UNITED NATIONS — President Trump threatened to “annihilate” Iran if it fails to negotiate a deal over its nuclear program, delivering a defensive speech justifying the mission at the United Nations on Tuesday.

His remarks come more than six months into a war that has grown increasingly unpopular at home, with fewer than a third of ...Read more

In one of the most dramatic bouts of rapid intensification of a hurricane in the eastern Pacific Ocean on record, Hurricane Polo has exploded into a major Category 5 storm, with more strengthening expected through the day.

As of late Tuesday morning, Polo had maximum winds of 180 mph and was located off the coast of southern Mexico. For ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for accused double-murder defendant Alex Murdaugh are asking a state judge to require prosecutors to release key evidence in the case.

The evidence they seek concerns DNA, ballistics and other material and information from prosecutors in the case.

The reason defense attorneys seek such evidence is to bolster their ...Read more

CHICAGO — For the past 30 years, descendants of Jewish art collectors whose works were looted by the Nazis during World War II have sought to reclaim stolen works of art.

On Tuesday, the Art Institute of Chicago announced it is returning a 1913 painting, “Woman with a Fan” by Jean Metzinger, to the heirs of its original owner.

“What is...Read more

NEW YORK — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday ratcheted up the tension with Mayor Zohran Mamdani ahead of his visit to New York City later this week, saying he was going to “tell the truth” about Mamdani during his address to the United Nations General Assembly.

The video leveled heavy accusations against the mayor, saying ...Read more

Presley Gerber was reportedly taking ketamine prescribed by a doctor when he died in a southern California rehabilitation center.

An unnamed doctor was giving the dissociative drug to the 27-year-old son of supermodel Cindy Crawford and businessman Rande Gerber, despite his past issues with the substance, according to TMZ.

Friends of Gerber’...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday threw out rules restricting protesters from the steps of the U.S. Capitol, finding that they violated the free speech rights of demonstrators.

The 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that U.S. Capitol Police Board restrictions on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sea turtles have been sighted laying eggs on the sand in Huntington Beach — the first known instance of a sea turtle of any species spontaneously nesting on the U.S. West Coast.

On Sept. 16, Huntington Beach Fire Department Marine Safety lifeguards were notified of a sea turtle sighting near Seal Beach. When they investigated,...Read more

The government of Turks and Caicos has intercepted another overcrowded boat from Haiti attempting to drop off migrants.

Members of the British overseas territory’s marine branch, working with U.S. maritime operations personnel, intercepted the illegal vessel early Tuesday inside their territorial waters, the Royal Turks and Caicos Islands ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is working with Senate leadership to get health care fraud legislation over the finish line before the end of the congressional session, Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday during an announcement about cracking down on health care fraud.

As part of that announcement, Vance said the Trump administration has ...Read more

The 20-year-old social media lifestyle influencer known as Clavicular is accused of drugging and raping a teen in Massachusetts.

Braden Peters, who popularized the vanity practice called “looksmaxxing,” is also charged with procuring alcohol for a minor, according to Orleans District Court criminal complaint.

Prosecutors said in a Sept. 8 ...Read more

NEW YORK — As autumn arrives, a rare September nor’easter could bring coastal flooding, high winds, rain and coastal erosion to the region and potentially disrupt travel, meteorologists warned Tuesday.

A full moon’s tides will exacerbate the situation, the National Weather Service noted.

The storm’s path depends a bit on which weather ...Read more

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The mistrial in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial earlier this month places her future in doubt, three years after she killed her three children in Duxbury, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s unapologetic and chest-thumping address Tuesday before the U.N. General Assembly signaled an aggressive lame-duck foreign policy that will continue to reframe the world order.

He stepped to the lectern in the massive hall in New York City for the fifth time — his 2020 General Assembly address was ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner is asking a court to grant him access to a trust fund set up by his parents so he can defend himself on charges he killed them, arguing the money was owed long before the slayings, according to court filings that were recently made public.

Reiner, 32, said he wants $558,000 that the trust was supposed to disburse ...Read more

President Donald Trump said his administration is seeking “a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba,” which he described as “an absolutely failed state” that “will fall” during a speech Tuesday at a United Nations gathering of world leaders in New York.

Trump said Cuba is “under great pressure, the biggest pressure they’ve ...Read more

Nick Reiner is continuing to push for access to his family trust, specifically the portion left directly to him by his grandfather, Hollywood legend Carl Reiner, and not his slain parents.

Reiner has been repeatedly blocked from accessing the fund, which is worth roughly $1.6 million. Despite being the only beneficiary listed, the fiduciaries ...Read more

MIAMI — The U.S. Coast Guard stopped a boat off the Florida Keys smuggling people from China, Ecuador and the Dominican Republic last week, federal agents say.

The Coast Guard and U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations began tracking the twin outboard engine 27-foot cabin cruiser late last Tuesday, Sept. 15, as the ...Read more

Controversial manosphere influencer Clavicular, who amassed a following with his looksmaxxing content, is facing felony charges apparently in connection to his alleged rape of a 16-year-old girl in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Clavicular, born Braden Eric Peters, was charged earlier this month with one felony count of rape and one felony count for ...Read more

BOSTON — A lawyer for the lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy trial is calling a motion to look into his client’s background, “disgusting,” saying it’s an attack on the U.S. Constitution.

“The Looney Tunes motion filed ... by Kevin ‘Shooter McGavin’ Reddington to investigate Michael (Peguy Desronvil) is not just an attack ...Read more