The U.S. and Iran traded attacks again on Friday, pressuring oil prices and making a quick return to the fragile ceasefire deal signed last month even less likely.

Nearly a week of back-and-forth strikes by both sides has expanded beyond strictly military targets to include bridges, utilities and port facilities. U.S. Central Command confirmed...Read more

At least 178 million Americans are breathing in smoky air, enduring high heat or contending with catastrophic flooding. That’s more than half of the U.S. population.

About 151 million people living from the northern Rockies to the Mid-Atlantic and down to the Gulf Coast are again experiencing high heat Friday, according to Bob Oravec, a ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s prime time speech on supposed shortcomings in the nation’s election systems failed to deliver any significantly new evidence and didn’t cast doubt on his loss in the 2020 presidential election.

The 25-minute address to the nation from the White House was billed as exposing “shocking vulnerabilities in our ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Washington reels from the unexpected death of Sen. Lindsey Graham last weekend, his office on Friday released dates for expected memorials later this month, both in the nation’s capital and back in his home state of South Carolina.

Taylor Reidy, who served as the late senator’s communication director, said Graham’s “...Read more

The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sought the public's help in locating an escaped prisoner who was captured in Mexico last week but was released by a Mexican magistrate.

State correctional officials said Miguel Banuelos, 49, walked away from a prison camp — Washington Ridge Conservation Camp — in Northern ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump is expected to campaign in Michigan ahead of the state's Aug. 4 primary election, according to three sources with knowledge of the Republican leader's plans.

The sources spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to discuss the president's travel publicly. They said the ...Read more

The number of cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan topped 5,000 on Friday, a 16% increase over figures a day earlier.

The reporting of new cases follows Thursday's news that the outbreak of the parasitic illness has been traced to shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell by Taylor Farms, a worldwide fresh food provider, according to a ...Read more

James Smith, a veteran seaman and captain of the charter fishing boat California Dawn, was sailing his vessel under the Golden Gate Bridge on Tuesday when he heard the call on his radio: A vessel was in distress near Alcatraz Island.

From a distance, Smith saw what looked like steam or smoke rising from a speck in the water. As he sped to the ...Read more

Public health officials are investigating a major California-based producer of pre-packaged salads, Taylor Farms, that supplied iceberg lettuce to Taco Bell as a potential source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak, sources have told multiple news outlets.

The parasitic disease has made thousands of people sick with debilitating bouts of diarrhea ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced Friday that her longtime chief of staff, JoAnne Huls, will be departing the key role in state government at the end of the month.

Huls has been a fixture within the Whitmer administration since the Democrat was first elected to lead the state in November 2018. Whitmer's new chief of ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities were reporting no immediate damage after a strong earthquake struck in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the southern state of Chiapas, resulting in shaking hundreds of miles away in Mexico City.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake — with a magnitude of 7.3 — occurred at 8:48 a.m. Mexico City time...Read more

A brush fire burning in the Everglades in far western Broward County has consumed more than 4,400 acres as of Friday morning.

The fire, dubbed Mile Marker 40, was reported on Thursday west of U.S. 27 about 10 miles north of Interstate 75. The fire is considered 20% contained.

Smoke has been visible mostly in the area near the flames so far, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday night used a historically stunning primetime address to peddle unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, taking a major political risk as Republicans fight for their congressional majorities and conjuring warnings from Democrats about November’s midterms.

Trump ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the middle of what experts expected to be a “very sharky” summer, a program that tracks great whites and helps beachgoers stay safe will soon run out of money.

Since 2018, the California Beach Shark Safety program at Cal State Long Beach has tagged great whites in local waters and shared their locations with lifeguards. ...Read more

As federal officials consider whether to reclassify marijuana under federal drug law, a new study has found that more American teenagers seeking treatment for cannabis use disorder, known as CUD, are facing longer wait times before receiving care.

The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, analyzed national data from ...Read more

DETROIT — Canadian wildfire smoke endangering Michigan's air quality also continues to cause activity cancellations and facility closures on Friday.

Cities across Metro Detroit shut down beach areas, splash pads, and pools because of the air quality. Greenfield Village remained closed for a second day, along with Red Oaks water park in ...Read more

CHICAGO — The National Weather Service expects wildfire smoke to leave northern Illinois sometime Friday afternoon.

Zachary Yack, meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said there’s potential for some smoke to later drift back into sections of northeastern Illinois, northern Illinois and northwest Indiana as Friday turns into the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland is under a Code Red air quality alert Friday due to Canada and northern United States wildfire smoke drifting south, Gov. Wes Moore announced in a statement.

Western Maryland, in particular, is under Code Purple, which means very unhealthy air quality, officials said. Residents should take extra precautions while the ...Read more

Organizations serving American Indian and Alaska Native survivors of violence say reductions in federal funding have led to over 1,000 unmet requests for help, according to a new report.

The Urban Indian Health Institute, an Indigenous health research group, surveyed 201 tribes, tribal organizations and urban Indian organizations and nonprofits...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan's Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy has extended the Air Quality Alert for all of the state through Friday due to "Very Unhealthy to Hazardous" air quality conditions caused by smoke from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota.

The state's Air Quality Alert remains in effect through midnight, meteorologists with...Read more