President Donald Trump said the U.S. Navy fired upon and seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship in the Gulf of Oman after it failed to heed warnings to stop as it left the Strait of Hormuz, the first major encounter in the week-old blockade.

“Today, an Iranian-flagged cargo ship named TOUSKA, nearly 900 feet long and weighing almost as much as ...Read more

Former President Rumen Radev, who opposes sanctions against Russia and military aid for Ukraine, claimed an overwhelming victory in Bulgaria’s election and pledged to turn the page on years of political gridlock and corruption.

In the country’s eighth general election since 2021, Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party is heading for an ...Read more

Three Philadelphia scientists won a $3 million Breakthrough Prize for developing the first FDA-approved gene therapy for a genetic disease, prize sponsors announced Saturday.

Their work created a scientific and regulatory road map for gene therapies, paving the way for more than a dozen similar approvals to follow.

The awardees — Jean ...Read more

Patricia Gertsch Hodges spent her retired years doting on her five children and nine grandchildren. She cooked, went bowling and enjoyed basking in the sun on St. Pete Beach.

The 64-year-old lived alone in an apartment at 6100 Ninth St. N. She often drank coffee with a neighbor.

It was that neighbor who found Hodges stabbed to death in her ...Read more

US President Donald Trump promised a quick second round of U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, while again threatening to strike all power plants and bridges in the country if the negotiations fail.

Iran was noncommittal about joining any talks, with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting the Islamic Republic would not attend as ...Read more

Judge Troy Nunley was fed up.

Federal immigration officials had once again flouted his authority by keeping a man locked up in a California City detention center after Nunley ordered him released. When he was finally set free, the man was booted onto the street with no passport, driver's license or other personal effects. The judge's demand ...Read more

Pieces of tape still cover the holes where bullet fragments struck the outside of Wanda Turner’s home in the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood of St. Paul, Minn., more than a decade ago. For Turner, 69, It’s a visual reminder of the constant shootings she used to hear.

Over the past two years, however, Turner said she’s noticed a sharp ...Read more

Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit.

The rocket took off from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time, and its reusable first stage returned...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump promised a quick second round of U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, while again threatening to strike all power plants and bridges in the country if the negotiations fail.

Iran was noncommittal about joining any talks, with the semi-official Tasnim news agency reporting the Islamic Republic would not attend as ...Read more

Former President Rumen Radev, who opposes sanctions against Russia and military aid for Ukraine, is on track to win Bulgaria’s eighth general election since 2021 and may have a chance to end years of political deadlock, an exit poll showed.

Radev’s Progressive Bulgaria party is set to win about 38% of the vote in Sunday’s ballot, ...Read more

A man carrying a gun and a cellphone entered a federal credit union in a small town in central Virginia in May 2019 and demanded cash.

He left with $195,000 in a bag and no clue to his identity. But his smartphone was keeping track of him.

What happened next could yield a landmark ruling from the Supreme Court on the 4th Amendment and its ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump's Department of Justice is attempting to obtain all ballots submitted for the 2024 election in Wayne County, Michigan, a Democratic stronghold that's long been a focus of the Republican leader's unproven claims of voter fraud.

Harmeet Dhillon, an assistant attorney general, sent a letter Tuesday to ...Read more

The Potomac River was named the most endangered river in the United States in a new report by American Rivers, which pointed to a massive sewage spill this winter and the growing footprint of data centers in Maryland and Virginia.

The report cited the Jan. 19 collapse of the Potomac Interceptor, which state and federal agencies have said ...Read more

U.K. cabinet ministers emerged to back Keir Starmer as calls for the prime minister to resign over the Peter Mandelson affair grow.

Speaking on behalf of the government on Sunday, Technology Secretary Liz Kendall told Sky News she supports Starmer “100%” even after fresh revelations last week that security officials had raised concerns ...Read more

Blue Origin’s flagship New Glenn rocket launched to space on its third flight, reusing a booster for the first time but failing to correctly place the satellite it was carrying into its intended orbit.

The rocket took off from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida at approximately 7:25 a.m. local time, and its reusable first stage returned...Read more

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is pushing beyond a chain of archipelagos to hold rare military drills that could be seen as a challenge to U.S. dominance in the Western Pacific.

The Chinese navy has dispatched a naval task group led by a Chinese warship — the Type 052D destroyer Baotou — to transit through the Yokoate Waterway and ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said he’ll send representatives to Pakistan for talks to end the Iran war on Monday evening, while again threatening to strike civilian infrastructure if Tehran doesn’t agree to a deal.

“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is ...Read more

BALTIMORE — On her first night at the Freestate Challenge Academy, a state-run program for at-risk teens, retired National Guard Staff Sergeant Tory Griffin said a staff member ordered teens off a bus and into a mile-long walk through pitch-black woods.

The teens — cadets, as the program called its 16- to 18-year-old participants — had ...Read more

DENVER — People treating mental health problems at Children’s Hospital Colorado don’t have to look at the calendar or the weather to know that April has arrived.

Kids and teens who previously felt fine are seeking outpatient help, existing outpatients need more support and the number of young people showing up in mental health crisis is ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — When the new hospital in Wadena, Minnesota, opened in March 2023, more than 1,200 people showed up to tour it.

After $80 million and two years of construction, the sleek, modern Astera Health building along Hwy. 10 replaced an aging facility with no space to grow. Within months, the nonprofit health care system announced plans ...Read more