BALTIMORE — Reginald Bellamy was playing poker with his buddies in the back of the day room at the old Baltimore City Detention Center when he heard the voice that changed his life.

A religious service was underway in the room at the same time. As the female preacher spoke of God’s mercy, Bellamy rushed toward the pulpit, threw his arms ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — On a late afternoon e-bike ride with friends in his Miramar neighborhood, 11-year-old Varren Lacoste hit a signpost straight-on and cracked open his forehead.

Racing from work to the hospital, his father, Smith Lacoste, arrived to see the profuse bleeding. “The gash was gruesome,” he recalls.

Doctors at Joe ...Read more

Free, largely confidential and available 24 hours a day via call, text or online chat, the 988 Lifeline — formerly the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline — is among the most accessible and effective suicide prevention tools in the U.S.

People have contacted the service roughly 25 million times since July 2022, when the previous 10-digit ...Read more

BIG SANDY, Mont. — The emergency department at Big Sandy Medical Center is one room with a single curtain between two beds.

It’s one of the many parts of the 25-bed rural hospital that need updating, former CEO Ron Wiens said.

He said the hospital, an essential service in its namesake town of nearly 800 residents in the state’s sprawling...Read more

ADEN, Yemen — The ambush spot was good: Single-lane street, just enough space to overtake. Few exits, easily controlled. Hidden from the highway by high buildings lining either side.

So when the strike team trailed Lt. Col. Ali Ashaal into this quiet neighborhood on the western edge of Aden, they were ready. A Toyota Voxy minivan with tinted...Read more

BALTIMORE — With just a little more than a week left in the legislative session, a slate of bills focused on Maryland women has advanced through the General Assembly, tackling issues from maternal health and menopause care to child care access and public safety.

Taken together, the measures reflect a growing recognition among lawmakers that ...Read more

HAVANA — After another nationwide blackout debilitated Cuba, electricity began flickering back on in parts of Havana on a recent Sunday afternoon. As cell signal returned, Alberto González's phone buzzed nonstop with messages.

"Will you open today?"

"Is there power?"

"Good afternoon, brother. Will there be dancing?"

Until now, it wasn't a...Read more

With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and restricting transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it is fair to suggest that the present moment represents a low in relations between the two countries.

But the bad blood isn’t new: The U.S. and Iran have been in ...Read more

DENVER — A Colorado community activist was convicted of doxxing a Denver police commander last week in a first-of-its-kind case that has fueled debate about whether the state’s online privacy laws violate free speech rights.

A jury in Denver County Court found Regan Benson, 53, guilty of sharing the personal information of a protected ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — First they found metates — ancient grinding stones. A human pinky bone, jawbone and ribs were next.

Repeated discoveries of Native American remains and other artifacts on the site of a housing development in Poway has led the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians to call for construction to be stopped — a move the tribe hopes ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Many Minnesotans are still struggling to afford food as residents set a fourth consecutive record for food shelf visits in 2025.

Since the pandemic and the record inflation that followed, food insecurity has grown dramatically in the North Star State.

Minnesotans made more than 9 million food shelf visits last year, according ...Read more

MIAMI — Nancy Metayer Bowen appeared to be living her best life. Successful, involved, happy, loved by her friends, family and community — and getting ready for a congressional run.

The 38-year-old posted herself on Instagram at community events, from political rallies to parades to little league baseball games. She posted herself assuming ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s threat to unleash “all hell” on Iran as early as Monday was met with defiance in the Islamic Republic as the U.S. military continued its dayslong search for an airman whose F-15E was shot down.

The Defense Department maintained its public silence about the downed aircraft — as well as the reported crash of an A-...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — “Lake Nona Concentration Camp” is certainly an evocative nickname for a potential Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in east Orlando. But lawyers for a development company say the monicker violates their clients’ trademark, and they are insisting that the activists who are using it in flyers and signs ...Read more

India is buying crude from Iran among other countries in order to navigate the current energy crisis, the country’s oil ministry said, denying payment hurdles were impeding those purchases.

The statement is a rare public recognition of energy ties that India largely abandoned as a result of U.S. sanctions, but has begun to rekindle thanks to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Across the country, President Donald Trump has installed handpicked loyalists as top federal prosecutors. Several have been pushed out after legal battles because they lack Senate confirmation to serve as U.S. attorneys.

But in Los Angeles, Bill Essayli wields the power of a top prosecutor under a lesser title: “first ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The bomb placed outside the MacDill Air Force Base visitors center last month was built inside two 2-liter cherry Pepsi bottles, according to federal prosecutors.

Alen Zheng, 20, of Land O’Lakes, is accused of planting the bomb and lighting the fuse at the base on March 10. He drove the explosive to MacDill in the trunk of his...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration announced on Saturday the arrests of two Los Angeles-based relatives of a high-ranking member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2020.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that federal authorities detained Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Friday. Soleimani is the...Read more