Americans have a reputation for being bad at world geography, and the current U.S. administration is no exception, particularly when it comes to correctly identifying what is – and is not – part of the United States of America.

President Donald Trump’s April 2025 executive order “unleashing America’s offshore critical ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with further attacks after the Islamic Republic’s new leader signaled defiance, suggesting there will be no letup in a war that’s upending energy flows and global markets.

“We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Watch what ...Read more

DETROIT — The suspected gunman who attacked a West Bloomfield Township synagogue on Thursday has been identified as a Dearborn Heights man.

Ayman Ghazali, 41, a restaurant worker, allegedly crashed his truck into the Temple Israel synagogue just after noon on Thursday and opened fire with a rifle. Authorities said he was killed by security ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decision to draw crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve received little criticism on Capitol Hill Thursday, although Democrats expressed reservations that it would not do much to insulate Americans from global price volatility resulting from the war in Iran.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with further attacks after the Islamic Republic’s new leader signaled defiance, suggesting there will be no letup in a war that’s upending energy flows and global markets.

“We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Watch what ...Read more

Israel said it’s preparing to expand an incursion into southern Lebanon to fight Iran-backed Hezbollah militants, an escalation that threatens a humanitarian crisis and regional repercussions amid the ongoing Iran war.

Lebanese authorities have called for a ceasefire and offered to directly negotiate with Israel, but have acknowledged their ...Read more

Afghanistan said fresh Pakistani air strikes killed at least four people and hit a fuel depot site of a domestic airline, as fighting between the two sides intensified.

The Taliban government and police said Friday that the targets included a fuel storage site of private airline Kam Air near Kandahar Airport in the south of the country and a ...Read more

MIAMI — Sandra Madjdi remembers fleeing Tehran as a child on the last Pan Am flight out of Iran before the 1979 hostage crisis.

Her family, once living a comfortable life with nannies and chauffeurs, left in fear after her grandfather — a diplomat and congressman with ties to the Shah — was poisoned. The family moved between Turkey, ...Read more

The first bill Missouri lawmakers sent to Gov. Mike Kehoe’s desk would affirm the right of pregnant women to get divorced.

Judges aren’t currently prohibited from issuing divorces to a pregnant couple, but the statute governing dissolutions of marriage includes whether the wife is pregnant in the divorce petition. The inclusion has led ...Read more

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse died from a gunshot to the heart after his body had already been riddled with bullets during the brazen July 7, 2021, attack on his home, Haiti’s top forensic expert testified Thursday in Miami federal court.

Jean Armel Demorcy, one of two of Haiti forensic pathologists, said he performed the autopsy on Moïse...Read more

The Trump administration filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging California’s emissions rules, continuing its fight against the state’s autonomy to reduce vehicle pollutants by using what the federal government calls “illegal” methods.

The suit, filed in Sacramento federal court, argues California’s requirement that all new vehicles sold...Read more

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan but controversial housing bill Thursday that would bring broad changes to California but faces an uncertain future.

The measure, called the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, aims to speed home construction through grants, limits on environmental reviews and reducing barriers for modular housing...Read more

President Donald Trump and Iran’s new supreme leader both struck defiant tones on the 13th day of the war, offering little relief to energy markets despite fresh U.S. efforts to curb oil prices.

The American president said in a social media post Thursday that preventing Iran from having nuclear weapons and threatening the Middle East is “...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Federal, state and local officials largely remained in agreement Thursday that there were no imminent threats to California from Iranian drones.

The warning of a drone strike was first reported by ABC News on Wednesday. The report centered on an FBI alert sent to local police departments about a tip that Iran “allegedly...Read more

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington lawmakers approved a partial rollback of last year's increase in top estate tax rates — the highest in the nation — as Democrats advanced a separate proposal to tax the state’s highest earners.

The Senate voted 39-10 Thursday to pass an expedited measure intended to soften last year’s sharp increase in ...Read more

Republicans in the Florida Senate passed legislation Thursday requiring citizenship verification for all registered voters in the state, a central element of President Donald Trump’s demands for sweeping election-law changes.

The measure also would restrict the kinds of IDs Florida voters can use to identify themselves at the polls. Student ...Read more

A KC-135 refueling plane that was part of the American military campaign against Iran crashed over western Iraq after an incident involving another plane, U.S. Central Command said Thursday night.

“This was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire,” Centcom said in a statement, adding that rescue efforts were underway and that the episode ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — The U.S.-Israeli strikes have significantly weakened Iran and its clerical leadership but cannot guarantee regime change in the country without an internal uprising, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his first press briefing since the start of the war.

“We are creating the optimal conditions for a toppling of the...Read more