Martha Gellhorn stowed away on a hospital ship to become the only woman journalist to land on Normandy Beach on D-Day. She carried stretchers before writing her harrowing account of the invasion.

The New Yorker’s famously epicurean writer A.J. Liebling subsisted on military rations and came under fire during World War II to describe...Read more

WASHINGTON — Joe Kent, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, abruptly resigned Tuesday, becoming the most senior national security official to break publicly with the Trump administration over its military campaign against Iran.

In a statement posted on social media, Kent said he “cannot in good conscience” continue ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado voters this November will be asked to weigh a proposed ban on transgender youth and adults from competing on interscholastic or intramural sports teams that don’t align with their sex assigned at birth.

Protect Kids Colorado, the advocacy group backing the initiative, submitted nearly 169,000 signatures to petition the ...Read more

President Donald Trump Tuesday slammed European allies for refusing to help the U.S. re-open the strategic Straits of Hormuz that Iran has effectively closed to oil tanker traffic since the war erupted last month.

After days of browbeating NATO to assist, Trump reversed course and said the U.S. doesn’t need any help dealing with the effective...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An architect of Gov. Tim Walz’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic will return to public service and advise the governor on the future stability of Minnesota’s hospitals and health systems.

Jan Malcolm has agreed to join Walz’s Cabinet as a senior adviser on hospitals and health systems, three years after she retired as ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Tuesday rejected a striking effort among some of the state’s top sheriffs to soften immigration enforcement, saying he would not support their plan to formally urge Congress to scale back federal deportation policy.

At a press conference in Orlando, Uthmeier drew a firm line ...Read more

The United Nations’ leading Haiti human rights observer says he remains alarmed by the daily reality Haitians face even as a recent visit to the volatile country revealed some “glimmers of hope” in its gang-ridden capital.

During his recent 10-day trip, William O’Neill said he saw signs of territory being “liberated” from gang ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin nodded along Tuesday in the Oval Office as President Donald Trump compared Iran’s hard-line government to Nazi Germany, but he later nudged his host to start wrapping up the war with Tehran.

“These are horrendous people. These are the worst people, going back to Hitler, right?” the wartime ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California unveiled a plan Tuesday to bring at least 7.5 million acres of land and coastal waters under the care of Indigenous tribes.

That number represents roughly 7% of the state’s land and waters. It also corresponds with the amount of land the federal government promised it would hold as reservations for Indigenous tribes...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When it comes to cheating the carpool lane in California, drivers can be creative.

There was the safety dummy that was misappropriated by impatient commuters. The mannequin wearing a baseball cap in Glendora and one with a drawn-on mustache in the Bay Area.

So by those standards, what the California Highway Patrol discovered ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out against longtime allies, many of which have rejected his appeals for help in the Iran War effort, as the closure of a vital waterway continued to wreak havoc on global energy markets.

Trump scolded North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies in particular, denouncing their “foolish mistake�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The United Farm Workers union said it will halt celebrations of its founder Cesar Chavez amid what the union described as “troubling allegations” against the iconic Chicano figure.

The union, in a statement released Tuesday, did not detail the accusations against Chavez but said they were concerning enough for the ...Read more

MIAMI — Several exile organizations announced Monday there will be a gathering in Miami on Saturday to demand the right of Cubans abroad to return to Cuba and for the U.S. government to allow them to take a boat from Miami carrying aid for dissidents on the island.

The meeting will take place the same day the convoy that has been named “...Read more

NEW YORK — Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams is set to lose his taxpayer-funded legal representation in a sexual assault case against him, the city’s Law Department said Tuesday.

Corporation Counsel Steve Banks argued in a court filing that Adams shouldn’t be represented by the city because he wasn’t acting within the bounds of his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order to establish a task force intended to eliminate fraud in food stamp and federal child nutrition programs, and other federal programs, addressing a GOP talking point after a fraud scheme was uncovered in Minnesota.

The order would establish a task force, led by Vice ...Read more

BOSTON — Ailing ex-FBI agent John “Zip” Connolly is waging a final battle to clear his name in a bombshell allegation that prosecutors withheld mobster James “Whitey” Bulger’s prison manuscripts.

Connolly was convicted of second-degree murder in 2008, largely based on the testimony of Bulger hitmen Stephen Flemmi and John Martorano ...Read more

DENVER — Former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was found not guilty of assaulting another inmate after a brief scufffle in January, though she was convicted of a lesser charge, the Department of Corrections said.

Peters had a disciplinary hearing on March 10, nearly two months after she grabbed a fellow inmate and shoved her into the middle of...Read more

A retired Phoenix Police homicide sergeant is shedding light on the errors of investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, over a month-and-a-half after she was abducted from her Tucson, Arizona, home in the middle of the night.

Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother to “Today” show co-host Savannah, was last seen on the evening of Jan. 31 ...Read more

All four living former presidents have denied President Donald Trump’s claim that one of them admitted regretting not attacking Iran while in the White House.

Spokespeople for Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden all said the leaders have not spoken to Trump about the conflict, let alone told him they wish they would have ...Read more