Iran vowed retaliation and kept up attacks on Israel following the U.S. strikes on its nuclear facilities over the weekend, fueling fears of a wider war in the Middle East and rattling global markets.

The Islamic Republic fired another missile against Israel on Monday, while Israeli forces kept up strikes on Iranian military sites and airports....Read more

Russia unleashed its latest missile and drone strike on Kyiv, killing at least seven people, as Moscow steps up its aerial attacks on civilian infrastructure.

A section of a residential building collapsed after it was hit, and more than 30 people were injured across the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Telegram on Monday ...Read more

Iran said U.S. strikes on its nuclear sites over the weekend have delivered an “irreparable blow” to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — a bedrock, international agreement preventing the spread of atomic bombs.

Iran’s envoy for the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, described U.S. attacks as an act of aggression that �...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin denounced “absolutely unprovoked aggression” against Iran, as he met a top official from Tehran the day after the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Putin described the attack as “totally unfounded and unjustified” as he met Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in the Kremlin on Monday. The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A day after news that the U.S. military bombed three nuclear sites in Iran, the L.A. County Sheriff's Department said on its social media channels their "hearts go out" to Iranian "victims."

The post sparked quick backlash — and an apology followed.

It's unclear what time the initial message, which was on X, Facebook and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday is slated to vote on an $18.8-billion spending plan for the next school year that officials say will keep cuts and layoffs at bay for exactly one more year.

Union leaders and activists, meanwhile, want more from a district reserve that still contains several billion dollars. This is ...Read more

DETROIT — A suspected gunman fatally shot at a Wayne church Sunday by a security guard has been identified as a 31-year-old Romulus man, police said.

Officials said the suspect was Brian Anthony Browning, and the investigation into the shooting is ongoing.

Authorities said Browning was armed with an AR-15 style rifle, more than a dozen fully...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The vast majority of California voters support expanding access to translated ballots for people who speak limited English, an effort that would likely increase turnout, a new poll found.

That finding comes from a poll released Monday by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, which conducted the survey in five ...Read more

United Launch Alliance took a week to reset, but was able to send up its second launch of the year, another mission for Amazon’s effort to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink internet constellation. The launch came just hours after SpaceX sent up its 50th rocket from the Space Coast this year.

An Atlas V rocket on the Kuiper-2 mission with 27 ...Read more

Medical experts are dismayed over a federal report’s claim that kids are overprescribed asthma medications, saying it minimizes how many lives the drugs save.

Safe treatment protocols for asthma management have been carefully studied over the years, said Dr. Perry Sheffield, a pediatrician and professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at ...Read more

DENVER — President Donald Trump’s vow to carry out mass deportations of immigrants has sparked fear and outrage among some Coloradans since he took office on Jan. 20. It’s drawn approval from others. Most of all, his pledge has brought uncertainty to many across the state.

The administration’s underlying goal, according to reporting by ...Read more

The Trump administration is pushing to reshape the federal housing safety net by slashing spending and shifting the burden of housing millions of people to states, which may be ill-equipped to handle the mission.

President Donald Trump’s recent budget request to Congress for fiscal year 2026, a preliminary plan released in early May and known...Read more

Adriana Lorenzo has stopped letting children play outside after 10 a.m. at the child-care program she runs from her Boyle Heights home. That's the time she's heard ICE agents start knocking on doors.

She's added extra locks to the outside gate, canceled field trips to the park and library and reassured frantic parents that she won't let federal...Read more

As Gabriela crossed the stage at her kindergarten graduation in Chicago, she scanned the audience, desperately searching for a familiar face. But her mother was nowhere to be found.

Still, wearing a pink dress and ballerina flats, Gabriela, 6, smiled and twirled around holding a bouquet on her way home. An older neighbor who sometimes cares for...Read more

Immigration arrests in Los Angeles have been headline news and the subject of legal disputes for the past few weeks, but Angelenos watching the drama play out on television and in their communities may be confused about who exactly is putting people in handcuffs and hauling them off.

After all, some of the federal agents involved in the raids ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Financial crises threaten to force service cuts at the state's two largest transit agencies. A deadlock in Congress could vastly reduce federal aid. Opinions are divided on whether legalization of recreational marijuana is possible.

State lawmakers, under intense pressure, face those dilemmas as Pennsylvania's budget ...Read more

Despite vows of transparency, annual financial disclosures filed by Michigan lawmakers this month provided an incomplete picture of the perks they receive from lobbyists, according to a Detroit News analysis of the records.

As part of the reports required under a 2022 constitutional amendment, Michigan officeholders were supposed to list gifts,...Read more

Less than 48 hours after his release from a federal immigration facility in Louisiana, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil told supporters in Manhattan a phrase that sustained him through his three-month incarceration was “I believe that we will win.”

“I found myself literally scratching this into my bunk bed and looking at it as I fell ...Read more

China criticized the U.S. strike on Iranian nuclear facilities and reiterated that it’s willing to join international efforts to restore peace in the Middle East.

Beijing “strongly” condemns the attacks on Iran, according to a four-sentence statement from the Foreign Ministry on Sunday.

“The U.S. move seriously violates the purposes ...Read more

The U.S. State Department issued a “Worldwide Caution” alert for American citizens, flagging the potential of travel disruptions and demonstrations following the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

“The conflict between Israel and Iran has resulted in disruptions to travel and periodic closure of airspace across the Middle East,�...Read more