PHILADELPHIA — Past a marble monument for a Civil War hero, down a grass path where toppled headstones disappear into ivy and weeds and faded miniature American flags droop, lies the underground vault of James Campbell, who died in 1913 and whose remains may have been among the dozens stolen in one of the largest grave desecration cases ever ...Read more

Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, she felt severe pain in her stomach and started vomiting.

Then 25 years old and six months pregnant, she drove herself to the emergency room in Ronan, Montana, on the Flathead Indian Reservation, where an ambulance transferred her to a larger hospital 60 miles ...Read more

When Virginia Guevara moved into a studio apartment in California’s Orange County in 2024 after nearly a decade of homelessness, she needed far more than a roof and a bed.

Scattered visits to free clinics notwithstanding, Guevara hadn’t had a full medical checkup in years. She required dental work. She wanted to start looking for a job. And...Read more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis often says that Florida is the best state in the country for higher education.

It’s been ranked No. 1 for higher education by U.S. News & World Report for nearly a decade, and the University of Florida was tied as the seventh-ranked top public university this year. Other schools, like the University of South Florida ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — For the people who live in Minnesota or have roots here, seeing the state become the center of international attention for tragic reasons now feels like a recurring nightmare.

Minnesota — especially its urban heart, Minneapolis — has been in the global spotlight since the killing of Renee Good by a federal immigration agent ...Read more

When the head of the nation’s largest publicly operated health plan worries about the looming federal cuts to Medicaid, it’s not just her job. It’s personal.

Martha Santana-Chin, the daughter of Mexican immigrants, grew up on Medi-Cal, California’s version of Medicaid, the government-run health care program for people with low incomes ...Read more

Minnesota elected officials are calling for a transparent investigation into the death of a man who was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota and later died in federal custody.

Victor Manuel Diaz, 36, died Jan. 14 at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas. Diaz was detained by ICE in Minneapolis on Jan. 6 after agents ...Read more

The Rev. Al Sharpton joined nurses in rallying outside Mount Sinai Morningside in Manhattan as the largest nurses strike in New York City history entered its second week on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“How can you spend King Day and turn your back on people that are working and not insured right, and not given the right wages, and not given ...Read more

Tina Peters grabbed another inmate’s neck and shoved her during a brief prison scuffle Sunday night, according to surveillance footage that appears to contradict claims from Peters’ defense attorney.

The footage, obtained by The Denver Post on Monday night, shows Peters, an ally of President Donald Trump and former Mesa County clerk, ...Read more

A breach in a Minnesota Department of Human Services system allowed inappropriate access to the private data of nearly 304,000 people.

There is not evidence the data was misused, the department said in a Jan. 16 letter notifying impacted individuals. The letter was sent about four months after the breach occurred.

The department said in a ...Read more

New Jersey public school students in the third, fourth and fifth grades will be taught cursive writing.

That proposal was signed into law by Gov. Phil Murphy Monday on his last full day as the Garden State’s governor, according to NJ.com.

Beginning in the fall, students will be be required to read and write cursive proficiently. Murphy ...Read more

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of workers are expected to leave work early Tuesday to protest the one-year anniversary of President Trump’s second inauguration.

Nearly 40,000 people RSVP’d to participate in a 2 p.m. Eastern time Free America Protest, according to Axios.

Free America encourages demonstrators to meet Tuesday wearing red, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Repairs to a collapsed wastewater pipe in Tijuana have been completed, with flows to the Tijuana River now stopped, the U.S. International Boundary and Water Commission announced Monday.

The Insurgentes Collector, part of the larger Tijuana Wastewater system, collapsed the night of Jan. 15, diverting about 11.5 million gallons per...Read more

CHICAGO — Even on one of the coldest days of the winter, hundreds of protesters took to Chicago’s streets against ICE.

People rallied at the Chicago Water Tower on Michigan Avenue and marched to Trump Tower primarily to oppose the Trump administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the war in Gaza, aligning with Martin ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The man who stepped in and ushered conservative influencer and Jan. 6 rioter Jake Lang away from counterprotesters outside Minneapolis City Hall over the weekend said a sense of humanity inspired him in the moment.

Isaiah Blackwell, 30, was the man dressed in black and wearing dark sunglasses who tucked himself in a City Hall ...Read more

LONDON — What was billed as an “emergency” Monday morning press conference offered Keir Starmer a now-or-never chance to hit back at Donald Trump over his latest assault on the transatlantic alliance.

Some — especially on the left of British politics — hanker for a moment reminiscent of when the prime minister played by Hugh Grant in ...Read more

ST. CLOUD, Minn. — As Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on the Twin Cities in recent weeks — sparking protests, prompting neighbors to follow federal agents with whistles, and culminating in the death of Renee Good — Scott Brodeen has had one pressing thought: “We don’t want to be like Minneapolis.”

The St. Cloud ...Read more

The windchill was below-zero when ChongLy Scott Thao, 57 — wearing only boxers and Crocs, with a blanket draped over his shoulders — was handcuffed and ushered outside by federal agents agents who broke open his door.

The Jan. 18 incident in St. Paul, Minnesota, stoked fresh outrage about ICE’s tactics as its agents spread across ...Read more