From missiles and uranium to critical minerals and sports diplomacy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi used a three-nation tour to deepen India’s Indo-Pacific partnerships as regional powers strengthen ties amid China’s growing influence and uncertainty over U.S. engagement.

In recent weeks, Modi has stepped up engagement across the Indo-Pacific...Read more

Marine Le Pen extended her lead in a voter preference poll ahead of next April’s French presidential election after appeal judges cleared her to enter the race for a fourth time by shortening a previous ban on her standing.

The far-right National Rally candidate would get between 34% and 35.5% of the vote in the first round if it were to take...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After a late lunch with his wife in West Hollywood, Miguel Angel Aguilar got in his white convertible 1959 Chevrolet Impala and headed home to Bel-Air. He didn't notice the gray Acura sedan that tailed him through rush-hour traffic on Sunset Boulevard.

In the Acura were four young men who'd driven from Oakland to Los Angeles in ...Read more

SEATTLE — Federal regulators will force the removal of toxic, highly corrosive chemicals from a defunct and leaking pulp mill along the Chehalis River, officials confirmed this week.

Either Richard Bassett, the U.K. businessman who owns Cosmo Specialty Fibers, must start removing vast quantities of these chemicals from the site this month or ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s top legislative leaders and Gov. Josh Shapiro have reached a $50.8 billion budget deal, more than a week after a new state budget was due at the start of the fiscal year, according to two sources briefed on the closed-door conversations.

Details of the contents of the overall budget deal were not immediately...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia-area Democrats criticized President Donald Trump’s recent promotion of Freedom Fuel gas stations in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as an effort to fool people about the high price of fuel rather than a long-term solution to the problem.

“This appears to be a PR stunt of some sort, which is designed to distract ...Read more

Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling five New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

Cuba suffered a nationwide blackout on Friday, the second in less than a week, as the communist-run country grapples with an aging power grid, chronic fuel shortages and the threat of further U.S. sanctions that have already hampered access to fuel and financing.

Authorities have activated protocols to recover service, the Energy Ministry said...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, renewed his call for Mitch McConnell, the senior Republican senator from his state, to release information about his health after he was hospitalized on June 14 and hasn’t been seen publicly since.

“Let’s end the crazy speculation,” Beshear wrote on social media. “Just tell us ...Read more

The Trump administration finalized a rollback of the Endangered Species Act on Friday, paving the way for drilling, mining and other human development across protected wildlife habitats.

The move redefines "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, the landmark conservation law that protects threatened and endangered plants and animals. For years...Read more

Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said armed Israeli settlers detained him and other U.S. citizens during a recent tour of the occupied West Bank in an incident that is thrusting the California congressman into the international debate over human rights in the Palestinian territories and U.S. foreign aid to Israel as he openly weighs a 2028 presidential...Read more

Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling four New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

A U.S. humanitarian worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo has tested positive for Ebola and will be sent to Europe for treatment, the religious humanitarian aid group Samaritan’s Purse said Saturday.

The person has worked with the group’s disaster response team for 15 years and has been in Congo for the past month, the group said in a...Read more

ST. LOUIS — More than 350 people have been rescued from flooded areas of southeast Missouri as of Saturday morning, officials said.

One woman from Crawford County, Faith Gregory, 23, was found dead at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, the Crawford County Sheriff’s Department said.

Gregory was discovered by volunteer searchers in Huzzah Creek about 1.8 ...Read more

BEULAH, Colo. – Tom Laca doesn’t remember much about the first day and night of the Aspen Acres fire. But he remembers the explosions.

“We had so many propane tanks exploding, so many things exploding that by the end of the night we didn’t even flinch when things went boom. Just, nothing hit me, we’re good to go, we continue on,” ...Read more

After nearly a decade of mounting heat-related deaths, Arizona’s Maricopa County, one of the nation’s hottest and most populous counties, finally saw its first drop in fatalities in 2024 and again in 2025.

But 2026 will be a crucial test. That’s not only because the county faces another brutally hot summer, but also because it's the final...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The owner and operator of the Keystone Pipeline has agreed to pay over $26 million for violating the Clean Water Act after the pipeline’s rupture in Washington, Kansas.

On behalf of the state and the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed settlement with South Bow LP and South Bow...Read more