A mourner displays an image with portraits of Iran's late Supreme Leaders Ruhollah Jomeini (L), Ali Khamenei (R), and new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei (C) during a gathering to commemorate the death of Imam Reza on August 12, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. Contributor / Getty Images / Contributor#072019

What to know about the Iran war today:
o Tehran said Thursday the Strait of Hormuz is "under Iran's control and management" after President Trump said the U.S. has "total control" over the waterway. "I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT," Mr. Trump wrote Wednesday on his Truth Social platform.

o Iran has appeared to demand compensation for an oil spill in the Strait of Hormuz that has washed up on Qeshm Island, saying a foreign bulk carrier appeared to be the source of the slick.

o Last month's elaborate ruse that saw President Trump secretly move...More

Thomas Zordani flew from his home in Denver to Phoenix for a consultation with a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon, hoping to find out what could be done to treat his debilitating headaches after worrisome brain scan findings.

When making the appointment, Zordani said, he'd been told the clinic was in his insurer's network. Upon arrival, Zordani was summoned to the clinic's financial office and told he had to make a $5,000 preservice deposit, because Mayo had since determined it did not accept his insurance. He was automatically designated "self-pay," even though his plan had out-of-network benefits.

Not having that kind of cash on hand — and angry on principle — he refused. His appointment was canceled.

"I was so livid," Zordani said, recalling that day in early April 2024. He later learned that Mayo had sent a message to him in his insurance carrier's patient portal shortly before his visit with an estimate of the cost:...More

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia shined and PSG’s unmatched depth secured a 2-1 UEFA Super Cup win over Aston Villa as Marquinhos claimed his 40th trophy with the French giants


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The UEFA Super Cup is a signal that the major European leagues are returning, and it didn't take long for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia to welcome everyone back to the show, opening the scoring in a 2-1 Paris Saint-Germain win over Aston Villa. Not being involved in the World Cup with Georgia, Kvaratskhelia, is fresh as the season begins, and will be critical to Luis Enrique's PSG squad as players are being eased back into things after a busy summer. Being involved in Champions League and Ligue 1 play, soccer waits for no one in a congested soccer schedule, but PSG's depth continues to make a difference in the upper echelons of the game. It also became the 40th PSG trophy of captain...More

Nick Reiner appears with Deputy Public Defender Kimberly Greene during his initial arraignment in Los Angeles in February. (Chris Torres / EPA / Pool)

Prosecutors unsealed a murder indictment Wednesday against Nick Reiner in the fatal stabbing of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner, inside the family's Brentwood home in December.

Reiner, 32, made a brief appearance on the 13th floor of downtown Los Angeles' criminal courts building on the newly released indictment, which replaces the original murder counts filed in 2025.

The new indictment includes the allegation of lying in wait, a special circumstance that makes a person at sentencing subject to life without parole or the death penalty.

Rob and Michele Reiner were found stabbed to death in their...More

Norway's soccer star Erling Haaland's face has appeared on billboards, trading cards and television screens, becoming a social media phenomenon for scoring seven goals across four World Cup matches in July.

Now, police in Ecuador have found it in an unexpected place - printed on green rectangular packages that made up a stunning cocaine shipment seized in a truck near the Colombian border.

The driver of the vehicle was arrested following the seizure of the stash of 469 kilograms (1,034 pounds) of cocaine on Wednesday, police said in a statement.

A news release said anti-narcotics agents were conducting an operation following an anonymous tip received early Tuesday morning on the Pan-American Highway when they noticed a suspicious truck. After searching it, they found 370 packages hidden in a false bottom of the...More

Firefighters search through rubble two days after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, on Aug. 12, 2026. AP/Santiago Saldarriaga

Rescuers in Colombia were making last-ditch efforts to locate earthquake survivors early Thursday as the critical 72-hour window for rescue operations neared its end.

The magnitude 7.4 quake, the strongest to hit Colombia this century, has killed 265 people, injured almost 3,500 and left almost 500 missing, according to Colombia's new president Abelardo de la Espriella. Civilian-run databases put the number of missing at more than 4,100. Nearlly 26,000 families were affected, de la Espriella said.

"Our efforts are focused on the disappeared," he told journalists in Bogotá, Colombia's capital.

In cities such as Cali and Pereira, emergency crews worked through a third night with their bare hands, cranes and sniffer dogs, stopping not to rest...More

A male polar bear walks on the sea ice near glaciers in eastern Spitsbergen, in the Svalbard archipelago, on April 9, 2025. Olivier MORIN /AFP via Getty Images

A person in Norway's Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic has been fined $5,255 for using a foghorn to wake a sleeping polar bear, local officials said Thursday.

The incident took place earlier this month when a vessel was sailing in a fjord in northeastern Svalbard, around 620 miles from the North Pole.

"Its occupants are said to have spotted a polar bear sleeping on land," the governor of the territory said in a statement.

"A person on board then used the ship's foghorn, waking the animal, which moved to another location," he added.

The governor's office ordered the individual to pay the hefty fine, which the person agreed to do. Neither the identity nor...More

Senate Democrats demanded answers Wednesday about conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, following reports of food shortages, broken plumbing and mental health crises during the aircraft carrier's record-setting deployment.

In a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, called for the Navy to account for conditions aboard the carrier, which he said "has been deployed more than 250 days" without coming ashore "in over 200 days, setting a record for consecutive days at sea."

Blumenthal voiced concern over such extended deployments, noting "widespread reports of shortages of basic supplies, water contamination, plumbing issues, deteriorating mental health, deck safety concerns" and other problems aboard the Lincoln.

A Navy official told CBS News that the "Lincoln is operating in...More