The brother of the man who carried out Thursday’s attack at a West Bloomfield Township synagogue was a Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli airstrike days earlier, the Israel Defense Forces said Sunday.

The IDF tweeted a post on X that identified the commander as Ibrahim Muhammad Ghazali, saying he managed weapons operations in a ...Read more

It takes 20 minutes to find out if you have HIV.

On a Monday in March, Dulce Delgado, a 37-year-old woman living in a tent on a hill, held out her hand. Prizma Mercado, a member of a roving medical team called Healthcare in Action, pricked a finger. Blood welled up on the skin and Mercado dropped a small amount onto a test strip.

The timer ...Read more

A group of Bay Area billionaires has poured $35 million into a campaign to block a proposed California wealth tax, backing three ballot initiatives designed to kill or weaken the measure.

The billionaires have put $35 million into a new political action committee called Building a Better California that is gathering signatures to put on the ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran signaled no letup in fighting as President Donald Trump dangled the possibility of negotiations to end a conflict that’s brought shipping in the strategic Strait of Hormuz to a near standstill and upended energy markets.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the Islamic Republic hasn’t asked for talks or a ceasefire...Read more

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s supporters packed central Budapest in a show of strength a month before elections that polls show could spell the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

Backers of Magyar’s Tisza party lined the capital’s Andrassy Avenue for more than a mile on Sunday ahead of the April 12 vote. ...Read more

A top aide to President Donald Trump said the Pentagon estimates the Iran war, now in its third week, would take between four and six weeks.

Kevin Hassett, head of the White House’s National Economic Council, offered the timeline along with a caveat that the ultimate decision on when the war will conclude lies with Trump. He was among several...Read more

A 55-year-old man died after a man he bumped into on a Penn Station subway platform punched him in the face, sources familiar with the incident said Sunday.

The two men were walking near each other when the victim bumped into the attacker on the uptown C and E platform about 6:55 p.m. Saturday, sparking an argument, the sources said.

The ...Read more

In addition to the specific revelations in the files released by the Department of Justice on the Jeffrey Epstein case, another takeaway emerges: the sheer breadth of the convicted sex offender’s reach.

The millions of documents released to date contain references to individuals and groups from seemingly everywhere, including Maryland, where ...Read more

In one of his latest missives on social media, President Trump complained that he wasn't getting enough credit for "totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise."

"We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time," he wrote of a war that has crippled the global supply of oil, ...Read more

John “Gabe” Horneff, an orthopedic surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital, had noticed a peculiar trend: Some patients taking GLP-1s would come in with significant tendon injuries from relatively minor physical excursion.

For example, some suffered tears in the rotator cuff in the shoulder area while doing simple housework like vacuuming or ...Read more

Prime Minister Viktor Orban ratcheted up his anti-Ukraine rhetoric, casting next month’s Hungarian election as a choice between sticking with him or installing a puppet of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Orban, the European Union leader who is closest to Russia and also an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, told a crowd outside the Hungarian...Read more

After two weeks of war with Iran, the Trump administration is being forced to temper its expectations of a swift end to the conflict, with U.S. intelligence and defense officials expressing doubt it can achieve the overthrow of Iran's government and the destruction of its nuclear program through military means.

It was an outcome forewarned by ...Read more

Trade negotiators led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng began talks in Paris on Sunday to map out plans for a leaders’ summit later this month.

The trade negotiators are expected to review the latest developments in a truce reached in November and discuss ...Read more

Blizzards, wildfires and thunderstorms are swirling toward the eastern U.S. having knocked out power to thousands and grounded hundreds of flights across the Midwest.

Heavy snow touched off blizzard warnings from South Dakota to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, high winds are shaking power ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the three years since Los Angeles County declared an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency, mask sales have dwindled, unopened tests have expired in their boxes and people have returned to in-person school, work and socializing.

But for thousands of L.A. County residents living with the complex, chronic condition known...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A prominent civil rights attorney who represented the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin announced he’s gathering evidence for a possible federal discrimination lawsuit against Los Angeles County over its response to the Eaton fire.

Attorney Ben Crump has joined the growing ranks of officials and ...Read more

Companies competing for workers to build data centers are finding that a motel room with sluggish Wi-Fi isn’t much of a draw. Try free steaks and golf simulators.

As data-center development has exploded with the rise of artificial intelligence, competition for water and power supplies is pushing construction further into rural areas that ...Read more

Venezuela needs more than money to revive its battered oil industry.

It needs a sprawling diaspora of oil workers who fled the Caribbean country under President Nicolás Maduro to return. Even with the former strongman now sitting in a U.S. jail, that’s a hard sell.

Twenty years of repression and economic collapse forced many geologists, ...Read more

ST. PETER, Minn. — Mercedes checked her phone again, waiting for her husband to call from the detention center.

Forty-one days earlier, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had detained Paco as he walked to his car. Mercedes said she had watched from the window of their mobile home as agents handcuffed him.

Paco was undocumented...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A 34-year-old Kentuckian is among the six American service members who died in a plane crash in Iraq on Thursday.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt was assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., according to a Saturday news release from the Department of Defense.

Pruitt is the ...Read more