Haiti’s new Gang Suppression Force appears poised to meet its ambitious target of 5,500 troops, after a number of nations, including Chad and Bangladesh, offered to deploy soldiers, engineers and police offices to help the country’s beleaguered security forces combat armed gangs.

The strongest commitments during a conference Tuesday in New ...Read more

DETROIT — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took to the airwaves on Wednesday to make his case for shedding the restitution he owes taxpayers as part of his public corruption conviction.

The current amount of restitution owed to Detroit is unclear, but a judge said in November 2024 that Kilpatrick owed $831,914. On Tuesday, Kilpatrick ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump Administration must end the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles.

Federal judge Charles R. Breyer said in his ruling that the guard should be returned to the control of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Trump sent the guard to L.A. in June over Newsom's objections to deal with protests...Read more

President Donald Trump plans to speak to the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia as more than half a million people flee a revived border clash, one of eight conflicts the U.S. leader has claimed credit for ending.

Fighting between the neighbors, which has killed at least 12 people, erupted over the weekend along their 800-kilometer (500-mile) ...Read more

CHICAGO — With his namesake center due to open in just over six months, former President Barack Obama is in Chicago this week to see how construction is coming along — plus make a few other stops to promote and preview the multimillion-dollar endeavor, including a surprise visit to a South Side school.

On Tuesday, a group of 24 students ...Read more

Opposition leader María Corina Machado sent a message of thanks to the Norwegian Nobel Committee on behalf of the Venezuelan people, as she confirmed that she was on her way to Oslo to collect the Peace Prize in person, albeit late.

Breaking a silence that had encouraged days of speculation about her movements, Machado recorded a voice ...Read more

With the tax-free money in a health savings account, a person can pay for eyeglasses or medical exams, as well as a $1,700 baby bassinet or a $300 online parenting workshop.

Those same dollars can’t be used, though, to pay for most baby formulas, toothbrushes — or insurance premiums.

President Donald Trump and some Republicans are pitching...Read more

CHICAGO — Carey Carlock never imagined she’d have so much trouble finding a therapist for her teenage child.

She was a hospital CEO, on the board of a prominent local mental health organization and well connected. Yet the Oak Park mother couldn’t locate a therapist in her community who took her health insurance.

“I found that to just ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- High above Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, Kraig Hill stood on a concrete slab and gave a tour of a home that is no longer there. Destroyed in the January wildfires, the home Hill grew up in now exists only as a blueprint in his mind.

A concrete Buddha used to gaze toward the horizon from its perch beneath a coral tree. Behind ...Read more

A federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a man scheduled to be put to death next week alleges that Florida prison officials used expired drugs in at least four recent executions.

Prison drug supply logs indicate that executioners in two other recent cases may have used lower doses than is required by the state’s lethal injection protocol, the ...Read more

For decades, the Dominican Republic carried a reputation it never wanted but struggled to shed.

Wedged between South America’s drug-producing basin and the consumer markets of the United States and Europe, the country sat squarely in a global narcotics corridor. Geography, for years, was destiny — and destiny was unforgiving. Drug flights ...Read more

The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care. But the government made minimal mention of Native American tribes in sparsely populated areas and in need of significant improvements to health care access.

Federally recognized tribes can’t ...Read more

The Trump administration has temporarily paused a plan to divert billions of dollars in homelessness spending away from permanent housing, a move that critics of the plan, including a Silicon Valley congressman, said is a win for local efforts to fight homelessness and prevent formerly unhoused Californians from being forced back to the street. ...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested he could seek to oust Federal Reserve governors appointed by President Joe Biden if their commissions were signed by autopen, in his latest bid to exert control over the central bank.

The gambit is unlikely to come to fruition.

Previous Trump declarations that he was voiding Biden actions where the former ...Read more

A 39-year-old Mexican man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday after he was convicted of shooting five people at a Las Vegas birthday party in 2022 and was found to have entered the United States illegally five times during a period of over 10 years, according to a news release from the Department of Justice.

Jose Alberto Santacruz-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five months after the Trump administration shuttered a suicide and crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youth, Los Angeles County has launched an effort to try to create its own hotline to fill the void.

In July the Trump administration eliminated the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline's "press 3" option, which previously connected ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether COVID-19 vaccines caused deaths in adults, as part of a safety review that earlier appeared to just be focused on children.

The investigation, being conducted across different divisions of the FDA, comes at a time when U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Rocky statue sitting atop of Philadelphia Art Museum’s famed steps could soon be there permanently — and the one at the bottom may be going back to the Italian Stallion himself, Sylvester Stallone.

That’s according to a recent proposal from Creative Philadelphia, the city’s office for the creative sector, which is ...Read more

MOUNT POCONO, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s raucous rally Tuesday night in Pennsylvania was billed as the launch of a national tour focused easing voters’ economic anxieties that threaten Republicans’ hold in Washington with the 2026 midterms looming.

But the economy couldn’t maintain the president’s interest for the duration of ...Read more