The Trump administration announced a $20 billion reinsurance program aimed at reviving shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, where traffic has all but stopped amid the US and Israeli attacks on Iran.

The U.S. International Development Finance Corp. said Friday it is deploying maritime reinsurance, including war risk, in the Persian Gulf region to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that Iran is responsible for the bombing of an all-girls school that killed about 180 people during the first day of the U.S.-Israeli strikes.

“Based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” Trump told reporters Saturday as he returned to Florida after attending the “dignified transfer” of...Read more

An inmate housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York told the FBI he overheard guards talking about covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s death on the morning he died.

The federal government’s online Epstein library contains a five-page handwritten report of an FBI interview with an inmate who awoke the morning of Aug. 10, 2019 to ...Read more

BEIRUT — When Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned this week that ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz would be "set ablaze," alarm set in with government and industrial leaders all over the world.

They have good reason to be alarmed: Whoever controls the strait controls nothing less than the sole maritime gateway for most of the...Read more

CHICAGO — They sent the Rev. Jesse Jackson home Saturday the only way it could have been done: with Gospel music, testimony that often brought people to their feet and story after story about a man who rose from humble beginnings to become one of America’s most influential Civil Rights leaders.

The final service in Jackson’s honor, in a ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Leah Foley and Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons are blasting Gov. Maura Healey for sending a letter to the Department of Homeland Security “demanding” information on arrests by the federal immigration agency in the Bay State.

“Isn’t it rich that the very governor who refuses to share information with...Read more

CHICAGO — Following years of delays, the date is finally set for the public opening of the long-awaited Obama Presidential Center on June 19, with tickets for the museum going on sale in May.

On the heels of his speech at funeral services for the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr., former President Barack Obama on Saturday announced on social media plans...Read more

Alex Saab, a once-powerful financial fixer for former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro who vanished from public view last month, is likely to be extradited soon to the United States following intense negotiations between U.S. officials and Venezuela’s interim government led by Delcy Rodríguez, sources familiar with the discussions told ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has told Kurdish forces not to enter the Iran war as the U.S. and Israel continue launching strikes against Tehran.

“We’re very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don’t want to make the war any more complex than it already is. I have ruled that out, I don’t want the Kurds going in,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A brokered deal with regulators and consumer advocates will allow State Farm General to keep controversial increases in home insurance rates that took effect last year in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

The agreement sent to a judge late Friday cements a $530-million emergency hike in home insurance rates ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Outside City Hall in downtown Minneapolis on Tuesday, March 3, a small group of protesters chanted as armed men escorted what some said was an immigration enforcement target into the Hennepin County jail.

In a video of the encounter, as two protesters blocked their van — labeled with “Midwest Plumbing” decals advertising a...Read more

Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado held private talks in the White House Friday as she struggles to retain her political voice in the face of the Trump administration’s growing support for her rival in Caracas, interim President Delcy Rodríguez.

The talks prompted dual narratives from people familiar with the discussions ...Read more

NEW YORK — An Upper East Side anti-Muslim rally led by Jan. 6 rioter and far-right influencer Jake Lang erupted into chaos as Lang and his cronies were confronted by scores of counter-protesters outside of Gracie Mansion on Saturday — the home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor — and a smoking improvised device was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Signs of division emerged in Iran's leadership Saturday as U.S. and Israeli strikes continued battering targets throughout the country, with Tehran sending mixed signals on whether it would keep attacking Washington's Arab allies entering the war's second week.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian began the day offering an apology...Read more

It’s not just that Marco Rubio is eclipsing other Cabinet members in President Donald Trump’s second term.

Or even that he has reignited long-dormant speculation that he could become president.

It’s that Rubio, in little more than a year, is becoming arguably the most consequential U.S. secretary of state in decades by ditching the last ...Read more

The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait started reducing oil production, as the near-closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz ripples through energy markets and affects global supply.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. is “managing offshore production levels to address storage requirements,” the company said in a statement, without giving details. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A house fire amid stiff winds brought more than 100 firefighters onto the narrow streets and steep slopes of Laurel Canyon Saturday morning. Firefighters said the three-story house at 8522 West Oak Court was heavily damaged, but the flames did not spread and the blaze was extinguished in a little more than an hour with no ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Software engineer Arin Saghatelian shed no tears when he heard that the supreme leader of his native land had been killed by American bombs.

"I don't think you're going to find many people in support of that dictatorship or the mullahs that are in power right now," said Saghatelian, who lives in La Crescenta and fled Iran with ...Read more

Ben Stiller blasted the White House for its use of a clip from his satirical action comedy “Tropic Thunder” in a video posted to promote the war in Iran.

In addition to 2008’s “Tropic Thunder,” the social media supercut also included a series of movies and television shows, including “Braveheart,” “Breaking Bad,” “Top Gun,�...Read more