Iran fired at least two missiles at commercial ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz on Monday night, Axios reported, testing a late-June deal with the U.S. to halt attacks as the two sides work toward a peace agreement.

Both vessels suffered significant damage, but there were no casualties, Axios cited an unidentified U.S. official as saying. ...Read more

President Donald Trump filed a last-ditch plea with the U.S. Supreme Court as he tries to prevent the writer E. Jean Carroll from collecting $5 million awarded by a jury that found he had sexually abused and defamed her.

Trump on Monday asked the high court to take the unusual step of reconsidering its June 29 rejection of the president’s ...Read more

Republican Steve Hilton has found rare common ground with Democrats in an unlikely arena: landline phone service.

The GOP candidate for governor is urging the federal government to stay out of California’s push to prevent AT&T from ending landline service via copper wiring to around 184,000 residential customers and 15,000 business customers....Read more

BOSTON — Officials and residents are asking for resources to make Boston safer after a chaotic and violent July 4.

Thirteen people were shot, two fatally, in five separate incidents that occurred throughout the city Saturday night into Sunday morning. Additionally, two people were stabbed and officers were assaulted by fireworks. No arrests ...Read more

Republicans are challenging a Nevada law that allows U.S. citizens born abroad to vote in the state despite never living in the country.

The Republican National Committee, the Nevada Republican Party and Jim Marchant, Republican nominee for Secretary of State, filed a lawsuit in the First Judicial District Court in Carson City late last month. ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Facing criticism over his role as a federal prosecutor in immigration cases, Fresno City Council candidate Robert Fuentes has resigned as an assistant U.S. attorney, he told The Fresno Bee on Monday.

Fuentes, a candidate for Fresno City Council and State Center Community College District trustee, said he was placed on ...Read more

An E. coli outbreak that’s hit Florida and Georgia has been linked by the FDA and CDC to Publix store brand frozen blueberries that also went to six other states, the agencies announced Monday.

Before Monday’s investigation summaries posted online, neither agency had posted anything publicly. Friday’s recall of Publix’s GreenWise ...Read more

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s outgoing leader said he doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of the incoming government of President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, escalating tension as the nation prepares for a transfer of power on Aug. 7.

“Abelardo didn’t win the election,” President Gustavo Petro wrote in a lengthy post on X.

Petro ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he expected to meet with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping around Sept. 24, which would coincide with the UN General Assembly in New York that month.

Trump floated the date as he discussed the construction of a White House ballroom during an event Monday, citing a possible visit by the Chinese ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As West Nile virus cases across the country surge to the highest levels in years, officials said Monday that the first Yolo County mosquito sample of the season tested positive for the virus.

The Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control District said in a news release that the mosquito sample was found Monday in Madison,...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has informed Michigan officials it intends to send election monitors to three cities in the battleground state for the Aug. 4 primary.

Letters from the federal department about the plans have mentioned Detroit, Lansing and East Lansing, said two sources who had knowledge of the ...Read more

DENVER — More than 250 homes have been destroyed by the Aspen Acres fire in Pueblo and Custer counties, their sheriffs said Monday afternoon.

The state’s largest ongoing wildfire, the Aspen Acres fire, jumped in size overnight to 91,523 acres, roughly 143 square miles and nearly the size of Denver. As of Monday morning, the wildfire was the...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — State employees will be able to take up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave after Gov. Josh Stein signed new legislation on Monday.

Current law gives eight weeks of paid parental leave to state employees who gave birth and four weeks for other parents.

Staci Meyer, the state human resources director, said that the current ...Read more

DENVER — More than two dozen laws kick in across Colorado starting this month, instituting new rules gun control, asset forfeiture and “conversion therapy.”

The laws took effect July 1. Several were passed earlier this spring, while others — including one related to ammunition sales and another penalizing wildlife trafficking — were ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois will be the first state to require independent audits of large artificial intelligence developers’ safety practices under a new law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Monday.

The measure was part of a broader package of bills the Democratic-controlled General Assembly pushed to fill what lawmakers view as a void left by federal ...Read more