The U.S. and Iran exchanged strikes for the first time in about a month as American forces hit an island in the Strait of Hormuz and the Islamic Republic responded by launching attacks on the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

Iranian media also said the country’s authorities seized a bulk carrier near the port of Bandar Abbas in the strait and...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s advantage over Flávio Bolsonaro decreased ahead of Brazil’s October election, as the leftist leader faces fallout from corruption allegations against one of his sons.

Lula leads Bolsonaro 47.1% to 42.6% in a runoff scenario, according to an AtlasIntel survey for Bloomberg News published Monday. He ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Nearly nine months ago, Sheriff Kelly Martinez stood before the San Diego County Board of Supervisors and presented a wish list of improvements needed across the seven jails she oversees.

The presentation included a host of proposed new construction and upgrades but lacked any specific request for new money.

Instead, Martinez ...Read more

Yaroslav Perepadya has built a life in Davis since fleeing Ukraine with his teenage son after Russia invaded their country in 2022. He has a job with the state, pays taxes and has watched his son begin college.

Now, that life is hanging in uncertainty as the federal government weighs the future of protections that allow thousands of Ukrainians ...Read more

The Supreme Court on Monday struck down an injunction barring the Trump administration from enacting new rules for mail-in voting, raising questions about the process just weeks before California plans to send ballots to 23 million voters for the November election.

But the legal saga continues. Late Thursday, a judge issued a temporary ...Read more

In January, Jeff La Marca got a prescription for the popular weight loss drug Zepbound. But he couldn’t afford the $750 monthly price tag.

Then Medicare launched an 18-month pilot program that offers GLP-1 medications to some enrollees for only $50 a month. La Marca thought he might finally be able to afford the drug.

“I thought, ‘Thank ...Read more

Nearly two decades later, Christopher Devoe still wakes from nightmares about the gruesome scene: bone fragments lodged in the ceiling, brain matter dripping above him and a hostage who had narrowly escaped before the suspect shot himself in the head.

The former Salisbury police lieutenant thought he had left those horrors behind — until ...Read more

On a recent morning, medical professionals huddled around banks of computer monitors like weather forecasters tracking a developing hurricane, though bed occupancy rates over 90% were the pressing threat rather than rising atmospheric pressure over the Pacific.

Opened in June, the new mission control center at UC San Diego Health pulls together...Read more

MIAMI — When a Miami Secret Service agent and two of his fellow alums of the nation’s second-oldest historically Black fraternity were arrested and accused of beating two men so badly they required emergency hospital care in the near-fatal cases, the reaction among many was disbelief.

How could the alums cane and paddle the two men secretly...Read more

Dolly Parton has been laid to rest in a private ceremony.

The immediate family of the country western star who died last week gathered at Woodlawn Memorial Park and Mausoleum in Nashville on Friday morning.

Parton was buried alongside her husband of almost 60 years, Carl Dean, who died in March 2025. The bronze crypt plate mounted at the ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance and other conservative politicos are expected to descend on the Strip this week for the Republican Jewish Coalition’s Annual Leadership Summit.

The event will take place between Sunday and Tuesday at The Venetian in Las Vegas.

The coalition’s aim is to “foster and enhance ties between the American Jewish community...Read more

A large flash flood swept through Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area of Grand Canyon National Park on Saturday, prompting 62 people to be evacuated from the area throughout the weekend.

The National Park Service said Sunday that more than 20 people may be missing following the flood. Officials are seeking information from the public...Read more

Tarrant County voter access is still being threatened though the proposed cut to polling locations isn’t as deep as initially suggested, Commissioner Alisa Simmons said Sunday afternoon alongside House Rep. James Talarico.

Last month, Tarrant County Commissioners Court members unanimously agreed the significant slash to the November midterm ...Read more

Within days of President Trump's executive order renaming Lake Ontario to "Lake America," Google Maps quietly fell in line. Searches for the international boundary water in Google Maps now direct U.S. users to a renamed "Lake America."

While the president's preferred name for the smallest Great Lake isn't yet reflected on Apple Maps, it may be ...Read more

A mass shooting in Washington Park Saturday night became the city’s largest of the year when Chicago police reported that a total of 15 people had been shot, leaving one man dead.

Just before midnight on the 5400 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue, police sources said a pair of unknown shooters dressed in all black and ski masks shot at the ...Read more

The National Park Service is asking the public to provide information for more than 20 people who may be missing or unaccounted for following a significant flash-flood event Saturday in Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area in Grand Canyon National Park.

Park staff, in coordination with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, are ...Read more

SpaceX and NASA are delaying the launch of a planned mission to the International Space Station to fix an oxidizer leak in the Dragon spacecraft’s propulsion system, the U.S. space agency said.

NASA and SpaceX are doing additional testing and didn’t announce a new target launch date for the Crew-13 mission, which will be staffed by American...Read more

More than 4 million gallons of raw sewage are flowing down the Arkansas River in southern Colorado, leaving public health officials to issue downstream warnings about playing in the water.

The sewage is expected to reach the John Martin Reservoir State Park in Bent County on Monday morning, and Colorado Parks and Wildlife advised people to ...Read more

The Timber and Plaskett fires continued to challenge firefighters up and down the Big Sur coast on Sunday, burning in rugged, steep terrain.

After doubling in size Saturday, the Plaskett Fire burning along the southern Big Sur coast held at 8,241 acres on Sunday, with containment still at 1%.

The Timber Fire, meanwhile, was at 24,839 acres, up...Read more

President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks against the media on Sunday with an admonition to the Federal Communications Commission to investigate polling used by news outlets and punish a prominent television news host.

Trump has long had an adversarial relationship with journalists and news organizations who publish stories he doesn’t ...Read more