In one of his latest missives on social media, President Trump complained that he wasn't getting enough credit for "totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran, militarily, economically, and otherwise."

"We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time," he wrote of a war that has crippled the global supply of oil, ...Read more

John “Gabe” Horneff, an orthopedic surgeon at Pennsylvania Hospital, had noticed a peculiar trend: Some patients taking GLP-1s would come in with significant tendon injuries from relatively minor physical excursion.

For example, some suffered tears in the rotator cuff in the shoulder area while doing simple housework like vacuuming or ...Read more

Prime Minister Viktor Orban ratcheted up his anti-Ukraine rhetoric, casting next month’s Hungarian election as a choice between sticking with him or installing a puppet of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Orban, the European Union leader who is closest to Russia and also an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, told a crowd outside the Hungarian...Read more

After two weeks of war with Iran, the Trump administration is being forced to temper its expectations of a swift end to the conflict, with U.S. intelligence and defense officials expressing doubt it can achieve the overthrow of Iran's government and the destruction of its nuclear program through military means.

It was an outcome forewarned by ...Read more

Trade negotiators led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng began talks in Paris on Sunday to map out plans for a leaders’ summit later this month.

The trade negotiators are expected to review the latest developments in a truce reached in November and discuss ...Read more

Blizzards, wildfires and thunderstorms are swirling toward the eastern U.S. having knocked out power to thousands and grounded hundreds of flights across the Midwest.

Heavy snow touched off blizzard warnings from South Dakota to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula on Sunday, the National Weather Service said. Meanwhile, high winds are shaking power ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the three years since Los Angeles County declared an end to COVID-19 as a public health emergency, mask sales have dwindled, unopened tests have expired in their boxes and people have returned to in-person school, work and socializing.

But for thousands of L.A. County residents living with the complex, chronic condition known...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A prominent civil rights attorney who represented the families of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Trayvon Martin announced he’s gathering evidence for a possible federal discrimination lawsuit against Los Angeles County over its response to the Eaton fire.

Attorney Ben Crump has joined the growing ranks of officials and ...Read more

Companies competing for workers to build data centers are finding that a motel room with sluggish Wi-Fi isn’t much of a draw. Try free steaks and golf simulators.

As data-center development has exploded with the rise of artificial intelligence, competition for water and power supplies is pushing construction further into rural areas that ...Read more

Venezuela needs more than money to revive its battered oil industry.

It needs a sprawling diaspora of oil workers who fled the Caribbean country under President Nicolás Maduro to return. Even with the former strongman now sitting in a U.S. jail, that’s a hard sell.

Twenty years of repression and economic collapse forced many geologists, ...Read more

ST. PETER, Minn. — Mercedes checked her phone again, waiting for her husband to call from the detention center.

Forty-one days earlier, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents had detained Paco as he walked to his car. Mercedes said she had watched from the window of their mobile home as agents handcuffed him.

Paco was undocumented...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A 34-year-old Kentuckian is among the six American service members who died in a plane crash in Iraq on Thursday.

Air Force Tech. Sgt. Ashley B. Pruitt was assigned to the 6th Air Refueling Wing out of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., according to a Saturday news release from the Department of Defense.

Pruitt is the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Joe Hakimian gestures toward the glittering rings sitting inside glass cases at his downtown jewelry shop, Hakimian Imports. There’s the rare-colored gems he picked up at estate sales, and a sparkling 8-carat diamond that covers the finger. He even had an 18k gold brooch shaped like a tennis racket for sale this week.

But perhaps...Read more

DENVER — More than 30,000 homes and businesses lost power on Saturday as high winds blew across Colorado, according to several of the state’s energy utilities.

Roughly 18,000 of those outages were Xcel Energy customers in Colorado’s foothills, who lost power when the utility’s preemptive safety shutoffs started at 2 p.m. Saturday, ...Read more

MIAMI — Zoo Miami abruptly closed Saturday afternoon after a bomb threat for the second day in a row, according to a social media post from the zoo.

More than 100 cars were stuck in traffic on the road leading out of the attraction.

The zoo also had a bomb threat on Friday afternoon. The zoo closed after “an anonymous phone call reporting ...Read more

CHICAGO — Downtown Chicago looked like a sea of green, or more precisely a river of green, on Saturday as crowds gathered for the city’s annual St. Patrick’s Day weekend festivities.

Just before 10 a.m., boats from Shoreline Sightseeing carrying members of the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local Union 130 sprayed bright green dye into the ...Read more

MIAMI — Bishop Leo Frade, the retired bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, wasn’t surprised when Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel announced Friday that Cuba and the United States were talking and moving away from confrontation.

With President Donald Trump urging Cuba to make a “deal” with the United States after he moved...Read more

North Korea fired more than 10 ballistic missiles toward the waters off its eastern coast, days after testing cruise missiles from a new warship and adding to global geopolitical risks that were already mounting after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran.

State media KCNA, in a report dated March 15, said leader Kim Jong Un presided over a drill ...Read more

News of black rain falling on Tehran felt all too familiar to Nejat Rahmanian as he scrolled through alerts on social media feeds and tried to contact relatives on March 8.

Israeli drone strikes hit giant oil depots and refineries on the outskirts of the Iranian capital a few hours earlier, setting fuel on fire and releasing columns of black ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — It first flew in 1956, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was president. It carries 200,000 pounds of fuel, siphoned away midair through a metal tube. And it doesn’t have parachutes, trapping crews during a crash.

The KC-135 Stratotanker plane, effectively a flying gas tank, is at the core of the U.S. military’s ability to fight wars...Read more