WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in talks over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following an event...Read more

After a year of refusing to choose between Washington and Brussels, Keir Starmer will shift tone in Munich by edging Britain closer to the European Union and calling for an end to over-reliance on American military support.

In a speech he’s scheduled to make to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, the U.K. prime minister will urge ...Read more

A bipartisan push to let voters amend the Illinois Constitution to reduce politics in drawing state legislative maps has been suspended, with organizers saying the timing is “not ripe” amid a polarized climate shaped by mid-decade congressional gerrymandering wars nationwide.

In a statement released Friday, Bill Daley and Ray LaHood said ...Read more

He was seeking a $500,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein to boost research into how sound — like lullabies or a mother's voice — could reduce pain, stress and heart rates among premature babies hospitalized in neonatal intensive care.

Dr. Mark Tramo, an adjunct professor of neurology at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, ultimately ...Read more

NEW YORK — Thirty million dollars in federal funds has finally made it to the coffers of the Gateway Development Commission, the Daily News has learned — ending, for now, nearly five months of funding interference by the Trump administration in the construction of the Hudson River Tunnel.

“The first $30 million has been sent, and we ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly doesn’t expect President Donald Trump administration’s failure to convince a grand jury to indict him and other Democratic lawmakers for a video that told federal troops they can refuse “illegal orders” to at all lower tensions or prevent further actions.

“Sure — the grand jury didn’t indict me a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The federal prosecution tied to an anti-ICE demonstration at a St. Paul church moved ahead Friday, with arraignments held for some of the protesters from the rally and former CNN journalist Don Lemon, who reported on the protest.

Lemon, along with Minneapolis civil rights activist Nekima Levy Armstrong, military veteran Will ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson has vetoed an ordinance passed by aldermen earlier this year outlawing unlicensed businesses in Chicago from selling most hemp products.

That means unless aldermen can override it, sales of CBD and hemp-derived THC products will continue and stakeholders will have to return to the negotiating table to try to ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Democrats in Michigan's congressional delegation wrote Friday to President Donald Trump, urging him to support the opening the Gordie Howe International Bridge on schedule in early 2026 and reiterating its importance to the economy and jobs in Michigan and around the country.

“This critical conduit of international commerce ...Read more

British Defense Secretary John Healey met with counterparts from Baltic and Nordic nations to discuss seizing oil tankers linked to Russia’s shadow fleet, as Europe seeks to tighten curbs on Moscow’s war economy nearly four years after its invasion of Ukraine.

The meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force, a group of 10 nations with a shared...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Republicans are opening a new front in their clash with college accreditors, this time targeting medical schools in a move that could have implications for the state’s access to billions of dollars in federal student aid.

A scathing Feb. 12 letter reviewed by the Herald/Times shows Florida university leaders ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have used a slim majority to push through some of President Donald Trump’s biggest priorities — and shield him from political and legal trouble — since Trump returned to the White House last year.

But as Trump’s approval ratings slide and the federal government faces a partial shutdown this weekend, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — One 911 caller said he saw federal agents shoot a man 10 times. Another reported a dumpster being set ablaze by a flash-bang, while someone else said intruders were clambering to a rooftop above the smoke-filled mayhem as conflict engulfed Nicollet Avenue.

These accounts and others fielded by Minneapolis emergency dispatchers ...Read more

Gov. Josh Shapiro implored Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem this week to reconsider converting warehouses in Berks and Schuylkill counties into mass immigration detention centers, citing “real harms” to the communities.

In a Thursday letter to Noem obtained by The Inquirer, Shapiro questioned legality of the facilities, which the ...Read more

Authorities are investigating eerie new footage from the days leading up to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy.

The roughly 20-second Ring camera footage, from the early morning hours of Jan. 23, was published Friday by TMZ, which says the video was recorded roughly 6.5 miles from 84-year-old Guthrie’s home in Tucson, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Friday that he is planning to make an official visit to Venezuela, signaling deepening ties with the country’s interim government following the January capture by U.S. forces of strongman Nicolás Maduro.

“I think I am going to make a visit to Venezuela. We haven’t decided [when],” Trump told reporters on the...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Border czar Tom Homan said Thursday that “significant cooperation” from local law enforcement helped lead to the expected end of Operation Metro Surge, but sheriffs across Minnesota say their policies have not changed.

The Minnesota Star Tribune asked sheriffs in all of the state’s 87 counties this week if they signed a ...Read more

The recent FBI search of the Fulton County, Georgia, elections facility and the seizure of election-related materials pursuant to a warrant has attracted concern for what it might mean for future elections.

What if a determined executive branch used federal law enforcement to seize election materials to sow distrust in the results of ...Read more