In the aftermath of powerful storms that killed four people and damaged property in southwest Michigan on Friday, victims and their advocates are asking for help.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has declared a state of emergency for Branch, Cass and St. Joseph counties following the storms that ravaged the region Friday afternoon. At least three...Read more

RICHMOND — More than 60 data center-related bills were introduced in the General Assembly this legislative session. About half have been continued to next year or left to languish in committee. Some advocates worry the legislation that does pass this year will not do enough to rein in data center growth they say could strain Virginia’s ...Read more

Senator Paloma Valencia is on track for a landslide in the primary held by Colombia’s conservative movements, positioning among the favorites to become the nation’s next president.

With 77% of ballots tallied, Valencia had 46% of the vote, trouncing eight other candidates and boosting her chance of successfully challenging the hardline ...Read more

For most of his 56 years, Mojtaba Khamenei has kept a low profile in the Islamic Republic, quietly building networks of influence in the country’s security apparatus, its clergy and within its wealthy business elite. As he steps into his father’s shoes, he faces not only a U.S. and Israeli war machine bent on his downfall but a population in...Read more

Authorities are investigating potential terrorism links to two suspects in custody over what New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said was an improvised explosive thrown near Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence, people familiar with the investigation said.

“The NYPD Bomb Squad has conducted a preliminary analysis of a device that ...Read more

Hours after Donald Trump threatened to expand strikes on Iran and hit Beijing’s strategic partner “very hard,” China’s top diplomat took the stage before the world’s press and declared this could be a defining year for U.S.-China ties.

“When the two sides treat each other with sincerity and good faith,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi ...Read more

A Miami activist accused by Cuban authorities of masterminding a terrorist attack vowed Sunday she will not stop fighting while men detained after a deadly shootout with Cuba’s coast guard remain imprisoned.

“God willing, and very soon we can embrace our brothers in a free Cuba,” said Maritza Lugo Fernández at a press conference in front...Read more

ICE’s plan to vastly expand its national detention network has faced a wave of bipartisan blowback, scuttling multiple planned warehouse conversions across the country.

Rumored sales or leases to Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been abandoned in places such as Mississippi, Tennessee and New Hampshire in part due to local elected ...Read more

Vote counting has started in Colombian primaries that will produce three candidates — one each from the conservative, leftist and centrist blocs — who will go on to face hard-line front-runners Iván Cepeda and Abelardo de la Espriella in May’s presidential election. Voters are also choosing members of the Senate and the lower house of ...Read more

Advocacy groups that want to see the equivalent of an Amber Alert system created for missing seniors and vulnerable adults are urging Michigan lawmakers to pass legislation that would pave the way for such alerts, though bills appear to have stalled in Lansing.

And the sponsor of one such bill said the longer it lingers without passing, the ...Read more

Most Allegheny County residents likely are unaware of a narrow stream with rust-colored water that meanders beneath roadways and private property in Mon Valley communities, including Elizabeth Borough and Forward Township.

Ultimately making its way to the Monongahela River, Fallen Timber Run is one of many polluted streams in the county — ...Read more

Parts of the terminal at Kansas City International Airport (MCI) were evacuated Sunday afternoon as a precaution after the airport received a bomb threat, officials with the Kansas City Aviation Department said.

Airport police were working with members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to substantiate any potential threat, officials said ...Read more

UNION CITY, Mich. — Mackenzie Day and her family watched the tornado form over Union Lake, the area that bore the worst of the powerful storm system that swept through southwest Michigan on Friday.

The area of northwest Branch County was under a tornado watch, not a warning, so Day’s mother said they didn’t have to seek immediate shelter ...Read more

President Donald Trump is weighing the option of deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium, as officials grow increasingly concerned the stockpile may have been moved, according to three diplomatic officials briefed on the matter.

The U.S. and Israel struck key nuclear facilities during last June’s 12-...Read more

TALLAHASSEE – With five days left in its regular 60-day session, the Florida Legislature has yet to do the one thing required by the state constitution — pass a balanced budget. Missing deadline will mean the Legislature will go into extra innings as it did last year.

And it looks like the atmosphere of distrust created over last year’s ...Read more

A long-awaited critical habitat plan for Minnesota’s fuzzy, chubby and endangered rusty patched bumblebee may be delayed for a few months longer.

The Trump administration has asked a federal judge for another extension in completing the court-ordered plan, which could provide an extra layer of protection for the nearly extinct bees in urban ...Read more

Floridians likely to vote in this year’s midterm elections are deeply divided over President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration, polling shows, and a majority disapproves of the way ICE is handling its job.

The University of North Florida poll found likely midterm election voters were split evenly, with 48% approval and 49% disapproval ...Read more

President Donald Trump is weighing the option of deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium, as officials grow increasingly concerned the stockpile may have been moved, according to three diplomatic officials briefed on the matter.

The U.S. and Israel struck key nuclear facilities during last June’s 12-...Read more

Iran picked a new supreme leader and kept up attacks on the ninth day of the war in the Middle East, hitting a water plant in Bahrain, while Israel struck fuel depots in Tehran and threatened the Islamic Republic’s power grid.

The attacks overnight into Sunday came as Arab states across the Persian Gulf continued to face incoming missiles and...Read more

The Defense Department last week outlined a concise set of military objectives in President Trump's war against Iran, claiming its ultimate goal is to dismantle Tehran's ability to project power beyond its borders. Yet it may be targets the Pentagon has largely left unacknowledged that offer the clearest insight yet into Trump's true intentions....Read more