Oil and liquefied natural gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the past two weeks reached the highest level in six months, signaling that U.S. naval protection and mine clearance efforts are “paying off,” a regional U.S. commander said.

“Clearly, momentum is building,” Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, said in ...Read more

The U.S., Denmark and Greenland struck a security deal that expands Washington’s role on the Arctic island, ending for now a long-running diplomatic spat without ceding land to the U.S.

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration had reached an agreement handing the U.S. “permanent control over security” in Greenland. ...Read more

MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday after President Donald Trump said he would bar the outlets.

CNN called the move “an illegal assault” on the constitutional rights of news organizations to report without hindrance from government and all three outlets pledged to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Flock cameras are under new scrutiny in the Senate as a privacy backlash against the law enforcement technology grows.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s panel on Crime and Counterterrorism will hold a hearing on Wednesday focused on the automated license plate readers, subcommittee Chairman Josh Hawley, R-Mo., announced Friday. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Proposition 5 would overhaul how successors are picked during recall elections, something California politicians have frequently faced in recent years.

Since 1913, state elected officials in California have faced 182 recall attempts according to the Secretary of State’s Office. Only 11 received enough support to qualify...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Open government advocates spent the last six months pushing a Leon County circuit court for records related to the Hope Florida grand jury, convinced the state is covering up one of the biggest scandals in its history — the diversion of $10 million in Medicaid settlement funds to Republican political activities.

They are...Read more

LANCASTER, Pa. — Amish families peer into Roberta Devers’ Honda Passport as she drives between prenatal checkups along the rolling hills of Lancaster County. They ask her increasingly frequent questions about the vaccine: Do you have some measles in your car?

Devers, 63, works as a traditional midwife in communities at the epicenter of ...Read more

California community colleges will be able to offer bachelor's degrees that duplicate programs at California State University and University of California schools, clearing the way for the biggest change in decades to degree-granting authority at the state's public university systems, under legislation approved Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A bill that could pave the way for many state workers to have a more flexible telework policy has been vetoed by the governor.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday vetoed the bill. The Legislature could overturn it with a two-third vote in each chamber that is a threshold it met earlier this year when it originally passed in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Iran war has cost $43.6 billion as of this month, the highest official estimate to date, the Pentagon told Congress’ defense oversight panels this week.

The cost estimate comes as polls show Americans increasingly oppose the war, partly over its impact on the economy, and the issue is looming large as the November midterm ...Read more

DENVER — Foreign actors gained access to two small water utility systems in Colorado late last month, state officials confirmed, just weeks after hackers with suspected links to Iran had attempted to access similar systems elsewhere in the United States.

It’s unclear who the actors were or if the attempted interference was related to the ...Read more

President Donald Trump declared Friday that he is banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House “effective immediately,” an extraordinary escalation in his ongoing feud with the news media.

The action marks the latest salvo in a campaign against the press that has already won him multimillion-dollar settlements from two networks, ...Read more

DENVER — It’s déjà vu for the Colorado Legislature, which once again faces the prospect of having to close a budget deficit exceeding $1 billion.

Lawmakers on the powerful Joint Budget Committee received the new projection Friday when economists for the nonpartisan Legislative Council Staff and the governor’s office presented their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he reached an agreement with Denmark over Greenland that would give the U.S. “permanent control over security” for the Arctic island, but without specifying the terms of any pact.

Trump announced the deal on social media Friday, saying that the arrangement was one that addressed “ALL of our many ...Read more

NORFOLK,Va. — Gov. Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order Friday that addresses data center expansion and sets stricter standards.

Executive Order 22 bans state agencies from entering into or requiring non-disclosure agreements for data center projects, creates a new AI task force and directs the state to develop environmental ...Read more

President Donald Trump is making plans to meet Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York as early as next week, a potentially significant encounter after months of rapidly expanding cooperation between Washington and Caracas, according to the Axios news site.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States had reached an agreement with Denmark over Greenland that he said would give the U.S. “permanent control over security” and that addressed U.S. concerns over the territory.

Trump announced the deal on social media Friday, saying that the arrangement was one that addressed “ALL ...Read more

Oil fell for a third straight session amid shifting concerns about Middle East supply, with Saudi Arabia pausing some sales to Europe though traders and analysts saying buffers still hold for now.

The global benchmark edged 0.9% lower to settle near $104 a barrel, cementing a narrow loss for the week. Saudi Aramco is working to partially ...Read more