Iran’s foreign minister said the U.S. is trying to revive nuclear talks with Tehran while stressing that his country is in no hurry to resume negotiations.

“The Americans insist on returning to the negotiating table,” Abbas Araghchi said in televised remarks Saturday, adding that Iran has received “multiple messages.” Tehran is ...Read more

MIAMI — The invasive Burmese pythons plaguing Florida have an almost supernatural ability to absorb skeletons and scientists say they have finally found out how it’s done.

Turns out the intimidating predators have “previously unknown cell type” in the walls of their intestines that completely dissolves skeletons, according to a study ...Read more

When deadly flash floods hit central Texas last week, people on social media site X turned to artificial intelligence chatbot Grok for answers about whom to blame.

Grok confidently pointed to President Donald Trump.

"Yes. Trump's 2025 cuts slashed NOAA/NWS funding by ~30% and staff by 17%, impairing forecast accuracy. Warnings underestimated ...Read more

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out what advocates allege are unlawful stops and arrests that have terrorized Angelenos, forced some immigrants into hiding and damaged the local economy.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, a Biden appointee, came after a hearing ...Read more

Gisele Barreto Fetterman spoke candidly about her life in an interview about her new book on WHYY in Philadelphia on Friday. She talked about her habit of crying, a conversation about immigration with President Donald Trump, being mistaken for “the help,” — and she defended her husband, who has become a polarizing force in Washington.

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Wildfires burning on thousands of acres across Colorado’s Western Slope destroyed two homes and continued to evacuate neighborhoods and close Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, local and federal officials said Friday.

Sowbelly fire

A wildfire that sparked in Mesa County on Thursday amid soaring temperatures, tinder-dry conditions ...Read more

Derek Dixon, the actor who raised allegations of sexual harassment against Tyler Perry, has broken his silence after suing the producer and media mogul for $260 million last month.

In his first interview since filing the bombshell lawsuit in June, “The Oval” actor Dixon told The Hollywood Reporter, “I couldn’t just let (Perry) get away ...Read more

Training for dozens of recruits hoping to be New York City deputy sheriffs was thrown into chaos after the Department of Investigation determined the academy’s instructors responsible for investigation and firearms training weren’t certified by the state, The New York Daily News has learned.

After being delayed for more than three weeks, ...Read more

CAMARILLO, Calif. — A massive show of federal law enforcement agents swept through rural corners of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties this week in the largest of the Trump administration’s weeks-long campaign against undocumented immigrants in California — and the deadliest.

Farmworker advocates said Friday afternoon that one laborer ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed on Friday that having a “rapist” president in office has muddied the Justice Department’s handling of matters involving deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

“Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?” the New York ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent was accused of drunkenly fighting with Long Beach police officers earlier this week after he was asked to leave a bar, authorities said.

Isaiah Hodgson, 29, was charged with three counts of resisting arrest, one count of battery causing injury to a police officer and several misdemeanor ...Read more

Federal immigration agents carried out immigration sweeps at two Southern California cannabis farms on Thursday, arresting about 200 suspected undocumented immigrants and prompting a heated standoff between authorities and hundreds of protesters at a Ventura County site and reports of a farmworker who died in a fall.

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The State Department began laying off more than 1,300 U.S.-based diplomats and other employees on Friday, after the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could go ahead with plans to slash the size of the federal workforce.

The layoffs affect 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers on domestic assignments, according to...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the U.S. resumed shipping military aid to Ukraine, which was unexpectedly put on halt last week.

“According to all reports, the supply has been renewed,” Zelenskyy said late Friday in his daily video address to the nation. “We will continue to work with the American side at the military level, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Los Angeles police officers from using rubber projectiles and other so-called less-lethal munitions against reporters covering protests against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.

In a ruling made public Friday, U.S. District Judge Hernán D. ...Read more

Far right-wing Congresswoman and conspiracy theorist Marjorie Taylor Greene raged that an unspecified “they” are controlling the weather on X.

“First, they said we were crazy for saying they are controlling the weather and spraying chemicals in our skies,” the MAGA loyalist wrote. “Now, they are admitting that they are controlling the...Read more