WASHINGTON — The silence from the Kentucky crowd, many wearing “Make America Great Again” gear, was deafening.

The friendly audience in the commonwealth’s 4th District already had booed loudly at President Donald Trump’s mention of “Barack Hussein Obama,” with emphasis on the 44th president’s middle name. It would later howl as ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Amid diplomatic talks between the United States and Cuba, state lawmakers on Friday passed a bill that contains a free trade provision with the island nation should the regime fall.

The amendment had first appeared in February in the Florida House, where Cuban-American House Speaker Daniel Perez, a Miami Republican, ...Read more

Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel said Friday his government is engaged in talks with the United States and that the two countries are moving away from confrontation, confirming earlier reporting by the Miami Herald about the high-level contacts.

In footage of a government meeting aired on state television early morning, he said Cuban officials ...Read more

DETROIT — The suspected gunman who attacked a West Bloomfield Township synagogue on Thursday has been identified as a Dearborn Heights man.

Ayman Ghazali, 41, a restaurant worker, allegedly crashed his truck into the Temple Israel synagogue just after noon on Thursday and opened fire with a rifle. Authorities said he was killed by security ...Read more

MIAMI — As the Cuban government engages in negotiations with the Trump administration, the city of Miami said it anticipates potential “mass migration” and is prepared for large-scale celebrations “in the event of a significant change in the government of Cuba.”

On Thursday, Miami City Manager James Reyes told city commissioners that ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, the man who on Thursday opened fire into an Old Dominion University classroom and killed its instructor while wounding two others, was a student enrolled at the university at the time of attack.

University spokesman Jonah Grinkewitz said Jalloh studied geography at ODU. He was a student from fall 2007 to ...Read more

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Temple Israel, the nation's largest reform synagogue, rallied together on Friday after a gunman rammed his truck into the temple's building, with some saying they refuse to live in fear or let what happened derail them.

About 103 kids were attending classes at Temple Israel, along with 40 to 50 staff members,...Read more

WASHINGTON — Six American airmen deployed to operations against Iran were killed after their refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq, U.S. Central Command said Friday, bringing the U.S. death toll in the war to 13, as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced the heaviest day of strikes yet.

The crash involved two aircraft in “friendly ...Read more

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Afghanistan said fresh Pakistani airstrikes killed at least four people and hit a fuel depot site of a domestic airline, as fighting between the two sides intensified.

The Taliban government and police said Friday that the targets included a fuel storage site of private airline Kam Air near Kandahar Airport in the south ...Read more

On Ash Wednesday, 2026, two Roman Catholic priests and a religious sister entered an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, to celebrate Mass with detainees inside.

It might seem like a simple, routine event: a religious service to mark the start of Lent. But the Mass represented a legal win for the ...Read more

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.

Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of food waste are discarded each year, of which about 37 million metric tons end up buried in landfills.

Once underground, that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States said it had stepped up strikes on Iran to unprecedented levels as both sides in the war threatened to escalate a conflict hitting its two-week mark and upending energy flows and global financial markets.

“They’re going to be hit. They can talk all they want but, you know, let’s see what they do,” ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun connecting its push to obtain sensitive personal data on millions of voters to whether the upcoming midterm elections will be fair and secure, laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to potentially cast doubt on the results.

The Justice Department has sued 29 states and the District of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Victoria Gotti said she would sooner die than accept a kidney transplant from her son if it means he has to recover from the procedure in prison.

The “Growing Up Gotti” star told TMZ her decision on the matter was mostly inspired by her father, John Gotti, who died in prison of throat cancer in 2002 at the age of 61.

The New ...Read more

Sheriff Chris Nanos, who is heading up the investigation into the abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother Nancy Guthrie, said the suspect could “absolutely” strike again.

The Pima County Sheriff told NBC News this week that though authorities believe they know why the 84-year-old matriarch was snatched from ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Cuba has begun direct talks with the United States in an effort to solve “bilateral differences” between the two countries, Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel said Friday.

The comments, broadcast nationwide in Cuba, are the first confirmation of bilateral talks between the Trump administration and Cuban government. The U.S....Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Senate budget committee announced Friday plans to cut $126 million from the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration, $24 million less of a slash than what Gov. Wes Moore proposed in January.

The 11-member group added that it aims to move $23 million to the agency from the general fund. The state Senate’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is attacking Zohran Mamdani with an anti-Muslim tweet that accused the New York City mayor of being “the enemy inside the gates.”

The conservative Alabama lawmaker retweeted a post including a photo of Mamdani hosting a Ramadan iftar dinner at City Hall alongside the Sept. 11 terror attack on ...Read more