WASHINGTON — The Pentagon intends to accelerate AI-enabled decision-making and put it at the heart of its ambition to link up sensors and shooters for combat operations, according to a policy memo seen by Bloomberg.

Establishing Palantir Technologies Inc.’s Maven Smart System as a so-called program of record “will provide the stable ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A two-vehicle crash in southwestern Minnesota on Friday involving an SUV and a family’s party bus left five people dead and eight injured, according to the State Patrol.

The head-on collision occurred shortly after 4:40 p.m. Friday about 17 miles north of Windom on Hwy. 71 near 240th Street in Cottonwood County, said Minnesota...Read more

The U.S. military said it has been able to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz as President Donald Trump floated the idea of “winding down” military efforts in the Persian Gulf.

More than 100 people were injured in Israel by multiple Iranian strikes in the country’s south, as Tehran sought to ...Read more

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine this week cosponsored a new bipartisan bill aimed at improving access to prescription medication for TRICARE recipients.

The bill, S. 4106 known as the Rx ACCESS Act, would reduce costs for retail pharmacies serving TRICARE patients and establish annual audits to ensure the law is being followed and to track continuity ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County's chief executive officer Fesia Davenport, who has been on medical leave since October, has announced that she will resign next month.

In a LinkedIn post, Davenport said she was leaving county service to "focus on my health and wellness."

A notice to the Board of Supervisors provided to the Los Angeles Times ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado is seeing another day of record-breaking heat and dangerous fire weather on Saturday before a slight cool-off is set to begin Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.

Denver quickly broke the daily high temperature record on Saturday, with mercury at the airport hitting 81 degrees by 11:05 a.m. and still rising. ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Old Dominion University said it would not punish students who fail to respond to a questionnaire about their criminal histories, and maintained it took the unusual step in the name of campus safety.

“We understand that students may have concerns, and we want to be clear that this effort is grounded in care for our community,�...Read more

MIAMI — Besides the barricades on sidewalks, police on horses and a barrage of D-list online streamers, spring break on Fort Lauderdale Beach didn’t look much different from any other day.

After a week of bleak, rainy weather, spring breakers finally got a nice beach day on Friday. The sky was beautiful, the sun was out but the wind was ...Read more

Friedrich Merz will have another chance to secure a regional election victory on Sunday after the German chancellor’s conservative party suffered a bruising defeat in a wealthy southwestern state two weeks ago.

Failure to take power in the wine-growing region of Rhineland-Palatine would be a heavy blow for Merz’s Christian Democratic Union...Read more

Mary Callahan has a frightening theory about why her husband was murdered in Miami.

He was heading to the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., to report that the Boston office was corrupt to the core.

“He knew the FBI was so bad here. He always let me know where he was, and he told me he was going to go to D.C.” after first jetting to ...Read more

The U.S. said Iran’s ability to threaten marine traffic on the Strait of Hormuz has been “degraded” after it took out a facility along the Iranian coastline earlier this week.

The U.S. military dropped several 5,000-pound bombs on an underground facility located along Iran’s coastline, according to Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of U.S....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Inside Jesse's Barber Shop in Boyle Heights, Rodney Trammell gave an oral history of Brooklyn Avenue before it was renamed after civil rights leader Cesar E. Chavez.

The street, he recalled, was lined with Mexican and Jewish retail stores and bakeries. There was a movie theater and the original Canter's Deli opened here. ...Read more

The U.S. military said it has been able to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz as President Donald Trump floated the idea of “winding down” military efforts in the Persian Gulf.

Trump’s comments came shortly after he ruled out a ceasefire and kept the door open to deploying ground troops, ...Read more

The wife of “19 Kids and Counting” star Joseph Duggar was arrested on Friday, three days after her husband was taken into custody for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl while on vacation in Florida six years ago.

Kendra Duggar is facing four counts each of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree false ...Read more

In the days after Haiti President Jovenel Moïse was brazenly shot to death in his hillside home above Port-au-Prince more than four years ago, federal agents fanned out across South Florida in search of a connection.

They served search warrants at the homes and businesses of four individuals: two operators of a Miami-Dade security firm that ...Read more

Donald Trump’s decision to wage war on Iran was partly motivated by pressure from outside allies while his own White House team stayed more muted — underscoring how in his second term, guardrails have been traded for a green light.

Those privately pressing Trump to strike Iran included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, media mogul ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than three decades after a landmark decision called for Los Angeles to limit its taking of water to raise the level of Mono Lake, California regulators are reexamining why the lake still hasn’t rebounded and what should be done about it.

At the request of state water officials, UCLA climate scientists developed a new ...Read more

MIAMI — Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ After Action Team had set up a probe into what had happened to their most high-profile inmate.

The FBI was told that there were people ...Read more