National news from iSEARK.com with a Southeast Arkansas angle.
A wind-driven wildfire near San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano has damaged or destroyed six homes and burned 570 acres. Fire officials said it was 5% contained Saturday morning, with evacuation orders still in place.
The U.S. naval blockade has kept at least $25 billion in Iranian crude off the market, CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper said Friday. He said the strain has reached Iran's Revolutionary Guard, which is not paying its troops.
President Trump signed an order Friday carrying out the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. The order sets steep new duties on Russia and its oil buyers, then waives them and most of the law's sanctions for now.
Katie Zacharia is "transitioning out" as White House press secretary a week after her appointment, White House officials said Friday. President Trump said he told her she did not have to stay in the job.
The Department of Health and Human Services has sent the White House an "interim access policy" that would let compounding pharmacies make certain peptides. The federal filing does not yet say which peptides it would cover.
Border Patrol made 98,708 arrests at the southwest border in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, the lowest total in agency history, according to preliminary federal figures. DHS also says agents released no one into the country for a full year.
Three advocacy groups sued the Department of Homeland Security, claiming it illegally gathered voter files from at least 47 states and mixed them with commercial data. DHS says it is using federal data to stop noncitizens from voting.
