Colorado’s plan to block food-assistance recipients from using that money to buy soft drinks appears to be stumbling as a board that would need to finalize it expressed reservations Friday and public input roundly opposed it.

The Colorado Healthy Choice Waiver would limit the types of beverages available for purchase using money from the ...Read more

Minneapolis VA hospital employees by the hundreds filled a chapel, crowded into spillover space, and peered at a livestream feed this week to mourn the loss of one of their own to gunfire from federal agents on a city street.

The outpouring of grief and admiration on Tuesday, Feb. 3, for Alex Pretti was detailed in a poignant account posted on ...Read more

A federal judge in Indiana has ruled immigration officials are unlawfully detaining a Chicago man acquitted last month of charges he offered money for the killing of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino.

Juan Espinoza Martinez, who has lived in Chicago for decades but is not a U.S. citizen, was taken into the custody of Immigration and Customs ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to shut off fuel shipments to Cuba are starting to cut into parts of its crucial tourism industry.

At least two large beach resorts on Cayo Coco, on the northern coast of the Caribbean nation, will be closing as soon as this weekend due to gasoline shortages, employees reported Friday.

A worker at Mojito...Read more

At the top of the South Dade Landfill, a massive oven that turns wood into charcoal is being tested by Miami-Dade County as an environmentally friendly way to cut down on landfill waste.

The material that comes out of the machine, “biochar” has the potential to clean dirty water, nourish soil and even be used in roads. Plus, it has lower ...Read more

President Trump has indicated that “definitive” information regarding the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie may soon be revealed.

The 84-year-old mother of “Today” co-host Savannah Guthrie went missing from her southern Arizona home early Sunday morning.

Little information about the case is publicly known outside of reports that notes ...Read more

Marking one month since Renee Good was fatally shot on a Minneapolis street by a federal agent, her wife is expressing gratitude for how the city is persevering in the midst of the White House’s immigration enforcement crackdown.

“Minneapolis has shown me that even in the middle of grief and fear, people still show up for each other,” ...Read more

The U.S. plans to convene the first formal meeting of President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace in Washington on Feb. 19, according to a U.S. official.

The board was a core element of Trump’s 20-point plan that helped broker a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas in October. Trump led the initial gathering of the group’s members �...Read more

Health officials in San Bernardino County, California, have confirmed the first case of measles in the county since 2023.

The county's Department of Public Health said the case involves an unvaccinated child who was visiting from another state, and is unrelated to the recent case of an international traveler who visited a Disney park.

The ...Read more

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. is proposing to finish all necessary negotiations to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in June.

“The Americans are proposing that the parties end the war by the beginning of this summer,” Zelenskyy told reporters in a briefing late Friday.

“We understand that American internal ...Read more

The White House's TrumpRx website went live Thursday with a promise to instantly deliver prescription drugs at "the lowest price anywhere in the world."

"This launch represents the largest reduction in prescription drug prices in history by many, many times, and it's not even close," President Trump said at a news conference announcing the ...Read more

The enslaved Africans who first arrived in the British colony of Virginia in 1619 after being forcefully removed from their natural environments left much behind, but their rhythms associated with music-making journeyed with them across the Atlantic.

Many of those Africans came from cultures where the mother tongue was a tonal ...Read more

Humans have sailed the world’s oceans for thousands of years, but they haven’t all reached port. Researchers estimate that there are some three million shipwrecks worldwide, resting in shallow rivers and bays, coastal waters and the deep ocean. Many sank during catastrophes – some during storms or after running aground, others in battle...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The sites of the three consequential deaths span just over two miles of south Minneapolis. George Floyd in 2020, Renee Good and Alex Pretti last month.

The death of Floyd, after a police officer dug a knee into his neck for more than nine minutes, was a catalyst for the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests that sought law ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Tens of thousands of protesters marching with signs. A chorus of whistles shrieking to alert neighborhoods to the presence of federal agents. Parents escorting neighborhood children to school. People on street corners holding up phones to record what they see.

The overwhelming majority of the pushback against the federal ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Current and former gang members have long come to Homeboy Industries to get their lives back on track, in part lured by their trust in Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who founded the nonprofit nearly 40 years ago.

At Homeboy's headquarters in Chinatown, people receive employment, tattoo removal, therapy and more. But in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the days after Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in September while speaking at a Utah college campus, stunned followers of his conservative movement mourned online, condemning political violence. From his Los Angeles home, Johnathan Perkins, a Black diversity, equity and inclusion director at UCLA, had a different take.

“Good ...Read more

New York and New Jersey won a temporary court order blocking the Trump administration’s freeze on federal funds for the $16 billion Gateway tunnel under the Hudson River.

U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas on Friday granted a request by the two states for a temporary injunction restoring funding to the project while their lawsuit against ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump eliminated the extra 25% tariff he had imposed on Indian goods over the country’s purchases of Russian oil, the first step to cement the terms of a trade deal the two nations announced earlier this week.

“India has committed to stop directly or indirectly importing Russian Federation oil, has ...Read more