WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump expressed displeasure with the current state of negotiations with Iran but stopped short of threatening fresh military action in the nine-week conflict that’s triggered a global energy crisis.

“They want to make a deal but I’m not satisfied with it,” Trump told reporters at the White House Friday. �...Read more

Gov. Kathy Hochul is pushing to keep the immigration agent who killed a Minneapolis woman out of New York.

The governor whipped off a letter to border czar Tom Homan demanding information about the reported “reassignment” of ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who has been named as the killer of unarmed mom Renee Nicole Good as she tried to drive away...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday that significantly hardens sanctions on the Cuban government, authorizing sanctions on foreign companies and banks that do business with Cuba.

The broad executive order expands the embargo on Cuba to authorize blocking the U.S. assets of “any foreign person” that operates in key Cuban ...Read more

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier confirmed Friday that a criminal probe is underway into the deaths of sloths at Sloth World, a planned International Drive attraction that will not open after animals languished and perished in warehouses owned by the company in Orlando.

The criminal investigation is being led by the Orange-Osceola State ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — One man was arrested and about $4 million in stolen cargo — televisions, shoes, printers and the nicotine pouches sold by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson — were recovered after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department served a search warrant in Vernon.

Carlson had millions of dollars worth of boxes filled with ...Read more

Prenatal exposure to PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” is linked to acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, in a new study led by the University of California, Irvine.

“Forever chemicals” is a catch-all term for a group of about 14,000 man-made compounds linked to cancers and fertility issues, so named because they ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is arguing to lawmakers that President Donald Trump does not need to disengage troops from the conflict with Iran in order to comply with the War Powers Act because an extended ceasefire has effectively ended military hostilities.

The Trump administration faced a Friday deadline under the 1973 law that is designed...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration signaled a renewed effort to end New York’s congestion pricing program Friday, filing an intent to appeal a March decision in Manhattan Federal Court that found federal efforts to curb the program were “an abuse of discretion.”

The two-page memo, filed midday Friday by attorneys with Trump’s ...Read more

Standing behind a placard declaring Florida “the education state,” Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday signed into law two measures that make it harder for teachers to collectively bargain pay and working conditions.

The first item (SB 1296) changes the rules for how unions can win and retain their certification, mandating that at least half of all...Read more

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, announced an increase in the country’s “comprehensive minimum income” to $240 a month, a move the government described as the largest in recent years but which critics say does little to offset soaring inflation and the continued erosion of real wages.

Rodríguez, who took office ...Read more

Barry Christian, a President Donald Trump-supporting state Senate candidate in Oklahoma, was found dead in his truck two days after he seemingly disappeared, authorities said.

Christian, one of three Republicans vying for a seat in District 38, was last seen alive on Tuesday in the city of Sayre, located some 20 miles east of the Texas border, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The family of the teenage girl who was killed and dismembered, allegedly by rising musician D4vd, said they were shocked and horrified by the details revealed in court this week, according to a statement released by the family attorney.

In a court brief filed Wednesday, Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman alleged that David ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate has advanced its version of the Protect Act, which would limit ICE capabilities and operations in the state by prohibiting agents from making civil immigration arrests in courthouses and on state-owned property and ban any new 287(g) agreements, among other things.

Those cooperative 287(g) agreements allow ...Read more

Caribbean politician Gaston Browne has won a historic fourth term as prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda, leading his Labor Party to a historic landslide victory and unprecedented fourth term late Thursday night.

The party won 15 of the parliamentary seats in the eastern Caribbean island-nation in an election dominated by concerns over rising...Read more

Trouble in Palm Beach paradise?

We heard Bettina Anderson’s garden-themed bridal shower at Mar-a-Lago went swimmingly. But as far as her wedding to Donald Trump Jr., all bets are off.

According to widespread media reports, their nuptials, which were originally thought to be on the fast track, are now on pause.

Sources close to the couple ...Read more

While the idea of a special tax on millionaires is hotly debated across the country, Maine state Rep. Cheryl Golek characterized her state’s new tax as a modest and reasonable step toward fairness.

That’s because, she said, working- and middle-class households in Maine — including teachers, firefighters and nurses — are paying effective...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan judge has dismissed felony charges against a former township clerk and a prominent Republican lawyer accused of allowing a breach of sensitive voter data.

In May 2024, Attorney General Dana Nessel's office first accused lawyer Stefanie Lambert and former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott of providing an analyst ...Read more

May 1, 2026, marks the 60th day of Operation Epic Fury in Iran – a symbolically significant date designating when a president who has mounted unilateral military operations must receive Congressional approval or wind it down.

However, the complex history of the War Powers Resolution clock demonstrates it is a toothless milestone....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sarina Hosseiny said she had never heard of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian general assassinated by the U.S. in 2020.

That is, not until this year, when threatening comments cropped up on social media claiming that she and her mother were relatives of Soleimani and were terrorists who should be deported.

The 25-year-old, who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Animal activists are pressing the Los Angeles City Council to continue funding a program that provides exercise and play time for dogs confined in city animal shelters.

Under a $1.6 million annual contract with the city, a nonprofit group called Dogs Playing for Life ensures that shelter dogs get out of their kennels for walks, ...Read more