Jail officials are carefully watching Joseph Duggar, who once starred on the TLC reality show “19 Kids and Counting,” following his arrest for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl in Florida six years ago.

Duggar on Friday was being held in a “secure” area of the Washington County Jail in Arkansas while he awaits extradition to Bay ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appointed Richard Lee, one of the City Council’s top budget negotiators, as his Department of Finance commissioner Friday.

The move comes as the mayor and council are in the midst of hashing out the city budget for the upcoming fiscal year — a process that already become tense as the city ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump again lashed out at military allies for not joining the war on Iran or helping to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, expressing frustration as the Islamic Republic kept up attacks on Gulf energy assets.

An intervention by NATO to open Hormuz — a chokepoint for about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flows ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Senate President Bill Ferguson pushed back Friday morning against a proposal by Republican state lawmakers for a 30-day break from the state gas tax as gas prices have risen since the start of the war in Iran.

Ferguson, a Baltimore City Democrat, said that the gas tax accounts for about a quarter of the revenue used for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Researchers investigating the long-term effects of the 2025 firestorms on Los Angeles' beaches have found that rarest of things: good news.

In the year following the Palisades and Eaton fires, levels of harmful metals like lead in coastal sand and seawater have remained far below California’s limits for safe drinking water and...Read more

NEW YORK — A 40-year-old Saratoga County man pleaded guilty to cyberstalking the family of slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The U.S. attorney’s office said Friday that Shane Daley of Galway admitted to leaving multiple threatening voicemail messages with Thompson’s family hours after the 50-year-old Minnesota man was killed in ...Read more

The Justice Department sued Harvard University for allegedly violating Jewish students’ civil rights in the Trump administration’s latest attack on the university.

In the suit filed Friday in Boston federal court, the government claims Harvard failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism during protests that followed the Oct. 7, 2023...Read more

The seven U.S. states that make up the Colorado River basin are struggling to agree on how best to manage the river’s water as its supply dwindles due to climate change and a period of prolonged drought. Their negotiations, which are not open to the public, missed a Feb. 14, 2026, deadline the federal government had established, after which...Read more

Public health advocates have largely applauded a Massachusetts judge’s ruling on March 16, 2026, to temporarily block major changes to vaccine policy made by the Department of Health and Human Services since 2025.

The ruling pauses two major actions ushered in by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. since he stepped into the role. ...Read more

Wars are rarely lost first on the battlefield. They are lost in leaders’ minds − when leaders misread what they and their adversaries can do, when their confidence substitutes for comprehension, and when the last war is mistaken for the next one.

The Trump administration’s miscalculation of Iran is not an anomaly. It is the ...Read more

Iran pressed ahead with attacks on Gulf Arab states even after Israel signaled it would stop targeting the Islamic Republic’s energy infrastructure, further unsettling oil and financial markets.

The United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia said they intercepted missiles and drones overnight and into Friday, while Bahrain reported a fire at a ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump again lashed out at military allies for not joining the war on Iran or helping to unblock the Strait of Hormuz, expressing frustration as the Islamic Republic kept up attacks on Gulf energy assets.

An intervention by NATO to open Hormuz — a chokepoint for about a fifth of global oil and liquefied natural gas flows ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Caif. — A criminal grand jury in Yolo County is investigating the fireworks explosion in Esparto that killed seven workers nine months ago, shortly before the Fourth of July.

Although grand jury actions are conducted in secret, sources with knowledge of the group’s activities — but not authorized to talk about them — said it...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Kentucky House of Representatives on Friday voted to impeach a Fayette County judge after a committee issued articles of impeachment against her earlier this week.

In a 73-14 vote Friday, the House approved the articles of impeachment against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, sending the matter to the Senate for a...Read more

Lawyers for former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, are asking a U.S. federal court to dismiss the criminal case against them, arguing that Washington has violated their constitutional rights by blocking access to funds needed to mount their defense.

In a filing submitted in the U.S. District Court for the ...Read more

The U.S. Treasury Department has included Cuba among the few countries that cannot benefit from a temporal lifting of sanctions on Russian oil, just as a Russian tanker carrying crude is heading to the island in defiance of the Trump administration.

As the price of gas has soared in the midst of the U.S. military conflict with Iran, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is reportedly sending three California-based warships and roughly 2,500 Marines to the Middle East, the second significant deployment in a week.

The three warships are part of the San Diego-based USS Boxer amphibious ready group. The Marines are from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, based at Camp Pendleton. The ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis rebuked some of Florida’s top law enforcement officials Thursday, criticizing their calls to Congress and President Donald Trump to work on a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants.

“This idea that unless you’re an axe murderer you should be able to stay, that is not consistent with ...Read more

MIAMI — Building along the water’s edge comes with consequences as the sea rises, and for decades the first line of defense against flooding has been concrete seawalls.

Now, the state is leaning into another approach: “living shorelines” such as mangrove forests, oyster reef restoration and hybrid options like 3D-printed walls.

Gov. ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA’s newest class of astronaut candidates just found out what people will call them.

The tradition of the previous astronaut class — the Flies — bestowing the name the following class has continued, according to a Thursday press release from NASA.

The 10 candidates of NASA’s 24th astronaut class, chosen in 2025 and ...Read more