Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned of a “regional war” as tensions continued to mount over potential U.S. strikes on Tehran.

“We don’t want to attack any country,” Khamenei said in a public speech broadcast on state television on Sunday. “But in response to anyone who harbors ambitions, wants to attack, and seeks ...Read more

The next trilateral meetings between the U.S., Russia and Ukraine will be held Feb. 4-5 in Abu Dhabi, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“Ukraine is ready for a substantive discussion, and we are interested in ensuring that the outcome brings us closer to a real and dignified end to the war,” the Ukrainian leader said Sunday on ...Read more

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, are back in Minnesota Feb. 1 after a federal judge ordered their release from a Texas immigration detention center.

The case drew national outrage after images circulated of Liam wearing a Spider-Man backpack and an oversized blue winter hat as officers detained him 10 days ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Fifty years after the federal government saved the Congaree swamp from industrial scale logging, the 27,000 acre nature preserve faces a rash of other threats that have the attention of scientists and conservationists.

The swamp, protected in 1976 and elevated to national park status in 2003, is downstream from factories that...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the Eaton fire raged through neighborhoods in Altadena, the flames leveled three-quarters of the homes served by the tiny Las Flores Water Co. It also destroyed the roofs of two covered reservoirs where the utility stored drinking water.

The company soon restored clean water to those homes left standing. But the disaster ...Read more

Data centers siphon huge amounts of energy to power artificial intelligence. But their environmental footprint starts to balloon even before the first server switches on due to the immense amount of carbon-intensive concrete needed to build them.

As the U.S. data center buildout surges, with construction beginning on multibillion-dollar ...Read more

The U.S. departure from the World Health Organization became official in late January 2026, according to the Trump administration – a year after President Donald Trump signed an executive order on inauguration day of his second term declaring that he was doing so. He first stated his intention to do so during his first term in 2020, early ...Read more

Thousands of Danish veterans and supporters protested at the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen on Saturday over recent remarks by Donald Trump that allied NATO troops “stayed a little back” from the front lines during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The U.S. president’s comments have sparked widespread anger in Denmark, a country of 6 million ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced his appointment of five new city agency commissioners Saturday afternoon — including the first-ever formerly incarcerated person to serve as head of the Department of Correction.

Mamdani entrusted Stanley Richards, an ex-Rikers Island inmate and former executive vice president at The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Damian Kevitt spent Saturday afternoon on a 10-mile bike ride with hundreds of other cyclists, a sticker displaying Alex Pretti's photo stuck to his jersey.

"These are just cyclists, clubs, bike shops and individuals who have come together and said, 'Hey, Alex was one of us,'" said Kevitt, while riding on Broadway in Santa ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho State Police may have to eliminate its only SWAT team. The Idaho Department of Correction could be forced to furlough all of its prison staff, leaving inmates locked in their cells and potentially leading to increased violence and riots.

Because of midyear budget cuts Gov. Brad Little called for in August, Idaho State...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Champlin Mayor Ryan Sabas, a Republican and supporter of President Donald Trump, is trying to keep track of immigration enforcement operations in his northwest Twin Cities suburb.

So when he heard federal agents were in the parking lot of a Champlin restaurant, he spoke with the general manager to figure out what happened. ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An anonymous letter asking Congress to investigate “serious and systemic” failures within Minnesota’s Department of Human Services is the latest in years of efforts by whistle-blowers to raise concerns about the agency.

The letter’s unnamed authors, who describe themselves as current and former state employees, said they...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Rady Children’s Hospital said Saturday that it is reviewing a new lawsuit filed by California Attorney General Rob Bonta that alleges violation of the conditions his office placed on the organization’s merger with Children’s Hospital of Orange County in 2024.

Among those conditions is an alphabetized list of 36 medical ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The San Francisco Public Health Department has launched a “large-scale TB contact investigation” after a tuberculosis outbreak this week at Archbishop Riordan High School infected at least three students, prompting administrators to cancel classes and basketball games in an attempt to stop its spread.

In addition to the...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order Saturday directing Chicago police to collect evidence, investigate and potentially refer for felony prosecution criminal charges against federal immigration agents accused of misconduct.

Johnson’s decree — dubbed the “ICE on Notice” order — also states that any Chicago Police...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The young Muslim woman was shackled at the ankles. For 24 hours, she was locked inside a bathroom with three men at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, she said. They were given no bedding or pillows. Meals consisted of one sandwich a day.

The sink faucet did not work, but the single toilet did. When the men pulled down ...Read more