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

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The raging debate over standardized test requirements in the University of California’s admissions policy may soon enter the California State Capitol.

In a letter to university leadership, two Republican lawmakers urged the University of California system to move quickly to reinstate the use of SAT and ACT scores in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A long-running dispute between cemeteries and bike-lane and safe streets advocates in the San Fernando Valley has escalated to become a campaign issue in the Los Angeles mayor's race.

The fight revolves around a one-mile stretch of Forest Lawn Drive — a commuter route linking the Valley and Hollywood — and the main road ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Alderman Byron Sigcho-López’s former wife claimed he spent “incredible” amounts of their money on prostitutes and pornography, according to divorce records that were recently unsealed ahead of his reelection campaign launch.

Sigcho-López denied his ex-wife’s allegations Friday. And he alleged the Coalition Opposing...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva urged Donald Trump to resume negotiations over U.S. tariffs on Brazil during a Friday phone call, seeking to soothe relations with Washington ahead of the country’s October election.

The leftist Lula pushed back on U.S. allegations of unfair trading practices that led to the imposition of 25% tariffs on ...Read more