Alex Saab, a once-powerful financial fixer for former Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro who vanished from public view last month, is likely to be extradited soon to the United States following intense negotiations between U.S. officials and Venezuela’s interim government led by Delcy Rodríguez, sources familiar with the discussions told ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has told Kurdish forces not to enter the Iran war as the U.S. and Israel continue launching strikes against Tehran.

“We’re very friendly with the Kurds, as you know, but we don’t want to make the war any more complex than it already is. I have ruled that out, I don’t want the Kurds going in,...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A brokered deal with regulators and consumer advocates will allow State Farm General to keep controversial increases in home insurance rates that took effect last year in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.

The agreement sent to a judge late Friday cements a $530-million emergency hike in home insurance rates ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Outside City Hall in downtown Minneapolis on Tuesday, March 3, a small group of protesters chanted as armed men escorted what some said was an immigration enforcement target into the Hennepin County jail.

In a video of the encounter, as two protesters blocked their van — labeled with “Midwest Plumbing” decals advertising a...Read more

Venezuela’s opposition leader María Corina Machado held private talks in the White House Friday as she struggles to retain her political voice in the face of the Trump administration’s growing support for her rival in Caracas, interim President Delcy Rodríguez.

The talks prompted dual narratives from people familiar with the discussions ...Read more

NEW YORK — An Upper East Side anti-Muslim rally led by Jan. 6 rioter and far-right influencer Jake Lang erupted into chaos as Lang and his cronies were confronted by scores of counter-protesters outside of Gracie Mansion on Saturday — the home of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the city’s first Muslim mayor — and a smoking improvised device was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Signs of division emerged in Iran's leadership Saturday as U.S. and Israeli strikes continued battering targets throughout the country, with Tehran sending mixed signals on whether it would keep attacking Washington's Arab allies entering the war's second week.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian began the day offering an apology...Read more

It’s not just that Marco Rubio is eclipsing other Cabinet members in President Donald Trump’s second term.

Or even that he has reignited long-dormant speculation that he could become president.

It’s that Rubio, in little more than a year, is becoming arguably the most consequential U.S. secretary of state in decades by ditching the last ...Read more

The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait started reducing oil production, as the near-closure of the crucial Strait of Hormuz ripples through energy markets and affects global supply.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. is “managing offshore production levels to address storage requirements,” the company said in a statement, without giving details. ...Read more

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