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The Trump administration is setting the stage to shift its war campaign toward a more economically focused effort aimed at choking Tehran into submission rather than relying on bombs alone.

The U.S. Navy is imposing a sea blockade against Iran -- the latest escalation in the war that has seen the flow of key energy supplies choked off at the Strait of Hormuz.

Newly released video shows a high school principal in Oklahoma tackling and disarming a former student who entered the lobby of the school and began firing a pistol.

Manuel Portuondo was a teenager when his family fled Cuba for Miami in 1960. Inspired by ideals of freedom, he joined a U.S.-backed military force of Cuban exiles.

Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico's governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across . ...

Palestinian schoolchildren trying to return to class this week for the first time since the Iran war started were blocked by an impromptu barbed wire fence erected overnight by Israeli settlers.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's relationship with Donald Trump appears strained. Trump criticized Meloni for not supporting his stance on Iran and for calling his attack on Pope Leo XIV "unacceptable."

As Madonna sang in her 2005 hit, "Hung Up," time goes by so slowly. But it continues to move. On Wednesday, the pop superstar announced she'll release a new album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor: Part II," on July 3.

Keiko Fujimori and Roberto Sánchez are leading as the presidential candidates in Peru's general election vote count.

Lebanon and Israel have started direct talks for the first time in decades, driven by the recent war involving Hezbollah.