Russian officials increasingly consider there’s no point to continue U.S.-led peace talks with Ukraine unless Kyiv is willing to cede territory to reach a deal, according to people familiar with the negotiations.

Talks planned for next week will be decisive in whether or not the sides can agree on terms to end the war, two people close to the...Read more

OpenAI has agreed to deploy its own artificial intelligence models within the Defense Department’s classified network after rival Anthropic PBC saw its relationship with the Pentagon implode over surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said late Friday that he’d reached an agreement with the ...Read more

The U.S. and Israel launched strikes against targets across Iran, with President Donald Trump urging Iranians to overthrow the government in a conflict that’s already spiraling across the oil-rich Middle East.

The two allies began the assault on Saturday with the aim of “eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime,” Trump said in...Read more

The U.S. and Israel began striking targets across Iran, with President Donald Trump urging Iranians to overthrow the government in a conflict that threatens to spiral across the oil-rich Middle East.

“The hour for your freedom is at hand,” Trump said, addressing Iranians in a video posted on Truth Social on Saturday. “When we’re ...Read more

MIAMI — Going by the official count, roughly 3,500 people are experiencing homelessness in Miami-Dade on any given night. Some sleep in shelters, others on the street.

But a population nearly 20 times that size exists beyond that tally. An estimated 66,000-plus county residents are part of Miami-Dade’s “hidden homeless,” according to an...Read more

There have been several bipartisan attempts over the years to legalize medical marijuana in North Carolina, but all have failed.

Now, shifts at the federal level and the outcome of upcoming elections could change the landscape. Several legislative candidates running in the March primary, including many Republicans, have told The News & Observer...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on March 2 over a federal law that bans drug users from buying or possessing firearms, the latest in a string of cases where the conservative-controlled court is positioned to reshape gun control laws nationwide.

The Trump administration asked the justices to overturn a ruling from the U...Read more

Israel said on Saturday that it launched “preventive” airstrikes on targets in Iran, a move that will spark fears of a wider conflict in the oil-rich region.

The Associated Press, as well Israel’s Kan, said the U.S. was participating in the attack, citing people they didn’t identify. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Embassy ...Read more

OpenAI has agreed to deploy its own artificial intelligence models within the Defense Department’s classified network after rival Anthropic PBC saw its relationship with the Pentagon implode over surveillance and autonomous weapons concerns.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said late Friday that he’d reached an agreement with the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is seeking to delay court proceedings over whether it must refund importers billions of dollars in tariffs recently struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, marking a contentious start to the next phase of the legal fight.

The government wants to wait as long as four months before reviving litigation before...Read more

Another step has been taken in the Trump administration’s efforts to expand offshore drilling in California — but the process is still in its early stages, and it’s not clear if oil companies are interested in building new platforms off the coast of the Golden State.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has announced its intent to ...Read more

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has tapped two new members for an influential vaccine committee that’s responsible for guiding the nation’s immunization policy.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Friday night that Sean Downing, an internal medicine doctor in Florida, and Angelina Farella, a pediatrician in ...Read more

Former President Bill Clinton delivered a sweeping denial of any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes during roughly six hours of closed-door testimony Friday before a House committee investigating the disgraced financier’s political connections.

“I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” Clinton said in a statement prepared for ...Read more

Former President Bill Clinton delivered a sweeping denial of any knowledge of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes during roughly six hours of closed-door testimony Friday before a House committee investigating the disgraced financier’s political connections.

“I saw nothing, and I did nothing wrong,” Clinton said in a statement prepared for ...Read more

The state of California, its Department of Education and officials were sued Thursday by two Jewish advocacy groups that alleged the state allowed antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students to go unchecked on campuses.

The suit by Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights and StandWithUs — nonprofits focused on Jewish civil rights ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday directed federal agencies to stop using technology from San Francisco artificial intelligence company Anthropic, escalating a high-profile clash between the AI startup and the Pentagon over safety.

In a Friday post on the social media site Truth Social, Trump described the company as "radical left" and "woke."

...Read more

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Friday defended his secret meeting with President Donald Trump a day earlier, as well as his proposal to the president to build 12,000 apartments in Queens.

At the White House meeting Thursday, the mayor asked Trump for the green light — and $21 billion — for the plan to build atop Sunnyside Yard. To ...Read more

DETROIT — A federal floodplain notice published by the Department of Homeland Security spells out new details about the agency's plans to use a warehouse in Romulus as an immigration processing and detention facility.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel in response to the notice blasted federal officials Friday for failing to engage the ...Read more

Newly unsealed federal indictments level charges against 30 more people involved in an ICE protest at during a St. Paul church service last month and reveal what prosecutors say was a carefully crafted operation that terrorized and physically threatened congregants and pastors.

“At my direction, federal agents have already arrested 25 of them...Read more