One month before President Xi Jinping and Donald Trump are set to convene at a much-touted summit in China, the U.S. leader’s toppling of another friend of China risks stoking tensions between the world’s biggest economies.

After U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran wiped out the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Chinese Foreign ...Read more

The U.S. reported the first Americans killed in a war with Iran as each side pledged escalating strikes in the days ahead.

Iran’s retaliation has spread across the region in the wake of massive missile attacks that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials. President Donald Trump said the U.S. sunk nine Iranian ...Read more

The County of San Diego has hired a Washington, D.C.-based law firm to lobby federal officials on the Tijuana River sewage crisis, a contract worth up to $637,200 over five years, according to county records.

Best Best & Krieger LLP, known as BBK, was selected through a competitive process in which the county received four bids, according to ...Read more

The U.S. and Israel launched coordinated, massive missile attacks on Iran that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The strikes targeted the country’s military and were intended to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon.

Iran countered with missile strikes at targets across the Mideast. The market impacts, particularly on oil, ...Read more

Donald Trump was done negotiating.

For weeks he assembled an armada of carriers and destroyers in the waters of the Middle East, bolstered by squadrons of F-35 and F-22 jets dispatched to allied bases around the region. It was the largest U.S. buildup since the 2003 Iraq war that toppled Saddam Hussein.

Trump’s goal was to pressure Iran’...Read more

The U.S. said the first Americans have been killed in the war with Iran that’s spread to several countries in the Middle East, while threatening to upend energy markets.

Three U.S. service members were killed and five “seriously wounded” during operations against the Islamic Republic, U.S. Central Command said on Sunday, without giving ...Read more

After the largest buildup of U.S. warships and aircraft in the Middle East in decades, American and Israeli military forces launched a massive assault on Iran on Feb. 28, 2026.

President Donald Trump has called the attacks “major combat operations” and has urged regime change in Tehran. Iranian media reported Supreme Leader ...Read more

When Lisa Bonfield gave birth to daughter Adele in late November, she was thrust into the new world of parenting, and faced an onslaught of challenges and skills to learn: breastfeeding, diapering, sleep routines, colic, crying, and all the little warning signs that something could be wrong with the baby.

But unlike parents in most of the U.S.,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Irked residents across Southern California have recently complained to their vector control districts about an onslaught of mosquito activity, many sporting ankle bites to prove it. Local mosquito experts blame the unseasonable weather pattern and a thriving invasive species for the surge in itchy bites.

Vector control districts...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. —The University of South Carolina in routinely evaluates its extensive program offerings, observing student demand and acting accordingly.

SC President Michael Amiridis told legislators in January that the school has both added and cut programs over the past several years.

“We pay attention to what is needed, what is needed ...Read more

Thousands of flights have been disrupted in the wake of the escalating conflict engulfing the Middle East, with Dubai’s main airport — the world’s busiest aviation hub — effectively shut down after it was hit by a suspected aerial strike.

There have been more than 2,300 flight cancellations in the region, from Bahrain to Tel Aviv, in ...Read more

TEHRAN, Iran — The U.S. and Israel pummeled Iran early Saturday in an attack aimed at razing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions and thwarting its efforts to influence the Middle East though proxies such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in the attack, according to President Donald Trump...Read more

Millions of Iranians have lived their entire lives under the thumb of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of Iran. When reports of his demise began to trickle in, the response in the streets of Tehran was jubilation. The reaction by the authorities was denial, then mourning.

The death of the supreme leader of Iran was teased out over ...Read more

A Cape Cod business leader says it’s no surprise that the Blizzard of ’26 left the region without power for days because of trees and a lack of economic support from the state, and he called for parts of the electrical grid to be buried underground.

Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce CEO Paul Neidzwiecki is sounding off on how last Monday’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Reza Khaleghian, 70, came bursting through the door of Naab Cafe on Saturday morning, phone pressed to his ear, fist held in the air, screaming the news in Farsi at anyone who would listen: “Khamenei is dead!”

Soon, President Donald Trump would confirm the death of Iran’s supreme leader in a historic attack by the United ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A piano teacher who gave lessons to the children of several Hollywood power players was sentenced Friday to nine years and four months in prison for sexually abusing a longtime student starting when the boy was 13, prosecutors said.

The sentencing brought a close to a decade-long legal battle marked by several twists and turns �...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers are considering a resolution that would ask voters to remove a portion of the state constitution on compulsory attendance at schools.

Rep. Dale Hawkins, a Republican, proposed the constitutional amendment to nix a portion of the Idaho Constitution and replace it with a statement he argued would ensure parents ...Read more

The ability of the U.S., Israel and gulf Arab states to weather Iran’s retaliatory strikes will depend on how many missile interceptors they have — and stocks are most likely dangerously low after intense combat with the Islamic Republic last year.

Tehran’s main means of offensive operations is long-range attacks with ballistic missiles, ...Read more

BEIRUT — Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hosseini Khamenei, who was killed in the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran on Saturday, had over more than 30 years in power demonized the United States, called for the destruction of Israel and maintained an iron-clad grip on Iran's politics while advancing its influence across the Middle East.

President ...Read more