July 15, 2026 4:48 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military has reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports. This comes as Washington tries to stop Iran’s attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Days of retaliatory strikes across the Middle East by Iran and the U.S. attacks threaten to push the region back to all-out war. One Iranian government official said more than 30 people have been killed over “recent days.” That likely included seven troops killed in Iran’s southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province. Meanwhile, the Iranian Health Ministry said over 260 people had been wounded just in Wednesday’s strikes alone.
July 15, 2026 4:53 am
CARLISLE, Pa. (AP) — President Donald Trump has addressed a defense summit at the U.S. Army War College, but he focused more on political themes than battlefield issues. The summit, held Wednesday, included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Republican Pennsylvania Sen. David McCormick. Trump said the gathering will generate $10 billion in promised investments from defense and tech companies, but didn’t provide many details. He briefly mentioned the war in Iran and the military operation in January in Venezuela. Trump also discussed topics like windmills and ship catapults. The event featured prominent business leaders, including JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon. Concerns about missile shortages and defense spending weren’t mentioned.
July 15, 2026 5:33 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — There will be no turning back the clock if the House has its way. The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. Proponents argue the bill would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. Daylight saving time is that period between spring and fall when clocks in most of the United States are set one hour ahead of standard time. States could opt out if their respective legislatures do so before the bill’s enactment. The Senate would also have to pass the bill before it could become law, but it’s unclear if it will do so.
July 15, 2026 5:32 am
Authorities say a man running from an encounter with immigration and other federal agents in Florida was struck and killed by a tractor trailer. The 28-year-old was among four occupants of a vehicle that stopped in the parking lot of a gas station and convenience store in St. Augustine before 7 a.m. on Tuesday. Police say during the encounter with agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as Homeland Security Investigations, the four fled on foot. Police say one darted across a busy road into the path of the semi. It marks the third death in a week involving encounters with ICE agents.
July 14, 2026 4:55 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections. The topic suggests he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about his 2020 defeat to President Joe Biden as he’s escalated calls for Republicans to pass tighter federal voting rules before November’s midterm elections. The speech comes as Trump confronts a collapsing deal to end the war with Iran and faces numerous other domestic issues, including recent shootings by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Asked for a preview on Tuesday, Trump said that “without free and fair elections, you don’t have a country.”
July 14, 2026 4:51 am
A group of 26 Meta employees has sued the company, claiming it used artificial intelligence systems that disproportionately targeted those on medical or family leave for layoffs. Meta laid off 8.000 employees, or about 10% of its workforce, in May. The lawsuit filed late Monday in federal court in Oakland, California, claims the company used internal AI systems, keystroke and activity-monitoring data, AI token-usage dashboards and other methods to determine who would be laid off. The lawsuit says that people on protected medical or family leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs.
July 15, 2026 2:32 am
Uniontown, PA -PennDOT says nightly ramp closures on Interstate 79 at Exit 14 (Masontown/Waynesburg) in Franklin Township, Greene County have been postponed, as have ramp closures that were scheduled to occur nightly from 8:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. beginning Wednesday, July 15th, and continuing through Saturday, July 25th. Revised days and times will be announced at a future date. No reason was given for the delay. Current I-79 single-lane restrictions between Exit 14 (Masontown/Waynesburg) and Exit 23 (Marianna/Prosperity) that began on June 18th, will continue until late August. The work is part of the I-79 Waynesburg to Marianna Project, which will make improvements to approximately 11 miles of I-79, extending through Franklin and Washington townships in Greene County and Amwell Township in Washington County a $45.9 million infrastructure investment.
July 14, 2026 5:52 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Infections from the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora are surging, with 2026 already the nation’s worst year for reported cases. More than 30 states have reported infections this year, and current data from them shows the number of infections surpassing the record U.S. mark of about 4,700 set in 2019. The illness is not usually life threatening and is typically treated with antibiotics. Health officials have not yet definitively identified the source of the infections. But in Michigan — where more than 3,300 cases have been reported — officials say early information points to lettuce or salad greens as a possible culprit.
July 14, 2026 5:50 pm
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump has backtracked on plans to charge ships for using the Strait of Hormuz, saying Gulf countries would instead invest in the United States. Another wave of U.S. strikes on Iran, and Iranian attacks on shipping and U.S. allies, left an interim peace deal in tatters. That agreement was supposed to reopen a waterway that is key to world energy supplies and give negotiators time to hammer out a permanent end to the war. Instead, fighting has once again engulfed the region, threatened the global economy and brought warnings to commercial airlines. The International Maritime Organization attacks on tankers killed two mariners and wounded 14 others.
July 14, 2026 4:59 am
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. has launched more strikes on Iran after President Donald Trump said Washington is “reinstating” a blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump separately suggested the United States will charge other ships for safe passage, upending hundreds of years of American policy supporting freedom of navigation across the globe. Iran responded with attacks targeting Bahrain, Jordan and two tankers associated with the United Arab Emirates traveling through the strait, killing one mariner and wounding eight others. The Emirates threatened to retaliate against Iran, potentially drawing the nation home to Abu Dhabi and Dubai back into fighting with Tehran. The attacks come as Iran and the U.S. both vie for control of the strait.
