The United States and Iran exchanged fire across the Middle East on Wednesday, overshadowing diplomatic efforts in Pakistan to salvage an interim ceasefire deal that has collapsed. President Donald Trump is attending the dignified transfer of four more service members who were killed in action. Repu
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Torrential rains caused flash floods that inundated homes and businesses, washed out bridges and led to numerous water rescues in portions of West Virginia, authorities said. Gov. Patrick Morrisey sent 100 National Guard members to the hardest-hit areas in the northern part
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United States and Iran exchanged fire across the Middle East on Wednesday, as officials in both nations called into question diplomatic efforts to stop the war as it threatens to again spin out of control. The U.S. launched an 11th night of airstrikes on the Is
By Deena Beasley July 22 (Reuters) – Biotech experts and industry executives are calling plans by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — hit by job cuts last year — to hire thousands of employees and update clinical-trial standards encouraging, but want assurance that politics will not interfere in
By Chris Prentice and Mariam Sunny NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) – Many patients have opted for injectable forms of the wildly popular GLP-1 obesity medications through a pilot program of the U.S. government’s Medicare health insurance program for Americans aged 65 and older, according to early indica
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK, July 22 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ousted President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores are due back in a U.S. court on Wednesday for a hearing over the upcoming schedule in their drug trafficking case, including a possible June 2027 trial start date. The hearing before U.S.
By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) – The U.S. will spend $5 billion to tackle long-standing scientific problems across multiple fields using AI, the Trump administration said in a statement on Wednesday. The agencies will use the funding to identify the root causes of chronic diseases,
Communities on the U.S. Gulf Coast distributed sandbags and closed beaches as Tropical Storm Bertha threatened to bring flooding and strong winds Wednesday from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana. Bertha was forecast to make landfall Wednesday night in the coastal and lightly populated part of Louis
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly issued threats to bomb an under-construction Iranian nuclear site buried deep under a mountain as the two nations exchange blows over the Strait of Hormuz. The site, known as Kuh-e Kolang Gaz La, or “Pickaxe Mountain,” lie
DOVER, Del. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Wednesday plans to attend the dignified transfer of four U.S. service members killed in the Middle East. Trump will be at Dover Air Force Base when the remains of the troops killed in action are returned to their families, the White House said. The ritual
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Trump Accounts could hoist children out of poverty and give more Americans the chance to benefit from investments in the stock market. But some parents say they’re still waiting for the money to arrive. Trump on Wednesday plans to speak at a Georgia high
NEW YORK (AP) — Nicolás Maduro returns to court with his lawyers Wednesday and is expected to continue objecting to the U.S. military action that snatched the Venezuelan president from power and deposited him in New York to face drug trafficking charges. Maduro, 63, and his wife Cilia Flores, 69, ha
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The man who was convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie is going on trial again, this time in a federal terrorism case that is probing deeper into what allegedly motivated the stabbing on a lecture stage in 2022. Opening statements are set for Wednesday in Hadi Matar’s trial
WASHINGTON (AP) — On one side: a small community in rural Texas. On the other: the Trump administration. A tiny Texan town along the border with Mexico is fighting the administration’s efforts to build a border wall running through a levee system protecting the community. The town argued in court Tu
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said late Tuesday that the city would not be able to execute an arrest warrant issued by the world’s top war-crimes court for Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu, but urged the federal government to do so. In the video Mamdani described the Israeli prime ministe
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House moved Tuesday to head-off a potential government shutdown before this fall’s critical midterm elections by passing a bill to fund the federal government through Dec. 4. The deadline for action is more than two months away, but House GOP leaders are not leaving to chance a
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to submit to Congress a pact with Saudi Arabia to share nuclear power technology that does not include safeguards the U.S. has long said would stop materials being used in nuclear weapons programs, two sources told Reu
President Trump Warns of Possible Strike on Iran’s Fortified Pickaxe Mountain Site By The Media Line Staff President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States is likely to strike Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain “pretty soon” and “very heavily,” escalating his rhetoric as the US-Iran war entered its 1
‘I Would Speak With Hezbollah,’ President Trump Says, Restores Direct Flights to Lebanon By The Media Line Staff President Donald Trump said Tuesday he would be willing to engage directly with Hezbollah if Lebanese President Joseph Aoun requested it, as the two leaders discussed security cooperation
A federal judge has barred the deportation of a witness in the fatal shooting of a Mexican homebuilder by federal immigration officers during a traffic stop in Houston. Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego was one of three passengers in a van driven by Lorenzo Araujo Salgado when Araujo Salgado was shot by a
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top federal prosecutor in Seattle who was fired last week less than an hour after being sworn in sued over his termination Tuesday, teeing up a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s efforts to control who occupies the powerful Justice Department posts. Roger Rogoff is t
POWELL, Ohio (AP) — The skies were mostly clear and weeks of sweltering heat had finally broken as 33-year-old Jose Mario Pineda Dias and his 28-year-old wife, Marina Suyapa Regalado, set out with their two children for some leisurely fishing in an Ohio river. A second Honduran couple and an adult f
MIAMI (AP) — A Mexican man who was struck and killed by a tractor trailer in Florida after running from federal immigration officers was vacationing in the U.S. and had a tourist visa, according to a Mexico official and a group assisting his wife. Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, 28, died July 14 after a
NEW YORK (AP) — An arson charge was lodged Tuesday against a former Army soldier who was detained without bail after a prosecutor said he gave investigators a lengthy confession detailing his fiery attack on a federal building in Manhattan that houses immigration court proceedings. Andrew Arrabaca,
CHICAGO (AP) — An active-duty soldier who was hit by a stray bullet during a shooting outside the White House announced on Tuesday that he plans to sue the Secret Service over his life-threatening injuries. Pfc. Benjamin Del Real Jr., 25, was visiting the capital on May 23 and hoping to snap picture
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld White House adviser Peter Navarro’s convictions for defying a subpoena for records from the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters. Navarro couldn’t pro
NEW YORK (AP) — How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest-paid roles at those companies? The Trump administration is making it harder for the public to know, movin
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are preparing to grill Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Tuesday over the U.S. war against Iran, as Republicans push a $95 billion budget package to fund the military, along with aid to farmers and voting law changes that are top White House priorities. Hegseth, Gen. Dan Cain
ESPN is undergoing a significant round of layoffs for the first time in three years after taking over NFL Network in April. Chairman Jimmy Pitaro said in a memo to employees Tuesday morning, obtained by The Associated Press, that most moves are the result of ESPN’s acquisition of NFL Network and oth
WASHINGTON (AP) — The director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History pushed back Tuesday against a recent White House report that branded the institution’s leadership as radical activists who cannot be trusted. The testimony from Anthea M. Hartig came as President Donald Trump has
