California: Berkeley police and the Consulate General of India continue search operations after 22-year-old postgraduate student Saketh Sreenivasaiah was reported missing this week. Authorities say he was last seen near Lake Anza on February 9–10, and his backpack containing passport and laptop was found in the Park Hills neighbourhood. The...
Washington — U.S. Southern Command said Friday that a military strike in the Caribbean killed three people aboard a vessel it identified as engaged in narcotrafficking. A linked video shows a boat exploding. The operation brings reported fatalities to 133 across at least 38 strikes since early September. Officials attributed...
Washington — The U.S. military is preparing for the possibility of sustained, weeks-long operations against Iran if President Donald Trump orders an attack, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Feb. 13. The Pentagon has ordered an additional aircraft carrier and moved thousands of troops, fighter jets, guided‑missile destroyers and surveillance...
Tucson, Arizona investigators this week said they intensified searches after releasing video of a masked man near Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera and recovering multiple gloves and DNA samples. Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos said the samples differ from Guthrie and close contacts and that authorities sent materials to a Florida...
Washington — President Donald Trump said Friday he plans to visit Venezuela and praised interim leader Delcy Rodriguez, while his administration moved to relax restrictions on oil investment. The Treasury's OFAC issued general licences allowing BP, Chevron, Eni, Repsol and Shell to carry out authorised transactions under US-based payment oversight....
RICHMOND, Va. The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday allowed a Democratic-backed referendum on mid‑decade congressional redistricting to proceed on April 21, 2026, while it considers appeals of a lower court ruling that had previously blocked the measure. The court denied a pause request, setting a schedule for briefs and potential...
New York — Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national, pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to three charges arising from an alleged murder-for-hire conspiracy aimed at a U.S.-based Sikh activist. Gupta admitted to murder-for-hire, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, and conspiracy to commit money laundering before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn in...
WASHINGTON — Consumer prices rose 2.4% year-over-year in January, down from 2.7% in December, as gas prices and apartment rent growth cooled, official U.S. data show. Core inflation, excluding food and energy, increased 2.5% year-over-year, the smallest gain since March 2021, after rising 2.6% in December. On a monthly basis,...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Labor Department reported Friday that consumer prices rose 2.4% in January from a year earlier, down from 2.7% in December, while core CPI excluding food and energy rose 2.5%. Monthly inflation showed modest gains, with headline up 0.2% and core up 0.3%, driven by lower gasoline...
Orlando, Fla. Forecasters warn that a warm, dry weekend will give way to increasing clouds and rain late Sunday into Monday as a cold front advances. Saturday will be warm and rain-free, with highs in the upper 70s to near 80 inland and upper 70s along the coast; patchy morning...
