WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon on Monday released new photos and a timeline that it said bolstered U.S. accusations that Iran was behind a pair of attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week.

The report provides more details about the attacks that have heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran, which has denied involvement in the ...Read more

MIAMI -- A Miami man was taken into custody Monday morning after witnesses told police he argued with his father, then shot and killed him as the two wrestled on the ground on Father's Day.

Marcus Sakers, 32, who state records show has been arrested on battery charges at least eight times over the past decade, was charged with second-degree ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday allowed Virginia to prevent mining of the largest deposit of uranium in the United States, in an opinion that highlighted sharp divisions among the justices about how they should evaluate the motivations of lawmakers.

The case turned on the regulatory line between state and federal authority over the ...Read more

CAIRO -- Ousted former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, imprisoned since the military removed him from office in 2013, died Monday after collapsing during a court hearing, state television reported.

The country's first democratically elected president and a leader of the now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement, the 67-year-old California-...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles police investigators are reviewing whether an off-duty officer who opened fire in a Costco store in Corona, killing a man described by his family as having an intellectual disability and wounding two of the man's relatives, violated any department policies in the shooting, officials said Monday.

The LAPD officer, who ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Family and friends continued to search Monday for a Gold River, Calif., man who has been missing for a week, after his van was found at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center on the west end of Lake Natoma.

Vijay Kumar, also known as Vijay Singh, 59, has been missing since the evening of June 10, his wife and a family friend ...Read more

MIAMI -- For the second time in three months, a North Miami police officer took the stand to insist he had no choice but to shoot at a severely autistic man holding a silver toy truck, inadvertently hitting the man's unarmed caretaker.

Officer Jonathon Aledda told jurors on Monday that he believed that Arnaldo Rios Soto, sitting in the middle ...Read more

PEORIA, Ill. -- An FBI agent testified Monday that investigators have not been able to corroborate Brendt Christensen's claim that he killed 12 people before the abduction of Chinese scholar Yingying Zhang at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017.

In a recording played for jurors Friday, Christensen tells his then-girlfriend, ...Read more

HONG KONG -- It seemed impossible to conceive Hong Kong could produce a more unpopular leader than Leung Chun-ying, the hapless one-term chief executive who was despised for refusing to negotiate with activists during the 2014 pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests.

Enter Carrie Lam, the career civil servant who's now at the center of Hong ...Read more

CAIRO -- Egypt's deposed Islamist president Mohammed Morsi collapsed in court on Monday and died, state television reported.

His body was taken to a hospital.

Morsi became Egypt's first democratically elected president in 2012, one year after an uprising forced long-time leader Hosny Mubarak out of power.

In mid-2013, Morsi, a member of the ...Read more

Right now, neurologists don't have one test that can identify multiple causes of inflammatory neurological diseases such as encephalitis and meningitis. But UC San Francisco researchers say their new DNA test hunted down more of these pathogens than any conventional test did in a newly released study.

Inflammatory neurological diseases are rare...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. -- An outdoor recreation center in North Carolina defended its policies that some people on social media have called racist and discriminatory.

A Facebook user posted a photograph of the pool rules for the Outdoor Recreation Center in Wendell on Sunday. One rule says "no baggy pants, no dread-locks/weaves/extensions or revealing ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders are hoping this week will produce a breakthrough in negotiations over emergency funding for the migrant crisis at the southern border so they can pass it before the Independence Day recess.

President Donald Trump has requested Congress pass a $4.5 billion supplemental to help the Department of Homeland ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- At least six people were shot and wounded, one fatally, during a graduation party in Southwest Philadelphia Sunday night, police said, capping a brutal Father's Day weekend of violence that included 15 other shootings across the city.

The graduation party shooting occurred around 10 p.m. on 70th Street near the Finnegan ...Read more

SAN DIEGO -- The Rancho Bernardo man who is charged with the shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue that killed one person and injured three others told investigators he had developed a hatred for Jews in the previous 18 months, and according to a federal search warrant.

John T. Earnest, 19, was also described in an affidavit by an FBI agent...Read more

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn its long-standing rule that permits both federal prosecutors and state attorneys general to bring charges for the same crime, despite the Constitution's shield against double jeopardy.

The 7-2 decision preserved a rule that allowed federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against ...Read more

Just minutes after fulfilling his wife's final wish – scattering her ashes in Stone Lake in Indiana – Ralph Seichi Miyata collapsed in the water and later died, joining her first into the lake and then into the afterlife.

Married for 64 years, the couple lived most of those years in LaPorte, Ind., where they enjoyed Stone Lake, part of the ...Read more

An 8-year-old boy was taken to a North Carolina hospital Sunday after he was attacked by a shark, Bald Head Island officials said.

Paramedics responded to a call about a shark bite at about 4 p.m., WECT reported.

The boy was in the ocean when the shark grabbed him by the leg, causing multiple puncture wounds, according to Spectrum News.

The ...Read more

BUENOS AIRES -- Argentinian authorities are trying to clarify the reasons for a massive blackout that left about 50 million people in South America without electricity.

The malfunction in a network serving both Argentina and Uruguay left the two countries almost completely without power and also affected parts of Paraguay, Chile and Brazil on ...Read more