guatemala along with their mother earlier this week only to be returned the same day, with the twins forced to endure hours of flights in a legal maneuver the U.S. Attorney’s Office now concedes was unlawful.

“What’s going on in this country is shocking in a lot of ways, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration on Thursday levied attacks at Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul over the immigration status of a repeatedly deported Honduran man now accused of shoving two straphangers from a subway platform onto the tracks below.

ICE asked unspecified law enforcement agencies to detain Bairon Hernandez, who is ...Read more

Massachusetts mayors have their red ink ready for a statewide rent control ballot measure after a study found the initiative would eliminate $300 billion in property values, as supporters call it a solution to the housing crisis.

The Tufts Center for State Policy Analysis has found that if landlords capped annual rent increases at 5%, municipal...Read more

SANTA ANA, Calif. — An Orange County Superior Court judge on Thursday, March 12 decided against dismissing criminal charges against three people accused of failing to follow a police order to leave a pro-Palestinian protest at UC Irvine, leaving a jury to decide whether law enforcement’s actions on the campus were constitutional.

Attorneys ...Read more

Nearly 500 structures in Kankakee County were damaged by massive storms that produced tornadoes and hail swept across Illinois Tuesday night, according to Gov. JB Pritzker, who promised that state officials would seek federal aid to help those most affected.

The governor spent Thursday afternoon in the Aroma Park neighborhood alongside local ...Read more

DETROIT — The FBI in January held an active-shooter prevention training at the same synagogue in West Bloomfield Township where a gunman Thursday rammed his truck into the building and then opened fire on the temple, exchanging gunfire with security guards before he was killed.

The training was designed to help staff and security personnel ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors on Thursday abruptly moved to drop charges against two defendants in the politically charged “Broadview Six” case accusing a group of Democrats and other protesters of conspiring to block and damage an immigration agent’s vehicle outside the ICE facility in Broadview in September.

In a one-paragraph filing,...Read more