The U.S. and Iran engaged in a quickening series of tit-for-tat attacks, causing fresh chaos in the Middle East over the weekend after strikes by the Islamic Republic killed two American service members in Jordan.

U.S. forces hit Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf overnight, as well as southern cities including Shadegan, Sirik and Hajiabad, ...Read more

Andy Burnham is set to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in just over a decade on Monday with a number of outstanding questions about who will be in his cabinet and the policy direction he will pursue.

In an address from Downing Street, the incoming premier will pledge to deliver tangible improvements in people’s lives, while stressing...Read more

A second person has died from the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on the Upper East Side, city health department officials announced Sunday.

So far, 72 people have been affected by the outbreak, with 50 of them needing hospitalization, according to health department officials. Nine remain hospitalized, as Health Commissioner Alister Martin ...Read more

Tropical Depression Two formed Sunday morning from a low-pressure system near Florida’s Gulf coast, and it is forecast to become Tropical Storm Bertha within roughly 24 hours, forecasters said.

A tropical storm watch has been issued for Florida from Ochlockonee River to the Alabama border.

As of 11 a.m., the tropical depression was located ...Read more

Smoke from Canadian wildfires returned to Illinois on Saturday night as air quality remained at “unhealthy” levels, according to AirNow, a website that combines data from county, state and federal air quality agencies nationwide.​

Gino Izzi, senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said smoke traveled out of Illinois into ...Read more

After quietly installing a new exhibit at the President’s House overnight this week, President Donald Trump’s administration is upping security at the embattled site on Independence Mall.

George Washington’s Philadelphia mansion is flanked by three mobile surveillance trailers. And in an unusual deployment, U.S. Park Police officers in ...Read more

Four years after Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future fraud scandal emerged, theft from government programs has become impossible for state leaders to ignore as allegations continue to arise.

Even after the initial pandemic-era meal fraud cases involving more than $250 million — with about $75 million recovered by federal authorities so far — ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran engaged in a quickening series of tit-for-tat attacks, causing fresh chaos in the Middle East over the weekend after strikes by the Islamic Republic killed two American service members in Jordan.

U.S. forces hit Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf overnight, as well as southern cities including Shadegan, Sirik and Hajiabad, ...Read more

At least one person was killed in what Ukraine’s foreign minister called the largest ballistic missile barrage aimed at Kyiv since the start of the Russia’s invasion more than four years ago.

“Russia unleashed the largest number of ballistic missiles since the start of the war — around four dozen — in a brutal terrorist attack on the...Read more

With two swoops of his pen, President Donald Trump again razed a decades-long push by tribes and conservationists to preserve two cherished national monuments, dramatically shrinking them in size by about 90%.

Trump, flanked by Utah Republicans on Monday, falsely claimed during the signing that national monument protections have hindered open ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice civil rights division was created in 1957 with an initial focus on combating racial inequality and protecting voting rights.

But in the first two years of President Trump's second term, its mission has been reimagined.

Now, the division is focused on combating diversity initiatives, rolling back pro-transgender ...Read more

Tropical Depression Two formed off Florida’s west coast Sunday, forecast to become Tropical Storm Bertha as it heads up to the Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. advisory, the center of TD 2 was located about 155 miles south of Panama City moving north-northwest at 2 mph with maximum sustained ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A veteran LAPD narcotics detective is suing the city of L.A., claiming he faced retaliation from supervisors and fellow officers after he refused to stop investigating a young woman's suspicious death.

Alexander Tan alleged in his lawsuit, filed July 7 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, that his unwillingness to go along with...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Ten minutes before two powerful earthquakes killed thousands in Venezuela on June 24, Antonella Narváez felt the need to call her mother, Cleudys Yépez. It was a brief conversation.

Yépez and her 12-year-old daughter, Isabella, had returned to Venezuela from the United States on June 1, just more than three weeks before the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge gave John Gotti’s grandson Carmine Agnello a two-month reprieve on his sentencing for a $1.1 million COVID-19 fraud case so he could donate a kidney to his ailing mom, officials said.

Agnello, 39, was scheduled to be sentenced to more than 33 months in federal prison on Monday, but U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat...Read more

Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, infamously known for “teaching” men how to be more dominant, were arrested in Miami on Saturday as part of extradition to the United Kingdom to face a rape investigation involving multiple accusers, officials say.

The U.S. Marshals Service in South Florida arrested the brothers on a sealed ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is exploring the possibility of arresting Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu when he arrives in New York City in September for the United Nations General Assembly.

Mamdani told The New York Times on Saturday that he was in “an active conversation” with the city’s Law Department, probing if he had...Read more

A Cuban dissident and artist arrived in Miami in an unusual prisoner release by the island’s authorities, as Cuba faces an economic pressure campaign by President Donald Trump’s administration.

Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara, a prominent anti-government activist, boarded a flight from Cuba to Miami, according to a Facebook post on Saturday. �...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — It sounds familiar: An incident over a flag has residents of a Minnesota city riled up.

But it’s not the flag you’re probably thinking.

In Marine on St. Croix, a typically tranquil burg of just 700 north of Stillwater, the fuss is about the Prisoners of War/Missing in Action flag. And a council member who took it from the ...Read more

Mexico’s growing fleet of Chinese-made heavy trucks is becoming a new obstacle in its quest for relief from U.S. tariffs, as Washington presses for assurances that its southern neighbor isn’t becoming a backdoor for Chinese manufacturers to enter North America.

The value of Mexican imports of Chinese trucks ballooned more than sevenfold in ...Read more