BEIRUT — The Israeli infantrymen advanced up to the hilltop in the dead of night, punching their way in a bare-knuckle, eyeball-to-eyeball fight against entrenched defenders until they reached their target: Beaufort castle.

It was June 6, 1982, and by its end and many casualties later, Israeli troops raised the flag over the hilltop Crusader...Read more

Soon after Donald Trump Jr. posted a glossy, heavily produced video of his Bahamas island wedding to Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, many culturally savvy followers noted a number of striking similarities between their ceremony and a much more famous wedding that also starred the son of an American president 30 years earlier.

“Looks ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday was reportedly planning to scrap his $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund that critics deride as a corrupt slush fund for MAGA allies and Jan. 6 attackers.

With both Democrats and even Republican allies objecting to the fund, the White House was planning to yank the controversial fund, Axios reported, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Challengers to Alabama’s latest redistricting push urged the Supreme Court on Monday not to let the state use a congressional map in this fall’s elections that a lower court found likely discriminated against Black voters.

The groups, including voters and Democratic officials in the state, argued the justices should keep the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The check was relatively small — just $15,000 — but within the Los Angeles Police Department it seemed to go a long way.

The funds came last year from the LAPD Valley Bureau Foundation, a nonprofit that supports police causes in the San Fernando Valley. The organization has donated sporadically in recent years, according to ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed a bill allowing Coloradans to sue for damages sustained from the widely discredited practice of “conversion therapy” and issued an executive order that seeks to ensure the state doesn’t fund efforts to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity.

The legislation — HB 26-1322, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge ordered the United States to pay $15,800 in legal fees in the immigration case of a man who claims he suffered a severe head injury while being taken into custody during Operation Metro Surge.

In an order filed Friday, U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank determined the circumstances surrounding the immigration case...Read more

DENVER — Tina Peters was released from a Pueblo prison Monday after a commutation from Gov. Jared Polis ended both her 20-month incarceration and a months-long pressure campaign by President Donald Trump.

The former Mesa County clerk left the La Vista Correctional Facility before the press arrived Monday morning, her attorney said, just over ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ sweeping property tax relief proposal could leave public school districts facing billions in lost local revenue with no guaranteed replacement funding.

While the Republican governor has pitched his plan as a path toward giving property tax relief to 92% of homesteaded Floridians, lawmakers and Senate ...Read more

NEW YORK — As the first year of a ban on cellphones in New York schools comes to an end, a new survey on Monday showed the policy was broadly popular among educators and beneficial for students.

The survey of 585 teachers and principals statewide found 80% said the ban has “delivered positive results for their school,” according to the ...Read more

A once-popular gambling mecca at the California-Nevada border that faded into obscurity could get a second life.

A Las Vegas-based truck-stop company is reportedly hoping to revive Primm to its former glory. But the would-be comeback faces a hurdle: striking a deal with the landowners, the Primm family.

In an interview with the Las Vegas ...Read more

NEW YORK — State lawmakers in Albany are set to give New York City an additional two years to implement a law mandating smaller class sizes, an extension that will help Mayor Zohran Mamdani balance the city’s budget by saving the school system more than $500 million.

The 2022 state law phases in new class sizes caps between 20 and 25 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah agreed to stop attacking each other in Lebanon and that talks with Iran were continuing after fresh violence threatened negotiations to end the Middle East conflict.

Trump said he had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and representatives from Hezbollah, ...Read more

BOSTON — The Boston Public Library’s series of drag queen story hours for families in celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month has raised concerns from the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts.

C.J. Doyle, the executive director of the independent Catholic advocacy group, says he fears that the scheduled events are a “demonic assault on the ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is promising a replacement ordinance for the conversion therapy ban the City Council recently repealed.

Lucas, in a virtual town hall on Sunday, said that new proposed legislation could be made public as early as Monday. He said a new version of the ordinance would be “among the toughest in...Read more

OBEID, Sudan — Its illicit journey begins in the blood-soaked orchards of central Sudan before being spirited to ports across Africa and then to the U.S. and Europe.

By the time it ends up in everything from M&Ms to medicines to makeup, few consumers or businesses know they're contributing to the world's worst humanitarian disaster.

Gum ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer on Monday vowed to block President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund, which critics deride as a corrupt slush fund for MAGA allies and Jan. 6 attackers.

The minority leader outlined plans to launch “a coordinated effort to kill the slush fund before one cent goes out the door” in a letter to ...Read more

Celebrity lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella unexpectedly topped the first round of Colombia’s presidential vote, as Latin America heads into another highly polarized election.

The conservative outsider is in a strong position to become the nation’s next president when he faces leftist Senator Iván Cepeda, an ally of current President Gustavo...Read more

A U.S.-funded Ebola isolation facility under construction in Kenya became the focus of protests after a court temporarily blocked the project pending a review of its potential health risks.

President William Ruto’s administration will build the facility at a U.S. airforce base 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of the capital, Nairobi, the ...Read more

DENVER — Tina Peters was released from a Pueblo prison Monday morning after a commutation from Gov. Jared Polis ended both her 20-month incarceration and a months-long pressure campaign by President Donald Trump.

Her release was confirmed Monday morning by Adrienne Mazzone, spokeswoman for Peters’ legal team. Alondra Gonzales-Garcia, ...Read more