The U.S. and Iran engaged in a quickening series of tit-for-tat attacks, causing fresh chaos in the Middle East as the U.S. military announced the death of a third U.S. troop in the past two days.

A U.S. service member in northern Iraq was killed Saturday while trying to conduct a controlled detonation of an unexploded Iranian one-way attack ...Read more

An unusual legal shortcut has allowed a developer planning a data center on federally owned land in Boulder City to avoid public scrutiny and additional environmental review while securing approval under a Trump administration executive order, according to a former Bureau of Land Management official.

It could make Boulder City a test case for ...Read more

Eight new plaintiffs have come forward with allegations that they were sexually abused by guards while being held in San Diego County juvenile detention facilities.

The abuse claims, which landed in San Diego federal court last week, come as the county departments of Probation and of Child and Family Well-Being already are confronting similar ...Read more

Growth has slowed on many wildfires burning across Colorado, but crews are still working to secure the fires’ perimeters.

At least 12 people have been injured by the Willow fire burning near Leadville in Lake County, fire officials said in a Sunday morning update. Fire officials did not specify if those injured were firefighters or residents....Read more

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has expanded an air quality alert to cover east central, southeast, south central and northeast Minnesota, warning that smoke from wildfires will push conditions into the red category, a level considered unhealthy for everyone.

The alert took effect at 9 a.m. Sunday, and will continue until 11 a.m. Monday....Read more

The U.S. and Iran engaged in a quickening series of tit-for-tat attacks, causing fresh chaos in the Middle East over the weekend after strikes by the Islamic Republic killed two American service members in Jordan.

U.S. forces hit Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf overnight, as well as southern cities including Shadegan, Sirik and Hajiabad, ...Read more

Andy Burnham is set to become the UK’s seventh prime minister in just over a decade on Monday with a number of outstanding questions about who will be in his cabinet and the policy direction he will pursue.

In an address from Downing Street, the incoming premier will pledge to deliver tangible improvements in people’s lives, while stressing...Read more

A second person has died from the Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on the Upper East Side, city health department officials announced Sunday.

So far, 72 people have been affected by the outbreak, with 50 of them needing hospitalization, according to health department officials. Nine remain hospitalized, as Health Commissioner Alister Martin ...Read more

Tropical Depression Two formed Sunday morning from a low-pressure system near Florida’s Gulf coast, and it is forecast to become Tropical Storm Bertha within roughly 24 hours, forecasters said.

A tropical storm watch has been issued for Florida from Ochlockonee River to the Alabama border.

As of 11 a.m., the tropical depression was located ...Read more

Smoke from Canadian wildfires returned to Illinois on Saturday night as air quality remained at “unhealthy” levels, according to AirNow, a website that combines data from county, state and federal air quality agencies nationwide.​

Gino Izzi, senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service, said smoke traveled out of Illinois into ...Read more

After quietly installing a new exhibit at the President’s House overnight this week, President Donald Trump’s administration is upping security at the embattled site on Independence Mall.

George Washington’s Philadelphia mansion is flanked by three mobile surveillance trailers. And in an unusual deployment, U.S. Park Police officers in ...Read more

Four years after Minnesota’s Feeding Our Future fraud scandal emerged, theft from government programs has become impossible for state leaders to ignore as allegations continue to arise.

Even after the initial pandemic-era meal fraud cases involving more than $250 million — with about $75 million recovered by federal authorities so far — ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran engaged in a quickening series of tit-for-tat attacks, causing fresh chaos in the Middle East over the weekend after strikes by the Islamic Republic killed two American service members in Jordan.

U.S. forces hit Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf overnight, as well as southern cities including Shadegan, Sirik and Hajiabad, ...Read more

At least one person was killed in what Ukraine’s foreign minister called the largest ballistic missile barrage aimed at Kyiv since the start of the Russia’s invasion more than four years ago.

“Russia unleashed the largest number of ballistic missiles since the start of the war — around four dozen — in a brutal terrorist attack on the...Read more

With two swoops of his pen, President Donald Trump again razed a decades-long push by tribes and conservationists to preserve two cherished national monuments, dramatically shrinking them in size by about 90%.

Trump, flanked by Utah Republicans on Monday, falsely claimed during the signing that national monument protections have hindered open ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice civil rights division was created in 1957 with an initial focus on combating racial inequality and protecting voting rights.

But in the first two years of President Trump's second term, its mission has been reimagined.

Now, the division is focused on combating diversity initiatives, rolling back pro-transgender ...Read more

Tropical Depression Two formed off Florida’s west coast Sunday, forecast to become Tropical Storm Bertha as it heads up to the Gulf Coast, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. advisory, the center of TD 2 was located about 155 miles south of Panama City moving north-northwest at 2 mph with maximum sustained ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A veteran LAPD narcotics detective is suing the city of L.A., claiming he faced retaliation from supervisors and fellow officers after he refused to stop investigating a young woman's suspicious death.

Alexander Tan alleged in his lawsuit, filed July 7 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, that his unwillingness to go along with...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Ten minutes before two powerful earthquakes killed thousands in Venezuela on June 24, Antonella Narváez felt the need to call her mother, Cleudys Yépez. It was a brief conversation.

Yépez and her 12-year-old daughter, Isabella, had returned to Venezuela from the United States on June 1, just more than three weeks before the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge gave John Gotti’s grandson Carmine Agnello a two-month reprieve on his sentencing for a $1.1 million COVID-19 fraud case so he could donate a kidney to his ailing mom, officials said.

Agnello, 39, was scheduled to be sentenced to more than 33 months in federal prison on Monday, but U.S. District Court Judge Nusrat...Read more