WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in negotiations over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal agent was injured during a clash with protesters in Downtown Los Angeles on Friday afternoon, authorities said. The incident occurred as scores of local students walked out of class in protest of the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

Protesters were fighting with federal agents on Alameda Street between ...Read more

Miss Jamaica Gabrielle Henry gave fans an update Friday on her recovery, nearly three months after her devastating fall at the Miss Universe pageant.

In November, the beauty queen was carried off on a stretcher after falling off the stage during the Miss Universe preliminary evening gown competition.

After the fall, the Miss Universe ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s interim guidance on clean energy tax credits released Thursday offered some relief to the industry by laying out a manageable path for new projects. But, it still left investors uncertain.

The industry had been closely watching the long-awaited guidance, which spells out rules for calculating whether ...Read more

The leaders of seven states announced Friday, one day before a Trump administration deadline, that there is still no deal to share the diminishing waters of the Colorado River.

That leaves the Southwest in a quagmire with uncertain repercussions while the river’s depleted reservoirs continue to decline.

Former U.S. Interior Secretary Bruce ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom told world leaders Friday that President Donald Trump’s retreat from efforts to combat climate change would decimate the U.S. automobile industry and surrender the future economic viability to China and other nations embracing the transition to renewable energy.

Newsom, appearing at the ...Read more

The Trump administration spent more than $35 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries they had no connection to, doling out millions of dollars in lump-sum transfers to foreign governments without a system to track how the money was used, according to a report released Friday.

The figures from Senate Foreign Relations Committee ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — You may not have noticed, but that endless snowpack has developed a slow leak — in this case historically slow.

Its endurance continues to climb the charts among the snowpacks of yesteryear — and in at least one way may well be unprecedented in the period of record dating to the late 19th century.

As of 7 a.m. Friday, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had himself a week, just not the kind political observers have become accustomed to, spending much of it behind closed doors while unable to broker a deal with Senate Democrats.

He dissed a Republican icon over trade policy. He backed down on plans to exclude Democratic governors from an annual gathering of...Read more

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York and Republican state officials asked the Supreme Court on Friday to stop a state court order to redraw her Staten Island district ahead of the midterms.

The emergency applications, one from several Republican state officials and another from Malliotakis and a group of voters, argued that the last-minute ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in talks over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following an event...Read more

After a year of refusing to choose between Washington and Brussels, Keir Starmer will shift tone in Munich by edging Britain closer to the European Union and calling for an end to over-reliance on American military support.

In a speech he’s scheduled to make to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, the U.K. prime minister will urge ...Read more

A bipartisan push to let voters amend the Illinois Constitution to reduce politics in drawing state legislative maps has been suspended, with organizers saying the timing is “not ripe” amid a polarized climate shaped by mid-decade congressional gerrymandering wars nationwide.

In a statement released Friday, Bill Daley and Ray LaHood said ...Read more

He was seeking a $500,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein to boost research into how sound — like lullabies or a mother's voice — could reduce pain, stress and heart rates among premature babies hospitalized in neonatal intensive care.

Dr. Mark Tramo, an adjunct professor of neurology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, ultimately ...Read more

NEW YORK — Thirty million dollars in federal funds has finally made it to the coffers of the Gateway Development Commission, the Daily News has learned — ending, for now, nearly five months of funding interference by the Trump administration in the construction of the Hudson River Tunnel.

“The first $30 million has been sent, and we ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly doesn’t expect President Donald Trump administration’s failure to convince a grand jury to indict him and other Democratic lawmakers for a video that told federal troops they can refuse “illegal orders” to at all lower tensions or prevent further actions.

“Sure — the grand jury didn’t indict me a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The federal prosecution tied to an anti-ICE demonstration at a St. Paul church moved ahead Friday, with arraignments held for some of the protesters from the rally and former CNN journalist Don Lemon, who reported on the protest.

Lemon, along with Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, military veteran Will ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson has vetoed an ordinance passed by aldermen earlier this year outlawing unlicensed businesses in Chicago from selling most hemp products.

That means unless aldermen can override it, sales of CBD and hemp-derived THC products will continue and stakeholders will have to return to the negotiating table to try to ...Read more