The oil-dependent world is in crisis. Ship traffic in the Strait of Hormuz – through which more than a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and a fifth of the world’s liquefied natural gas flow – is at a virtual standstill. Oil prices have climbed, briefly topping US$119 a barrel.

The largest release of oil from countries’ ...Read more

Primatologist Birutė Galdikas died on March 24, 2026, and an era of science that began in the forests of Tanzania, Rwanda and Borneo studying humanity’s closest living relatives more than half a century ago is coming quietly to a close. Her passing marks more than the loss of a scientist – it’s the end of one of the most extraordinary ...Read more

Two months ago, Terez Metry arrived at a Department of Homeland Security office in Nashville with her husband, a U.S. citizen, expecting a routine step in beginning her green card application. The couple had prepared documents for a Form I-130 petition and anticipated an interview about their marriage.

But the appointment took a ...Read more

Operation Epic Fury – the latest round of military strikes against Iran – began when Iran was engaged in negotiations with the United States to renew restrictions on its nuclear program.

This is not the first time the United States has bombed Iran during nuclear negotiations.

In June 2025, while its representatives were in...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Before the four astronauts of the Artemis II mission travel farther from Earth than any human ever has, they first have to get to the launch site.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Glover are set to arrive from Houston today at Kennedy Space Center ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A lead attorney for the Department of Homeland Security suggested that federal agents should have "just started hitting the rioters and arresting everyone that couldn't get away" during an anti-ICE protest in Los Angeles last June, internal emails show.

The note was in an email chain obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — "I broke all law for you already lol," an L.A. Unified employee allegedly texted to a co-conspirator amid what prosecutors say is the largest money-laundering scheme in the school district's history.

Hong "Grace" Peng, 56, of Pasadena, is accused of using her role as an IT employee at the Los Angeles Unified School District to ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Tallahassee grand jury investigating the Hope Florida scandal appears to have issued a report on its findings, but a process allowing people named in it to push for redactions could keep it secret for months.

Leon County State Attorney Jack Campbell’s office has neither confirmed nor denied the existence of a report, ...Read more

Thousands of protests are scheduled across the United States on Saturday as part of the “No Kings” movement opposing President Donald Trump’s administration.

Organizers expect millions of people to turn out for this third round of No Kings demonstrations, with more than 3,000 local-level events mapped on the movement’s official website....Read more

LOS ANGELES — Imagine waking up early, eager to peep dazzling carpets of brilliant orange flowers at the Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve. Instagram posts promised a spectacle.

You drive to the reserve north of Los Angeles, but the rolling hills aren’t alive with color.

Bummer. The bloom is over.

Thanks to AI, and a local ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two days after Mexican forces killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation cartel last month, Gladdys Uribe was in her California home, anxiously tracking her parents' movements in Mexico.

The capture and death of the world's most wanted drug trafficker — Nemesio Rubén "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes — triggered a violent...Read more

Within 48 hours, the legal landscape governing social media and children shifted in ways that will take years to fully understand and verify.

On March 24, 2026, a Santa Fe jury ordered Meta to pay US$375 million for violating New Mexico’s consumer protection laws. The next day, a Los Angeles jury found Meta and Google’s YouTube ...Read more

LONDON — United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer suggested he won’t be bullied by Donald Trump in a further demonstration of how the U.S. president’s war on Iran has frayed the so-called special relationship between their two countries.

“My own view is that a lot of what is said and done has been to put pressure on me to change my ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on Thursday ordered President Trump’s Justice Department to preserve its communications with Immigration and Customs Enforcement after prosecutors said ICE had misrepresented its authority to arrest people in immigration court.

In a brief order, Manhattan Federal Judge Kevin Castel said the prosecutor�...Read more

NEW YORK — Alleged serial killer Rex Heuermann is expected to plead guilty at an April 8 court appearance, and admit to killing women and dumping their bodies near Gilgo Beach along with other locations on Long Island, according to multiple reports citing sources.

Heuermann, 62, who is charged with killing seven women, has maintained his ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Thursday said he wouldn’t throw out narco-terrorism charges against ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, but sounded sympathetic to arguments about U.S. sanctions interfering with their defense.

The Manhattan Federal Court hearing was the first for Maduro and Cilia Flores Maduro since ...Read more