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U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday the United States had reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports and threatened to strike power plants and bridges next week unless Tehran returns to negotiations. The announcement marked the latest escalation in renewed hostilities betwe...

FBI Director Kash Patel hosted Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi at FBI headquarters in Washington on Monday, describing cooperation between the two countries as a "critical" partnership. The meeting focused on counterterrorism financing and cyber investigations. Patel anno...

A US immigration officer fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man on Monday in Biddeford, Maine, a town of 22,000 people. The incident happened during an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operation and comes just a week after an ICE agent killed a Mexican man in Texas. It...

Jose Contreras believed his DACA status protected him from deportation, but the Trump administration deported him anyway. He was expelled to Honduras hours after a routine immigration hearing, missing his son's birth. Contreras is one of hundreds of DACA dreamers deported under T...

A record-breaking heat wave baked the central United States on Sunday, smashing temperature records from the northern plains to the Rocky Mountains. Salt Lake City and Billings both hit all-time highs, and the extreme heat is worsening wildfire conditions across the region.How ho...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they struck U.S. military targets in Jordan, Bahrain and Kuwait, according to state media, hours after the U.S. carried out a new round of strikes on Iranian military sites. The exchange marks a sharp escalation in a conflict that began in ...

US Senator Lindsey Graham, a key ally of President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, July 11, at age 71. His office said in a statement on X that Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness. The South Carolina Republican had just returned from a trip to Kyiv.How did Lindsey ...

Two people were killed and several others were wounded in a Toronto shooting at a salsa festival on Saturday, police said. The attacker fled the scene and remains at large as officers continue searching the area.How many people were shot in the Toronto shooting?Toronto police sai...

Tehran shut the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday and fired missiles and drones at its Gulf neighbors, retaliating for fresh US strikes that followed an Iranian attack on a merchant vessel abandoned in flames by its crew. Sirens and explosions were reported across Qatar, the United Arab...

Iran insisted on Saturday that it had "kept its word" on its ceasefire with the United States, pushing back after President Donald Trump declared the truce over while simultaneously agreeing to further negotiations with Tehran. The exchange marks the sharpest public rupture yet i...