Associated Press

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that the U.S. “will definitely pay a heavy price” should it attack Iran again. The comments on Thursday came in the wake of an attack on Sunday in which American forces hit three Iranian nuclear facilities with bunker-buster bombs and cruise missiles. Iran retaliated on Monday with a missile attack on a U.S. base in nearby Qatar. But it caused no casualties.

Scott Brown, a Republican who once represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate, announced his second bid Wednesday for the New Hampshire Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Jeanne Shaheen next year.

Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani held a tentative lead over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York City’s mayoral primary, but the race’s outcome will be decided by a ranked choice count after neither Democrat got a clear majority in Tuesday’s vote.

The man suspected of killing a Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another has been taken into custody, ending a nearly two-day search that put the entire state on edge. Vance Boelter was arrested Sunday evening. Former Democratic House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed in their Brooklyn Park home early Saturday in the northern Minneapolis suburbs. Sen. John Hoffman, also a Democrat, and his wife, Yvette, were injured at their Champlin home, about 9 miles away. Boelter was arrested in a rural area in Sibley County, southwest of Minneapolis.

U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill has won the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s race for governor. She emerged from a crowded field on the strength of her biography as a Navy pilot and former prosecutor. The vocal critic of President Donald Trump won against five experienced rivals. She becomes the Democrats’ standard-bearer at a time when the state party is looking to win the governorship for a third straight term and the national party is looking for new leadership. She will face the Republican nominee, Jack Ciattarelli, in the November general election. He cruised to victory with the support of Trump.

Terminally ill New Yorkers would have the legal ability to end their own lives with pharmaceutical drugs under a bill approved by the state Legislature.

A federal judge has temporarily prevented President Donald Trump from retaliating against New York over its Manhattan congestion toll.

Dave Shapiro, co-founder of Sound Talent Group, and two employees were among those killed when a private jet hit a power line in foggy weather early Thursday and crashed into a San Diego neighborhood.

The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo after congressional Republicans recommended that he be charged with lying over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, a person familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

Aaron Judge hit a two-run homer, rookie Will Warren struck out a career-high 10 and the New York Yankees beat the Texas Rangers 5-2.