It’s clear that regime change is among the biggest objectives of the U.S. war in Iran.

“I have to be involved in the appointment” of Iran’s next leader, President Donald Trump said on March 5, 2026.

Trump has also said he might put U.S. boots on the ground to get the job done.

Trump now joins a long list of ...Read more

NEW YORK — A representative for Timothy Busfield denies the embattled actor sexually abused a female co-star in 1991, while insisting that claim has nothing to do with criminal charges Busfield faces for allegedly assaulting two boys.

The Mirror U.S. reported on Sunday that actor Claudia Christian claimed in an interview with police that an ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania and the federal government squared off in court Tuesday over whether the school has to release information for an antisemitism investigation, including the names of employees who could have been exposed to alleged harassment.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Penn in November, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — While he acknowledged behavior he called “troubling,” a judge this week rejected an effort by the ACLU to block arrests without reasonable suspicion and racial profiling reported during Operation Metro Surge while a lawsuit proceeds, citing the exodus of federal agents from Minnesota.

In a 111-page order on Monday, U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States and Israel are conducting their most intense day of attacks yet against Iran and won’t give up until the Islamic Republic is beaten, the Pentagon said, striking a more aggressive tone after President Donald Trump’s suggestion the war could end soon.

“We will not relent until the enemy is totally and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho state lawmakers have voted to move forward on a proposal to repeal the state’s Medicaid expansion plan, which provides health care coverage to about 90,000 lower-income residents.

Before a narrow vote in the House Health and Welfare Committee to introduce the bill for a full committee hearing, some lawmakers indicated ...Read more

A hard-line Iranian security official personally threatened President Donald Trump on Tuesday as the war raged on and the two nations traded charges over the Tehran’s chokehold on oil exports out of the Persian Gulf.

Ali Larijani, a top member of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, suggested Tehran might target Trump if the U.S. makes...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "What was the sin?" asked Rep. Eric Swallwell on Monday, decrying the deportation of a 6-year-old deaf boy and his family when they showed up for a "routine immigration check."

The California Democrat said that his staff had traveled to Colombia to return hearing aids to the boy. According to his family's attorney, Nikolas De ...Read more

NEW YORK — Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein bemoaned his bleak existence behind bars and admitted the idea of dying in prison terrifies him in a newly published jailhouse interview.

Weinstein made the confession in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, his first profile published since he was sentenced to prison time for ...Read more

Colombia’s primaries have thrown the May presidential election wide open, reviving hopes for a new market-friendly administration and triggering a rebound in sovereign bonds.

Right-wing candidate Paloma Valencia won a surprisingly large share of the vote in the main opposition primary this weekend, putting her on equal footing with candidates...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Federal prosecutors want to drop the last charge against a U.S. citizen who took pictures of immigration officers in Charlotte. Their filing comes a month after defense attorneys said they planned to call recently demoted Border Patrol commander Gregory Bovino to testify in the man’s case.

Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — A budget battle is unfolding in Albany as state lawmakers in their budget proposals unveiled a push for tax hikes on both wealthy individuals and corporations to supply New York City with more money, aligning with Mayor Zohran Mamdani but posing a sharp challenge to Gov. Kathy Hochul.

The proposals, known as “one-house” ...Read more

You may be hearing a lot lately about critical minerals and rare earth elements. These natural materials are essential to industry and modern technology – everything from cellphones to fighter jets.

They include lithium and cobalt used in batteries, neodymium for magnets in motors and hard drives, and rare earths that are essential ...Read more

It has been said that trust is like glass: Once it is shattered, nothing will ever be the same. In the case of the enduring hostility between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States over the past 47 years, even this metaphor may be an understatement.

The tone of the relationship is indicative of this fact.

In 2020, ...Read more

The war that the U.S. and Israeli governments launched against Iran on Feb. 28, 2026, is unprecedented in its scope across the Middle East. With the Arab Gulf states under Iranian attack, and Israel targeting Iran’s militia ally Hezbollah, even experts on the Middle East like me cannot predict the war’s course and especially its likely ...Read more

By all measures, the ability to see what the government is up to in the United States has plummeted to new depths since the beginning of the second Trump administration.

For National Sunshine Week in 2025, I wrote about secrecy creep, the adoption of federal secrecy protections implemented by state and local authorities. In Florida ...Read more

Thinking about certain types of alcohol can alter your mood and trigger certain mindsets, especially among young consumers. For instance, tequila calls up a party mindset, whiskey activates a masculine mindset, and wine primes a sophistication mindset.

Those are the key takeaways of a new study my team and I published in the journal ...Read more

Patients who are prescribed higher daily doses of the medication buprenorphine for opioid use disorder are significantly more likely to stay in treatment. Those on 17 to 24 milligrams averaged 190 days in care compared to 90 days for those on 8 milligrams or less. Yet Black patients are less likely than white patients to receive the higher ...Read more

A few semesters into my teaching career as a psychology professor, I uncovered a cheating ring. I determined who the ringleader was and called him to my office.

He admitted that he had illicitly obtained a copy of the exam and shared it with other students. He began to cry, telling me he was from a single parent family, the first in ...Read more