Nation and World
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Khadijah Farrakhan, 'first lady of Nation of Islam' as wife of famous pastor, dies at 90Jun 28, 2026 2:32 pm - Khadijah Farrakhan, longtime wife of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, died on Saturday, the Nation of Islam has announced. She was 90. “Mother Khadijah” worked al...
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3 firefighters killed, 2 injured while tackling wildfires on the Colorado-Utah border
Jun 28, 2026 8:29 am - BEAVER, Utah — Three firefighters died and two were injured while tackling fires on the Colorado-Utah border, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service reported Sunday. The agency —...
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Iran attacks Bahrain and Kuwait following US strikes and threatens to halt talks to end the war
Jun 28, 2026 8:27 am - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran launched drone and missile attacks Sunday targeting Bahrain and Kuwait in response to U.S. airstrikes that hit the Islamic Republic, an...
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Frustration grows in Venezuela as earthquake death toll reaches 1,430Jun 27, 2026 3:25 pm - LA GUAIRA, Venezuela (AP) — Tensions flared Saturday as desperation grew in Venezuela's state of La Guaira as rescuers and civilians searched for earthquake survivors and...
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Residents on notice as fast-moving fire in Utah, the largest in the US, blackens more forestlandJun 27, 2026 3:15 pm - MARYSVALE, Utah (AP) — The largest fire in the United States is marching through deep canyons and over steep mountainsides, blackening an already parched landscape in Uta...
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Central Europe sizzles as heat records are smashed in Switzerland, Denmark and Czech RepublicJun 27, 2026 2:59 pm - BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures soared to record highs from Switzerland to the Czech Republic and Denmark on Saturday, as a heat wave that baked western European countries thi...
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Israeli drone strike kills Palestinian siblings in a Gaza tent campJun 27, 2026 2:52 pm - DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli drone strike on Saturday killed two Palestinian siblings, including a 15-year-old girl, in southern Gaza and wounded at least ...
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Fear grips Haitian communities after Supreme Court ruling unwinds protection from deportation
Jun 26, 2026 10:00 pm - A 35-year-old nurse in Kentucky prepared her will. The single mother named a legal guardian for her four children and transferred her properties into their names.She felt like she needed to prepare for death — in case she gets deported back to Haiti, a country she fled at 9 years old.
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Appeals court rejects Trump EPA bid to abandon rule restricting deadly soot pollution
Jun 26, 2026 7:23 pm - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to abandon a Biden-era rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution.
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Ukrainian drones drive Russia to declare emergency in occupied Crimea
Jun 26, 2026 7:17 pm - Authorities in occupied Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed illegally from Ukraine in 2014, declared a state of emergency Friday following weeks of punishing Ukrainian drone strikes.