NORFOLK, Va. — More than 100 additional women have joined a lawsuit against Chesapeake Regional Medical Center and its executives that alleges they allowed an obstetrician and gynecologist to perform unnecessary surgeries on his patients.

In two separate lawsuits filed in Chesapeake City Court since Dec. 29, the plaintiffs — now totaling ...Read more

CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa. — U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick has strongly supported President Donald Trump’s decision to attack Iran, but he also warned Monday that the conflict “poses a threat here at home.”

During a visit to two Conshohocken technology companies, the Pennsylvania Republican said that Iran has “proxies in the United States” who ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Two fatal shootings at the hands of police officers in a little over a week in Hartford that involved men experiencing mental health crises have drawn criticism and raised concerns over what services are available to individuals and how calls for help are handled.

The shootings of 53-year-old Everard Walker and 55-year-old ...Read more

The “ISIS-inspired terrorists” who allegedly tried to bomb a protest in New York City wanted to carry out an attack bigger than the Boston Marathon bombings, according to the FBI.

The feds have charged Emir Balat and Ibrahim Kayumi with numerous charges — including a terror charge and using a weapon of mass destruction charge — after ...Read more

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran chose Mojtaba Khamenei, the hard-line son of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as its new supreme leader, signaling Tehran won’t back down in a war raging across the Middle East and causing a surge in energy prices.

The choice was criticized by U.S. President Donald Trump, who is under mounting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was just after 1 p.m. Sunday when the gunfire rang out at the home of pop star Rihanna.

Neighbors said the shots echoed through the canyon near Beverly Hills, leaving them on edge.

Authorities allege a Florida woman inside a Tesla opened fire on the front gate and a nearby RV at the music legend’s mansion. The woman, ...Read more

Every now and then, SpaceX has a customer other than itself including a planned launch Monday night that won’t be the company’s Starlink satellites. Instead, it’s looking to send a pay-TV satellite to space for EchoStar Corp.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the EchoStar XXV mission is aiming to send the communications company’s satellite to a ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says she wants Gov. Josh Stein to opt into a federal program he previously vetoed.

Congress passed legislation last July establishing the Education Freedom Tax Credit, which allows families in participating states to receive up to $1,700 off their federal taxes for contributions made...Read more

CHICAGO — A Cook County judge on Monday denied the requests of a former Chicago Police Officer to expunge and seal records of his arrest and criminal trial in the fatal 2021 shooting of his girlfriend at her home on the Northwest Side.

Judge Mary Anna Planey denied the motions from former officer Pierre Tyler to expunge and seal records in ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The 6-year-old deaf Hayward boy who was deported to Colombia last week alongside his mother and brother has finally received the devices he needs to hear and communicate with those around him, though the child appears no closer to returning to the U.S. anytime soon.

The delivery — announced Monday by Democratic Bay Area ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is mulling a menu of possible options to combat surging oil and gasoline prices in the wake of the Iran war, according to people familiar with the matter.

The deliberations come as crude soared past $100 per barrel at one stage on Monday before erasing its gains in volatile trading. Average U.S. retail ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday urged oil tankers to “show some guts” and sail out of the Persian Gulf amid the danger posed by the Iran war that has practically shut down shipping through the strategic Straits of Hormuz.

As the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran raged, Trump said oil tankers should brave the threat posed by Iranian missiles and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Alexander brothers were found guilty on all counts Friday in one of the largest sex trafficking cases ever tried by the Department of Justice.

The jury found Tal, 39, and twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 38, guilty of 10-count indictment alleging they carried out a more than decade-long sex trafficking conspiracy, using their ...Read more

MIAMI — The smell of gunpowder hung in the air as Haitian police opened fire with .50-caliber rifles, trapping a group of Colombian commandos not far from the hillside house where President Jovenel Moïse had just been assassinated.

As Sgt. Edwin Blanquicet Rodríguez, an American-trained soldier who spent 21 years in the Colombian army, ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A federal judge has agreed to force the Trump administration to restore a federal disaster preparedness program, after an initial order in late December already called on it to do so.

The judge approved a motion from North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson and a coalition of fellow Democratic attorneys general seeking the...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s congressional delegation made an unannounced visit Monday to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Baltimore, only to find the holding rooms empty.

“There’s nobody in this facility,” U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen said at a news conference outside the George H. Fallon Federal Building.

U.S. ...Read more

TEHRAN, Iran — The elevation of Mojtaba Khamenei to the mantle of supreme leader brings to Iran’s top job a hard-line figure who is most firmly his father’s son in charting a defiant path for the country.

“Mojtaba Khamenei’s elevation is not just a succession, it is a provocation — a blunt middle finger to Trump,” said Ali Vaez, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Gracie Mansion counterprotesters accused of throwing IEDs were inspired by the Islamic State terror group and wanted to cause more carnage than the Boston Marathon bombing, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir Balat, 18, were radicalized and bent on destruction, with two of the three devices linked to ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado transportation officials, anticipating dangerous driving resulting from voters’ decriminalization of certain psychedelic drugs and the growing practice of microdosing, have launched a campaign to prevent driving under the influence: “Plan your trip before you trip.”

Estimating that as many as 5 million people, ...Read more