Friedrich Merz will have another chance to secure a regional election victory on Sunday after the German chancellor’s conservative party suffered a bruising defeat in a wealthy southwestern state two weeks ago.

Failure to take power in the wine-growing region of Rhineland-Palatine would be a heavy blow for Merz’s Christian Democratic Union...Read more

Mary Callahan has a frightening theory about why her husband was murdered in Miami.

He was heading to the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., to report that the Boston office was corrupt to the core.

“He knew the FBI was so bad here. He always let me know where he was, and he told me he was going to go to D.C.” after first jetting to ...Read more

The U.S. said Iran’s ability to threaten marine traffic on the Strait of Hormuz has been “degraded” after it took out a facility along the Iranian coastline earlier this week.

The U.S. military dropped several 5,000-pound bombs on an underground facility located along Iran’s coastline, according to Admiral Brad Cooper, the head of U.S....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Inside Jesse's Barber Shop in Boyle Heights, Rodney Trammell gave an oral history of Brooklyn Avenue before it was renamed after civil rights leader Cesar E. Chavez.

The street, he recalled, was lined with Mexican and Jewish retail stores and bakeries. There was a movie theater and the original Canter's Deli opened here. ...Read more

The U.S. military said it has been able to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz as President Donald Trump floated the idea of “winding down” military efforts in the Persian Gulf.

Trump’s comments came shortly after he ruled out a ceasefire and kept the door open to deploying ground troops, ...Read more

The wife of “19 Kids and Counting” star Joseph Duggar was arrested on Friday, three days after her husband was taken into custody for allegedly molesting a 9-year-old girl while on vacation in Florida six years ago.

Kendra Duggar is facing four counts each of second-degree endangering the welfare of a minor and second-degree false ...Read more

In the days after Haiti President Jovenel Moïse was brazenly shot to death in his hillside home above Port-au-Prince more than four years ago, federal agents fanned out across South Florida in search of a connection.

They served search warrants at the homes and businesses of four individuals: two operators of a Miami-Dade security firm that ...Read more

Donald Trump’s decision to wage war on Iran was partly motivated by pressure from outside allies while his own White House team stayed more muted — underscoring how in his second term, guardrails have been traded for a green light.

Those privately pressing Trump to strike Iran included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, media mogul ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — More than three decades after a landmark decision called for Los Angeles to limit its taking of water to raise the level of Mono Lake, California regulators are reexamining why the lake still hasn’t rebounded and what should be done about it.

At the request of state water officials, UCLA climate scientists developed a new ...Read more

MIAMI — Less than a week after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead inside his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, something was afoot inside an office where the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ After Action Team had set up a probe into what had happened to their most high-profile inmate.

The FBI was told that there were people ...Read more

The U.S. military said it has been able to degrade Iran’s ability to target ships moving through the Strait of Hormuz as President Donald Trump floated the idea of “winding down” military efforts in the Persian Gulf.

Trump’s comments came shortly after he ruled out a ceasefire and kept the door open to deploying ground troops, ...Read more

In January, when President Donald Trump unveiled his one-page outline to address health care spending, dubbed “The Great Healthcare Plan,” he specifically mentioned the Affordable Care Act’s role in driving up costs.

“I call it the unaffordable care act,” he said. He reprised the line in his 2026 State of the Union address, blaming �...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The most destructive wildfires in Southern California history. The region's wettest holiday season. The hottest March heat wave on record.

In the last 15 months, the Southland has seen a trio of extreme weather events, and UC climate scientist Daniel Swain says there's one clear through line connecting them all.

"All of the ...Read more

The Trump administration has signaled a willingness to halt billions of dollars in federal health payments to multiple states, mirroring moves it made against Minnesota.

The specific target is Medicaid, the public health insurance program that pairs state and federal money. Federal officials have announced unprecedented actions in Minnesota ...Read more