MIAMI — All signs point to this week’s king tide as the highest in South Florida’s history — supercharged by onshore winds and sea level rise.

From Miami to West Palm, an unprecedented amount of saltwater surged ashore. It submerged lanes of major thoroughfares, leaving drivers to navigate intersections with water up to their wheel ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israelis voted in close to record numbers in the country’s first election since the October 2023 Hamas attack, effectively a referendum on the war-dominated rule of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Turnout stood at almost 74% as of 8 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the central elections committee, the highest level at ...Read more

NEW YORK — Once among the most successful realtors in America — counting the likes of Kim Kardashian on their client roster — the multimillionaire Alexander brothers were hit with 30 years in prison in Manhattan on Tuesday for drugging, gang raping, and humiliating scores of women for decades.

The terms were handed down to 39-year-old ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal jury found a Brooklyn woman guilty of getting military training from ISIS while in Syria, capping off a contentions two-week trial in Brooklyn Federal Court where the woman testified that she was forced to marry an ISIS fighter as a teen.

Halina Salman, 27, wearing a light purple hijab and pink hoodie, broke down crying ...Read more

BRASILIA, Brazil — Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil after losing its presidential election and being ordered to surrender his passports, the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported, citing allies of the right-wing senator who is subject to multiple criminal investigations.

Bolsonaro is en route to the U.S. and is likely to land in either Dallas or ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy’s inspector general is investigating allegations that practices at the Navy brig in Chesapeake have infringed on service members’ legal rights, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

A group of attorneys representing current and former clients at the brig filed an investigative complaint with the ...Read more

An immigrant detainee died Saturday morning at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, marking the 61st such death under the Trump administration.

In an emailed statement, an unnamed spokesperson with CoreCivic, the Tennessee-based private prison company that operates the facility, confirmed the death. Per the spokesperson, a staff member ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The U.S. Department of Justice will again send election monitors to Prince George’s County on Election Day to monitor compliance with federal voting requirements for providing election materials and language assistance in languages other than English, Maryland’s State Board of Elections said Tuesday.

The federal Voting Rights ...Read more

BRASILIA, Brazil — Flávio Bolsonaro fled Brazil hours after losing the presidential election and being ordered to surrender his passports, the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper reported, citing allies of the conservative senator.

Brazil’s Federal Police canceled Bolsonaro’s passports after he failed to surrender them within a 24-hour deadline ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — ICE has been releasing people detained outside of California at processing centers in downtown Fresno and Bakersfield, leaving some of them stranded hundreds of miles from home without money or their belongings, elected officials and immigrant rights advocates say.

The detainees — some from as far away as the East Coast �...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Justice Department plans to send monitors to polling stations in Philadelphia and three other Pennsylvania counties for Election Day, according to a letter obtained by The Inquirer.

The Oct. 22 letter addressed to Pennsylvania Secretary of State Al Schmidt says the Justice Department intends to send monitors to ...Read more

Technical colleges are betting a surge in demand for skilled workers will lift profits, though the payoff may take time as they expand campuses and programs to accommodate more students.

Employers racing to build data centers, expand manufacturing and automate factories are fueling demand for trained workers, lifting enrollment at schools ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The parents of Alex Pretti are done being silent.

At a press conference Tuesday in downtown Minneapolis, they painted a picture of the stark difference they see between the caring, loving son they raised and the callous, disrespectful actions of the United States government after federal agents shot him dead on a south ...Read more

Responding to a directive from the Vatican, the leader of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas has placed restrictions on the ministry of a priest once charged with sexually abusing a minor.

Archbishop Shawn McKnight ordered that the Rev. Scott Kallal “is prohibited from conduct with minors that could be reasonably understood as grooming...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — On the morning of Nov. 17, 2024, Nyota Koya, a 66-year-old Black woman from Roseville, lost consciousness during an encounter with a Sacramento police officer named Matthew Sterling. She died a week later without ever regaining consciousness.

Nearly two years later, the Sacramento Police Department still has not told her ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The FBI Tuesday morning raided a mansion in Beverly Hills in connection with an investigation into former Congressman Eric Swalwell, sources told the Los Angeles Times.

Swalwell, a Democrat from the Bay Area city of Dublin, dropped out of the California governor’s race and resigned from Congress in April after allegations that...Read more

Meghan Markle’s relationship with her embattled father is being reconsidered in light of allegations that Thomas Markle indulged in the exploitation of minors.

The 45-year-old Duchess of Sussex’s 2018 wedding to Prince Harry captured the public imagination for several reasons, including the fact that the bride’s father wasn’t there.

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A federal judge has indefinitely blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to transform a historic Washington, D.C. public golf course, but he insists the massive renovation will go ahead regardless.

District Judge Ana Reyes issued a preliminary injunction that bars the government from removing or damaging any additional trees on the East Potomac...Read more

BOSTON — It was instant karma for State Trooper John J. Lennon Jr. when a fellow Statie renowned for his honesty responded to the scene of his alleged drunken driving crash earlier this month.

Lennon, 35, of Marshfield, ran his car off Rte. 3 in Hingham after a golf outing and required a tow to get out, according to a police report. That was ...Read more