Israel said early Saturday that it is conducting what it called “precise” strikes on military targets in Iran, a salvo meant to retaliate for a barrage of ballistic missiles three weeks earlier.

“In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel – right now the Israel Defense Forces is ...Read more

TEHRAN, Iran — War in the Middle East escalated yet again Friday as Israel bombed targets in Iran in a spiraling pattern of attack and retaliation that has inflamed the region.

Israel said it was punishing the Islamic Republic for its missile barrage this month aimed at Israeli military installations and other sites. Those attacks came in ...Read more

Billionaire Elon Musk and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have reportedly had an ongoing relationship since 2022.

Putin and Musk, the latter of whom has been busily supporting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in recent weeks, have discussed topics including global politics, according to The Wall Street Journal, which said its story ...Read more

President Joe Biden apologized for the federal government’s role in running a system of Indian boarding schools that separated Native American children from their families and wreaked havoc on tribal communities.

“It’s a sin on our soul,” Biden said Friday at the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona, calling his formal apology “long...Read more

MIAMI — Chaos erupted late Friday after a man convicted of murdering a teenage student during a botched robbery of Yeezy sneakers four years ago tried to attack the girl’s father during the sentencing in a Miami-Dade County courtroom.

Adrian Cosby, 22, leapt from his chair as the father of Andrea Camps-Lacayo read from a prepared statement ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento Superior Court judge on Tuesday rejected a motion to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit that alleges “reckless planning” by California Highway Patrol investigators serving a search warrant last year at a busy Roseville park, where a hostage was killed and two other people were wounded during an afternoon ...Read more

MIAMI — Chaos erupted late Friday after a man convicted of murdering a teenage student during a botched robbery of Yeezy sneakers four years ago tried to attack the girl’s father during the sentencing in a Miami-Dade County courtroom.

Adrian Cosby, 22, leapt from his chair as the father of Andrea Camps-Lacayo read from a prepared statement ...Read more

BOSTON — The former Massachusetts Air National Guardsman who shared military secrets with fellow video gamers online is getting closer to sentencing — but attorneys are trying to keep even more details out of public view.

Jack Teixeira faces a maximum of 16 years and eight months for six counts of willful retention and transmission of ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson on Friday refused to say whether he will return $150,000 Chicago rapper Lil Durk contributed to the mayor’s political committee, a day after the artist was arrested in an alleged murder-for-hire plot.

Johnson suggested he had no immediate intention to give back the money when asked how he would handle...Read more

NEW YORK — Contract negotiations between New York City and NYPD sergeants — many of whom are now getting paid less than some police officers they oversee — have completely broken down, forcing the union to declare an impasse with city negotiators and ask for the assistance of an outside mediator, the Daily News has learned.

Vincent ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Seizures at the California-Mexico border accounted for nearly half of all illegal drugs encountered by U.S. border authorities along the Southwest border in the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Enforcement data released this week.

In all, CBP seized more than 275,000 pounds of illegal drugs along the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Earlier this month, a jury sentenced a 54-year-old man to death for a 2012 murder — the first death penalty sentence a jury in Nevada has handed down in more than five years.

The jury found Robert Brown guilty of murdering his girlfriend, 29-year-old Nichole Nick, after breaking into her apartment, attacking her, shooting and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger’s defense beat back at prosecutors’ plan to give an Ada County jury the option to hand the University of Idaho homicide suspect a death sentence in the latest court filings of the closely watched case.

Kohberger’s attorneys this week filed more than a dozen briefs to support their ongoing effort to strike ...Read more

The list of recalled foods and foodborne illness outbreaks has lately been a long one: Listeria in Boar’s Head deli meats, smoked salmon from Costco and frozen waffles from Aldi, Target and Walmart. E. coli in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders. Salmonella at Downtown Baltimore’s Fogo de Chao.

And, this week, a contaminated meal that sent dozens...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Jurors expected to begin deliberating the fate of accused suitcase killer Sarah Boone on Friday evening will have additional options for convicting her besides the second-degree murder charge that put her on trial.

Boone, 47, charged in the February 2020 suffocation death of boyfriend Jorge Torres Jr., 42, inside a suitcase, ...Read more

John ‘J’ Vasquez went into prison at 16 years old and spent a decade becoming “worse inside” before he began to put in the work toward rehabilitation.

Sentenced to 15 years to life for a gang-related murder he committed as a teen, Vasquez spent more than 25 years bouncing around various California prisons before he was released on ...Read more

NEW YORK — Disgraced ex-Abercrombie CEO Mike Jeffries and one of his codefendants pleaded not guilty Friday to charges of sex trafficking and interstate prostitution at their arraignment in Central Islip’s federal court.

Jeffries and James Jacobson were released on bond — $10 million for the former fashion CEO and $500,000 for Jacobson, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — President Joe Biden plans to return to Baltimore next week to highlight his administration’s investments in infrastructure and his “pro-union” record, The Baltimore Sun has learned.

He plans to tout the effects of the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, according to an administration release provided in advance of the ...Read more

It may not feel like it when the worst stomach flu of your life has you in its grip, but often, the best thing to do when you have E. coli is to rest and keep drinking beverages with electrolytes.

At least 26 people in Colorado and 49 others nationwide got sick from E. coli in an outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounder hamburgers ...Read more