The United Arab Emirates said it will withdraw forces from Yemen following a flare-up in tensions with Gulf ally Saudi Arabia over military operations in the conflict-hit country.

“In light of recent developments and their potential implications for the safety and effectiveness of counterterrorism missions,” the UAE will pull out remaining ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s unusual decision to reveal a covert U.S. strike against what he said was a drug-trafficking facility in Venezuela marked a new escalation in his pressure campaign against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, raising new questions about how far Trump is willing to go.

Trump, who’s repeatedly threatened to expand his ...Read more

Discovery Channel reality star Chad Ollinger told police he killed his cellmate because he just “knew” the man was a pedophile, despite lacking any evidence to support the claim, authorities said.

Ollinger, 41, was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation at his first court appearance Tuesday. He’s accused of killing 42-year-old ...Read more

Newly elected Maryland House Speaker Joseline Peña-Melnyk announced a revamped leadership team and committee structure for the House of Delegates, elevating several women and lawmakers of color, reshuffling key committee chairs and creating two new standing committees as lawmakers prepare to return to Annapolis on Jan. 14 for the 2026 ...Read more

Idaho is set to receive over $900 million in federal money over the next five years to improve the state’s provision of healthcare in rural areas, Gov. Brad Little’s office announced. The funds were allocated as part of the Rural Health Transformation Program under House Resolution 1, also called the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

“For many ...Read more

A newly created division charged with recommending job cuts in North Carolina agencies released a report Tuesday showing that the state has accumulated over $1 billion in lapsed salary dollars for roughly 8,800 long-term employee vacancies.

The Division of Accountability, Value and Efficiency (DAVE), published its findings in an interactive ...Read more

Heightened federal immigration enforcement activity in California coincided with a workforce downturn that surpassed the Great Recession, a new UC Merced analysis has found.

The UC Merced report used U.S. Census data to track changes in the number of Californians reporting private sector employment across several months in 2025.

Between the ...Read more

Former Letcher County sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines, who shot and killed a Kentucky judge inside the judge’s chambers last year, is asking for a special judge to be removed from the case.

Stines, 44, argues special judge Christopher Cohron, of Bowling Green, Ky., may be partial because he sat next to District Judge Kevin Mullins at a ...Read more

Fifty-two bears were killed in the first black bear hunt in Florida in a decade, far fewer than the cap the state had set, according to numbers released Tuesday by the state’s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.

The 23-day hunt from Dec. 6 through Dec. 28 was restricted to 172 permit holders, each of whom won a “tag” through a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – Just before Friday prayer in south Minneapolis, Flannery Clark steered her family’s station wagon down congested E. Lake Street, seeking signs of federal agents.

Suddenly a full-size SUV with heavily tinted windows barreled alongside. She started tailing it, trying to decipher the license plate or determine whether the driver ...Read more

D4vd is likely to be indicted by a grand jury for his suspected role in the murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the teenager whose mangled remains were found decomposing in the singer’s trunk in September, according to a report.

Sources tell TMZ that, contrary to previous reports, the Los Angeles grand jury hearing from witnesses in the case ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Wildflower seekers typically must wait until February or March to see blankets of color in Borrego Springs but, thanks to the early autumn rain, the blooms are arriving early. Last weekend, visitors walking through Anza-Borrego Desert State Park and nearby areas found tall, bright sunflowers, deep pink desert sand-verbena, basket...Read more

NASCAR drivers, teams and other powerhouses in the sport offered an outpouring of support for Denny Hamlin and his family after the passing of his father in a house fire Sunday evening.

Dennis Hamlin, 75, died from “catastrophic injuries” sustained during the fire. Denny Hamlin's 69-year-old mother, Mary Lou, was transferred to Atrium ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — A local construction union is proposing a San Diego sales tax increase that could have a better shot at passing than a failed 2024 measure, because it would restrict uses of the additional revenue mostly to infrastructure projects.

The union, Local 89 of the Laborers’ International Union of North America, or LIUNA, believes a ...Read more

An undercover NYPD cop monitoring Instagram snared a would-be ISIS sympathizer in Texas, chatting him up online and steering him to two more undercovers who the suspect provided bomb-making materials to, according to the feds.

The suspect, 21-year-old John Michael Garza, was arrested by the feds on Dec. 22 and charged with attempting to provide...Read more

BALTIMORE — Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its initial report on a recent outbreak of a strain of Salmonella linked to raw oysters, cases and hospitalizations in Maryland have seen a slight increase.

On Dec. 23, the CDC reported one Maryland resident as having fallen ill after being infected with the strain. In ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s unusual decision to reveal a covert U.S. strike against what he said was a drug-trafficking facility in Venezuela marked a new escalation in his pressure campaign against the regime of Nicolas Maduro, raising new questions about how far Trump is willing to go.

Trump, who’s repeatedly threatened to expand his ...Read more

On the second day of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino’s brief, chaotic return to Chicago earlier this month, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor dialed 911 as a convoy of federal vehicles sped north on DuSable Lake Shore Drive.

“This is Supervisory Border Patrol Agent (redacted),” the agent said. “How are you doing today?�...Read more

NEW YORK — Tatiana Schlossberg, the granddaughter of John F. Kennedy, died Tuesday just over a month after revealing her terminal cancer diagnosis. She was 35.

Schlossberg announced in a Nov. 22 essay that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia and given a year to live. She was first diagnosed in May 2024.

“Our beautiful ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Health care policy will be top of mind when Congress returns to Washington in January, with lawmakers acknowledging that escalating insurance premiums are hitting millions of Americans.

That’s about where the agreement ends. The parties and even the factions within them are sharply divided on the path forward — with several ...Read more