WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that, a month into the war, Iran still has the ability to launch offensive missiles, despite ongoing U.S. and Israeli efforts to weaken Tehran's military capabilities and weapon programs.

"Yes, they will shoot some missiles, but we will shoot them down," Hegseth told reporters at a ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The USS George H.W. Bush got underway from Naval Station Norfolk on Tuesday as the conflict in the Middle East continues to rage.

Families traveled from near and far to see off their loved ones. According to Rear Adm. Alexis Walker, commander of the Bush’s carrier strike group, the deployment timeline and location are under ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Scott Price was working with a wood splitter when it kicked out a fragment of a log, pinning his left hand against a metal plate and severing his thumb and forefinger. After his local hospital in Poconos, Pennsylvania, failed to reattach the digits, Price came to MedStar Health’s Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump called on other nations to wrest control of the Strait of Hormuz as Iran maintained missile fire across the Persian Gulf, expressing his frustration that the monthlong war remains unresolved.

Countries that can’t get energy supplies due to the effective closure of the vital waterway should “go to the Strait and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Mission creep has stymied U.S. presidents in the Middle East and beyond, and now the escalation of President Donald Trump’s military operation in Iran has left him with no clear off-ramp as congressional Democrats lambaste his command of the war.

The commander in chief and his top war aides initially tried selling his decision ...Read more

U.S. job openings fell and hiring slowed to the weakest since 2020 in February, pointing to cooler labor demand before the war in Iran triggered additional uncertainty.

Vacancies decreased to 6.88 million from an upwardly revised 7.24 million in January, which was the highest since May, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Tuesday. ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Tuesday allowed clergy members from the Chicago area to minister to migrants at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview during Easter and Holy Week, issuing the order amid calls for broader access that have even been echoed by Pope Leo XIV.

Following a hearing at the Dirksen U.S. ...Read more

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wants a state appeals court to declare that a man’s conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm is unconstitutional, a move some legal observers believe could upend long-standing prohibitions on convicts possessing guns.

Uthmeier’s arguments, rooted in Second Amendment jurisprudence, draw ...Read more

SEATTLE — As the Trump administration continues its mass immigrant detention and deportation effort, city and county officials across the Seattle region have approved various bans on new or expanded immigration detention centers.

Washington already houses the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, a jail-like facility privately owned by ...Read more

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. — A Florida man has been sentenced to spend at least two years in prison for his role in a signature fraud scheme that kept the names of multiple judicial and gubernatorial candidates off the August 2022 primary ballot in Michigan.

Willie Reed was sentenced Tuesday to two to 15 years in prison and will have to pay more ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that state laws forbidding “conversion therapy” for minors violate the free speech rights of licensed counselors.

The court said Colorado’s law violates the 1st Amendment, and the ruling is likely to invalidate similar laws in California and 23 other states.

In an 8-1 decision, the justices...Read more

WASHINGTON — Iran has retained some of its ability to launch offensive missile attacks after a month-long U.S.-Israeli bombardment of the country that was intended to cripple Tehran’s military might, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged on Tuesday.

Iran “will still shoot some missiles, but we will shoot them down,” Hegseth said ...Read more

DETROIT — An Albanian drug kingpin who designed a cocaine-smuggling submarine with a Grosse Pointe Park CEO was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison Tuesday following a sprawling federal case stretching from South America to Metro Detroit and Europe.

Ylli Didani, 48, was sentenced 10 months after a federal jury in Detroit convicted him of ...Read more

Attorneys for Tyler Robinson, the man accused of fatally shooting Charlie Kirk last year, are seeking to delay his legal proceedings after they said federal authorities were unable to conclusively link a recovered bullet fragment to the alleged murder weapon.

In a recent court filing obtained by NBC News, Robinson’s defense team asked to ...Read more

Donald Trump’s NATO allies are increasing resistance to getting involved in his Iran war, risking a deeper rupture in the already strained military bloc.

Spain closed its airspace to U.S. jets Monday, and Italy denied U.S. military aircraft bound for the Middle East permission to land at a base in Sicily, according to a person familiar with ...Read more

President Donald Trump is reportedly hinting he could end the war against Iran without reopening the crucial Straits of Hormuz through which 20% of the world’s oil passes, as gas prices soared above $4.

Trump has told aides behind closed doors that he could pull the plug on the monthlong conflict without forcing Iran to allow open passage ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday invalidated a Colorado law that bans so-called “conversion therapy” in talk therapy for LGBTQ patients. The decision found that such laws violate the free speech rights of counselors.

The 8-1 decision reversed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit that upheld the Colorado law ...Read more

Donald Trump’s NATO allies are increasing resistance to getting involved in his Iran war, risking a deeper rupture in the already strained military bloc.

Spain closed its airspace to U.S. jets Monday, and Italy denied U.S. military aircraft bound for the Middle East permission to land at a base in Sicily, according to a person familiar with ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Franklin Circuit Court judge on Tuesday voided the impeachment of Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, saying she committed no offenses or misconduct that rose to the level of impeachment.

The ruling by Judge Phillip Shepherd nullifies a House Resolution that, on March 20, impeached Goodman in an unprecedented move.

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CHICAGO – Newly released data shows that Operation Midway Blitz led to the deportation of nearly 2,500 immigrants — most of them with no criminal record — during last fall’s immigration enforcement surge that fueled massive protests and led to two shootings, one deadly.

A Tribune analysis of the data, released Monday, offers the first ...Read more