Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz said he will leave the three-man war cabinet after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to present a new plan to bring back hostages and end Hamas rule in Gaza.

“Unfortunately, Netanyahu is preventing us from achieving true victory,” Gantz said late Sunday.

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According to a new national ranking of 3,200-plus U.S. counties, Southern California rates as the single most disaster-prone region in the country.

Quakes, fires, floods, droughts, rising seas, deadly surf, heat waves, cold snaps, hurricanes (kinda) and beetles that devour trees all hit our region more frequently, and often with more intensity,...Read more

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats crashed to their worst-ever result in European Parliament elections Sunday, falling to third place behind the far-right Alternative for Germany.

The conservative CDU/CSU alliance was on course for a comfortable win with 29.6%, with the AfD second at 16.4% and the SPD with 14%, according to an ...Read more

President Joe Biden warned against the rise of isolationism in the U.S. while visiting an American military cemetery in France that his predecessor, Donald Trump, famously skipped six years ago.

Biden said the World War I-era Aisne-Marne American Cemetery was the final resting place for soldiers who fought in the deadliest U.S. Marine Corps ...Read more

Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister for a third straight term on Sunday, extending his leadership for another five years after a bruising electoral setback that forced him to share power for the first time.

Modi was sworn in at a ceremony at the president’s residence in central New Delhi before as many as 8,000 guests, ...Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, heading into his third term with a weakened mandate, wants India to embrace a new “green era” at the forefront of climate diplomacy and clean technology.

To succeed, he’ll need to balance those ambitions against a need to sustain growth and satisfy rapidly accelerating electricity demand, leaning on a fraying...Read more

Haiti’s new prime minister, Garry Conille, was hospitalized late Saturday after suffering a reported respiratory emergency.

The details on what led to the crisis remained scant. However, Conille was at his mother-in-law’s house in the hills above the capital in Boutillier, multiple sources said, when he fell ill and had to be rushed down ...Read more

The European Parliament election that wraps up on Sunday won’t just decide the 720 lawmakers who will serve in the EU assembly for the next five years. It will also give an indication of how the bloc will handle critical issues, including the war in Ukraine, and how it would navigate a possible second Donald Trump presidency.

About 360 ...Read more

They danced in the streets and cheered on the beaches as TV anchors teared up on camera. Saturday’s rescue of four hostages from central Gaza was a cause for rare and intense celebration in Israel, boosting Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and the beleaguered military eight months into a punishing war.

But it also highlighted operational ...Read more

NEW YORK — Murder may be down across New York City, but in Brownsville the candlelight vigils and funerals never seem to stop.

The New York City Police Department's 73rd Precinct, which includes Brownsville, has seen 11 homicides through June 2 — nearly triple the four in the same time span last year.

Almost all the victims were cut down ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The van screeched to a halt in a parking lot along a busy Whittier thoroughfare. A half-dozen men in army-green body armor and tactical helmets hopped out with guns drawn. Their target: a former used car dealership converted into an illegal cannabis dispensary called Whittier Super Greens.

"L.A. County Sheriff's Department ...Read more

MIAMI -- The daughters of Bertha Sanles know no home beyond the United States. The youngest was born in Miami. The eldest doesn’t remember the Nicaragua she left behind when she was 10 years old.

But her U.S. citizen children are weighing whether to leave the country with their mother and abandon their American futures should Donald Trump win...Read more

In the coming years, climate change could force Americans from their homes, not just by raising sea levels, worsening wildfires and causing floods — but also by putting insurance coverage out of reach.

In places including California, Florida and Louisiana, some homeowners are finding it nearly impossible to find an insurance company that will...Read more

This fall, voters in deeply red South Dakota will decide if they want to replace their closed primaries by joining a handful of other states that run open, nonpartisan systems.

The ballot measure, approved by the secretary of state last month, would establish a top-two primary system for gubernatorial, legislative, county and congressional ...Read more

PIEDMONT, Mo. -- His voice gets heavy and even starts to crack when he talks about the abuse claims that have engulfed an unlicensed boarding school in his southeast Missouri county.

“I didn’t know,” Wayne County Sheriff Dean Finch says, referring to former students’ yearslong allegations of physical and mental abuse at the school. “I...Read more

When Cassie Cox ended up in the emergency room in January, the Bainbridge, Georgia, resident was grateful for the Obamacare insurance policy she had recently selected for coverage in 2024.

Cox, 40, qualified for an Affordable Care Act marketplace plan with no monthly premium due to her relatively low income. And after she cut her hand severely,...Read more

The U.S. has resumed deliveries of humanitarian aid in Gaza after reestablishing a temporary pier, officials said.

The deliveries were restarted at about 10:30 a.m. local time on June 8, the U.S. Central Command said in a post on X. Approximately 492 metric tons of humanitarian assistance were dispatched to the people of Gaza, according to ...Read more

Colombia is set to ban coal exports to Israel in a bid to pressure the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the conflict in Gaza.

The ministers of foreign affairs, finance, energy and trade decided to halt sales of the fuel to the Jewish state, according to a draft decree published Friday on Colombia’s trade ministry’s ...Read more

BOSTON — A police officer was assaulted around the Boston Pride event going on in the city where three people were arrested in what the police are calling “a developing situation.”

Boston Police Officer Mark Marron said that “It’s a developing situation” but that it so far has not risen to the level of an emergency response from the...Read more