Debates over what visitors will see and experience in the nation’s capital city have taken center stage as Americans prepare to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

For President Donald J. Trump, the event inspired a massive redevelopment project. Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has argued ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are set to resume Tuesday in Doha, after both sides agreed to halt a series of tit-for-tat attacks over the Strait of Hormuz.

“Iran has requested a meeting,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “It will take place tomorrow in Doha.”

The details of a fresh round of negotiations ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’s ready to continue talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war in Ukraine, while rejecting a proposal to halt long-range strikes that have proven damaging for both sides.

The Kremlin expects U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Moscow to continue talks on ending the war in ...Read more

They arrived with rescue dogs, sophisticated listening devices and cutting tools that can rip through concrete.

On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Fire Department's international urban search and rescue team descended on a collapsed 10-story high-rise in Caraballeda, a coastal town devastated by Venezuela's back-to-back earthquakes, as part of ...Read more

Andy Burnham will pledge the biggest devolution of power in England in modern times in his first major speech since confirming his intention to succeed Keir Starmer as the U.K.’s prime minister.

The former Greater Manchester mayor will set out on Monday how he would “lift Britain back up” by handing more decision-making powers to local ...Read more

HARRISBURG — Three years after a bitter budget standoff over allowing state funding to be used for private school tuition, top Democrats in Harrisburg are ready to engage on school choice.

Legislative action and comments from a top House Democrat this week expressing openness to a federal school-choice program marked a notable change from ...Read more

WHITESBURG, Ky. — Drugs and the consequences of addiction are woven into the fabric of Jamie Madden's life.

Her earliest memory is of standing on the passenger seat of her dad's car as a toddler, wearing a peach-colored blouse, while he drove from their Kentucky home to Florida to pick up drugs. On a stop for a burger, she met Ronald McDonald...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At 10:30 a.m., the bell rings through the halls of William F. Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach, sending students racing onto the playground, throwing basketballs, doing cartwheels, gliding down slides.

Recess could very well be the most important 30 minutes of their school day for learning — and it has become a contested ...Read more

Willie Hudspeth had not set foot on the grounds of St. John’s Cemetery in nearly two years. The cemetery - in Pilot Point in northern Denton County - began in the late 1890s as a burial ground for formerly enslaved people.

Hudspeth, 80, shook his head in disbelief at the evidence of neglect he saw when he gained access to the property on a ...Read more

Chinese spies stealing Japanese industrial secrets in boardrooms. Chip smugglers ferrying Nvidia’s prized artificial intelligence semiconductors via Japan. Drug gangs quietly slipping fentanyl across Japan’s borders to a U.S. opioid crisis.

Across a range of industries, Japan’s economic-security vulnerabilities have been on display in a ...Read more

President Donald Trump toured many of his renovation projects in Washington, DC, on Sunday, saying he would begin reconstruction of a city golf course along the Potomac River on Sept. 1.

In a social-media post, Trump complained about the state of the East Potomac Golf Links, one of three public golf courses in the nation’s capital. He said he...Read more

Two people were bitten, one killed, in separate alligator attacks in Central Florida over the weekend, according to a news release from the Florida Fish and Wildlife and Conservation Commission.

On Sunday, the Seminole County Sheriff’s Office and the FWC responded to calls about an alligator bite at the Econlockhatchee River near the Barr ...Read more

The U.S. and Iran have agreed to stop attacking each other before peace talks resume this week over the Strait of Hormuz and other issues to end the war, Axios reported. It is a sign of de-escalation after several days of tit-for-tat attacks that tested a fragile truce.

The back-and-forth assaults over the key waterway for oil and gas trade ...Read more

Three wildfires sparked Saturday in a southwestern Colorado forest, with two of the blazes combining to consume thousands of acres and force evacuations, according to the U.S. Forest Service.

The Ferris, Far Draw and Doe Canyon fires were first reported Saturday afternoon in the San Juan National Forest, according to the U.S. Forest Service. As...Read more

The Kremlin expects U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Moscow to continue talks on ending the war in Ukraine once Washington is no longer preoccupied with the conflict with Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with state television.

“We’re ready to continue negotiations and discussion of the...Read more

Wildfires in eastern Nevada escalated due to high winds and favorable conditions for fire growth Saturday, leading officials to elevate response efforts.

The Great Basin geographic area — spanning most of Nevada, Utah and southern Idaho — was moved to Preparedness Level 4 on Saturday, the Bureau of Land Management said in a release Sunday. ...Read more

An effort to locate a Marine missing from the USS Anchorage during integrated training off the Southern California coast has turned to a recovery effort, Navy officials announced late Saturday, June 27.

The Marine was aboard the amphibious ship and was part of the training with the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit based at Camp Pendleton and the ...Read more

In what some claim is the Trump administration’s latest tactic to fast-track removal orders, the San Diego immigration court on a recent Friday scheduled a higher-than-usual number of hearings on a single day.

The move appeared to be the first local “mega” master calendar hearing, in which a large group of individuals in removal ...Read more

A controversial 8-foot fence erected by a billionaire ranch owner on long stretches of his property’s perimeter is harming wildlife and degrading habitat across a vast valley in southern Colorado, according to a report by wildlife experts made public this month.

The report by two environmental consulting firms — one chosen by the ranch’s ...Read more