Publix recalled all lots of two GreenWise frozen fruit products with organic blueberries linked to an outbreak of a potentially deadly form of E. coli.

This covers 10-ounce and 48-ounce bags of both GreenWise Organic Whole Blueberries and GreenWise Organic Whole Mixed Berries sold in stores in Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Bronx man testified Thursday that he had no plans to pursue a criminal case against the cop who apologized for using an illegal chokehold on him — until he saw the officer’s body-worn camera video and watched as he lost consciousness.

“He choked me,” Lord Nyamah said of Officer Omar Habib. “He had me cuffed behind my ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Pornhub sent a letter this week to elected officials in Virginia and more than 20 other states that have passed online age-verification laws in recent years arguing that these laws are ineffective and urging them to put forward “real solutions” to the issue of minors accessing adult content: requiring parental controls on ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Education has launched an investigation into whether Minnesota education officials violated parents’ rights through the alleged use of dolls designed for transgender and gender-diverse children in schools.

But state and university officials say they are not involved with the program. The researchers who run the project,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The high-stakes nomination of Todd Blanche to be attorney general has turned into a clash of wills between President Donald Trump and two Senate Republicans whose political careers he claims credit for ending.

After a vote on Blanche's nomination was delayed over concerns raised by two lame-duck Republican senators, the president...Read more

Nearly 30 years after Haiti gained independence, the British Parliament signed the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 effectively ending chattel slavery across the British Empire.

The day it went into effect — Aug. 1, 1834 — would be known as Emancipation Day across Caribbean communities and serves as a moment to remember those who lived through...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Sitting in at state Rep. Jermaine Johnson’s kitchen table in his Richland County house, former Charleston County Democratic Party Chairman Sam Skardon talks about the potential for South Carolina Democrats in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections.

“The opportunity for organizing in this cycle is incredible, and that’s why...Read more

WASHINGTON — With three months remaining until election day, there is now little the Trump administration can do to bring relief to Americans battered by years of stagnant wages and steep inflation before they hit the polls, experts say — complicating midterm campaigning for Republicans and sharpening the opportunity for Democrats to win ...Read more

Sen. Andy Kim wants to get to the bottom of why President Donald Trump rejected New Jersey’s request for FEMA aid over a record-breaking snowstorm earlier this year.

Winter Storm Hernando, a massive blizzard, hit New Jersey and other Northeastern states hard in February. New Jersey submitted an $84 million disaster request after tallying the ...Read more

CHICAGO — The city of Chicago plans to seek dismissal of a new federal complaint filed by the family of Adam Toledo, the 13-year-old boy who was shot and killed by a Chicago police officer in 2021, according to documents filed Thursday, even as the family is pushing for a January trial date.

A report, filed in federal court in Chicago, offers...Read more

WASHINGTON — The odds of the Senate confirming Todd Blanche to head the Justice Department before its summer break appear to be dwindling, as the Trump administration struggles to appease GOP holdouts.

And if senators can’t get him through, President Donald Trump threatened to merely wait out the objectors, leaving Blanche in the post as ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Planned Parenthood of Michigan is permanently closing three additional facilities in Michigan due to a decline in federal funding and reimbursements for patient care.

Health centers in Lansing, Livonia and Warren were identified for permanent closure through a statewide review of the organization's network and after other ...Read more

MIAMI — A jury is expected to deliberate this week in the federal trial of a Florida Keys parasailing boat captain who cut the tow-line to three of his clients dangling in the air from a harness during a thunderstorm, killing an Illinois mother and injuring two children after the wind slammed them into a bridge.

A grand jury in April charged ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles Superior Court judge found Monday that enough evidence exists for the singer D4vd to stand trial for the sexual abuse and murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez.

D4vd, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, is charged with fatally stabbing Hernandez twice on April 23, 2025, then using a chainsaw to ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois elected officials in the Latino Caucus and allied advocates are seeking to connect families of people arrested at courthouses with civil rights attorneys for potential legal action, Democratic state Rep. Lilian Jimenez of Chicago said Wednesday.

The call for affected families came months after Illinois passed a law largely ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With two weeks before school starts, families in Boyle Heights are gripped with concern about the conditions and safety at eight campuses within a one-mile radius of the Lineage warehouse fire, schools located in and near neighborhoods beset with the stench of rotting food, fly swarms and rats.

Parent Myrna Silva, who lives a ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — An autopsy report released late Wednesday shows Erica Fox, a swimmer seen in the mouth of a shark near Monterey in December, suffered a single crushing bite to her legs and torso.

The force of the bite, which left a semicircle of tooth wounds from Fox’s knees to her abdomen, broke her pelvis in several places, the report ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Grab a bottle of water, or two, out of the fridge. Another round of extreme heat has arrived.

Southern Nevada is under an extreme heat warning, beginning at 10 a.m. and lasting through 8 p.m. Sunday, the National Weather Service said.

“Dangerously hot conditions (will emerge) across the Mojave Desert,” with temperatures ...Read more