LOS ANGELES — A house fire amid stiff winds brought more than 100 firefighters onto the narrow streets and steep slopes of Laurel Canyon Saturday morning. Firefighters said the three-story house at 8522 West Oak Court was heavily damaged, but the flames did not spread and the blaze was extinguished in a little more than an hour with no ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Software engineer Arin Saghatelian shed no tears when he heard that the supreme leader of his native land had been killed by American bombs.

"I don't think you're going to find many people in support of that dictatorship or the mullahs that are in power right now," said Saghatelian, who lives in La Crescenta and fled Iran with ...Read more

Ben Stiller blasted the White House for its use of a clip from his satirical action comedy “Tropic Thunder” in a video posted to promote the war in Iran.

In addition to 2008’s “Tropic Thunder,” the social media supercut also included a series of movies and television shows, including “Braveheart,” “Breaking Bad,” “Top Gun,�...Read more

India said it allowed an Iranian naval vessel to dock in its port, days before a frigate from the Persian Gulf nation was sunk by a U.S. submarine.

Tehran had approached New Delhi on Feb. 28 to urgently accommodate the IRIS Lavan citing technical issues, an Indian official said in a text message to reporters. The request was approved on March 1...Read more

NEW YORK — As the NYPD touts historic low crime rates across New York City, newly released data shows a disturbing trend in the Bronx: The city’s fourth largest borough by population accounts for half of the city’s murders so far this year.

Through March 1, the Bronx had accounted for 16 of the city’s 32 homicides, 45% of its shooting ...Read more

Iran’s president said he has instructed the military not to attack any country that isn’t striking the Islamic Republic, even as projectiles continued to be fired at the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and other states.

Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech on Saturday that Iran’s interim leadership council took the decision a day earlier...Read more

President Donald Trump honored six U.S. servicemembers killed in Kuwait during the war with Iran, attending a solemn ceremony as their remains returned to home soil.

Trump met with family members at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as part of what the U.S. military calls a “dignified transfer” of Americans killed abroad — the first since ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will consider striking areas and groups of people in Iran that were not previously considered targets, escalating a weeklong war that’s upended energy markets and reverberated worldwide.

“Today Iran will be hit very hard!” Trump said in a social media post in the early hours of Saturday, as the U.S. ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump said Cuba is “in its last moments of life,” revealed that he’s personally involved in negotiations to enact change on the island and defended his administration’s close partnership with Venezuelan leader Delcy Rodríguez to a room of Latin American and Caribbean leaders on Saturday.

“Cuba’s at the ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis — Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali sat behind the table inside a community center here, touting what he described as his nation’s success and an “extraordinary phase in our national development.”

Fourteen new hotels are being built and nearing completion, with another six proposed. A national stadium...Read more

As the war in Iran sends global fuel prices soaring, the U.S. Department of Justice has released a legal opinion claiming that President Donald Trump has the authority to override California laws and regulations that have blocked a controversial offshore oil operation by invoking the Defense Production Act.

The 22-page opinion, published this ...Read more