A 12-hour drive through Iran offers glimpses of destruction, defiance and daily life
ZANJAN, Iran — A black banner hangs over the border crossing and portraits of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stare down, promising vengeance against the United States and Israel. But on the 12-hour drive south to the capital, Tehran, daily life continued, with only occasional signs of the...
Menopause products are having a hot minute. But doctors urge women to be wary of the marketing surge
DALLAS — Women suffering through the hot flashes, night sweats, mood changes and sleep problems that can come with menopause — all while looking in the mirror and noticing signs of aging — are being bombarded with products. More open conversations about menopause and the period leading up to it...
Driver said he fell asleep before crash that killed 2 Pa. firefighters, police say
RICHMOND TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A Berks County man told investigators he fell asleep while driving on Saturday before crashing into a utility vehicle, killing two firefighters who were helping search for a missing person, police said. Alexander Sepulveda Rivera, 26, of Reading, was charged on Sunday with two counts each...
European ministers call for profit caps on energy companies as Iran war drives price surge
The finance ministers of Spain and four other European countries are urging the European Union to impose a bloc-wide windfall tax on energy companies, concerned that surging oil and gas prices driven by the war in Iran will fuel inflation and strain households. Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said Saturday...
A Russian attack kills 3 in Odesa while Ukraine targets Russian oil infrastructure, officials say
KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia’s key Black Sea port for oil exports. The nighttime attack on Odesa heavily damaged an apartment block, killing the women and...
Iranian state media says Tehran rejects latest ceasefire proposal
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency said Tehran rejected the latest ceasefire proposal and wants a permanent end to the war. The agency said it has conveyed its response to the U.S. through Pakistan, a key mediator. “We only accept an end of the war with...
Trump revels in threats to commit war crimes in Iran
WASHINGTON — Power plants, desalination stations, oil wells, roads, bridges and other infrastructure. They are the foundations of civilian life in Iran, and their destruction by American and Israeli forces would cause widespread suffering among the country’s 93 million people — and in most cases would be considered a war...
3 killed as damaging wind topples tree on an Easter egg hunt in Germany
FRANKFURT, Germany — Three people, including a 10-month-old girl, were killed Sunday when strong wind toppled a tree in northern Germany during an Easter egg hunt, police said. Around 50 people from a nearby residential facility for new mothers, pregnant women and children were attending the event in woods near...
ICE agents detain newlywed spouse of soldier training to deploy
A U.S. Army staff sergeant and his wife arrived at his base in Louisiana last week, expecting to begin their life together as newlyweds. The couple checked in at the visitor center, identification in hand, ready to complete the steps that would allow her to move into his home on...
Trump administration agencies post Easter messages celebrating Christ’s resurrection
Numerous previous presidents have issued statements in recognition of Easter Sunday. This year, the Trump administration went a step farther, with several key Cabinet departments heralding Christ’s resurrection on their official social media accounts. “He is risen,” declared the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. The Defense Department...
It’s time for Artemis II to break Apollo 13’s distance record. What to know about the moon flybyVideo
HOUSTON — The Artemis II astronauts are already the champions of a fresh new era of lunar exploration. Now it’s time to set a new distance record. Launched last week on humanity’s first trip to the moon since 1972, the three Americans and one Canadian are chasing after Apollo 13’s...
Inside the Pentagon, fears of a disrupted war effort after Army chief’s ouster
WASHINGTON — Merely two weeks had passed since the Iran war began when Gen. Randy George, the Army’s highest-ranking officer, began sounding an alarm. Touring a weapons depot in North Carolina, George warned lawmakers present that the conflict’s vast and ever-growing list of targets was straining U.S. capacity — “depleting...
2 Pennsylvania firefighters in UTV killed in head-on crash during search for a missing woman
RICHMOND TOWNSHIP — Two firefighters traveling in a utility vehicle along a Pennsylvania road during a search for a missing woman were killed in a head-on crash with a car, officials said. The two members of the Walnuttown Fire Company died after the crash with a Toyota Camry at about...
Toddler who crawled under fence at Hersheypark’s Zoo America injured by wolf
HERSHEY — A toddler was lightly injured by a wolf at a Pennsylvania theme park zoo after he crawled under a fence and stuck his hand into the animal’s enclosure, officials at the zoo confirmed Sunday. The child was never inside the wolf habitat at the ZooAmerica North American Wildlife...
Photos show Christians celebrating Easter around the world
Christians around the world celebrated on Sunday the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the most important holiday in the Christian liturgical calendar....
U.S. military jets hit in Iran war are the first shot down by enemy fire in over 20 years
WASHINGTON — Iran shooting down two American military jets marks an exceedingly rare assault for the U.S. that has not happened in more than 20 years and shows the Islamic Republic’s continued ability to hit back despite President Donald Trump asserting it has been “completely decimated.” The attacks came five...
What to consider before switching antidepressants
Elizabeth, 64, a former lawyer in Ontario, Canada, had taken the antidepressant Celexa for two decades. It helped her cope with the stress of being a full-time caregiver for her two sons, who are autistic. But last year her medication wasn’t working very well. Her sons, now both in their...
For many patients leaving the ICU, the struggle has only just begun
The accident happened in Pittsburgh on Nov. 16. Joseph Masterson, a lawyer who was just days from retiring at age 63, suffered cardiac arrest while driving, plowed into a guardrail and lost consciousness. Other drivers stopped, broke the car window and pulled him to safety. A passing volunteer firefighter performed...
Pope Leo urges peace in first Easter Mass as Christians celebrate in Jerusalem, Gaza and Tehran
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue, but he departed from a tradition of listing the world’s woes by name in the Urbi et Orbi blessing from the...
NASA astronauts are closer to moon than Earth on Artemis II day 4
HOUSTON — As Day 4 dawned on the Artemis II mission, the astronauts were closer to the moon than to Earth, after crossing the halfway point between the two bodies on Friday night. Before Day 3 ended, the stark gray disk appeared in the crew’s view of the blackness of...
Uber and Lyft offer gas price relief, but drivers say it’s not enough
SAN FRANCISCO — As the cost of gas spikes because of the war in Iran, workers who make a living through ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft are being hit hard. Margarita Penalosa, a full-time driver for Lyft and Uber who sometimes delivers food for DoorDash and Grubhub around Los...
‘I got back every penny’: Inside Trump’s supercharged tax season
Ashley Norwood’s ears perked up when she first heard about President Donald Trump’s campaign promises to not tax tips and overtime. As a bartender, Norwood earns plenty of tips, and her husband, a diesel technician, works a lot of overtime. Trump’s tax cuts seemed tailor-made to help her family of...
Student debt burdened them, so they moved abroad and stopped paying
Amanda Lynn Tully spent her teenage years as a ward of the state of Colorado and believed a college degree was her ticket to a better life. So, when she graduated in 2017 with a master’s degree in historic preservation from the University of Oregon, $65,000 in federal student loans...
Trump slashed science funding and now the U.S. could face a costly brain drain
In March last year, Wali Malik, a robotics engineer in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received a call from a research institution in Austria, a country where he had never been and knew no one. “‘Hey,’” Malik recalled the man saying. “‘We have this position to build an institute from scratch, on AI...
Photos show Pope Leo’s first Easter Mass as pontiff
VATICAN CITY — Pope Leo XIV celebrated his first Easter Mass as pontiff with a call Sunday to lay down arms and seek peace to global conflicts through dialogue....
