Russian President Vladimir Putin said his forces may use a new missile again after targeting Ukraine in retaliation for Kyiv’s use of American and British-made weapons on Russian territory this week.

Russia said it launched an Oreshnik missile on the city of Dnipro on Thursday, the latest escalation of hostilities in the long-running war. ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore prosecutors are still mulling what to do with the case of Adnan Syed, whose decades-old convictions were reinstated earlier this year.

At a status conference in Syed’s case Friday, prosecutor Clara Salzberg, chief of the Baltimore State’s Attorney’s Office’s Post Conviction Litigation Unit, said her team needed ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a health care skeptic who has been mentioned for possible jobs in the Trump administration, issued an advisory Friday calling on Florida communities to stop fluoridating their water supplies.

Ladapo, citing controversial studies about the potential negative health consequences of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said Friday he would nominate hedge fund manager Scott Bessent to be Treasury secretary in his second term, a critical role in tax policy, global finance and managing the U.S. debt load.

To become the presumptive nominee, the founder of Key Square Group overcame scrutiny from the right over ties early...Read more

WASHINGTON — Russ Vought, the hard-driving budget director from President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration, will be nominated for a second stint in the job.

An unapologetic fiscal and social conservative, Vought is an aggressive advocate of cutting nondefense spending — but not what he calls the earned entitlements, Social ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders announced he’d be bringing his brand of populism to the powerful Senate Finance Committee next year, with a wide remit over tax, trade, Social Security, social safety net programs and health care policy.

But no final decisions have been made, despite the Vermont independent’s assertion late Friday that he�...Read more

BALTIMORE — After facing criticism for not standing with concerned citizens in Baltimore, Carroll and Frederick counties over the controversial Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project, Gov. Wes Moore announced plans Friday to take a more proactive approach with the power companies behind the initiative.

Moore plans to meet with leadership from ...Read more

NEW YORK — Federal prosecutors on Friday urged a judge to deny Sean “Diddy” Combs’ latest bid for release from jail, arguing his consistent rule-breaking shows he “cannot be trusted.”

In Manhattan federal court, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christy Slavik said Combs had demonstrated he could not abide by “any conditions” of release. ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Six Alaska House seats currently held by men are set to be held by women next year, bringing the overall number of women in the chamber to 21. This will be the first time in the state’s history that one of the legislative chambers is majority women.

The women elected to the Alaska House bring a variety of experiences and...Read more

WASHINGTON — It can be tough starting a new job; there’s all the new co-workers to meet, loads of paperwork to fill out, a new office layout to learn and a new commute to figure out.

But those challenges grow exponentially when you’re the delegate for the Northern Mariana Islands, and your new commute is roughly 8,000 miles.

“It’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s uncertainty about his slate of Treasury secretary candidates has led to rival factions once again trying to win his favor.

After a flurry of meetings this week, including discussions with new contenders, Trump has yet to make a decision on who will lead the charge for the sweeping economic agenda...Read more

On the afternoon of Oct. 12, 2017, a nurse at Kaiser Permanente called the Monterey Police Department to report that a patient had come in for a sexual assault exam.

The woman, the nurse told police, said she had been sexually assaulted four days earlier while at a Republican women’s conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Spa in the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A cluster of workers at Ventura County berry farms have been diagnosed with a rare disease often transmitted through sick animals’ urine, according to a public health advisory distributed to local doctors by county health officials Tuesday.

The bacterial infection, leptospirosis, has resulted in severe symptoms for some ...Read more

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. -- A federal jury convicted two men on all counts for their roles in a human smuggling network that arranged the passage of a family of four migrants who ultimately froze to death as they got lost in a blizzard trying to illegally cross from Canada into America.

Harshkumar Patel and Steve Shand were found guilty of ...Read more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Return to Nature Funeral Home owners Jon and Carie Hallford appeared in state court on Friday to plead guilty to 190 counts of abusing a corpse.

The funeral home located in Penrose, about 35 miles southwest of Colorado Springs, came under a multi-agency investigation in October 2023 after reports of a complaint about...Read more

DENVER — An intense persuasion campaign is heating up across more than 1,200 miles, from Colorado Springs to Alabama, as both states’ congressional delegations battle over landing the permanent headquarters of the U.S. Space Command.

Colorado’s elected officials want to keep the command at Peterson Space Force Base, where it has been ...Read more