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CHICAGO — A Chicago federal judge appeared poised Friday to order at least a portion of the thousands of people detained in “Operation Midway Blitz” released on electronic monitoring while litigation continues over ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to rule for the first time on whether the president has the power to deploy troops in American cities over the objections of local and state officials.

A decision could come at any...Read more

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Friday on Colombian President Gustavo Petro, following a spat with President Donald Trump over military strikes in the Caribbean and drug trafficking in the South American ...Read more

California wildlife officials euthanized four gray wolves in Sierra Valley and plan to relocate three more to a wildlife sanctuary, after months of nonlethal efforts failed to prevent livestock attacks that cost ranchers ...Read more

The FBI is investigating a Thursday night shooting outside a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area, where the driver of a U-Haul truck reversed toward security officers who responded with a volley of gunfire,...Read more

President Donald Trump is expected to name the new White House ballroom, being constructed where the East Wing once stood for more than 120 years, after himself.

Trump insiders are already referring to the $300 million ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Monthly checks for nearly 71 million Americans receiving Social Security benefits will increase by 2.8% next year, a slightly larger adjustment than seen in 2025.

The cost-of-living adjustment, known as ...Read more

A 28-year-old man died at Walt Disney World’s Contemporary Resort on Thursday, marking the third death at the Florida park — and second at that resort — in the past 10 days.

The deceased was identified as Matthew ...Read more

MIAMI — The marine heatwave that gripped Florida in 2023 was hotter than anything Florida has seen in 150 years, and claimed at least two victims — species of corals now marked "functionally extinct" from Florida’s ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Department of Homeland Security defended using tear gas in Chicago's Little Village neighborhood Thursday, saying Friday that its agents were surrounded by protesters who hit Border Patrol chief Gregory ...Read more

New York Attorney General Tish James pleaded not guilty Friday in a federal fraud case pursued by Donald Trump’s Justice Department, charges she said were produced by the president’s “vehicle of retribution.”

The...Read more

President Donald Trump says he is ending all trade negotiations with Canada over an ad campaign featuring a clip of President Ronald Reagan denouncing tariffs.

Trump claims the ad is designed to sway the forthcoming U.S. ...Read more

Aceco, a Maryland demolition company, finds itself in a public relations nightmare sparked by people offended at its role in tearing down the White House East Wing to make way for President Donald Trump’s planned ...Read more

Tropical Storm Melissa is effectively parked in the central Caribbean, dumping devastating amounts of rain on Haiti and Jamaica that has already claimed at least three lives and destroyed one bridge. And more rain is on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump directed the world’s largest aircraft carrier into the Caribbean Sea on Friday in a major escalation of his drug war.

The USS Gerald R. Ford, one of a new class of nuclear-powered ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The section of the Florida law prohibiting adults under age 21 from carrying a concealed firearm is unconstitutional, a Broward County judge ruled Friday.

Effectively dismissing a case against a ...Read more

MIAMI — A U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement agent pulled over in the Florida Keys for driving under the influence questioned a Monroe County deputy’s U.S. citizenship and asked whether he was Haitian, according ...Read more

Arkansas wildlife officials announced they killed the wrong black bear in pursuit of an animal responsible for a fatal mauling at an Ozark National Forest campground in early October.

The victim, identified as 60-year-old...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Dade College’s board of trustees could end its legal battle with historian Marvin Dunn by holding a new public hearing on giving away prime downtown land to be used for Donald Trump’s high-rise ...Read more

Though the full effects of Tropical Storm Melissa have yet to be felt in the Caribbean, Haiti’s disaster office said Friday three people have already died and another was injured in a landslide attributed to the storm’...Read more