TEL AVIV, Israel — Two years ago, after Hamas killed and kidnapped its way across southern Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed finished. “Mr. Security,” as he billed himself, would either resign in shame or be driven out by a devastated public.

Yet this week he promoted his candidacy in next year’s election by saying he’d...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security will require all immigrants and noncitizens to be photographed when entering and leaving the United States under new regulations released Friday.

Photographs and fingerprints were already required for certain immigrants and foreign visitors at designated locations. The regulation from U.S. ...Read more

BOSTON — Hours after police lifted a shelter-in-place warning after a gun was fired near Radcliffe Quad at Harvard University, a person of interest was broadcast.

The Cambridge police issued photos of that person, asking anyone who recognizes him or has any information on the incident to call detectives at 617-349-3121.

It was a tense time ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Southern California mother rented a car this month and drove her 9-year-old daughter halfway across the country, to Nebraska.

Three days later she returned home alone, and has since refused to answer questions about the girl's whereabouts.

Now, Ashlee Buzzard's road trip has become the central focus of the FBI's and Santa ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will look to sign economic agreements and critical minerals deals with trading partners during his trip to Asia, according to senior U.S. officials, as the administration moves to ramp up pressure on China ahead of a crucial meeting with Xi Jinping.

Trump will look for deals that will help unlock the region...Read more

Though the full effects of Tropical Storm Melissa have yet to be felt in the Caribbean, Haiti’s disaster office said Friday three people have already died and another was injured in a landslide attributed to the storm’s heavy rains.

Two people were killed Thursday in Fontamara, a community south of Port-au-Prince, in the West regional ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said it received an anonymous $130 million donation to pay the military during the U.S. government shutdown, a move the administration might not legally be able to carry out.

“On October 23, 2025, the Department of War accepted an anonymous donation of $130 million under its general gift acceptance authority,” ...Read more

A planned increase in federal immigration enforcement in the Bay Area is now on pause throughout the region and in major East Bay cities, not just in San Francisco, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Friday.

Lee said in a statement that Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez had "confirmed through her communications" with federal immigration ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — UCLA must release the Trump administration document that outlines the terms of the $1.2 billion settlement proposal at the center of talks between the University of California and the federal government, the California Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The decision is a win for UCLA faculty who have pushed for more transparency in the...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s decision to demolish the East Wing of the White House without consulting preservation agencies and organizations is a reflection in part of the unusual position the building has in historical preservation law.

And when it comes time to jump through bureaucratic hoops to construct the actual 90,000-...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — New York Attorney General Letitia James on Friday pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court to charges accusing her of misleading a bank in an effort to get a lower interest rate for a house she bought here in 2020. Jones asked the court to dismiss the charges in a motion filed afterward.

A tentative trial date was set for Jan....Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson urged Gov. JB Pritzker Friday to weigh allowing Chicago public school students to learn from home because ICE agents are arresting parents and students on their way to and from schools.

Pritzker later took a dim view of the idea, saying kids belong in classrooms and pointing to ways schools and residents have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Social Security beneficiaries will see a 2.8% increase in their retirement benefits in 2026, slightly higher than the 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment provided this year, the Social Security Administration announced Friday.

Monthly benefits will increase by roughly $56 beginning in January, the agency said, in an effort to keep ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A longtime Los Angeles Fire Department leader who is currently the head of the agency's Valley operations will become the department's new chief, Mayor Karen Bass confirmed Friday.

Jaime Moore, currently a deputy chief, will take the reins after a lengthy, nationwide search during which the mayor interviewed fire chiefs of other...Read more

CHICAGO — A Chicago federal judge appeared poised Friday to order at least a portion of the thousands of people detained in “Operation Midway Blitz” released on electronic monitoring while litigation continues over whether immigration officials have violated a consent decree restricting so-called warrantless arrests.

U.S. District Judge ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to rule for the first time on whether the president has the power to deploy troops in American cities over the objections of local and state officials.

A decision could come at any time.

And even a one-line order siding with President Donald Trump would send the message that he is free to use the ...Read more

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Friday on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, following a spat with President Donald Trump over military strikes in the Caribbean and drug trafficking in the South American nation.

The sanctions marked an unprecedented escalation in tensions with a country that has been for decades one of Washington...Read more

California wildlife officials euthanized four gray wolves in Sierra Valley and plan to relocate three more to a wildlife sanctuary, after months of nonlethal efforts failed to prevent livestock attacks that cost ranchers tens of thousands of dollars and terrified residents.

The dramatic steps will have the effect of moving the entire Beyem Seyo...Read more

The FBI is investigating a Thursday night shooting outside a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the driver of a U-Haul truck reversed toward security officers who responded with a volley of gunfire, wounding the motorist and a civilian nearby.

In video from KPIX, the U-Haul is shown slowly reversing onto the bridge ...Read more