Israel killed Iran’s top generals in predawn attacks on Friday, paralyzing Tehran’s military decision making in what may prove to be the opening act of a prolonged war.

Among those killed were Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff Mohammad Bagheri and Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Both men were appointed ...Read more

AMMAN, Jordan — Israel launched a punishing air campaign on Iran early Friday, killing some of the upper echelons of Iran's military leadership along with parts of its nuclear infrastructure. The strikes prompted swift retaliation with what Israel's military said was an attack involving more than 100 drones, even as Iran vowed it was the ...Read more

Floods killed at least 78 people after record rainfall in South Africa’s impoverished Eastern Cape province.

On June 9, a winter storm dropped 129 millimeters (5.1 inches) of rain on the town of Mthatha, close to Nelson Mandela’s burial site, nearly doubling the previous record, according to preliminary data from the South African Weather ...Read more

Investigators are combing the wreckage of Air India flight AI171 to determine what caused the Boeing Co. Dreamliner to crash Thursday, killing all but one of the 242 people aboard and resulting in the deadliest aviation accident in more than a decade.

On Friday morning, one of the two so-called black boxes, which contain critical evidence of a ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump urged Iran to accept a nuclear deal to avoid further attacks, hours after Israel bombed the Islamic Republic’s atomic facilities and killed some of its top commanders.

“There is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end,” Trump said on Truth ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Vendors were selling a variety of colorful national flags in downtown L.A. on Wednesday, but Axel Martinez settled on one with with Old Glory on one half and the Mexican flag on the other.

The 26-year-old was born in the U.S., raised in Mexico City and returned to the States because of the opportunity, he said. On Wednesday, he...Read more

Major changes could be in store for the more than 24 million people with health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, including how and when they can enroll, the paperwork required, and, crucially, the premiums they pay.

A driver behind these changes is the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” the name given to spending and tax legislation designed ...Read more

MIAMI — As Cubans on both sides of the Florida Straits come to terms with what a new U.S. travel ban means for their families’ hopes to reunite, many have flocked to social media in anguish — including children — seeking help.

“President Trump, I ask you to please reconsider family reunification for residents,” said a 10-year-old in...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — In a late-night order Thursday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals paused a court order that would have required President Donald Trump to return control of the thousands of California National Guard troops in Los Angeles to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The 9th Circuit’s emergency stay came hours after U.S. District Judge Charles ...Read more

Israel launched waves of airstrikes against Iran’s nuclear program and ballistic-missile sites on Friday morning, a major escalation in the standoff between the two adversaries that risks sparking a wider war in the Middle East.

Explosions were heard across Tehran and in the city of Natanz, home to one of its nuclear sites, according to ...Read more

President Trump signed a memo intended to save the lower Snake River dams in Eastern Washington on Thursday, reversing Biden administration actions that helped support efforts to remove the hydroelectric dams.

Trump said in a memo that his administration was “committed to protecting the American people from radical green agenda policies that ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to “return control” of the California National Guard to Gov. Gavin Newsom after the president issued an extraordinary order deploying them to Los Angeles over the weekend.

U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer, presiding over the case, granted ...Read more

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey issued a harsh warning Thursday to protesters who use violence in his county: “We will kill you graveyard dead.”

Speaking at a news conference with Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, Ivey said peaceful protests “are part of our democracy” and allowed, but anyone who uses violence or interferes ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is developing a plan to use Cold War-era powers to prioritize and fund rare earth projects it deems critical to national security, people familiar with the matter said.

Officials are discussing using the Defense Production Act to tap financing, loans and other means for rare earths element-related ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom said President Donald Trump “can’t push this state any longer,” after a federal judge ruled the president must return control of the California National Guard.

“Today’s order makes clear that he is not above or beyond constitutional constraints,” Newsom said in a news conference just minutes after the order was ...Read more

Former Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has requested the International Criminal Court in The Hague for his interim release, three months after he was arrested for alleged crimes against humanity under his controversial war on drugs.

Duterte, 80, is not a flight risk and a certain government has agreed to take him in during the interim ...Read more

An Air India flight bound for London crashed Thursday, killing all but one of the 242 people on board the Boeing Co. Dreamliner in the deadliest aviation accident in more than a decade.

The airline confirmed that 241 of those on the London-bound flight had died. The sole survivor is being treated in a hospital, the carrier said.

Officials ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The defense for Bryan Kohberger, the man charged with killing four University of Idaho students, appears to have requested a ”special investigation” into alleged leaks in the case in an episode of NBC’s “Dateline” last month.

Prosecutors in the case filed a response Wednesday to the defense’s motion regarding a ...Read more