Ukraine has accumulated $43 billion for its defense industry so far this year between local funding and aid from allies, using it to ramp up the production and purchase of drones, artillery and other weaponry, said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Kyiv has also launched a “Build with Ukraine” program and announced new agreements to be signed...Read more

Romania is heading toward a broad coalition government to tackle the European Union’s biggest budget shortfall after the largest pro-European party voted to join the Cabinet of Prime Minister-designate Ilie Bolojan.

The Social Democrats, which control most seats in parliament, overwhelmingly voted on Saturday to form a new majority with ...Read more

Eli Lilly & Co.’s experimental weight loss pill helped patients shed pounds without serious side effects in a clinical trial, burnishing the drug’s blockbuster potential in the company’s competition with Novo Nordisk A/S.

The highest dose helped patients with Type 2 diabetes lose 7.6% of their body weight, during the 40-week study, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Beginning Saturday, Chicagoans can expect intense heat compounded by muggy humidity for the next several days. The National Weather Service has declared an extreme heat warning in Cook County from 10 a.m. Saturday through midnight Tuesday.

Daytime temperatures may reach 97 degrees on Saturday, with a peak afternoon heat index of 106...Read more

LOS ANGELES – Missed childhood vaccinations. Skipped blood sugar checks. Medications abandoned at the pharmacy.

These are among the health care disruptions providers have noticed since Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations began in Southern California earlier this month.

Across the region, once-busy parks, shops and businesses have ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — New laws from the 2025 legislative session aim to increase accessibility to Nevada’s elections and improve voters’ experiences.

Election reform was a major focus in Carson City, though bills that sought to drastically change Nevada’s elections were blocked by the governor, including legislation to implement voter ID ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 37-year-old U.S. citizen who was tackled to the ground and arrested after filming federal agents at Home Depot on Thursday said he was held for more than an hour near Dodger Stadium, where agents boasted about how many immigrants they arrested.

“How many bodies did you guys grab today?” he said one agent asked.

“Oh, we ...Read more

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