Britain’s Labour Party said Nigel Farage should take responsibility for fresh allegations about illicit funding that enveloped his Reform UK party as members gathered for its annual conference last week.

The insurgent leader denied that his party received foreign donations in a BBC interview on Sunday. His remarks came after two of his aides ...Read more

Ukraine is resigned to Russia’s war dragging on through another tough winter and is looking for a “package” from allies that would cover air defense reinforcements as well as energy, including U.S. liquefied natural gas.

Zelenskyy spoke to reporters after talks in Kyiv with President Donald Trump’s negotiating duo, Jared Kushner and ...Read more

Weeks after thousands of Haitian and Syrian immigrants saw the end of their protected status in the U.S., exposing them to ICE arrest and deportation, more than 170,000 people from El Salvador now face the same fate.

And soon.

Temporary protected status for the Central American nation is set to end on Sept. 9, a deadline that’s provoked ...Read more

The seven people wounded by gunfire in Wednesday’s mass shooting at the Shoreline Plaza apartment building in downtown Minneapolis ranged from residents to building staff to police officers who rushed to the scene. Two who lived there were killed by gunman and fellow resident Carlton Johnson II before he was killed in an exchange of gunfire ...Read more

U.S. Navy escorts that are helping tankers cross the Strait of Hormuz are essential to sustaining crude flows through the waterway, Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday, suggesting they won’t end anytime soon.

“We’re getting a lot of ships through, but of course it requires the U.S. military to do that,” Wright said on CNN’s ...Read more

Though Hurricane Marie continues to weaken in the southern Pacific Ocean — and is expected to remain hundreds of miles off the Southern California coastline — the region can still expect to feel some effects from the storm over the next few days.

Tropical moisture began to move into the region Saturday night, bringing the chance for some ...Read more

Iran said it targeted three oil tankers using an unauthorized route through the Strait of Hormuz, as well as a number of U.S.-linked ships, in retaliation for American attacks on Iranian tankers over the weekend.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy gave no further details about the incidents, nor did its Telegram post late Saturday ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President Donald Trump’s envoys in Kyiv, a day after Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner held talks with Moscow with President Vladimir Putin in pursuit of a way to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The trio, along with Ukraine’s negotiating team, are now meeting with top national security ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — As wildfires ravaged Southern California in January 2025, millions of people turned to Cal Fire’s website for information on the Eaton and Palisades fires, checking on evacuation orders and looking at maps tracing the destructive path of flames.

Looking back, state fire officials noted that around 75 million users had visited ...Read more

DETROIT — The mid-summer heat dome kept Oak Park resident Chi Walker stuck in her house, fearing the extreme temperatures would trigger her asthma and land her in the hospital.

Wildfire smoke that rained ash onto the Upper Peninsula city of Marquette turned the popular Blackrocks Brewery patio into "a ghost town" during what should have been ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Touted as a civil engineering marvel before construction even began, the immense Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge hangs about 90 stories above the Colorado River, overlooking the storied Hoover Dam.

There was a time when the most viable artery connecting Southern Nevada to neighboring Arizona — for cars and big ...Read more

Italy’s Roberto Vannacci, the insurgent ultranationalist, has yet to meet Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni or have contact with her circle, as his rise begins to reshape her right-wing alliance before next year’s election.

“I’m not formally in touch with any representative of the center-right alliance,” Vannacci told Bloomberg News ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The countdown is on for where the new U.S. Space Academy will call home — and Florida leaders are throwing the state’s name in the ring.

“We strongly believe Florida is uniquely positioned to host this important institution,” a bipartisan letter from the state’s congressional delegation argued.

President Donald ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five people were arrested Thursday after local and state law enforcement officials discovered about 2,400 catalytic converters they say are linked to a theft ring.

The Orange County Sheriff's Department announced Friday that it worked with several assisting agencies to serve search warrants across Orange and L.A. counties. Two ...Read more

NEW YORK — The grieving family of an MTA trackworker killed by an oncoming D train in the Bronx is demanding a full and thorough investigation into the fatal crash that tore a cherished mom away from her three children and twin sister.

“There’s no way to go around it. We just want the truth,” Thomas Tyrell, the brother-in-law of MTA ...Read more

NEW YORK — On the morning of 9/11, Police Officer John William Perry was standing in the NYPD’s retirement office, about to turn in his papers, when he learned that a hijacked jet had slammed into the World Trade Center.

Without a second thought, he ditched his paperwork and ran to the towers, where he died in the collapse.

On Saturday, a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles federal public defender's office on Friday joined a renewed effort to oust Bill Essayli, the top federal prosecutor in Southern California, accusing the government of "playing shadow games with the most consequential powers a government can wield against its population."

Citing a recent order from the 9th Circuit...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A gray wolf was spotted in Lake County, a bright sign that the recovering endangered species is expanding its presence in California, wildlife officials say.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife received two reports of a rare gray wolf sighting and photos of the carnivore in late August in an area where Mendocino, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Pay problems are continuing for some Baltimore City Public Schools employees weeks into the new school year, while roughly 100 Baltimore County school employees were affected by a separate payroll issue this week.

City Schools could not confirm Friday whether the last seven of more than 200 pay cases identified before the school ...Read more

NEW YORK — Attacks on elderly straphangers are fueling a spike in felony assaults within the New York City subway system, NYPD Transit Chief Gulotta said Friday.

As the New York Police Department contends with a 9% jump in felony assaults in the city transit system this year, the department’s transit chief said roughly half of all attacks ...Read more