ASHEVILLE, N.C. — At around 2 a.m., 7-year-old twin brothers arrived at Mission Hospital in Asheville. Both had a fever, a cough, a rash, pink eye, and cold symptoms.

The boys sat in one waiting room and then another. Two hours and 20 minutes passed before the two were isolated, according to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services records ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The soft hum of Chicano soul music bled onto the darkened street as a steady stream of people made their way into a record store in San Fernando, passing a sign in the window: "'ICE, BIGOTS, MAGA' are not welcome."

Vendor booths replaced vinyl racks, some selling miniature lowrider replicas and Chicano-inspired artwork. ...Read more

For the bulk of her tenure with the Minnesota Department of Human Services, Shireen Gandhi found comfort in being a less visible part of its engine, working under the hood to keep the massive state agency running.

She did not expect to become top boss within eight years of joining the department, which is now at the center of national ...Read more

There is a statuette of a cheetah in Antonio Romanucci’s law office in a skyscraper overlooking the Chicago River. It sits next to a magazine cover of Romanucci, Chicago Lawyer’s “2021 Person of the Year.”

The cheetah is sleek and black. And, as the 65-year-old attorney explains, it represents a story he often recites to juries in civil...Read more

United Arab Emirates closed its embassy in Tehran and withdrew all its diplomatic mission in response to Iranian missile strikes targeting the Gulf country, condemning the attacks.

“These hostile attacks against civilian sites, including residential areas, airports, ports, and service facilities, endangered innocent civilians in a serious ...Read more

Thousands gathered outside the Westwood Federal Building on Sunday afternoon celebrating the fall of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dreaming of a "free Iran" as war continued to escalate between Iran and a united U.S. and Israel.

Residents of Los Angeles' massive Persian diaspora continued to revel in the news of Khamenei's ...Read more

As U.S. politicians and protesters roundly condemned the nation’s major attack on Iran, New Yorkers of Iranian-descent expressed a mix of joy and trepidation Sunday after Ayatollah Khamenei was killed in the American and Israeli forces’ military strikes.

Milad Hour, 40, said he traveled from his home in Connecticut to Ravagh Persian Grill ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the bombing campaign against Iran will continue until its objectives are achieved, calling on the nation’s leaders to capitulate as a report indicated at least one top official in Tehran sought to resume nuclear talks with the U.S.

Trump on Sunday re-confirmed the death of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali ...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

DETROIT — Soheila Boojari watched on television as the country she lives in dropped bombs on the country she came from.

She was relieved to see what could be the end of the Iranian regime that had ruled with violent suppression for decades. She couldn't quite believe it, but she felt happiness along with her tears.

"At the same time we are ...Read more

About 100 people gathered on the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Sunday to stand with Ukraine, marking the recent fourth anniversary of the Russian war on the European nation.

“You don’t have to be Ukrainian to know what’s right and wrong,” said Iryna Mazur, 50, honorary consul of Ukraine in Philadelphia. “You don’t have to ...Read more

Following the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran this weekend, the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval Support Activity Annapolis increased security measures and restricted access to both campuses.

The United States and Israel bombed Iran on Saturday and Sunday, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, several top Iranian officials and hundreds more. ...Read more

Local advocacy groups are raising concerns over a warehouse in Washington County that is slated to become an Immigrations, Customs and Enforcement processing facility after dozens of black SUVs were added to the warehouses parking lot, Sunday.

“When federal enforcement vehicles begin lining the warehouse lot, it sends a clear message about ...Read more

In his announcement unveiling U.S. attacks on Iran, President Donald Trump assailed the Islamic Republic's "proxies" in the region.

"From Lebanon to Yemen and Syria to Iraq, the regime has armed, trained and funded terrorist militias that have soaked the earth with blood and guts," Trump declared Saturday. The United States, Trump vowed, was ...Read more

The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S. has been escalating, with sharp increases since 2021 and with each consecutive year. Kansas dealt the most radical blow yet on Feb. 26, 2026, as a law that immediately invalidates state-issued driver’s licenses, ...Read more

According to President Trump, the United States attacked Iran because the Iranian regime posed "imminent threats" to the U.S. and its allies, including through its use of terrorist proxies and continued pursuit of nuclear weapons.

"Its menacing activities directly endanger the United States, our troops, our bases overseas and our allies ...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

A 2024 letter reveals that even the President Biden administration urged Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey to clean up the state’s SNAP program, which was recently found by state and federal authorities and a whistleblower report, to be the subject of tens of millions of dollars in public benefits fraud.

Healey claims that allegations of fraud ...Read more

The most wanted man in Mexico was hiding out next to a country club.

When Mexican special forces soldiers attacked the hideout of Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes — the cartel boss known as "El Mencho" — they descended on his luxurious compound in the mountains outside Guadalajara.

A cluster of seven upscale cabins situated on a steep ...Read more