WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States and Iran were engaged in diplomatic talks to end the Middle East conflict, but warned the two sides would return to fighting if negotiations didn’t yield a deal.

“The only reason they want to meet is because we’ve been hitting them very hard,” Trump told reporters Monday ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Almost 13 months after he pleaded guilty, Bryan Kohberger claims he’s innocent and says he will fight his conviction for murdering four University of Idaho students.

For a New York Times report published Monday, Kohberger provided a statement and interview for the first time since he was sentenced to four consecutive life ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former New York Mayor Eric Adams' chief of staff Frank Carone has put together a list of high-profile lawyers to fight federal charges he took bribes to steer millions of dollars in migrant shelter contracts.

Carone, 56, who was indicted in June on charges he accepted bribes to steer the emergency contract to a Queens hotel owner, ...Read more

In the wake of a painfully slow June vote count in California that led to unfounded claims of election irregularities, a voter watchdog group Monday recommended the state and counties carry out a number of voting reforms that could speed up tabulations. Not all of them, however, are likely to happen before November.

The California Voter ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In its latest move to restrict the legal immigration system, the Trump administration announced a sweeping change Monday that could lead to the deportations of thousands of asylum-seekers.

The change from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services allows asylum officers to bypass the need to interview certain applicants and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Celeste Rivas Hernandez told the singer D4vd she would destroy his career and ruin his life roughly 24 hours before prosecutors say he killed the teenager, according to text messages made public Monday morning in court.

After an argument about a relationship between another woman and the singer, whose legal name is David Anthony...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors on Monday filed a motion to dismiss the case against David Huerta, the labor leader who was arrested during the first day of a series of immigration raids the Trump administration carried out in the region last summer.

In the court filing, prosecutors said "pursuant to an agreement of the parties," they were ...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell is not yet medically cleared to return to work or leave the rehabilitation facility where he’s receiving care following his fall at home last month, his office shared late Monday morning.

McConnell, who was hospitalized June 14, released a statement that said the 84-year-old Kentucky senator is still recovering and ...Read more

WINDSOR, Canada — The long-awaited Gordie Howe International Bridge opened to traffic around 10:30 a.m. Monday, the culmination of eight years of construction and two decades of planning by the Canadian government.

A Detroit News reporter and photographer were among the first 10 vehicles to cross the new 1.5-mile, six-lane Detroit River ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Almost 13 months after he pleaded guilty, Bryan Kohberger claims he’s innocent and says he will fight his conviction for killing four University of Idaho students.

For a New York Times report published Monday, Kohberger provided a statement and interview for the first time since he was sentenced to four consecutive life terms...Read more

NEW YORK — New York students who were abruptly unenrolled from Howard University just weeks before the first day of school will be guaranteed admission to the State University of New York or the City University of New York this fall, Gov. Kathy Hochul was set to announce Monday.

Each student will also receive an $800 credit to help offset ...Read more

The United Kingdom shared its “Stone Cloak” technology capable of jamming Russian air defense systems with Ukraine as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy became the first foreign leader to visit Britain for talks with new Prime Minister Andy Burnham.

Burnham told broadcasters that the meeting aboard the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen ...Read more

DETROIT — A Michigan couple is suing Taco Bell and Taylor Farms after the couple says they contracted cyclosporiasis from eating infected lettuce from the restaurant, which was sourced from Taylor Farms.

Karl and Gina Hercula, of Clinton Township, became ill in July after eating Taco Bell meals containing shredded lettuce in June, according ...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell is not yet medically cleared to return to work or leave the rehabilitation facility where he’s receiving care following his fall at home last month, his office shared late Monday morning.

McConnell, who was hospitalized June 14, released a statement that said the 84-year-old Republican Kentucky senator is still recovering...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he decided to pause strikes on Iran to give negotiations another chance, minimizing the prospect of a potential military escalation of the war.

Trump said Monday in an interview with Axios that “very deep talks” are taking place with the Islamic Republic and “if they don’t work out, we will go back to ...Read more

Former FBI Director James Comey Jr. is asking a federal judge to dismiss a federal criminal case accusing him of threatening President Donald Trump, arguing that his Instagram post at the center of the case doesn’t meet the legal definition of a “true threat.”

“While the indictment fails on its face to allege a true threat, the ...Read more

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which roughly one-third of the world’s fertilizer normally passes, has made clear that access to nutrients for crops remains as strategically important in the 21st century as access to oil.

As an environmental historian, I study how fertilizer transformed the modern world. That history is...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Three people were convicted and sentenced for nearly $5 million worth of Medicaid fraud at Kentucky addiction treatment clinics, the Department of Justice announced Friday.

A Texas businessman, a Kentucky doctor and another Kentucky woman were sentenced to prison for wrongly billing Medicaid and Medicare at multiple Kentucky...Read more

WASHINGTON — John Thune has yet to be branded with a derisive nickname from Donald Trump, but the president and his team have turned up the heat on the Senate majority leader. Yet, GOP sources are banking that the South Dakotan has the support of his caucus.

The latest Republican-on-Republican drama has yet to reach full-blown Washington feud...Read more