India begins counting votes in several key states on Monday, providing a barometer of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity in the face of heightened economic challenges.

The stakes are particularly high in the eastern state of West Bengal, where Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is seeking its first win against Chief Minister Mamata ...Read more

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani was hospitalized and is in critical condition, a spokesperson said on Sunday.

“Mayor Rudy Giuliani is currently in the hospital, where he remains in critical but stable condition,” Giuliani spokesperson Ted Goodman posted on social media shortly before 7 p.m.

“Mayor Giuliani is a fighter who has faced every...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will begin guiding some neutral ships trapped in the Persian Gulf out through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday.

“The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong — They are victims of circumstance,” Trump wrote Sunday in a social ...Read more

ICE agents brought a man they had detained to a Brooklyn hospital, sparking a chaotic protest in which nine people were arrested, police said Sunday.

Video of the scene shows ICE agents dragging a man outside Wykoff Heights Medical Center in Bushwick, where a large crowd of protesters quickly gathered, about 10:35 p.m. Saturday. One of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will begin guiding some neutral ships trapped in the Persian Gulf out through the Strait of Hormuz starting Monday.

“The Ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and Countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong — They are victims of circumstance,” Trump wrote Sunday in a social ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar promised to “transform” Minnesota’s government if elected governor in the fall, announcing a plan Sunday, May 3, to reduce fraud while speeding up business permitting, state services and homebuilding.

Klobuchar pitched herself as a force for change as she works to counter Republicans on the campaign trail arguing ...Read more

Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey joined calls across the nation urging the Supreme Court to immediately reverse the decision to cut access to mailing the abortion medication mifepristone after an appeals court ruling over the weekend.

“This decision will hurt the health and wellbeing of women and should be immediately reversed,” Healey ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The morning after Christmas, 37-year-old Taylor Armendariz awoke in her South Jersey apartment with stomach pain and nausea like nothing she had ever experienced.

A self-described “avid” cannabis user, she had smoked before her holiday meal of beef Wellington, mashed potatoes, and ice cream-topped apple pie. “In the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — “Hail Satan!” Roughly 400 members of The Satanic Temple chanted in unison at the Satanic Revival in Mobtown Ballroom on Saturday.

Surprisingly, it turns out that The Satanic Temple does not believe Satan is real. Founded in 2012, the organization does not believe in the existence of the supernatural and instead embraces Satan ...Read more

Efforts continued to broker an end to the Iran war, now into its third month, as U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the Islamic Republic’s latest peace proposal might not be enough to satisfy him.

Iran’s suggestions include setting a one-month deadline on talks for a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end both the U.S. naval ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Rome later this week, according to people familiar with the matter, after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and President Donald Trump clashed over the Iran war and her defense of Pope Leo XIV.

Rubio’s staff sent details of his visit to Italian counterparts last week, the people said, speaking...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. is “suffocating” Iran with economic and financial pressure, suggesting that the rulers in Tehran will eventually buckle.

“We are running a marathon over the past 12 months and now we are sprinting toward the finish line,” Bessent said Sunday on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures. “They ...Read more

Two U.S. Army service members went missing in Morocco during a training exercise, the U.S. Africa Command said Sunday.

The service members were reported missing Saturday near the city of Tan Tan while participating in African Lion, the command’s largest annual joint exercise with African partner countries.

The Wall Street Journal cited a ...Read more

An attorney for Cole Tomas Allen is seeking the removal of suicide precautions while the Torrance man remains jailed on charges of attempting to kill President Donald Trump.

In a motion filed Saturday in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia, federal public defender A. J. Kramer argued that Allen is being unlawfully punished by his ...Read more

Photos are an expected part of almost any visit to Disneyland.

Whether it’s first-time international visitors or longtime returnees, just about everyone is clicking photos at some point.

That everyone, however, is extending more and more to Disneyland personnel.

My colleague Hannah Fry documented the growing use of facial recognition ...Read more

NEW YORK — Days before the city’s Panel for Educational Policy was set to vote on controversial plans to open an AI-focused high school and relocate three Upper West Side schools, Chancellor Kamar Samuels unexpectedly pulled them off the agenda, a decision he attributed to needing more time to listen to families.

But last week’s ...Read more

A shrinking number of seats will determine control of the U.S. House after both Republicans and Democrats spent much of the past year redrawing congressional maps to erase swing districts.

Even before Florida’s legislature approved a new Republican-leaning map last week, just 16 seats were listed as “tossups” by the Cook Political Report,...Read more

Efforts continued to broker an end to the Iran war, now into its third month, as U.S. President Donald Trump suggested the Islamic Republic’s latest peace proposal might not be enough to satisfy him.

Iran’s suggestions include setting a one-month deadline on talks for a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end both the U.S. naval ...Read more