U.S. airstrikes on Iran set back the country’s nuclear program by one to two years, a Pentagon spokesman said, adding to uncertainty around the status of the country’s facilities after President Donald Trump said they’d been obliterated.

Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said allies share the U.S. sentiment about the degradation of ...Read more

The first detainees are expected to arrive at Alligator Alcatraz late Wednesday night, even as the immigration detention facility in the Florida Everglades has already faced some operational issues with security and water intrusion.

On Wednesday evening, the gates of the facility were bustling with traffic. Construction workers, fencing ...Read more

Among at least 10 state contractors involved in the creation of Alligator Alcatraz, the facility in the middle of the Everglades the state has built for immigrant detainees, three have given money to Gov. Ron DeSantis or the Republican Party of Florida for statewide campaigns.

One contractor stands out: CDR Maguire and its affiliated company, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace descended on the Spring Garden Street headquarters of defense contractor Day & Zimmerman on Wednesday in a bid to renew scrutiny of the weapons manufacturer's involvement in the war in Gaza.

Philadelphia police officers detained dozens of protesters who had camped out in the building's ...Read more

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has called for restraint and dialogue between Thailand and Cambodia, urging an amicable resolution to their border dispute in line with international law.

“In today’s uncertain global environment, Asean countries cannot afford to let disputes divide us,” Wong said in a Facebook post late Wednesday ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury on Wednesday cleared Sean “Diddy” Combs of sex trafficking and RICO charges and found him guilty on lesser counts of transporting people for prostitution, a stunning verdict taking a potential life sentence off the table for the Bad Boy Records mogul.

The eight men and four women who deliberated the case ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump and his advisers begin weighing replacements for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, they’re running into one significant complication: It’s not clear that Powell will leave the U.S. central bank next year.

The Fed chief has repeatedly declined to say whether he will step down when his four-year ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams celebrated the closure of the migrant mega-shelter at the Roosevelt Hotel after it shuttered its doors last month.

The hotel, which closed in 2020 during the pandemic and opened as a shelter in May 2023, served as the main entrance point for migrants entering the city during the peak of the crisis. Images from the ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Just seconds after Bryan Kohberger told a 4th District judge Wednesday that, yes, he had “willfully” and “deliberately” murdered four University of Idaho students on Nov. 13, 2022, the judge asked prosecutors to lay out the “factual basis” for the case if it had gone to trial.

Speaking deliberately, Latah County ...Read more

ATLANTA — Part of a wing flap of a Delta Air Lines plane that departed from Atlanta late Tuesday was later found on a driveway in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.

That part came from a Delta Boeing 737-900ER that landed safely at 1:15 a.m. Wednesday at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Atlanta-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon came under criticism Wednesday for its decision to halt sending air defense missiles to Ukraine, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle arguing that move was shortsighted at a time when Russia has ramped up its missile and drone barrages.

They challenged the Pentagon’s argument that the pause is necessary while ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The ACLU of Missouri on Wednesday sued to block a proposed abortion ban from reaching the statewide ballot next year, marking the first major legal challenge intended to halt a Republican-led attempt to ban abortions again in Missouri.

The lawsuit, filed in Cole County, argues the proposed abortion ban, which would also ban...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams waved off concerns about President Trump’s false insinuation that Zohran Mamdani is an illegal immigrant and his threat to arrest the Democratic mayoral nominee if he got in the way of ICE agents.

“I don’t want to talk about this other stuff,” Adams said Wednesday in response to a question on whether he ...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Wednesday to keep track of a weather system that could form off one of Florida’s coasts this weekend that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

In its 8 p.m. Eastern time tropical advisory, the NHC said an area of low pressure was forecast to develop either off of Florida�...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger admitted in court Wednesday to the murder of four University of Idaho students in 2022, finally bringing some closure to the highly publicized case that brought national attention to the grieving college town.

“Are you pleading guilty because you are guilty?” 4th Judicial District Judge Steven Hippler asked ...Read more

In a sudden escalation in President Trump’s mass deportation efforts, ICE agents are snatching and detaining migrants with pending immigration court cases at lower Manhattan courthouses, a move which city officials and attorneys blasted as “utterly unlawful.”

In the past month, Department of Homeland Security attorneys have routinely ...Read more

A legal group co-founded by Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and architect of the Trump administration's immigration policies, filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Dodgers earlier this week, accusing the team of "engaging in unlawful discrimination under the guise of 'diversity, equity and inclusion.'"

The ...Read more