BOSTON — Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox said the department ignored all 57 immigration detainer requests issued by federal authorities last year, citing a city law that shields noncitizens from deportation under certain circumstances.

Cox attributed the police department’s non-compliance to the Boston Trust Act, which prohibits BPD ...Read more

Yale University will make tuition free for students whose families make less than $200,000 beginning next academic year, the school announced Tuesday.

Additionally, any student whose family makes less than $100,000 per year will have their full cost of attendance, including housing, meals and course materials, paid for by the school.

“I am ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers are searching for the person who shot a bald eagle near Northglenn two weeks ago, violating federal law.

Wildlife officers discovered the injured eagle on Jan. 12 at Croke Reservoir, near West 104th Avenue and Huron Street, according to a news release from Colorado Parks and Wildlife. X-rays ...Read more

NEW YORK — Born into massive wealth and propelled into lives of luxury, the Alexander brothers for years got whichever woman they wanted — employing brute force or date rape drugs when anyone dared tell them no, a federal prosecutor charged Tuesday as opening statements got underway at their sex trafficking trial.

Twins Oren and Alon, 38, ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston University researchers in a groundbreaking study found that those with CTE have a much higher chance of being diagnosed with dementia.

The largest study of its kind from the Boston University CTE Center reveals that the progressive brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy should be recognized as a new cause of dementia. ...Read more

A series of shootings by federal immigration agents, including two deaths in Minneapolis, have galvanized intense local and national protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. Federal immigration agents killed Renee Nicole Good, 37 – a mother of three – and Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, weeks ...Read more

Authorities in Northern California's Shasta County started out investigating a suspected illegal marijuana farm but ended up making a far more unsettling discovery: a massive stash of illegal firearms and a secret underground bunker at the base of a 100-foot tunnel on a MAGA activist’s property.

Michael Jay Kamfolt, 40, was arrested Jan. 20 ...Read more

NEW YORK — Leadership of the notoriously problem-plagued Rikers Island jail complex has officially fallen into federal hands with the anticipated appointment of an independent administrator, officials said on Tuesday.

Nicholas Deml, a former commissioner of the Vermont Department of Corrections from November 2021 until August 2025, will begin...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Saying the Trump administration is using the federal government for “pure evil” in its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, Gov. Josh Shapiro revealed on late-night television Monday that he’s preparing Pennsylvania to respond should the commonwealth face such an incursion.

Shapiro’s wide-ranging remarks on “The Late...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Several of Minnesota’s largest companies are funding $3.5 million in grants for small businesses that are financially struggling during the ongoing federal immigration crackdown in the state.

The Minneapolis Foundation announced the grants Tuesday and will start distributing money in the coming weeks. The nonprofit will ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Stanford University and the family of a star soccer player who died by suicide in 2022 have reached a resolution in a wrongful death lawsuit, according to a joint statement released Monday by the university and family.

Katie Meyer, a team captain and goalie for the Stanford women’s soccer team, was found dead in her on-...Read more

President Donald Trump’s newly appointed head of the ICE crackdown in Minnesota met with Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday as the White House sought to lower the political temperature following the killing of American citizen Alex Pretti by immigration agents last Saturday.

Border czar Tom Homan held what all parties called a productive ...Read more

NEW YORK — The city is ramping up efforts to get people off the streets as the count of New Yorkers found dead outside climbed to 10 and freezing temperatures are expected to continue through the week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Tuesday.

“When the cold is this deadly, we need to meet the moment and leave no stone unturned,” Mamdani said at...Read more

Amid the discussion between U.S. President Donald Trump and Danish and European leaders about who should own Greenland, the Inuit who live there and call it home aren’t getting much attention.

The Kalaallit (Inuit of West Greenland), the Tunumi (Inuit of East Greenland) and the Inughuit (Inuit of North Greenland) together represent ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego County supervisors will vote Wednesday on a $4.75 million funding proposal aimed at studying health impacts and reducing toxic emissions from the ongoing Tijuana River pollution crisis.

The proposal, presented by the Ad Hoc Subcommittee on the Tijuana River Sewage Crisis, includes funding for epidemiological studies and ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A group of 10 women and one man who developed breast cancer while working or studying at North Carolina State’s Poe Hall are suing the university over allegations of “deliberate indifference.”

The school violated their fundamental right to bodily integrity under the state constitution, their lawsuit contends.

Poe Hall, ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The Trump administration, with the support of many congressional Republicans, is looking to boost deep-sea mining as a way to counter Chinese dominance of critical minerals supply chains.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced a final rule on Jan. 21 that would speed up the process companies must go ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The federal commission seeking personal contact information for faculty and staff at the University of Pennsylvania has accused the school of engaging in an “intensive and relentless public relations campaign” to avoid complying with the subpoena.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a court filing Monday, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Washington state woman used identification documents stolen from a federal agent’s vandalized vehicle two weeks ago during a clash with anti-ICE demonstrators and threatened to kill the officer and his immediate family members, according to the FBI and prosecutors.

Brenna Marie Doyle, 18, of Spokane was charged in U.S. ...Read more