U.S. President Donald Trump played down the prospect of renewed fighting in the war with Iran, even as questions remain over Tehran’s nuclear program and access to the Strait of Hormuz.

Speaking to ABC News on Tuesday, Trump said extending a ceasefire that expires next week may not be necessary, hinting at near-term progress toward a deal to...Read more

Hungary’s incoming leader Peter Magyar moved fast to assert dominance over the state institutions that outgoing Prime Minister Viktor Orban crafted over his 16 years in power, directing salvos against state media and the president appointed by his predecessor.

In a tense radio interview on Wednesday morning — his first in more than a year-...Read more

Donald Trump’s bid to block Iran from using the Strait of Hormuz chokes a key Chinese energy supply and risks a showdown with Xi Jinping a month before the two leaders are set to meet in Beijing.

Xi broke his near seven-week silence over the Iran war on Tuesday, warning the world order is “crumbling into disarray,” while pledging to play ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- Jet fuel prices are soaring and checked baggage fees are on the rise, but for fans of California wine country, Southwest Airlines has a deal for you.

Beginning April 24, San Diego’s largest airline will debut its “Sip and Ship” program, which will allow passengers to check one case of wine at no cost when flying between Santa...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — One preschooler with autism and ADHD was excluded from a Philadelphia early childhood program two hours after her parents dropped her off for her first day because the school did not have adequate supports, according to a new report from the Education Law Center-PA.

Another was told he was “no longer a good fit” shortly ...Read more

Lea Didion didn’t realize the night sweats she began experiencing in her 40s might be a sign of perimenopause.

Her doctor clued her in and suggested she consider hormone replacement therapy, a once-vilified treatment that has come roaring back to help relieve hot flashes, vaginal dryness and other symptoms women start to experience in mid-...Read more

In late March, a handful of Black faith leaders gathered on the steps of the Alabama State House to protest a bill that could allow the state to seize control of the police force in the capital of Montgomery.

Supporters of the Republican-sponsored proposal cast it as a response to Montgomery’s police officer shortage and public concern over ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s mixed messaging on federal family planning funds has anti-abortion groups simultaneously outraged and optimistic, after the administration rolled out widely divergent goals over a matter of days during the spring congressional recess.

The conflicting policies related to Title X family planning funds ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It's not clear who was the instigator when, several months ago, Amanda Ponce got into an altercation with a fellow resident at a Boyle Heights homeless housing site. What the two parties agreed upon was this: In frustration, Ponce tapped the man over the head — and it wasn't a big deal.

But according to Ponce, it was enough to...Read more

KHARTOUM, Sudan — The diggers were efficient, cramming in so many graves that, from above, the field near the University of Sudan's medical campus looked like a frieze of an undulating, gravel-brown sea.

"There's another one over there that's even more crowded than this," a campus caretaker said, pointing to an adjacent lot a few hundred ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When President Donald Trump announced Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his pick for Health and Human Services secretary, he declared that the appointment marked the return of "Gold Standard Scientific Research" in the U.S.

In May 2025 Trump signed the "Restoring Gold Standard Science" executive order. Agencies including NASA and the ...Read more

The mighty-but-little-known Amargosa River gained dubious national recognition this week.

Without intervention preventing mining and solar farm development, the river that makes life possible in one of America’s harshest deserts is in grave danger, the nonprofit American Rivers declares in its top 10 most endangered rivers list, which was ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Prompted by shootings and heavy-handed tactics, the state Senate voted on party lines Tuesday night for a new state civil rights law that would allow Connecticut citizens to sue federal immigration agents.

The controversial measure would permit civil lawsuits against federal officials if citizens believed that their civil ...Read more

Haitian businessman Rodolphe “Dodof” Jaar provided more than $150,000 in cash and material support — including housing and semi-automatic weapons — to back the plot that ultimately led to the assassination of his country’s president, Jovenel Moïse, he told a Miami federal jury.

That support included $110,000 in bribes paid to members...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent hailed Anthropic PBC’s Mythos as a revolutionary step that will keep America ahead of China in AI, endorsing an industry leader that’s clashed with Washington over its role in military endeavors.

Bessent, speaking Tuesday at a Wall Street Journal event in Washington, dismissed a question suggesting ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man who was shot seven times by immigration agents during a traffic stop near Modesto and then charged with assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer will remain in custody for at least two days while the government appeals a judge’s order to release him.

Carlos Ivan Mendoza Hernandez, 36, who until Monday ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two guards at a notorious prison were recently indicted for having illicit relationships with prisoners and helping to smuggle contraband into the correctional facility, according to the South Carolina attorney general’s office.

South Carolina Department of Corrections employees Niccole Matthews Al-Saddiq and Candace ...Read more

The Justice Department said Tuesday it was seeking to vacate the conviction of Zach Rehl, the former leader of the Philadelphia Proud Boys who was found guilty of seditious conspiracy for his role in helping incite the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — the latest development in President Donald Trump’s efforts to effectively erase...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — A coalition of unions representing workers from bus drivers to construction workers converged on the statehouse Tuesday to lobby against legislation that would create pilot programs for driverless vehicles in Chicago and other parts of Illinois, calling the legislative effort the start of “a major domino effect against the ...Read more