U.S. embassies across the Middle East urged Americans to exercise caution after President Donald Trump said he was considering new military strikes against Iran.

The warning came as Tehran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, said Saturday that a continued U.S. naval blockade and any escalation would not ...Read more

NEW YORK — It’s been six months since Nancy Guthrie, mother of “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie, was last seen alive, and her family is still desperate for answers.

“Every day, we wake up and try to be strong and go on — because that’s what our joyful and resilient Mom taught us to do. But make no mistake — our hearts are in...Read more

MODESTO, Calif. — Attorney Matthew Begoun had just arrived at the Stanislaus County Superior Courthouse with his client, the man’s wife and their infant child when four plainclothes federal immigration agents appeared.

The hearing July 22 was expected to be routine. Begoun’s client, 23-year-old Eduardo Mijail Gallegos Jaimes, had posted ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Like he had a dozen times before, Jim Watt stood behind the lectern and addressed Florida’s wildlife commission.

“Good day, commissioners,” he began.

“As you know, my name is Jim Watt, and this is my 13th time in front of you, pleading with you to stop killing our wildlife and destroying their habitats with dangerous ...Read more

Every year, millions of pilgrims walk from the deserts of southern Iraq to the holy city of Karbala for Arbaeen, one of the largest annual pilgrimages in the world. In 2026, pilgrims will converge on Karbala on Aug. 5.

Arbaeen falls 40 days after Ashura, which commemorates the killing of Husayn ibn Ali, a grandson of the Prophet ...Read more

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed an amendment Thursday would prohibit government bodies from compelling journalists to reveal their sources as the Bay State remains one of nine in the U.S. without a press shield law.

Amendment 17, added to the Senate’s version of broader public records legislation passed by the House (H....Read more

A pilot safely ejected from an F-35B jet before it crashed Friday morning at the U.S. Marine Corps’ Air Station Miramar in San Diego, according to military officials.

Military crews responded to what the Marine Corps called “an aircraft mishap” around 10 a.m., according to a statement from 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing spokesperson Maj. Larry ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is appealing a court order barring him from attempting to use a sweeping audit-immunity settlement that resolved his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.

Trump filed a notice of appeal in federal court in Miami on Friday, the latest twist in a lawsuit he filed in January that made him ...Read more

HAMPTON, Va. — NASA officials and state leadership cut the ribbon Friday on the agency’s first new wind tunnel in more than 40 years as the agency undergoes a wave of consolidation.

The Flight Dynamics Research Facility at Langley Research Center is a 25,000-square-foot facility that aims to play a major role in providing research for ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was detained and arrested by federal immigration authorities while boarding a domestic flight at BWI Marshall Airport this week, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to The Baltimore Sun.

Fatima Ameaka, a research associate at the...Read more

BOSTON — The mother of fallen State Police Trooper Kevin Trainor is seeking $20 million in damages, alleging negligence by the Saugus restaurant that served an intoxicated patron who caused a fatal crash.

Barbara Trainor has filed a wrongful death civil complaint in Essex County Superior Court against Tribu Mexican Kitchen & Bar and its ...Read more

Federal water managers on Friday announced a 10-year plan to manage the critical Colorado River that opens the door to unprecedented water supply cuts to three states and will require near-constant negotiation between water users in the river basin.

The report made public Friday is the culmination of years of intense and divisive negotiations ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, on Friday demanded a public hearing on the question of which reporters will get to cover his highly anticipated murder trial and asked for an overflow room to host a bigger audience.

In a letter to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he’s losing confidence in Iranian negotiators, the latest sign that the renewal of armed hostilities in the Middle East could drag on.

Speaking during a Cabinet meeting on Friday, Trump took issue with missile attacks that Iran launched earlier this week against U.S. forces in Jordan that ended a ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A legislative inspector general’s investigatory report released Friday found disgraced former state Rep. Harry Benton violated state law by engaging in sexual harassment, and it also revealed the existence of a third female victim, a staffer for another state legislator who said Benton’s “creepy” behavior in a ...Read more

New York state authorities sued the predictions-market company Kalshi Inc. for allegedly running an illegal, unlicensed gambling operation in the state, marking another legal hurdle for an industry that has won support from the Trump administration.

The suit, filed Friday in state court in Manhattan, alleges that Kalshi’s prediction market ...Read more

MIAMI — An OnlyFans model accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death inside a luxury Miami high-rise will change her plea, her attorney announced Friday.

Courtney Clenney, 30, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in her second-degree murder case, attorney Frank Prieto said in a statement. Clenney is accused of stabbing her boyfriend ...Read more