The Trump administration will start charging a $5,000 fee to people apprehended who entered the U.S. illegally.

The “apprehension fee” will apply to anyone 14 or older who is arrested and determined to have crossed the border without authorization and is deemed inadmissible, U.S. Border Patrol Chief Michael Banks said in a statement on X ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The state Office of the Budget will have a new leader going into the 2026-27 budget season after Gov. Josh Shapiro announced Budget Secretary Uri Monson will step down next week to become executive director of the Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement System.

Shapiro said he will appoint a deputy secretary, ...Read more

Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can prevent or slow dementia, and a single human papilloma virus shot protects a girl from cervical cancer for the rest of her life.

But in the upside-down world of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert ...Read more

U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi is taking a “soft-on-crime” shot at Minnesota while her prosecutors are accusing a Minneapolis man of being a serial rapist whose attacks have spanned the past eight years.

Abdimahat Bille Mohamed, 28, was charged Thursday in U.S. District Court in St. Paul in connection with two of the assaults, one in ...Read more

A federal judge in Florida granted the U.S. Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury transcripts from the original criminal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.

U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith on Friday said the transcripts can be released because of a new law requiring the Attorney General to make public all unclassified materials ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Architect Frank O. Gehry, who brought an alluringly new kind of shape-making to his profession even as he fundamentally changed the reputation and civic landscape of his adopted hometown of Los Angeles in such projects as the shimmering Walt Disney Concert Hall on Grand Avenue, has died. He was 96.

Gehry, who arrived in L.A. as ...Read more

Brazilian lawmaker Flavio Bolsonaro said his father, former leader Jair Bolsonaro, has backed him to run in the country’s 2026 presidential election, dashing the hopes of investors who had another candidate in mind to unseat President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

“It’s with great responsibility that I confirm the decision of Brazil’s ...Read more

The Trump administration said that European civilization is at risk of “erasure” as a result of decades of economic decline, political censorship and immigration.

In a 29-page National Security Strategy published Friday and signed by President Donald Trump, the administration said that Europe’s cultural and political failures pose a ...Read more

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is permanently banned from holding public office in New Jersey. If he tries to anyway, he could face criminal charges.

Mercer County Superior Court Judge Robert Lougy wrote in an order that Menendez is “forever disqualified from holding any office or position of honor, trust, or profit” of New Jersey state or ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS – Residential Services was just a few months away from opening a new respite home for children in Virginia, Minn., said Jon Nelson, the Duluth agency’s executive director.

He’d been working for months with St. Louis County to create a small haven, a place where kids with behavioral or mental health challenges could ease back ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The U.S. government is seeking ownership of over 40 pit bulls following its take-down of a Broward dogfighting ring, using a civil forfeiture process that is typically applied to property like cars, contraband or cash.

The pit bulls have been in the care of the U.S. Marshal’s service since January, when FBI agents ...Read more

The suspect in the Jan. 6 pipe bomb case has confessed to authorities and told them he believed President Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Brian Cole Jr. has admitted to investigators that he left twin pipe bombs outside the headquarters of the Democratic and Republican national committees the ...Read more

The U.S. lobbied several countries in the European Union in an effort to block E.U. plans to use frozen Russian central bank assets to back a massive loan to Ukraine, according to European diplomats familiar with the matter.

U.S. officials argued to member states that the assets are needed to help secure a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow and...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's plan to end birthright citizenship for newborns whose parents are here illegally or temporarily will get a full hearing before the Supreme Court.

The justices agreed Friday to hear arguments on Trump's proposal after judges across the nation had declared it unconstitutional and blocked it from taking ...Read more

DENVER — The University of Colorado Boulder suspended the Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity after “credible reports of hazing” regarding the group.

The university announced the suspension through its safety alert system Thursday evening, noting that the hazing happened Monday and was reported Tuesday. Under federal law, colleges are required to ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A macabre investigation is underway in southeastern North Carolina, after one body too many showed up at funeral home.

Among the many mysteries in the case is the identity of the dead woman – and how she got inside a securely locked building on Fayetteville’s Raeford Road, the Fayetteville Police Department said in a Dec...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Rollins College student was arrested this week after an online ammunition purchase led campus security to discover an AR-15 rifle in his dorm room, according to the Winter Park Police Department.

On Wednesday, Constantine Demetriades, 21, was arrested for possessing the weapon on school property, a third-degree felony, after...Read more

Vice President JD Vance wants to put rumors about his marriage to bed.

During an interview with NBC News on Thursday, Vance revealed he and wife, Usha, are taking recent gossip regarding their relationship in stride, adding that they’re typically able to find the humor in it on most occasions.

“I think that we kind of get a kick out of it...Read more