3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (716+ words) WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression. The USS George Washington is departing the…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (518+ words) NEW YORK -- A civil rights agency accused of halting a sexual harassment case filed on behalf of female prison guards is now blaming an administrative judge for doing so in error. A labor union and two female prison guards sued…...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (566+ words) Iran said Qatar was holding three of its pilots who had been missing since March, which Qatar denied. The United Arab Emirates accused Iran of again attacking one of its vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iran-backed Houthis again…...

1+ hour, 41+ min ago   (691+ words) The homicide rate in the United States dropped to the lowest it's been in 75 years, according to an FBI report on 2025 crime statistics released last week, which also showed overall violent crime dropped 9.3% last year. Experts note that national violent…...

47+ min ago   (449+ words) BANGKOK -- Myanmar's military-backed government said Saturday that more than 300,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh are former residents of western Rakhine state and that it will accept their return once security conditions improve. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (555+ words) MAUMERE, Indonesia -- A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Indonesia early Saturday, killing at least 47 people, collapsing buildings and causing panic in a region prone to deadly quakes. Authorities said dozens more residents were injured and warned that…...

1+ hour, 51+ min ago   (599+ words) AUSTIN, Texas -- Democrats seeking the party's presidential nomination in 2028 will need to prove themselves early on in states where Black and Latino voters and union members are key supporters, under an election-year calendar approved Saturday. The primary lineup pushes Iowa…...

3+ hour, 16+ min ago   (658+ words) Hawaii's Big Island was threatened Saturday with its first possible direct hit from a hurricane in 155 years as Hurricane Lala roared in the Pacific Ocean and gusty wind, waves and rain pounded the region. The National Hurricane Center said Lala's…...

2+ hour, 18+ min ago   (988+ words) LONDON -- Timing is everything in comedy and, so it seems, in British politics for a perennial joke candidate who wears a garbage can on his head. Count Binface, a self-described intergalactic space warrior, landed in the center of the U.K.'s…...

2+ hour, 17+ min ago   (671+ words) LEXINGTON, S.C. -- The judge in Alex Murdaugh's murder retrial decided Friday to move the case out of the rural South Carolina county where it dominated life in the community for six weeks in 2023. But left undecided is a defense request to…...