U.S. President Donald Trump repeated threats to destroy Iranian energy assets if the Strait of Hormuz isn’t reopened soon, raising fears of a further escalation in the war after American troops arrived in the region.

The U.S. “is in serious discussions” with Iran to end military operations, Trump said in a social-media post on Monday. But...Read more

LOS ANGELES — March in Southern California has been marked almost entirely by unusually warm temperatures, but the month is set to close out with a cooler spell.

A dramatic shift in weather will drop temperatures across the region this week and bring a slight chance of rain — a pattern more typical for early spring than the summer-like ...Read more

NASA's Artemis II mission, the first to send humans around the moon in half a century, is slated to launch Wednesday. It will be piloted by one of Southern California's own.

Victor Glover — a former Ontario High School wrestler and Navy test pilot who often wears his excitement on his royal-blue jumpsuit sleeve — will be the first Black ...Read more

More than 125,000 protesters took to Bay Area streets Saturday as part of the third nationwide No Kings protest, with a primary focus on the war in Iran and the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement, according to a poll of organizers conducted by Bay Area News Group.

The tens of thousands of local participants were part of the ...Read more

NEW YORK – New York City is inviting some municipal workers to apply for free on-site child care for infants and toddlers, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was set to announce at a news conference Monday morning.

The 4,000-square-foot facility at the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan is expected to serve 40 children, ages 6 weeks to ...Read more

The Supreme Court on April 1, 2026, will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Barbara, the case that challenges the Trump administration’s efforts to bar the children of immigrants without legal status from birthright citizenship by reinterpreting the terms of the 14th Amendment.

In January 2025, President Donald Trump issued an ...Read more

U.S. and Israeli forces pressed ahead with attacks on Iran while the Islamic Republic launched missiles across the Persian Gulf, sending oil prices higher once again amid no sign of an imminent peace deal.

The Israeli military said on Monday that it’s carrying out airstrikes on Iranian military targets a day after attacks resulted in power ...Read more

Israel’s parliament approved a state budget that should stabilize the ruling coalition until elections later this year and which will see defense spending increase significantly to cover the wars against Iran and in Lebanon.

The spending plan, set to run for the rest of 2026, will be funded by additional borrowing and cuts in some civilian ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The first campground in the state park system catering to the off-road vehicle crowd will open this summer in northern Minnesota.

Years in development, Pyrite Campground opens June 12 in Lake Vermilion-Soudan Underground Mine State Park, the Department of Natural Resources announced March 26.

While Pyrite will be open to all ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Daniel landed in Los Angeles with his girlfriend and a hard drive containing $350,000 in bitcoin.

The 17-year-old’s lifestyle was intended to draw attention: Parties at the hottest clubs. Rented sports cars. Cuban link chains. Imitation Richard Mille watches.

California is full of young people who were transformed into ...Read more

With the world’s largest sporting event, the World Cup, slated to begin in June, the United States should call a truce in the campaign of terror being waged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies against immigrants and others.

Major sporting events have long relied on the so-called “Olympic Truce,” which dates ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Eager to assist with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Florida offered extra money to local law enforcement agencies so they could more easily help arrest and detain people. But the list of who’s getting that largesse — and who is missing out — probably isn’t what anyone would have expected.

So far, ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The Illinois House is poised this session to vote on legislation that would prohibit federal immigration detention centers from being built within 1,500 feet of schools, parks, homes and other community spaces — a direct response to the clashes that erupted in Chicago and the suburbs last year during the Trump ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’s restoring access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after police prevented a Christian leader from holding Mass on Palm Sunday, prompting an international backlash.

Israeli authorities cited concern for the safety of the Latin Patriarch — essentially the Catholic archbishop ...Read more

BALTIMORE — By Sunday afternoon, BWI Marshall Airport advised travelers to arrive three hours early as long security lines persisted, driven in part by staffing shortages among Transportation Security Administration officers.

This is a slight improvement from Saturday, when passengers waited for more than four hours. Sunday afternoon, there ...Read more

NASA pulled off the moon landing in 1969 with a clear goal from the outset — to be the first nation to put people on the lunar surface.

The U.S. was locked in a space race with the Soviet Union, and the Apollo 11 landing helped cement America’s lead in the competition to be the reigning geopolitical superpower in the depths of the Cold War....Read more

NEW YORK — New York City has denied another request for data about the toxins that swirled above Ground Zero after 9/11 — claiming nothing could be found — despite the discovery of 68 boxes worth of information on the subject just four months ago, the Daily News has learned.

Advocates for 9/11 survivors are again suing for the data, ...Read more