Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel blamed the United States for the country’s severe crisis in an interview with a prominent Brazilian newspaper, saying his government will not make any concessions to the Trump administration, has “no alternative but to resist,” and that talks with Washington are “very stalled.”

In an interview with ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The University of South Carolina is seeking state funding for a new ROTC building that it intends to name in honor of the late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, the school announced Friday.

The Senator Lindsey Graham ROTC Center of Excellence, which would replace the existing ROTC facility at the corner of Pickens and Wheat streets, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent threatened economic punishment against any country doing business with Iran as part of what he called an “economic D-Day” campaign to isolate the country and end nearly six months of war.

President Donald Trump is calling world leaders with “specific requests to cease their interactions with...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte Latin bakery known for championing immigrant causes says staff members confronted the former commander of U.S. Border Patrol in its parking lot Sunday.

“Manolo Betancur, owner of Manolo’s Bakery and longtime advocate for Charlotte’s immigrant community, confronted former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-...Read more

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced what he called an “unprecedented” U.S. campaign to sever Iran from the global economy, warning that any state doing business with the country risks facing U.S. sanctions.

“We are launching an economic onslaught against Iran’s financial connections around the globe,” Bessent ...Read more

In the first salvo of what could become a court battle over Colorado River water, the state of Nevada has sued to challenge the Trump administration’s plan for mandatory water cutbacks.

The state filed the lawsuit Monday, just three days after the Trump administration released the plan, which requires Nevada, Arizona and California to cut ...Read more

Israeli officials accused Hamas of planning renewed attacks on its territory using kites and balloons, and gave the Iran-backed militant group until Wednesday to rein in their use or face reprisals.

The Israel Defense Forces has been instructed to “adopt a policy of zero containment and zero tolerance toward the launching of kites and ...Read more

Canadians wanted their prime minister to stand tough and not sign a bad trade deal with the U.S. But the collapse of talks, and the escalation of the tariff war, will come at a price.

The U.S. implemented a new 50% tax on imports of hundreds of Canadian items including furniture, plastics, plywood and electrical equipment on Saturday. It’s ...Read more

They are graying and a bit world-weary now as they file into a courtroom in Las Vegas.

More than three decades ago, they were young men at the center of a violent gang war that took many lives, notably that of rapper Tupac Shakur.

They were the lucky ones, surviving the bloodshed.

But they are now reliving those dark times as the rapper's ...Read more

NEW YORK — The City of New York has decided to go it alone on efforts to repair its section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, foregoing federal funds and approvals in the hope of speeding up the work.

Officials are expected to announce Monday that the city will rebuild the infamous triple cantilever structure carrying the highway along ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center on Monday was tracking two systems in the Atlantic, either one of which has a chance to spin up and become Tropical Storm Dolly this week.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. advisory, the system of most concern to Florida was a tropical wave that just emerged off the west coast of Africa now associated with an area of low ...Read more

My students and I encountered a mystery. We were partnering with the Missouri Department of Conservation to monitor for fish presence and abundance in the Missouri Ozarks. We visited half a dozen rivers and streams across the region and collected a few cups of water from each.

We were testing for DNA in the environment to determine ...Read more

I recently returned from leading an educational program in Thailand focusing on how Buddhists practice the religion in their day-to-day lives. The participants – Buddhist practitioners from North America and Europe – wanted to deepen their understanding and practice of the religion.

Many Western Buddhists’ practices centers on ...Read more

“Emma,” a young Jewish woman who we met in 2019, didn’t belong to a synagogue. She didn’t have a Jewish partner. She didn’t observe Jewish rituals regularly. On most surveys about religion, she would not seem very engaged with Judaism.

But as Emma talked about what she did in her free time, a very different picture began to ...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to announce a fresh set of economic measures against Iran, as Washington pivots from strike threats to tougher sanctions as a way to end the near six-month war.

Bessent will unveil details of a plan to more effectively isolate the Islamic Republic later Monday, building on already extensive ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A rare convergence of a powerful El Niño, super king tides and sea level rise spurred by climate change could menace California with record coastal flooding this winter.

Already, officials are observing higher tides than typical. Swells are eroding beaches, damaging parking lots and bathrooms, and even resurfacing long-buried ...Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly moving back across the pond, six years after their dramatic exit from the Royal family stunned Americans and Britons and exposed scandal in Buckingham Palace.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex will return to British soil along with their two young children, Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, for an ...Read more

Violent crime in the United States fell by an estimated 9.3% in 2025, marking the largest year-to-year decline in the national violent crime rate since the FBI began estimating crime in 1936, according to new national data.

The estimated murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rate also fell 18.1%, to 4.1 killings per 100,000 people — tying the ...Read more

Marin County has long been one of California’s most expensive places to live.

Its coveted coastal views, proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area’s tech economy and a formidable resistance to new development have created an extremely tight housing market in an already-pricey region.

But there’s another key factor that’s become ...Read more

Inside a crowded courtroom on the 10th floor of a Concord, California, office building, a three-year-old girl in pink Minnie Mouse sneakers climbed into her mother’s lap as the Mexican mother of five turned to face a black-robed judge.

Moments earlier, the judge had told the woman and the two dozen other migrants in the courtroom they had ...Read more