WASHINGTON — The Iran war has cost $43.6 billion as of this month, the highest official estimate to date, the Pentagon told Congress’ defense oversight panels this week.

The cost estimate comes as polls show Americans increasingly oppose the war, partly over its impact on the economy, and the issue is looming large as the November midterm ...Read more

DENVER — Foreign actors gained access to two small water utility systems in Colorado late last month, state officials confirmed, just weeks after hackers with suspected links to Iran had attempted to access similar systems elsewhere in the United States.

It’s unclear who the actors were or if the attempted interference was related to the ...Read more

President Donald Trump declared Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House “effective immediately,” an extraordinary escalation in his ongoing feud with the news media.

The action marks the latest salvo in a campaign against the press that has already won him multimillion-dollar settlements from two networks, ...Read more

DENVER — It’s déjà vu for the Colorado Legislature, which once again faces the prospect of having to close a budget deficit exceeding $1 billion.

Lawmakers on the powerful Joint Budget Committee received the new projection Friday when economists for the nonpartisan Legislative Council Staff and the governor’s office presented their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he reached an agreement with Denmark over Greenland that would give the U.S. “permanent control over security” for the Arctic island, but without specifying the terms of any pact.

Trump announced the deal on social media Friday, saying that the arrangement was one that addressed “ALL of our many ...Read more

NORFOLK,Va. — Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order Friday that addresses data center expansion and sets stricter standards.

Executive Order 22 bans state agencies from entering into or requiring non-disclosure agreements for data center projects, creates a new AI task force and directs the state to develop environmental ...Read more

President Donald Trump is making plans to meet Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York as early as next week, a potentially significant encounter after months of rapidly expanding cooperation between Washington and Caracas, according to the Axios news site.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States had reached an agreement with Denmark over Greenland that he said would give the U.S. “permanent control over security” and that addressed U.S. concerns over the territory.

Trump announced the deal on social media Friday, saying that the arrangement was one that addressed “ALL ...Read more

Oil fell for a third straight session amid shifting concerns about Middle East supply, with Saudi Arabia pausing some sales to Europe though traders and analysts saying buffers still hold for now.

The global benchmark edged 0.9% lower to settle near $104 a barrel, cementing a narrow loss for the week. Saudi Aramco is working to partially ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Friday he intends to ban CNN, MS NOW, Politico and other news outlets from covering the White House, his strongest threat yet against a free press.

In a statement on Truth Social, Trump attacked the reporting of the three outlets which he described as “FAKE NEWS!”

“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to ...Read more

BOSTON — The Justice Department threw its support behind parental rights as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs a Massachusetts child custody battle in which parents say state authorities took custody of their teenage daughter after they refused to allow a medical gender transition.

Joseph and Arlene Kutzko continue a nearly two-year legal battle ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Charges were dismissed Friday against a former doctoral student whose psychotic delusions led him to kill his University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill professor in 2023, but he will remain in a mental hospital.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Allen Baddour found Tailei Qi, 37, not guilty by reason of insanity after a day...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her “engaged in offensive and inappropriate behavior” with her employees but did not sexually harass or retaliate against anyone, according to a two-page summary of a monthslong internal investigation into her conduct.

In summarizing the report’s findings, St. Paul Human Resources proposes that Her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge suggested a court-appointed “neutral” overseer could allay concerns that the Justice Department might use a long-standing U.S. fund to revive plans to compensate supporters of President Donald Trump as victims of government “weaponization.”

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema made clear during a hearing ...Read more

BOSTON — An attorney who has previously represented President Donald Trump has taken on a new client: the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial, whom the lawyer is describing as an “American Hero and Champion of Justice.”

Attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik confirmed that he is representing the juror, who he says has ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Friday began watching a new, rapidly organizing area in the Atlantic that could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. EDT tropical outlook, an area of low pressure several hundred miles southwest of the Azores was producing showers and thunderstorms, ...Read more

The latest excerpt of Charles Spencer’s book about his sister, the late Princess Diana, makes a shocking claim about her reasons for getting a divorce from the future king: She had discovered the existence of a love affair between Charles and his valet.

In this excerpt from “Swan Song: Diana, My Sister,” published by Daily Mail, the 9th ...Read more

MIAMI — After Colombian magistrate Carlos Horacio Urán Rojas was found dead inside Bogotá’s Palace of Justice in November 1985, military officials told his family that he had been killed in the crossfire as Colombian forces retook the building from M-19 guerrillas.

Years later, evidence emerged that challenged that account. Video and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It looked like another afternoon commute at the bustling intersection of De Soto Avenue and Nordhoff Street on Tuesday when Metro Bus Line 166 crossed into the intersection.

Cars in opposing traffic lanes were stopped. Suddenly, a 2004 Ford Expedition barreled into the intersection from the wrong direction at a high rate of ...Read more