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Iran president says forces told not to attack nearby states
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
Trump pays respects to 6 US Army members killed in Iran war
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
Trump says US may target new parts of Iran in escalating war
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
Federal appeals court upholds TPS for Haitians, but the case just got complicated
Temporary immigration protections will remain in place, for now, for more than 350,000 Haitians in the U.S.
A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., late Friday rejected the Trump administration’s request to allow deportations to take place while a lawsuit challenging its termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status designation ...Read more
Trump in Doral: Cuba in 'last moments of life,' Delcy Rodríguez doing 'great'
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
Guyana's oil boom brings rapid growth, labor shortage and Washington's attention
BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis — Guyana President Mohamed Irfaan Ali sat behind the table inside a community center here, touting what he described as his nation’s success and an “extraordinary phase in our national development.”
Fourteen new hotels are being built and nearing completion, with another six proposed. A national stadium...Read more
SW Michigan begins recovery after being rocked by devastating tornado
UNION CITY, Mich. — As search and rescue crews concentrated on the devastated area around Union Lake following Friday's violent tornadic weather, Michiganians in nearby Union City began picking up the pieces of the damage littered throughout their homes and businesses.
On Saturday morning, the Green family was working to clear the sidewalk in...Read more
Gas prices soaring, Trump administration sets stage to OK controversial offshore oil plan
As the war in Iran sends global fuel prices soaring, the U.S. Department of Justice has released a legal opinion claiming that President Donald Trump has the authority to override California laws and regulations that have blocked a controversial offshore oil operation by invoking the Defense Production Act.
The 22-page opinion, published this ...Read more
Cuba isn't invited to Trump's Shield of the Americas summit in Doral. But it looms large
Miami Republican lawmaker Carlos Giménez says he believes the communist regime in his native Cuba is near its end, echoing comments by President Donald Trump ahead of Saturday’s gathering of a dozen Latin American leaders in Doral.
“He believes the days are close. I believe the president,” Giménez said as he attended a welcome reception...Read more
Pentagon turns to ex-Uber executive in Anthropic feud over AI
Emil Michael made his name in Silicon Valley a decade ago as an aggressive dealmaker for a startup — Uber Technologies Inc. — as it wrangled with governments in pursuit of market domination. Now, Michael has switched sides in a battle involving a different startup — this time taking a leading role in the Pentagon’s dispute with ...Read more
Daylight saving time returns, despite perennial politicking to stop the switch
LOS ANGELES — After enduring months of long, dark — and, in Southern California, rather moderate — winter evenings, some residents will rejoice at the extra hour of daylight arriving Sunday, while others will mourn their lost hour of sleep.
Generally speaking, the twice-a-year daylight saving time clock changes are unpopular. Research ...Read more
Trump urges Latin America to use military against cartels
President Donald Trump told a group of Latin American leaders that they need to work with the U.S. to target drug trafficking cartels as he sought to bolster U.S. leadership in the region.
“Every leader here today is united in the conviction that we cannot and will not tolerate the lawlessness in our hemisphere any longer,” Trump said ...Read more
Trump says US may target new parts of Iran in escalating war
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
Russian strike on Kharkiv kills 7 as part of major barrage
A Russian ballistic missile strike leveled much of a residential building in Kharkiv overnight, part of a massive drone and missile attack across Ukraine that shattered days of relative calm.
At least seven people were killed and 10 injured in the northeastern city, which has borne the brunt of Kremlin attacks throughout the conflict now into ...Read more
After week of war and political upheaval, Trump remains defiant as ever
In recent days, tensions over the U.S. war in Iran have steadily mounted.
Polls have shown the campaign is widely unpopular. An entire flank of President Donald Trump's MAGA base has criticized it as a clear departure from the "America First" mantra Trump has long espoused. Leaders within the Trump administration have pushed against claims it ...Read more
Iran's threat to burn ships is choking off Persian Gulf oil flow to world
BEIRUT — When Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned this week that ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz would be "set ablaze," alarm set in with government and industrial leaders all over the world.
They have good reason to be alarmed: Whoever controls the strait controls nothing less than the sole maritime gateway for most of the...Read more
For Israel, Iran war culminates battle begun by Hamas attack
At dawn on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, as rockets and gunmen poured into Israel from Gaza, Hamas military chief Mohammad Deif declared the Jewish state finished: “To our brothers in the Islamic resistance in Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, the day has come.”
The day did come, but not the one Deif imagined.
He’s dead, along with a ...Read more
Trial for South Florida defendants in slaying of Haiti's president gets underway next week
MIAMI — Four men accused of hatching a plot in South Florida that led to the gruesome death of Haiti’s president will finally face trial on Monday, almost five years after Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in his bedroom, plunging his nation into gang-ridden chaos.
A fifth defendant charged with them won’t be present at the trial in Miami ...Read more
1 town's day of terror after the killing of Mexican cartel boss 'El Mencho'
ETZATLÁN, Mexico — There are two sides to the town on Jalisco's tequila trail.
One is the charming pueblo in foothills lined with neat rows of agave cactus. In the central plaza you'll see swaths of handwoven fabric draped like canopies over the cobbled streets — splashes of pink, blue, yellow and green offering welcome shade from the ...Read more
A Philly 'wine fight' is playing out in court as 2 schools battle over cyberbullying and a trademark
PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s oldest wine school says a competitor is attempting to erase its existence from the internet through a “cyberbullying” campaign and trademark infringement, according to a federal lawsuit.
In the suit, PhillyWine LLC alleges that Keith Wallace and Alana Zerbe, the husband-and-wife duo behind the Wine School ...Read more
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