Iran said its diplomats are prepared to stay in Geneva for days or weeks to finalize a nuclear deal with the U.S., as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps resumed navy drills in a critical shipping lane for oil.

The military exercises in the Persian Gulf, which Iranian state TV said would partly close the Strait of Hormuz for several hours, ...Read more

MIAMI – Bradenton’s IMG Academy agreed to pay $1.7 million to settle a potential liability suit after allowing two students with ties to the Mexican cartel to attend the school.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced Thursday that IMG Academy’s continued tuition transactions for the two students...Read more

President Donald Trump paid tribute to the late Rev. Jesse Jackson as a “good man” and “force of nature” but claimed the late civil rights leader “couldn’t stand” former President Barack Obama.

Mixing praise with petty digs, Trump claimed during his days as a New York real estate tycoon he was friends with Jackson, and he ticked ...Read more

Though Nancy Guthrie’s family was publicly cleared Monday of any involvement in her abduction, Arizona authorities say they determined “in the first few days” of the weeks-long investigation that “not one single person in the family is a suspect.”

Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos confirmed that timeline to 13 News, which seemed to be ...Read more

Parts of the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most important oil-shipping lanes, will be closed for “several hours” on Tuesday as part of Iran’s military drills, state TV in the Islamic Republic reported.

The drills, announced previously, come as Iran and the U.S. start a second round of negotiations in Geneva. Oil reversed losses ...Read more

Nearly four years after Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the war’s toll is measured not only in the shattered cities across the border but increasingly in Russia’s own frontier regions.

Millions of Ukrainians are enduring one of the coldest winters in recent memory without reliable electricity and heating as waves of ...Read more

The U.S. will deploy more missile systems to the Philippines, a move that will potentially anger China, as the two allies boost their defense ties.

Both Washington and Manila have committed to “continue and work to increase deployments of U.S. cutting-edge missile and unmanned systems to the Philippines,” according to a joint statement on ...Read more

One of Latin America’s oldest democracies is under siege from powerful criminal gangs, and a manhunt for three warlords wanted by Donald Trump threatens to unleash even more chaos before Colombians vote this year.

Already, candidates are largely staying off the campaign trail amid a wave of attacks that saw a senator’s bodyguards ...Read more

Leonard Bighorn said his mother tried for two years to get help for severe stomach pain through the limited health services available near her home on the Fort Peck Reservation in northeastern Montana.

After his mom finally saw a specialist in Glasgow, about an hour away, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer, Bighorn said.

Now, 16 years...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When it snows in Parkville, Missouri, Harrison Long often stops in his tracks.

“Avalanche,” he shouts, even if only a few flakes are falling. It’s a line he memorized from a cartoon, one of the many TV show and movie quotes that have become commonplace in the Long household.

Harrison has also started singing again, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was a little after 8 a.m. when the owner of Sun Packing and his employee rolled up the metal door of their narrow storefront on Pico Boulevard in L.A.’s Fashion District.

The neighborhood is home to hundreds of merchants selling everything from neckties to quinceañera dresses to bright swaths of fabric. Neighboring vendors...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Look at the armpits — or, technically, the “wingpits.”

That’s what Scott Mehus, education director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minn., told a group of bird watchers recently as they prepared to scan the winter skies for a majestic raptor that’s especially tricky to identify: the golden eagle.

It’s easy ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — U.S. Rep. Summer Lee sent a congressional inquiry last week to Immigration and Customs Enforcement demanding the agency provide justification for the arrest of a man in Brentwood.

Lee, D-Swissvale, said the man, Maklim Gomez Escalante, 35, had a valid work permit and no criminal record when he was arrested in mid-January. He is ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump and his allies are questioning ballot security. Democrats are warning of unconstitutional federal intervention. Experts and others are raising concerns about partisan redistricting and federal immigration agents intimidating people at the polls.

Voter trust in the upcoming midterm elections, meanwhile, has...Read more

President Donald Trump said that U.S. government officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are in discussions with Cuba’s Communist regime as the island nation faces worsening economic conditions.

“We’re talking to Cuba right now, and Marco Rubio is talking to Cuba right now,” Trump told reporters on Monday.

Cuba should “...Read more

The CEO of the embattled California High-Speed Rail Authority was arrested this month at his Folsom home on suspicion of domestic battery, hours after appearing beside Gov. Gavin Newsom at a rail event in Kern County.

According to Folsom police logs, Ian Choudri, 57, was arrested just after midnight Feb. 4 following a domestic disturbance call ...Read more