PHILADELPHIA — In the latest twist over Pennsylvania’s participation in President Donald Trump’s Great American State Fair, Pennsylvania’s U.S. Sens. Dave McCormick and John Fetterman announced Saturday that the state where America was founded will be represented after all.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro initially signaled the intention...Read more

The U.S. conducted a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Saturday, as a weekend of tit-for-tat attacks led both sides to claim violations of the ceasefire underpinning peace talks.

The first American strikes on Friday came in response to Tehran’s strike on a container ship on Thursday, but Iran then hit another ship ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Before Los Angeles schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho resigned, the Board of Education warned him in a confidential letter that it had potential grounds to dismiss him, citing several allegations, including that Carvalho allowed a district contractor currently under federal investigation to pay for his travel to Washington, ...Read more

Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado is planning to return to the country as soon as possible, according to people with direct knowledge of her plans, a move that could reshape the political landscape as acting President Delcy Rodríguez struggles to respond to the nation’s worst natural disaster in decades.

Several U.S. ...Read more

NEW YORK — As the cancerous mass that would ultimately kill him grew unchecked in his lungs, Terrence Wise desperately wrote message after message to the staff of the MDC Brooklyn federal jail, begging for medical help.

“I need to be seen by someone plz,” wrote Wise, 56, in a sick call request to staff at the Sunset Park jail, coughing up...Read more

NEW YORK — A high-flying drone nearly struck a United Airlines jet landing at Newark Liberty International Airport Friday, authorities said.

The circular-shaped drone, which was about three feet wide, came within 100 feet of the descending Boeing 737 as it made its final approach to the New Jersey airport at around 5:30 p.m., according to ...Read more

The U.S. conducted a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets in Iran on Saturday, as a weekend of tit-for-tat attacks led both sides to claim violations of the ceasefire underpinning peace talks.

The first American strikes on Friday came in response to Tehran’s strike on a container ship on Thursday, but Iran then hit another ship ...Read more

DENVER — At least one tornado touched down in southeast Colorado on Friday night, capping off a week of severe thunderstorms, flooding, high winds and hail on the Front Range and Eastern Plains.

A storm chaser confirmed a “very brief” tornado near Fort Lyon in Bent County at 6:52 p.m.,said Eric Petersen, meteorologist with the National ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he will nominate Lance Schroyer as director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his first pick to hold the job permanently in his second term.

Trump said in a social media post on Saturday that Schroyer is a former Oklahoma state trooper and U.S. Marine.

“He is a PATRIOT with real operational experience, ...Read more

DETROIT — A man believed to be Michigan’s last original Montford Point Marine, Robert Armond Hassler, was buried Saturday at Elmwood Cemetery.

Hassler served in World War II as one of the first Black men to enter the United States Marine Corps.

Hassler died June 16 at age 101. He's survived by three children: Kevin, Ina and Lisa, six ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The roughly 1,500-foot elevation gain up to the summit of Angels Landing is enough to frighten even the most experienced hikers. It’s a long fall to the bottom.

Twenty years ago, New York-New York casino cocktail waitress Bernadette Vander Meer, 28, made it all the way to the highest peak with her husband before, according to ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday began projecting a system could form in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida next week.

As of the NHC’s 8 p.m. tropical outlook, the forecast calls for a low pressure area to form along the western end of a frontal system early next week and threaten the southeastern United States. ...Read more

Serbia President Aleksandar Vucic says he’ll quit his post within weeks to help his political party win early elections expected later this year, a move that would enable him to stay in power as prime minister if the party prevails in the ballot.

“I’ll be the president for just several weeks. Then I’ll resign,” Vucic said at a large ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he will nominate Lance Schroyer as director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, his first pick to hold the job permanently in his second term.

Trump said in a social-media post on Saturday that Schroyer is a former Oklahoma state trooper and U.S. Marine.

“He is a PATRIOT with real operational experience, ...Read more

The U.S. and Mexico took a major step in the battle against New World screwworm, opening a facility to produce sterile flies that authorities believe is the best method for stopping the flesh-eating parasite from spreading through cattle herds.

The production facility in Metapa, near Mexico’s southern border, is expected to produce up to 100...Read more

WASHINGTON — Richard Pazdur, an oncologist who spent 26 years at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration before his abrupt exit in December, is under consideration to return to the agency, people familiar with the matter said.

Pazdur left the FDA just weeks after he was promoted to be the agency’s top drug regulator. The drug industry and its...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Orange County officials will start removing chemicals this week from two storage tanks at a Garden Grove aerospace company that prompted thousands to evacuate their homes in late May.

Sometime between Monday and Thursday, workers are expected to start removing the neutralized methyl methacrylate, or MMA, from two of three tanks ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — All the water unleashed onto the warehouse fire in Boyle Heights — some of it 480 gallons at a time by helicopter — had to end up somewhere.

That somewhere is the Los Angeles River.

Los Angeles Fire Department crews ripped through 50-foot walls filled with foam insulation to get to the building’s steel skeleton and its ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Saturday began projecting a system could form in the Atlantic off the coast of Florida next week.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, the forecast calls for a low pressure area to form along the western end of a frontal system early next week and threaten the southeastern United States. ...Read more