On Ash Wednesday, 2026, two Roman Catholic priests and a religious sister entered an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview, Illinois, to celebrate Mass with detainees inside.

It might seem like a simple, routine event: a religious service to mark the start of Lent. But the Mass represented a legal win for the ...Read more

Every day, food scraps disappear into trash bags, are hauled away and forgotten. But that waste could be turned into something productive.

Across the United States, about 97 million metric tons of food waste are discarded each year, of which about 37 million metric tons end up buried in landfills.

Once underground, that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States said it had stepped up strikes on Iran to unprecedented levels as both sides in the war threatened to escalate a conflict hitting its two-week mark and upending energy flows and global financial markets.

“They’re going to be hit. They can talk all they want but, you know, let’s see what they do,” ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has begun connecting its push to obtain sensitive personal data on millions of voters to whether the upcoming midterm elections will be fair and secure, laying the groundwork for the Trump administration to potentially cast doubt on the results.

The Justice Department has sued 29 states and the District of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Victoria Gotti said she would sooner die than accept a kidney transplant from her son if it means he has to recover from the procedure in prison.

The “Growing Up Gotti” star told TMZ her decision on the matter was mostly inspired by her father, John Gotti, who died in prison of throat cancer in 2002 at the age of 61.

The New ...Read more

Sheriff Chris Nanos, who is heading up the investigation into the abduction of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother Nancy Guthrie, said the suspect could “absolutely” strike again.

The Pima County Sheriff told NBC News this week that though authorities believe they know why the 84-year-old matriarch was snatched from ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Cuba has begun direct talks with the United States in an effort to solve “bilateral differences” between the two countries, Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel said Friday.

The comments, broadcast nationwide in Cuba, are the first confirmation of bilateral talks between the Trump administration and Cuban government. The U.S....Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Senate budget committee announced Friday plans to cut $126 million from the Maryland Developmental Disabilities Administration, $24 million less of a slash than what Gov. Wes Moore proposed in January.

The 11-member group added that it aims to move $23 million to the agency from the general fund. The state Senate’s ...Read more

NEW YORK — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville is attacking Zohran Mamdani with an anti-Muslim tweet that accused the New York City mayor of being “the enemy inside the gates.”

The conservative Alabama lawmaker retweeted a post including a photo of Mamdani hosting a Ramadan iftar dinner at City Hall alongside the Sept. 11 terror attack on ...Read more

Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel said Friday his government is engaged in talks with the United States and that the two countries are moving away from confrontation, confirming earlier reporting by the Miami Herald about the high-level contacts.

In footage of a government meeting aired on state television early morning, he said Cuban officials ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — The alcohol content in canned, ready-to-drink mixed spirits would increase significantly under legislation approved this week by the Michigan House.

The lower chamber voted 82-22 on Thursday in favor of a bill that would increase the allowed alcohol content in canned mixed spirit beverages distributed by beer and wine ...Read more

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called on Michiganians to "lower the rhetoric" of antisemitism in the state and the country less than 24 hours after a man drove his truck into a West Bloomfield Township synagogue and opened fire.

"Yesterday’s attack was antisemitism. It was hate. Plain and simple," Whitmer said ...Read more

The U.S. said it had stepped up strikes on Iran to unprecedented levels as the war that’s engulfed the Middle East hit the two-week mark and continued to upend energy flows and global markets.

The campaign is “on plan to defeat, destroy, disable all of their meaningful military capabilities at a pace the world has never seen before,” ...Read more

Americans have a reputation for being bad at world geography, and the current U.S. administration is no exception, particularly when it comes to correctly identifying what is – and is not – part of the United States of America.

President Donald Trump’s April 2025 executive order “unleashing America’s offshore critical ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran with further attacks after the Islamic Republic’s new leader signaled defiance, suggesting there will be no letup in a war that’s upending energy flows and global markets.

“We have unparalleled firepower, unlimited ammunition, and plenty of time,” Trump said on Truth Social. “Watch what ...Read more

DETROIT — The suspected gunman who attacked a West Bloomfield Township synagogue on Thursday has been identified as a Dearborn Heights man.

Ayman Ghazali, 41, a restaurant worker, allegedly crashed his truck into the Temple Israel synagogue just after noon on Thursday and opened fire with a rifle. Authorities said he was killed by security ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decision to draw crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve received little criticism on Capitol Hill Thursday, although Democrats expressed reservations that it would not do much to insulate Americans from global price volatility resulting from the war in Iran.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources ...Read more