WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s deal with Moscow on its diesel exports and his praise for Vladimir Putin are just the latest in a string of Russia-related news that has sparked public criticisms from Republicans weeks ahead of a midterm election that increasingly favors Democrats.

Trump has said he is working with the Russian ...Read more

European officials warned that President Donald Trump’s deal to increase Russia’s diesel sales will boost Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine, pressing for more U.S. sanctions instead.

“We would call on U.S. to put the sanctions in place so that actually we could finish this war, so that all the effects of these attacks on refineries would ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Nearly a year after last-minute efforts to save the ship and two years since it departed Philadelphia waters, the SS United States is about to set sail on its final voyage.

The 990-foot retired ocean liner that stayed docked for three decades at Pier 82 will become the world’s largest artificial reef. Officials in Okaloosa ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Private businesses risk an onslaught of congressional investigations if Democrats prevail in midterm elections as the opposition party prepares to concentrate sweeping oversight powers on allegations of Trump administration corruption and public anger over the cost of living.

Companies including Amazon.com Inc. and Nvidia Corp. ...Read more

U.S. companies exported $231.7 million in fuel to private companies in Cuba from January through August 2026, making the United States the main fuel supplier to Cuba as the Trump administration continues to block oil shipments to the island’s government.

The Trump administration cut off Cuba’s oil supply this year, stopping shipments from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On the first full day on Capitol Hill last month after senators returned from an extended recess, John Fetterman did not show up for his first scheduled committee meeting.

Like dozens of times before, it was not clear where the Pennsylvania senator was while the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee voted on his behalf ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is set to launch a cargo mission to the International Space Station before dawn Tuesday that could bring a sonic boom to Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the CRS-35 mission topped with a crew Dragon spacecraft is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 6:33 a.m. ...Read more

Sean "Diddy" Combs' stay in federal prison has taken yet another turn. The disgraced music and alcohol mogul has been hospitalized after suffering a head injury, the Los Angeles Times has learned.

Combs, 56, is receiving treatment for the head injury, sources say. A representative for the fallen Bad Boy Records founder said in a statement to ...Read more

MIAMI — Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido, accused of helping orchestrate massive corruption and money-laundering schemes involving billions of dollars in Venezuelan government contracts, is expected to make his first appearance in Miami federal court Tuesday after reportedly being handed over to U.S. authorities by the government of acting ...Read more

From an airplane, most of the glaciers of the Rocky Mountain West look like small patches of white nestled into rugged landscape where the topography folds. The white is the snow cover, and lower down you can see the gray-blue bare ice.

In the middle of the 20th century, over 1,450 glaciers could be found in the contiguous U.S. ...Read more

California isn’t a place most Americans associate with tropical weather, but it’s taking a beating in 2026 from one of the most active eastern Pacific hurricane seasons in modern history.

For the second time ever, national forecasters issued a tropical storm watch for Southern California as Tropical Storm Rachel headed toward the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The University of California, San Diego has paused at least five clinical trials designed to cure or control HIV after the National Institutes of Health issued guidance last week that new enrollments should be put on hold.

The nation’s foremost research funding agency told scientists “they should temporarily hold off on ...Read more

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is facing one of his most serious challenges since rising to power almost a decade ago as the kingdom grapples with the fallout from fatal attacks by Houthi militants.

For years, the de-factor ruler of the Middle East’s largest economy has been on a mission to ...Read more

CHICAGO — A person was sexually assaulted early Sunday morning at an off-campus party near the University of Chicago, officials said.

The victim reported the assault at 2:10 a.m., roughly 30 minutes after it occurred, and did not know the suspect, according to a university incident report. The party was held at 5625 S. University Ave. in Hyde...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs was reportedly taken by ambulance for medical treatment early Saturday for a head injury suffered in a fall at the federal prison where he’s serving time.

It was not clear where he had been treated or how exactly he had hurt his head, TMZ reported. Sources at Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institute in New Jersey told ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, bucking a tradition long observed by previous mayors, declined to march in the Columbus Day Parade on Monday.

The parade, and more broadly, the observance of Columbus Day, have come under controversy in recent years. Italian explorer Christopher Columbus’ hero status has been undermined by his own violent ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Monday is expected to announce a sweeping review of the NYPD’s use-of-force policies while announcing changes he says will improve police accountability.

The changes include the implementation of a new system that would make sure officers complete any ongoing disciplinary processes before they retire — a...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A trio of storms since early September has put considerable strain on the historic Long Beach boardwalk, which collapsed further between 64th and 65th Place on Seaside Walk during a weekend of heavy surf.

The city's public works team and its Parks, Recreation and Marine bureau were working to secure it, putting up sandbags and ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV will not present an inaugural Villanova University sustainability medal in his name, as he is slated to undergo surgery in the coming days to remove a small growth discovered in his lung.

The 71 year-old pontiff said during his regular Sunday address in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City that doctors had detected a nodule “at a...Read more