A Republican lawmaker questioned President Donald Trump’s decision to cut short a joint military exercise with South Korea, saying the US should show more allegiance to a longtime Asian ally.

The U.S. and South Korea agreed to curtail this month’s military drills after Trump ordered a reduction of such joint exercises in a social media post...Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will apply counter-tariffs on $20 billion of U.S. products on Sept. 8, escalating the feud rocking one of the world’s biggest trading relationships.

“We take this step reluctantly,” Carney said Saturday, acknowledging it will raise costs and reduce choice for Canadians, hit innocent U.S. companies, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The mountain lions have won the day in Woodland Hills, as oppostion to building nearly 400 residences on a local golf course stalled a real estate developer's plan to turn the private club into a residential community.

Woodland Hills Country Club, a century-old golf course near the Santa Monica Mountains in the San Fernando ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The first week of evidence in the trial of the man accused of orchestrating the killing of Tupac Shakur brought a few moments of drama and engaging testimony, but little new information.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, is the only person ever prosecuted in connection with the 1996 shooting near the Strip that fatally wounded the ...Read more

President Donald Trump made more than 1,000 securities trades in June, including significant purchases of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Visa Inc., Mastercard Inc. and Cintas Corp., according to a financial disclosure published Saturday.

The transactions totaled between $78.1 million and $263.1 million in the filing published by the U.S. Office of ...Read more

The U.S. Postal Service finalized a rule that would add extra hurdles to mail-in voting, pressing ahead with one of President Donald Trump’s priorities even as court orders keep the push on hold.

The new rules deviate slightly from Trump’s original plan. The Supreme Court is still weighing a lawsuit challenging the order from a California-...Read more

President Donald Trump’s envoy for Syria and Iraq issued a stern warning after Israel’s recent strike on a long-shuttered military base near the Turkish border, invoking the downing of a Russian jet more than a decade ago that escalated regional tensions.

Raising the possibility that Israel was baiting Turkey with the Aug. 18 airstrikes in...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s stunning eleventh-hour guilty plea to federal stalking charges is expected to send him to prison for decades, but the risky gambit might result in his release before his 60th birthday.

Mangione on Aug. 14 admitted in Manhattan Federal Court to stalking UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson with the intent to kill ...Read more

Haitian police are investigating the killing of a U.S. citizen who headed security for one of Haiti’s largest and best known employers and was found stabbed to death inside his office Port-au-Prince.

Michael Gallagher, the head of security for Compagnie des Tabacs Comme Il Faut S.A., was found dead of stab wounds at the cigarette company ...Read more

President Donald Trump is betting new sanctions, a naval blockade and ramped-up economic pressure against Iran’s trading partners can accomplish what thousands of bombs and missiles could not: force Tehran to accept a deal to end the war on U.S. terms.

But like other U.S. efforts to force Iran into capitulation, there’s one main problem: ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Alex Anderson and Meg Nohner were driving through the heart of Minneapolis on a recent weekday when they got a call from headquarters: A woman was talking to herself outside a business on Lake Street.

Part of the city’s behavioral crisis response team, Anderson and Nohner arrived to find a tall woman wearing bright blue yoga ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Early last year, while he was being held in a San Diego County jail, John Wilson accused a sheriff’s deputy of a kind of excessive force that body-worn camera footage might have made quick work of proving or disproving: He said he had been pushed while handcuffed, causing him to plunge down a flight of stairs.

But his March 2025...Read more

When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the atmosphere to our ears.

When that energy reaches the ground, some of it is converted into seismic waves that ripple through the soil and rock beneath. The resulting vibrations are ...Read more

NEW YORK — Telling Central Synagogue members, “I stand with you,” New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch on Friday called last week’s attack at the Midtown house of worship, for which a man was charged with federal hate crimes, part of a “broader pattern” of bias attacks against Jews in New York City and around the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A 7-year-old Labradoodle named Honey was shot and wounded while on a walk with her owner in Brooklyn, police said Friday.

Honey, hit in the shoulder, was taken to an area animal clinic where she was treated and is expected to recover.

It was not immediately clear if the gunman was aiming for the dog, her 62-year-old owner or ...Read more