U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday the U.S. Navy will “immediately” begin a blockade to stop ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, after U.S.-Iran peace talks in Pakistan ended without an agreement. Iran has demanded the right to collect tolls from vessels traveling ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Artemis II’s astronauts returned from the moon with a dramatic splashdown in the Pacific on Friday to close out humanity’s first lunar voyage in more than a half-century. It was a triumphant homecoming for the crew of four whose record-breaking lunar flyby revealed not ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Harry Leith quickly drew a parallel between his military duties and helping to disassemble a display. “I was an aircraft mechanic and got the planes ready to fly for someone else; I didn’t fly them. These people needed help to move a display for the next exhibit,” ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — With the ceasefire in Iran still shaky, U.S. Vice President JD Vance headed Friday to Pakistan for high-level talks with Iranian officials that begin Saturday, as Israel and Hezbollah militants traded fire and Tehran maintained its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Many ...

Congressman Dave Joyce, a Republican seeking his eighth term in the U.S. House, faces Niki Frenchko, a former Trumbull County commissioner, in the GOP primary with three Democrats running for that party’s nomination in the 14th District. Joyce, of Bainbridge, said he’s effective without ...

POLAND — No formal decision has been made about the Poland branch of the Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County, but one appears imminent. The troubles facing the branch — structural problems, design flaws, starkly rising maintenance costs, safety and accessibility concerns — ...