WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump weighs whether to join Israel’s assault on Iran, foreign policy veterans and analysts argue that a negotiated settlement, not bombs nor commandos, is the only way to eliminate the threat of Tehran gaining a nuclear weapon.

“I don’t believe there’s a lasting military solution to the Iranian ...Read more

China’s coast guard said it drove away a Philippine ship around Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, the latest friction in a longstanding rivalry in the strategic waterway.

“The China Coast Guard gradually took necessary measures such as shouting warnings, following and forcing, and water cannon warnings to drive away the Philippine ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Vice President JD Vance on Friday castigated California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, arguing that the elected leaders are endangering the lives of law enforcement officers because of their opposition to federal immigration raids in Los Angeles and surrounding communities.

Vance, while meeting with federal,...Read more

BOSTON — Israeli Consulate employees are on high alert after “anti-Jewish” flyers with staffers’ personal details were distributed in the city.

Boston Police are investigating after they responded to a Jewish establishment in Brighton this week for a report of a threat.

A piece of mail to the Jewish institution contained a letter with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials on Friday finalized regulations aimed at making it more difficult to enroll in health insurance through the Affordable Care Act.

The rules will limit the time frame for people to sign up for health insurance through the exchanges and cancel a monthly opportunity for people with incomes below 150% of...Read more

BOSTON — Juror No. 1, the foreman in the Karen Read retrial, told The Boston Herald there was no “a-ha moment” in the grueling case that he said wasted the taxpayers’ money on paper-thin evidence that failed to bring any comfort to the victim’s family.

The unforgivable fact that investigators didn’t swarm the house at the murder ...Read more

NEW YORK — Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was released Friday evening from a rural Louisiana detention center, more than three months after the Trump administration detained him for protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Judge Michael Farbiarz in New Jersey earlier had granted Khalil’s request for bail after ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz instructed him to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Walz could run for the U.S. Senate, according to two people familiar with the contents of the letter.

The letter is the clearest evidence yet of Boelter�...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — State criminal investigators were inside the Green Isle home of Vance Boelter within hours of the political shootings he’s charged with carrying out, scooping up guns by the dozens, a stash of money and disguises, according to a new court filing.

A search warrant affidavit in connection with the predawn shootings Saturday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Vice President JD Vance arrived in Los Angeles on Friday as part of a surprise visit to a region hit by a series of federal immigration raids that have sparked protests and defiance from residents and local officials.

His office said in a statement that Vance would tour a multiagency Federal Joint Operations Center, a Federal ...Read more

BOSTON — President Donald Trump said his administration has been holding talks with Harvard University and may announce a deal over the next week, potentially ending a standoff that has jeopardized billions of dollars of the school’s funding and ignited a rollicking legal fight.

“They have acted extremely appropriately during these ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On Friday morning, more than 50 community and religious leaders from around Los Angeles signed a petition that called on the Los Angeles Dodgers "to take a public stand against the indiscriminate ICE raids which are causing immense terror in our communities, hurting businesses, and separating families."

By Friday afternoon, the ...Read more

Terrance “T.A.” Dixon, once a hype man to rapper Fat Joe, has sued his former employer for $20 million, making some allegations that might blend right in at Sean “Diddy” Combs’ RICO and sex-trafficking trial.

The federal lawsuit, filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York and reviewed by the Los Angeles...Read more

ATLANTA — An Atlanta doctor and his clinic must pay $2.25 million to a couple after posting to his public Instagram account graphic videos of their decapitated baby during an autopsy, a jury has decided.

Dr. Jackson Gates and his business, Medical Diagnostic Choices, were found liable by default in the lawsuit brought against them by Jessica ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge in New Jersey on Friday ordered the immediate release of Palestinian Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil more than three months after the Trump administration detained him for protesting against Israel’s war in Gaza.

Judge Michael Farbiarz granted Khalil’s request for bail and said the order would go ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than 50 community and religious leaders from around Los Angeles signed a petition Friday that called on the Dodgers “to take a public stand against the indiscriminate ICE raids which are causing immense terror in our communities, hurting businesses, and separating families.”

“This is the moment for the Dodgers to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — In a rambling, conspiratorial letter addressed to the FBI, alleged assassin Vance Boelter claimed he needed to kill U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar so that Gov. Tim Walz could run for the U.S. Senate, according to two people familiar with the contents of the letter.

The letter is the clearest evidence yet of Boelter’s mindset after ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A Minnesota lobbyist accused of sending text messages threatening to shoot people at the state Capitol now faces a felony charge.

Jonathan Michael Bohn, 41, of Woodbury, has been charged with threats of violence after allegedly sending a string of “threatening and disparaging” messages to an acquaintance, the Carver ...Read more