The United States military achieved every objective it set when it went to war in Iraq in 2003. Decapitation: Saddam Hussein was captured, tried and hanged. Air dominance: total, within days. Regime collapse: The Iraqi government fell in 21 days.

Now, consider Iraq more than 20 years after the U.S.-Iraq war. Iraq is still an ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Gabi has big brown eyes, pigtails, and a genetic condition that makes her bones brittle. They fracture easily, leaving the 2-year-old in such pain that her mother quit her job cleaning offices to stay home and cradle her in the one-bedroom apartment they share with six relatives.

When federal immigration agents descended on ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a national public health leader by staking out science-backed policies in contrast with the Trump administration.

After Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez for refusing what ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Federal court records show that in recent months, at least 22 foreign-born individuals living lawfully in the United States have been detained for hours by Marine Corps personnel at Camp Pendleton, and then arrested by immigration officers and held for weeks or longer, for trying to access the military base inadvertently or for ...Read more

TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. — Brandi Jones and her boyfriend were both 22 when he first deployed to Iraq with a Twentynine Palms-based infantry Marine unit in 2004.

The next year, they married and prepared a will, knowing another deployment could occur at any time. When her husband returned to Iraq in 2009, their children were 2 and 4.

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It was a snowy afternoon in Bozeman, a city of nearly 60,000 nestled among the mountains of southern Montana. Temperatures hovered in the mid-30s.

The city’s mobile crisis team had just gotten a call about a man walking around outside without shoes. The man’s family told the team he was having a mental health crisis and wouldn’t come ...Read more

OTTUMWA, Iowa — Leisa and Kent Walker recently received a disturbing notice: The private company managing their son’s Medicaid coverage intends to cut nearly 40% of what it spends for caregivers who help him live at home instead of in a nursing home.

Sam Walker, 35, has severe autism and other disabilities. He is deaf and cannot speak. ...Read more

The federal government knew it had wrongfully arrested Henry Cordova Jaya.

He had been detained by immigration agents last year during President Donald Trump’s ramped-up immigration enforcement raids in violation of a court order restricting warrantless arrests.

In January, the government acknowledged that his arrest was a violation of the ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Early last year, Xaz Willcuts, 33, thought she might go on using fentanyl and methamphetamines for the rest of her life.

She had been homeless for almost a decade and doubted whether any place would take her in. Shelters throughout San Diego County are often full, and the region has long struggled to supply enough detox beds for ...Read more

Just days after ISIS-inspired counter protesters threw explosive devices outside Manhattan’s Gracie Mansion, the NYPD graduated more than 900 new cops, each ready to face the challenges and dangers ahead, Mayor Mamdani said Monday.

“As New Yorkers ran from the danger, NYPD officers ran towards it,” Mamdani told the new recruits.

”No ...Read more

Two Bucks County men arrested for attempting to detonate homemade bombs at a protest outside Gracie Mansion in Manhattan over the weekend said they were inspired by ISIS, court documents show.

Emir Balat, 18, and Ibrahim Kayumi, 19, were charged with use of a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to support a foreign terrorist organization, ...Read more

Artificial intelligence is likely the most transformative technology of this generation.

It’s already reshaping industries and raising questions about energy, the environment and the future of the workplace.

What role will it play in Kentucky politics?

The Herald-Leader asked several candidates for U.S. Senate in Kentucky their thoughts on ...Read more

If you thought it was warm at the beginning of this month, wait until this weekend.

A major heat wave is expected to infiltrate Southern Nevada by the end of this week, with record daily high temperatures expected to be set, including the first 90-degree day of the year.

The National Weather Service, on a post on X, said daytime highs will ...Read more

One of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a Kuwait drone attack on Sunday was enrolled as a current student at a Missouri university.

Webster University, in St. Louis, announced on Facebook earlier this week that Capt. Cody Khork was an online student pursuing a master’s degree in Business and Organization Security management.

The school said ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Jordan Rivers, who is running to represent a harbor-area district on the Los Angeles City Council, said he will continue his campaign after a report surfaced that he stabbed a neighbor when he was 12.

Rivers, 22, is the sole challenger to incumbent Tim McOsker in the June 2 primary election.

In a lawsuit, Nicholas Parszik and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Council members introduced a bill Thursday aimed at banning private detention facilities in the city, following a surprise inspection of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office and holding facility.

The measure, pushed by Council President Zeke Cohen, would use the city’s zoning code to prohibit ...Read more

The president of the Arizona State Senate said he had provided records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation related to a review by Republican lawmakers into the 2020 presidential election.

“Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday tried to assuage concerns his war with Iran could become another prolonged military campaign, calling it a “little excursion” that could be wrapped up “soon.” He also urged House Republicans to add several white-hot social issues to a voting overhaul measure as a trap for vulnerable ...Read more