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  WORLD & NATION Paramedics evacuate a woman from a site in Rishon Lezion, Israel, that was struck by an Iranian missile on Saturday.  (Ohad Zwigenberg / Associated Press) By   Jon Gambrell, Melanie Lidman and Julia Frankel June 14, 2025  Updated  6:51 PM PT DUBAI —  Israel launched an expanded assault on Iran on Sunday, with direct strikes targeting its energy industry and Defense Ministry headquarters, while Tehran unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles blamed for the deaths of four people. The exchange of strikes represented the latest salvo since a surprise attack by Israel two days earlier aimed at decimating Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. New explosions boomed across Tehran as Iranian missiles entered Israel’s skies in an attack that Israeli emergency officials said killed four people in an apartment building in the Galilee region. Casualty figures weren’t immediately available in Iran, where Israel targeted the Defense Ministry h...

WORLD & NATION VIDEO | 03:36 Gov. Walz on shooting that killed Minnesota Democratic House leader and husband This is a modal window. No compatible source was found for this media. By   Tim Sullivan and Alanna Durkin Richer June 14, 2025  Updated  2:13 PM PT BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. —  Hundreds of law enforcement officers fanned out across a Minneapolis suburb Saturday in pursuit of a man who authorities say posed as a police officer and fatally shot a Democratic state lawmaker in her home in what Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called “a politically motivated assassination.” Authorities say the same suspect also shot and wounded a second lawmaker and was believed to be trying to flee the area. Minnesota state House Democratic leader Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed in their Brooklyn Park home. State Sen. John Hoffman, also a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, were injured at their Champlin residence, about nine miles away. Drew Evans, superintendent of th...

  WORLD & NATION Members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel pose with a machine gun in the state of Michoacán. Some former Colombian soldiers say the cartel lured them to Mexico under false pretenses and forced them to fight. (Juan Jose Estrada Serafin / For The Times) By   Kate Linthicum  and  Keegan Hamilton June 9, 2025  3 AM PT Some Colombian veterans were lured to Mexico by the promise of high-end jobs, only to discover their new employer was a drug cartel. The former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration said the presence of foreign fighters in the cartel wars could justify U.S. actions in Mexico. MEXICO CITY —  Dangerous new hired guns have arrived on the battlefield of Mexico’s cartel wars: Colombian mercenaries. Former combatants in Colombia’s long-standing internal conflict are increasingly being lured to Mexico by criminal groups to train hitmen, build bombs and fight bloody turf battles. Eleven Colombians were arrested in Michoa...