WASHINGTON — A crew member was rescued after an American aircraft went down Friday in Iran, The Associated Press reported, citing U.S. and Israeli officials.

U.S. forces launched a rescue mission in southwestern Iran after at least one American crew member ejected from a fighter jet downed by Iranian defenses, according to a U.S. official ...Read more

NEW YORK — With applications for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s free child care program for 2-year-olds opening in June, the social media-friendly mayor announced Friday he is turning to Bronx-born rapper Cardi B to help promote it.

Parents will have from June 2 to June 26 to apply for the first 2,000 seats of 2-K in five local school districts in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled on Friday a nearly $2.2 trillion discretionary spending request for the coming fiscal year, a nearly 21% increase over the current year’s level because of a dramatic proposed boost in defense funding.

The election-year spending blueprint doubles down on an administration drive to pump up the ...Read more

After more than a half-century of neglect, a derelict, historic church known as the oldest building on Wilshire Boulevard may finally be restored to its spiritual mission.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has notified contractors that it is seeking ideas and cost estimates for the rehabilitation of Wadsworth Chapel, the eclectic ...Read more

Even before Kristi Noem became Donald Trump’s homeland security chief, critics say she began trying to curry favor with the president by becoming transparent about altering her appearance to conform to what’s become known as a recognizable MAGA beauty aesthetic.

That meant wearing cascading hair, heavy makeup, puffed-up lips and undergoing ...Read more

Iran shot down a U.S. fighter jet for the first time in the war and targeted more sites, including energy facilities, in Arab Gulf states overnight and into Friday.

The United States has rescued one of the crew members of the F-15E fighter jet, according to a U.S. official, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive information. A ...Read more

The four astronauts of the Artemis II mission punched their moon ticket on Thursday afternoon — but back at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, teams are already refocusing on the launch of Artemis III next year.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch as well as Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen were given the...Read more

Toward the end of Netflix’s “Into the Manosphere,” documentary filmmaker Louis Theroux chats in Marbella, Spain, with British influencer Ed Matthews.

“The people who run the world, they don’t have our best intentions,” says Matthews, speaking in the language of the manosphere – where some influencers and viewers believe ...Read more

In an 8-1 decision authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the Supreme Court held on March 31, 2026, that a Colorado law prohibiting licensed counselors from performing “conversion therapy” on minors was likely unconstitutional as applied to talk therapy. Justice Elena Kagan filed a separate concurrence, joined by Justice Sonia Sotomayor. ...Read more

Southern California’s Salton Sea was once a resort playground, with sunny beaches, celebrities and people waterskiing on the vast inland lake in the 1950s and ’60s.

Today, those resorts are long gone, replaced by a drying and increasingly toxic landscape. As the lake shrinks, wind blowing across the exposed lake bed kicks up toxic...Read more

President Donald Trump fired Attorney General Pam Bondi on April 2, 2026, only 14 months after she was sworn into office, making her time in the role the shortest in 60 years.

While much recent attention has focused on Trump’s decision to fire Bondi, there has been less attention on what the attorney general actually does, or what ...Read more

Just a few months after opening, the controversial Trump Truth Store in Crystal Lake, Illinois, has temporarily shut down, citing a drop in sales amid the ongoing Iran war.

In a notice to customers, business owner Lisa Fleischmann posted on Facebook on March 26 that the MAGA-themed shop “is closed until further notice.”

“I am not even ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In two separate courtrooms in a federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles, prosecutors were having a rough day.

On the seventh floor, on Wednesday afternoon, in courtroom 7B, U.S. District Judge André Birotte Jr. berated prosecutors with the U.S. attorney's office for failing to disclose additional discovery to the defense ...Read more

The U.S. accused China of harassing and detaining Panama-flagged ships after the Central American nation struck down contracts with a Hong Kong conglomerate operating ports on both sides of the Panama Canal.

The allegations, first raised by the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission and amplified by Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday, add ...Read more

Iran targeted more sites in Arab Gulf states overnight and into Friday, hours after President Donald Trump issued fresh threats against Iranian infrastructure to pressure Tehran to start peace negotiations.

Abu Dhabi suspended operations at its largest natural gas processing facility, after a fire broke out due to debris from a projectile ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — On the morning of April 1, incoming UNC-Chapel Hill student body president Devin Duncan received a text asking him if Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, was coming to campus.

Why?

The student newspaper, The Daily Tar Heel, had published an article with the following headline: “Trump orders Alcohol Law Enforcement ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Crimson the baby mountain lion had a rough start to life. He lost the toes on one of his hind feet and, at just 3 weeks old, was separated from his family and left alone in a den to starve.

But the Southern California cub experienced a positive turn of fate when state wildlife officials rescued him last week and transported him ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Democrats vie to take control of Congress in the midterms this fall, their main message on health care policy is fairly straightforward: undo Republicans’ Medicaid cuts and restore the health care subsidies that lapsed at the end of last year.

But some analysts and lawmakers say momentum is growing for a bigger health care ...Read more

CHICAGO — Joabe Barbosa used to tell people his appetite for exploration drove his quest to become the first person to run every street in the city of Chicago.

Now, after learning his F-1 student visa status might force him to leave the place he has called home since 2022 and return to his native Brazil, he recognizes it has always been the ...Read more