A Wildberries warehouse near Moscow caught fire after a Ukrainian drone strike, the regional governor said, part of one of the largest recent attacks on the broader capital area.

Separately, Kremlin forces continued to target Odesa and other parts of Ukraine’s Black Sea region, as well as Kyiv, with missiles and drones. Romania’s defense ...Read more

TACOMA, Wash. — The beef is served red and raw, or not at all. What’s edible comes in small portions, just 2 ounces of protein, often hours past normal mealtimes, according to advocates. Lunch arrives at 5 p.m., dinner at midnight.

And so on Saturday, 140 detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma began their fourth day ...Read more

Approaching six months of war with Iran after predicting a six-week campaign, President Trump has few options before him to bring the conflict to a close. But some experts believe a new strategy emerging from his administration could avert a more consequential defeat.

The president has repeatedly flirted with broadening the assault, hoping yet ...Read more

One person has died as storm Lala continues to batter Hawaii, potentially bringing nearly three feet of rain and damaging winds to parts of the state Sunday after narrowly missing landfall.

The storm got closest to the South Point area, where one person died in a car accident on Saturday, Hawaii Governor Josh Green said in a post on X.

Lala ...Read more

Zambia’s president maintained his lead among voters with nearly half of electoral constituencies counted, moving closer to extending his rule over the copper-rich southern African nation for a second term.

Hakainde Hichilema won 1,056,812 votes in 105 of the country’s 226 constituencies announced by the Electoral Commission of Zambia on ...Read more

Lebanon saw its deadliest day of fighting in months, heaping pressure on stalled U.S.-Iran negotiations while Washington preps fresh sanctions.

The Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday that it killed Abu Hassan Alaa, a senior Hezbollah commander, in southern Lebanon a day earlier. A total of 11 people died in the Israeli strikes, making them ...Read more

U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche defended Jeanine Pirro for dismissing a federal vandalism case in a decision that angered President Donald Trump, saying the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., should be judged fairly.

Blanche, a former personal lawyer for Trump who was sworn in last week as head of the Justice Department, took Pirro’s side...Read more

Flock Safety is tightening privacy and oversight controls for its nationwide network of automated license plate readers as more communities pull back from the technology and lawmakers across the political spectrum push for new restrictions.

The company announced Thursday that it will recommend that police agencies retain license plate reader ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — As spring rolls into Idaho every year, the snow starts to melt and the chilly water flows down the mountains through soil and streams. Water that isn’t trapped in dams or pulled from wells or rivers eventually reaches the Pacific Ocean.

These high spring flows are sorely missed come summer, especially in years like this, when...Read more

Last year, Baltimore had three mass overdose incidents in the span of three months in its Penn North neighborhood.

In one incident, more than two dozen people were hospitalized after many were found unresponsive, lying in the streets or on sidewalks. No one died, but some came close.

Follow-up testing found that the street drugs contained high...Read more

Hurricane Lala disrupted travel between Los Angeles and Hawaii on Saturday, canceling flights from LAX to destinations across the islands as the Category 1 storm approached the Big Island.

Several flights from LAX to Hawaii were canceled Saturday, including service to Kona, Maui, Kauai and Honolulu. Canceled flights included United Flight 2373 ...Read more

Pacific storm Lala strengthened into a hurricane as it edged closer to Hawaii’s Big Island, where it will make possible landfall on Saturday, the US National Hurricane Center said.

Lala’s top winds reached 80 miles (130 kilometers) per hour, up from 75 mph earlier, as it closed to within 30 miles of South Point, Hawaii, the center said in ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX launched eight satellites responsible for emergency SOS alerts on Saturday night and made a land recovery of the rocket’s booster that brought a sonic boom to parts of Central Florida.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Globalstar 2-R Launch 1 mission lifted off at 9:12 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space ...Read more

Zambia’s president maintained an early lead in elections in which he’s seeking to extend his rule of the copper-rich southern African nation.

Hakainde Hichilema garnered 438,708 votes in 49 of the country’s 226 constituencies announced by the Electoral Commission of Zambia late Saturday. His closest rival, opposition leader Brian ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Pico Rivera man who killed his friend and girlfriend in a 124-mile-per-hour crash in Ventura County has been sentenced to more than five years in prison, officials said this week.

Leonardo Rodriguez, 21, was driving a black Honda Accord south on U.S. 101 near Thousand Oaks early on the morning of Oct. 31, 2024, when he tried ...Read more

China lodged a formal protest with Japan after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi sent an offering to Yasukuni shrine and Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited it on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II.

Beijing “strongly condemns” the moves, according to a statement from its Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Koizumi visited ...Read more

BOSTON — Calls for the excommunication of Gov. Maura Healey are mounting after she signed a bill removing restrictions on abortion access — though the Archdiocese of Boston has not yet stated how it will respond to the demands.

While church leaders have condemned the new law as “gravely immoral,” the Archdiocese has not declared whether...Read more

BALTIMORE — LaFayette Boone Jr. imagined a childhood for his son much like his own in Baltimore, attending Catholic school and playing with other kids in the neighborhood.

The plan hit an early hiccup: Amid declining enrollments, St. Michael — St. Clement School in Overlea closed in June after his 5-year-old son’s first and only year ...Read more

A wildlife center west of Sacramento, California, is expecting a speedy recovery for a river otter brought in Friday morning after the male was hit by a car.

The young river otter suffered no broken bones or fractures in the strike in Vacaville, but had an abrasion on his chin and suffered swelling around his brain, Solano Wildlife Rescue & ...Read more

NEW YORK — Police have filed hate crime charges against a 46-year-old man who attacked two people at a Midtown synagogue as he charged down the aisle, disrupting the sanctity of a peaceful Sabbath service, officials said Saturday.

“Do you know who I am?” Larry Montes ranted as he punched a 63-year-old woman and headbutted a 65-year-old ...Read more