A San Jose, California, man was sentenced to 60 days in county jail for lying to his insurance company after he brake-checked a semi-truck on the freeway in a fit of road rage, prosecutors said.

Ken Pham Tran, 53, was convicted last month of felony insurance fraud, felony vandalism and reckless driving, a misdemeanor, stemming from a road rage ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is demanding that Iran issue a public statement that all channels of the Strait of Hormuz are open to shipping and that they will not attack transiting civilian vessels, according to senior administration officials.

The officials, who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity on Friday, said they expected talks to ...Read more

A Ryanair Boeing 737 NG plane flying from Greece to Germany turned back for an emergency landing after an issue with its right engine, a cabin decompression event and a broken passenger window, according to safety regulators and the airline.

The Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, made an emergency landing Friday ...Read more

DETROIT — The Gordie Howe International Bridge is expected to open soon to traffic through a deal negotiated by the United States and Canada, according to Republican Mike Rogers, who's running for the U.S. Senate in Michigan and is an ally of President Donald Trump.

Rogers of White Lake Township made the comments during a Friday radio ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of high-ranking Senate Democrats Friday called on their Republican counterparts to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures pose national security risks.

Democrats sharply criticized Trump’s financial disclosure last week showing he generated at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures, and accused ...Read more

Fifteen states on Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding.

The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle between Democratic-led states and the U.S. Department of Education over a mental health grant program that Congress established following the 2018 school shooting...Read more

Cubans who self-describe as revolutionaries have been turning to social media to question the rapid ascent of Raúl Castro’s grandson and his role in negotiations with the Trump administration, in an unusual sign of divisions among core government supporters.

Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro has no formal government position but, as a direct...Read more

King Charles III on Friday hosted a long-awaited but already much-debated reunion with his errant son, Prince Harry, his American wife, Meghan Markle, and their two children, Archie, 7, and Lilibet, 5, at his country estate.

The meeting, “shrouded in secrecy,” took place at Highgrove, Charles’ private Gloucestershire residence, a short ...Read more

After days of searching hospitals and an improvised morgue, Daniely Hurtado believed she had finally found the body of her husband, one of the deportees from the United States on Flight 164 the same day two earthquakes devastated Venezuela.

She had already hired a funeral home to cremate him when, just two minutes before the body was taken away...Read more

The search for a gunman who shot four people at a high school graduation in Northern California, killing one, has ended with the arrest of a 17-year-old boy in Texas, police said.

Fairfield Police Department said Friday morning that detectives had identified a male teenager as the suspect and learned he had fled the state and traveled to Texas ...Read more

DENVER — A Colorado Springs man fell from a fourth-floor hotel window during an unsupervised psilocybin therapy session last year after his counselor served him psilocybin tea and then left him alone, the man alleged in a lawsuit filed this week.

Jacob Ramirez survived the fall but spent nearly two months hospitalized with serious injuries to...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed nine bills that were the subject of litigation and 18 months of delay — legislation that was only presented to the governor Friday after a Michigan Supreme Court order required their presentment.

The legislation, which the then-Democratic-controlled Legislature failed at the end of 2024 to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. would continue talks with Iran but considers the ceasefire between the countries to be over. His administration quickly moved to add additional pressure on Tehran.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to...Read more

MIAMI — Life as she knows it might be ending on Friday. Lilly, a 33-year-old community organizer, has lived in the U.S. for the last seven years. Like 350,000 other Haitians nationwide, she’s facing the loss of her deportation protections and work authorization under temporary protected status.

“I don’t know what tomorrow holds,” she ...Read more

Kristi Noem’s mother broke the news Friday that the former Department of Homeland Security secretary has begun divorce proceedings against her husband Bryon after 34 years of marriage — and after it was publicly revealed in March that the insurance agent and father of three allegedly liked to cross-dress as a woman with excessively large ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s historic State Capitol building will get two new statues — the first since Confederate statues were taken down in 2020 — as part of the new state budget.

The late Rev. Billy Graham, known worldwide as a conservative Christian evangelist preacher whose crusades drew thousands for decades, will be ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. revoked the legal status of a Hmong man who was recently pardoned by Minnesota officials and deported him from the country.

The removal of Tou Lue Vang of St. Paul comes one month after the Minnesota Board of Pardons granted him clemency as he faced deportation to Laos for raping a 10-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher is publicly warning of what he says is a surge in violence involving Somali gangs — an issue he says has not received enough attention.

Fletcher’s brought the issue forward in a video he posted to social media Monday flanked by gang investigators, a day after one man was killed and four ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on democratic socialists who have won Democratic Party primaries could clash with his idea of creating investment accounts for American adults.

The administration this week already formally launched its Trump Accounts initiative for children, which includes a one-time government ...Read more