Tropical Storm Lala is expected to strengthen to a hurricane before reaching Hawaii's Big Island this weekend, forecasters said Friday, bringing heavy rains that can cause destructive flooding and strong winds that can fuel wildfires.

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner contacted the FBI in 2005 on behalf of a former Playmate who said Jeffrey Epstein had sexually abused her, but the woman says the bureau never followed up with her, according to allegations cited in a federal lawsuit.

Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy said Thursday the company's second-quarter results "exceeded our expectations," as the media company posted its first profitable quarter since going public last year.

Democrat Mary Peltola's Senate campaign is seeking to put distance between the former Alaska congresswoman and Kamala Harris after the former vice president's political action committee sent a fundraising email backing Peltola just days before Tuesday's primary, handing ...

President Donald Trump said Friday the naval blockade on Iranian ports is going so well, he could soon claim the Strait of Hormuz as a U.S. territory, while telling Americans that higher gasoline prices are a small price to pay to prevent Tehran from obtaining a nuke.

Construction workers in Belgium found $10 million worth of gold while demolishing a building, Belgium's VRT reported.

Luigi Mangione told a Manhattan federal judge Friday that he tracked down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by posing as a wealthy investor and emailing the company's leadership for details on a private conference.

Food and Drug Administration inspectors are at Taylor Farms de Mexico, arriving nearly a month after the agency identified the company's central Mexico iceberg lettuce as the source of the largest cyclospora outbreak in U.S. history, which has sickened 9,481 people.

Five years after U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan, the Taliban government is looking to President Donald Trump for a potential reset with Washington, offering renewed diplomatic ties and access to the country's vast mineral wealth while ruling out the return of...

The S&P 500 closed lower Friday, dipping from a record high and weighed down by Applied Materials, while investors digested weaker-than-expected retail sales data.

The U.S. on Friday reaffirmed its recognition of Japanese sovereignty over four Russian-controlled islands after Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the disputed territory, prompting Tokyo to summon Moscow's ambassador and consider additional sanctions.

Rep. Russell Fry, R-S.C., endorsed Darline Graham on Friday in South Carolina's Senate runoff after President Donald Trump personally urged him to back her, The New York Times reported, citing a person familiar with Fry's thinking.

Faced with an increasingly bellicose Iran as talks to end the war have stalled, the Trump administration appears to be reaching out to a broader swath of countries that might be able to help pressure Tehran or ease its hardline position where traditional mediators have not...

Israel's polarized political climate and three years of unrelenting warfare have contributed greatly to the country experiencing consecutive years of negative net migration, the Financial Times reported Friday.

A modest shift toward Republicans among Jewish voters in 2024 has yet to develop into a broader political realignment, but mounting fears over antisemitism and Democrat divisions on Israel could put their longstanding party loyalties to the test in the midterm elections, Christian Paz wrote.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is holding a narrow lead in Ohio while Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, trails Democrat Sherrod Brown in the state's closely watched Senate race, new poll results found.

With Israel's election just over two months away, President Donald Trump continues to withhold the political endorsement Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was counting on, as new polling points to a difficult path back to power for the longtime leader.

At the start of April, an Indonesian fisherman trawling the waters of the Lombok Strait off Bali, north of Australia, found a cylindrical "torpedo -like" object in his nets bearing the name of a Chinese company.It was, maritime analysts told news outlets in Asia and...

Artificial intelligence is scrambling the political map ahead of the midterms, Axios reported Friday.

Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing renewed scrutiny over allegations of animal mistreatment and a high euthanasia rate at Detroit's animal-control operation, which came under his supervision while he led the city's health department. The criticism...