WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday evening announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran just hours after a world-shaking threat to eliminate the “whole” Iranian civilization.

In a post on his Truth Social platform just after 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, the U.S. commander in chief said senior Pakistani officials had brokered the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann is expected to plead guilty Wednesday to murdering eight women — including a victim he had yet to be charged with killing, according to reports.

Heuermann, 62, is expected to admit to the 1996 slaying of 34-year-old mother of two Karen Vergata, whose remains were found in April 1996...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran agreed to a two-week ceasefire that is expected to halt the American-Israeli military campaign in exchange for Tehran reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald Trump announced the agreement Tuesday on social media hours after Pakistan, a mediator in talks, implored the U.S. leader to back off his...Read more

Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) is calling for President Trump to be removed from office following a Truth Social post by the Commander-in Chief warning that “a whole civilization will die” in Iran Tuesday night if the country’s leaders do not reach a ceasefire deal with the U.S. by his deadline.

“With each passing day, it becomes increasingly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — House Democrats and a panel of elections experts expressed unwavering confidence in state voting systems and dismissed Trump administration claims of widespread fraud and other vulnerabilities during a special "shadow hearing" in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

They accused President Trump and his Republican allies of pushing sweeping ...Read more

The question of who is in charge of operations at the controversial Everglades detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz continued to loom large Tuesday in Miami federal court as appellate judges weighed whether to overturn a lower court’s decision last summer that required the site be briefly shut down.

The three-judge panel of the Eleventh...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A judge has declined to block the federal government from withholding $243 million in Medicaid funding from the state of Minnesota over allegations of fraud in state programs.

The Trump administration has been threatening to withhold federal money from Minnesota for months and, in late February, moved to freeze $259 million ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was in “heated negotiations” involving the war with Iran after Pakistan, in the role of mediator, asked for a two-week extension of his Tuesday deadline for Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

“I can’t tell you, because right now we’re in heated negotiations,” Trump said in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States and Iran reached an 11th-hour ceasefire deal on Tuesday night, pausing for two weeks the threat of military strikes that President Donald Trump had warned would wipe out a "whole civilization" unless Tehran agreed to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The agreement, announced by Trump in a social media post just over ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey and the Massachusetts Legislature have passed and signed another supplemental budget, this time appropriating $300 million to fund health insurance for public employees as health care costs continue to burden the state budget.

The House and Senate both passed the emergency legislation (H. 5348) during informal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than a year after California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced indictments against 30 probation officers accused of coordinating or allowing so-called “gladiator fights” between youths inside L.A. County juvenile halls, almost half of the criminal cases are falling apart.

In recent weeks, state prosecutors dismissed ...Read more

A University of Kentucky lab researching Eastern U.S. forest resiliency and conservation efforts is slated for closure under a sweeping federal overhaul the U.S. Forest Service unveiled last week.

The Forest Health Research and Education Center housed on UK’s campus is the Lexington-based USFS research and development facility listed for ...Read more

Jeffrey Epstein made millions of dollars after the U.S. Justice Department settled an investigation into Switzerland-based private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group in 2015.

The institution, founded by the French branch of the storied centuries-old Rothschild banking dynasty, was the subject of a Justice Department probe under the Obama ...Read more

BALTIMORE — ACE American Insurance Company has reached a $350 million settlement with the owner and operator of the cargo ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, resolving a major insurance claim while leaving the broader, multibillion-dollar legal fight intact.

The agreement with Grace Ocean Private Ltd. and Synergy Marine Group...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump postponed by two weeks his threat to attack civilian infrastructure across Iran, as negotiators inched closer to a ceasefire deal that will see Tehran reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump posted on social media Tuesday that the agreement would be “subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — As Rep. Eric Swalwell makes keeping federal agents out of California a key tenet of his campaign for governor, the Castro Valley Democrat faces scrutiny for votes supporting Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as his endorsement of a former Republican Alameda County sheriff who cooperated with ICE.

All eight ...Read more

Bipartisan calls for President Donald Trump’s removal from office increased on April 7, 2026, after he issued threats to destroy “a whole civilization” if Iran refuses to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

These calls have come from across the political spectrum, from Democratic Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Melanie ...Read more