The two federal agents who fatally shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been placed on leave, officials said Wednesday.

While paid administrative leave is standard for law enforcement officers who shoot someone throughout the country, Border Patrol boss Gregory Bovino previously said the agents who killed Pretti were still on the job, just ...Read more

DETROIT — No charges will be issued against a Detroit mother whose two children died in February of 2025 of carbon monoxide poisoning as the homeless family was sleeping in their car in the Greektown Casino Parking Garage in Detroit.

The then-29-year-old mother, whose name prosecutors did not release because she was not charged, discovered ...Read more

LONG BEACH, Calif. — A hunk of romaine was easy pickings for Porkchop and her three flippers.

On a rainy day last week, the green sea turtle pumped her limbs and stretched her beak up to chomp a lettuce leaf floating on the surface of a tank at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. That’s where she’s been on the mend since early ...Read more

PIKEVILLE, Ky. — Lawmakers representing Kentucky’s mountainous Appalachian counties are coalescing behind an effort this legislative session to bolster resiliency to natural disasters in the wake of extreme Eastern Kentucky floods.

Several members of the General Assembly’s Mountain Caucus will seek funding this year to form a new agency-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center filed a lawsuit against Southern California Edison Tuesday, claiming the electric company was to blame for igniting last year's Eaton fire, which destroyed the congregation's historic sanctuary, preschool and other buildings.

"Our congregation has been without a physical home for more than a...Read more

President Donald Trump admitted he feels “terrible” about the shooting deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, but said he’s was more upset about Good because her parents are “tremendous Trump people.”

Trump made the comment Tuesday on Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show” while addressing the ongoing unrest in Minneapolis, where both ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI has taken the lead in the criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar being sprayed with a liquid as she spoke on Jan. 27 at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, a police spokesman said.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, of Minneapolis remained jailed one day after he allegedly targeted Omar during the public gathering at ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI has taken the lead in the criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar being sprayed with a liquid as she spoke on Jan. 27 at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, a police spokesman said.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, of Minneapolis remained jailed one day after he allegedly targeted Omar during the public gathering at ...Read more

The French medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders is calling for urgent, coordinated action by Haiti’s government and international partners to address the surging rape crisis that has deepened amid Haiti’s worsening gang violence.

A new report released Wednesday by the nonprofit medical organization says that ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The resistance was born on a Friday morning at the General George A. McCall School photocopy machine.

The copier spat the message out on yellow, purple, and orange paper — page after page amplifying the same sentiment scrawled on each in big black letters: Learn all history.

In the aftermath of the removal of the slavery ...Read more

NEW YORK — A New Jersey man pretended to be an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to rob two people in Newark, authorities said Wednesday.

Julio Garcia Barrera, 41, was charged with two counts of robbery and two counts of impersonating a public servant, Newark police said Wednesday in a press release. He was arrested Monday.

The first...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Tuesday took initial steps toward addressing the public safety concerns posed by the state’s growing populations of wolves, mountain lions and other predators — issues the state’s top environmental official called a crisis.

A packed hearing before the Assembly Committee on Water, Parks and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Democrats won a pair of special elections for Minnesota House seats in St. Paul and the east metro on Jan. 27, restoring the chamber to an even partisan split before the Legislature returns for its 2026 session.

Labor lawyer Meg Luger-Nikolai easily defeated Republican and IT professional Dan Walsh for the safely blue seat left ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that Venezuela has, for the first time in nearly a decade, a genuine opportunity for political change, marking a sharp shift from what he described as a long-frozen crisis under former strongman Nicolás Maduro.

“For the first time in literally a decade there is the opportunity that something ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI has taken the lead in the criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar being sprayed with a liquid as she spoke Tuesday at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, a police spokesman said.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, of Minneapolis remained jailed one day after he allegedly targeted Omar during the public gathering at Urban...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, increasing pressure on the regime and propelling oil prices higher.

In a social-media post on Wednesday, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the region, led by the USS Abraham Lincoln ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A state task force this week issued wide-ranging recommendations aimed at tightening California’s fireworks laws and oversight in the wake of the deadly Esparto fireworks explosion July 1.

The panel presented its initial findings Tuesday in San Diego to Cal Fire’s General Fireworks Advisory Committee. Cal Fire formed ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Peco responded to the smell of gas at the Bristol Health & Rehab Center more than two hours before an explosion that killed three people and injured 20 others just days before Christmas. Yet in initial findings released Wednesday, federal investigators said the public utility company did not fully isolate gas flow to the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI has taken the lead in the criminal investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar being sprayed with a liquid as she spoke Tuesday at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis, a police spokesman said.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, of Minneapolis remained jailed one day after he allegedly targeted Omar during the public gathering at Urban...Read more