CHICAGO — The Trump administration on Monday asked an appeals court to immediately halt Judge Sara Ellis’ preliminary injunction restricting the use of force in “Operation Midway Blitz,” saying her order is “overbroad and unworkable” and usurps the executive branch’s power to enforce the nation’s laws.

In asking the 7th Circuit ...Read more

NEW YORK — A convicted New York City drug kingpin whose sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump in 2021 was hit with a new 27-month sentence Monday for a new wave of crimes — including sexually abusing his live-in nanny and menacing a hospital nurse.

Jonathan Braun, 42, of Long Island, who was sentenced in 2019 to 10 years for ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani unveiled his first two big City Hall hires Monday, tapping government expert Dean Fuleihan to be his top deputy and political confidant Elle Bisgaard-Church to serve as his chief of staff.

The appointments of Fuleihan, a 74-year-old alumni of the administration of former Mayor Bill de Blasio...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 20 people who contributed to the push to overturn his loss in Michigan's 2020 election, providing a sign of support for allies who have faced investigations from state prosecutors.

Late Sunday night, Ed Martin, who is working as the Republican president's pardon attorney, posted a...Read more

DENVER — Colorado is rich with prehistoric artifacts and culture stemming from the Paleo-Indian people of the southwest United States.

Two years ago, four Denver musicians put that Indigenous history to use by recording a 12-piece album featuring lithophones, which are stones chiseled and ground down more than 6,000 years ago to create ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A young woman whose death on board the Carnival Horizon cruise ship is being investigated by the FBI was identified by her family as a Central Florida high school senior, according to a report from ABC News.

Anna Kepner, 18, who attended Titusville’s Temple Christian School in Brevard County, was due to graduate in May.

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DETROIT — Three Dearborn men accused of plotting a domestic terror attack on behalf of the Islamic State consented Monday to being detained in county jails while their federal criminal cases are pending.

Ayob Nasser, 19, his 20-year-old brother Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, 20, appeared Monday morning in federal court in Detroit for a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is scrambling to develop a plan and message on still-high prices after the White House appeared caught off guard by how the affordability issue helped drive Republican losses last Tuesday.

Trump appeared defensive on the matter last week, blaming GOP candidates and lawmakers for talking too little about how...Read more

TWO HARBORS, Minn. – Nolan Church joined the crew of the Edmund Fitzgerald as a porter late in life — a new career at age 50 after he was laid off from mining-related work in Silver Bay.

After long stints on the massive taconite-carrying laker sailing mostly from Silver Bay to Toledo, Ohio, Church loved to spoil his children and tell ...Read more

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has suggested recreating Gran Colombia – the early 19th-century country that included modern-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama – on multiple occasions over the weekend.

The South American leader made the comments in response to Washington’s ongoing strike campaign on vessels in the Caribbean and...Read more

Even a federal shutdown can’t keep the national debt from continuing to spiral out of control.

The nation’s debt now tops $38 trillion. It’s an unfathomable amount of money, so consider this: Every citizen’s share of that debt is more than $110,000. If you look only at taxpayers, the amount is more than $328,000.

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CHICAGO — Baltazar Enriquez began wearing his whistle in June, when the threat of the Trump administration’s immigration raids was more focused and the fear perhaps less widespread in Chicago. The whistle — green plastic, attached to an orange lanyard — was at first a small gesture of preparedness. It has since become a symbol of ...Read more

The Supreme Court has again denied a petition to overturn the right to gay marriage filed by Kim Davis, the embattled former Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to gay couples and has spent the last decade petitioning courts to grant her relief.

“The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied,” justices wrote in their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court ruled late Sunday that the Trump administration can be forced to pay full food benefits in November, putting the onus on the Supreme Court to decide whether the administration can avoid paying benefits that feed more than 40 million people.

The unanimous ruling from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it would hear arguments in a case challenging a Mississippi state law allowing the state to count ballots in federal elections that arrive after Election Day.

Monday’s order came after Mississippi asked the justices to overturn a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that found ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Shirley Laureano, a mother to two young children, relies on $700 a month in federal food stamp money to help buy her family’s groceries as her job at a tea house doesn’t pay enough to cover all her bills.

She expected November’s funds from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly called SNAP or food stamps...Read more

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping set of preemptive pardons that includes all 18 of his co-defendants in the Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case, a senior Justice Department aide said Monday.

The pardons are largely symbolic, because none of the people named is currently charged in federal court. And they have ...Read more

President Donald Trump has issued federal pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a long list of allies who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The late-night announcement clears in advance virtually all the prominent engineers of the so-called Stop the Steal plot to keep Trump in power ...Read more

LONDON — The BBC apologized for a misleading edit of remarks by President Donald Trump that featured in a documentary last year, the latest scandal to raise questions about the future of Britain’s national broadcaster.

British Broadcasting Corp. Chairman Samir Shah acknowledged on Monday that the edited footage of Trump’s speech near the...Read more