Iran said it targeted three oil tankers using an unauthorized route through the Strait of Hormuz, as well as a number of U.S.-linked ships, in retaliation for American attacks on Iranian tankers over the weekend.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy gave no further details about the incidents, nor did its Telegram post late Saturday ...Read more

Iran and the U.S. carried out what appeared to be their largest tit-for-tat tanker strikes yet over the weekend, pushing oil prices higher as both nations continue to escalate a six-month war that has disrupted shipping and stoked global inflation.

Iran said it hit three U.S.-linked ships taking an unauthorized route through the Strait of ...Read more

Democratic Representative Haley Stevens blasted the “erratic” tariff war that President Donald Trump started with Canada, saying her home state of Michigan is bearing much of the economic fallout from the trade dispute.

“They are really exhausted,” Stevens said on Bloomberg Television’s Bloomberg This Weekend, referring to ...Read more

An armed individual lunged at Amy Acton, the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, at a county fair on Sunday, drawing swift condemnation from her Republican opponent and Governor Mike DeWine.

Acton was speaking to a small group of people inside the Mahoning County Democratic Party tent at the Canfield Fair outside of Youngstown when there ...Read more

Angelenos avoided the most significant impacts of Hurricane Marie over the Labor Day weekend, but the region continued to soak up the fringes of the storm Sunday, according to meteorologists.

Most parts of L.A. County will take on about a quarter-inch to an inch of rain as the storm continued to fizzle out over the Pacific Ocean, according to ...Read more

Five people died and five more were injured after an Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, causing a full ground stop that halted all flights for hours.

The Federal Aviation Administration said flight 7598 from Miami-based cargo transportation company 21 Air, a Boeing 767-300, departed from San Juan, Puerto...Read more

For decades, China’s maritime pressure on Taiwan centered on the major shipping strait separating the two neighbors. Now, Beijing is piling unprecedented pressure on its Pacific coast — a vital lifeline with U.S. allies.

China has deployed on average two Coast Guard cutters per month east of Taiwan since June, after Japan and the ...Read more

A magnitude 3.2 earthquake struck near the city of Compton early Sunday morning, delivering light shaking to the southern Los Angeles area.

The temblor jolted the area at 12:13 a.m., with an epicenter about three miles south-southeast of Compton. People reported feeling shaking as far away as Santa Clarita, according to the United States ...Read more

Democratic Representative Haley Stevens blasted the “erratic” tariff war that President Donald Trump started with Canada, saying her home state of Michigan is bearing much of the economic fallout from the trade dispute.

“They are really exhausted,” Stevens said on Bloomberg Television’s Bloomberg "This Weekend," referring to ...Read more

An Amazon cargo plane crashed at Miami International Airport Sunday afternoon, causing a full ground stop that halts all flights.

Anyone heading for the airport to fly out or pick up passengers should check with the airline. Also, Northwest 67th Avenue is closed from 25th Street to 36th Street.

The FAA said flight 7598 from Miami-based 21 Air,...Read more

Britain’s Labour Party said Nigel Farage should take responsibility for fresh allegations about illicit funding that enveloped his Reform UK party as members gathered for its annual conference last week.

The insurgent leader denied that his party received foreign donations in a BBC interview on Sunday. His remarks came after two of his aides ...Read more

Ukraine is resigned to Russia’s war dragging on through another tough winter and is looking for a “package” from allies that would cover air defense reinforcements as well as energy, including U.S. liquefied natural gas.

Zelenskyy spoke to reporters after talks in Kyiv with President Donald Trump’s negotiating duo, Jared Kushner and ...Read more

Weeks after thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants saw the end of their protected status in the U.S., exposing them to ICE arrest and deportation, more than 170,000 people from El Salvador now face the same fate.

And soon.

Temporary protected status for the Central American nation is set to end on Sept. 9, a deadline that’s provoked ...Read more

The seven people wounded by gunfire in Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Shoreline Plaza apartment building in downtown Minneapolis ranged from residents to building staff to police officers who rushed to the scene. Two who lived there were killed by gunman and fellow resident Carlton Johnson II before he was killed in an exchange of gunfire ...Read more

U.S. Navy escorts that are helping tankers cross the Strait of Hormuz are essential to sustaining crude flows through the waterway, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday, suggesting they won’t end anytime soon.

“We’re getting a lot of ships through, but of course it requires the U.S. military to do that,” Wright said on CNN’s ...Read more

Though Hurricane Marie continues to weaken in the southern Pacific Ocean — and is expected to remain hundreds of miles off the Southern California coastline — the region can still expect to feel some effects from the storm over the next few days.

Tropical moisture began to move into the region Saturday night, bringing the chance for some ...Read more

Iran said it targeted three oil tankers using an unauthorized route through the Strait of Hormuz, as well as a number of U.S.-linked ships, in retaliation for American attacks on Iranian tankers over the weekend.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy gave no further details about the incidents, nor did its Telegram post late Saturday ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump’s envoys in Kyiv, a day after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held talks with Moscow with President Vladimir Putin in pursuit of a way to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The trio, along with Ukraine’s negotiating team, are now meeting with top national security ...Read more