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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced on social media Thursday he could withdraw the nomination of Todd Blanche for attorney general until senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn leave office.

The senators and the White House are in a stalemate over a $1.776 billion fund that would allow defendants who harmed police officers at the U.S. ...Read more

DETROIT — The number of reported cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan since June 22 increased to 10,386 on Thursday, but the number of new cases reported daily continued to decline from last week's peak.

Health officials continue to investigate the state's worst outbreak of the parasitic illness that usually causes frequent, watery and explosive ...Read more

A Russian missile crashed in eastern Poland early on Thursday, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said.

The announcement came Thursday after Poland said it had detected an object entering its airspace during a large Russian attack on Ukraine. Poland borders Ukraine and is a NATO member.

“This incident is yet another reckless act by Russia ...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 Republican objectors, leaving Blanche in the...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore said Thursday that Maryland will offer expedited admissions assistance and an $800 credit to students affected by Howard University’s recent disenrollment of incoming students if they instead choose to enroll at a participating University System of Maryland institution this fall.

Under the initiative, Moore ...Read more

More than 24,000 immigrant children who arrived in the United States without a parent or guardian and are facing deportation could lose access to legal representation this week when a federal contract funding nonprofit legal services expires, leaving some organizations to scale back or end assistance altogether.

The cuts are compounded by the ...Read more

NEW YORK — City Hall and the union representing the city’s deputy sheriffs have reached an agreement on a contract more than four years after their last deal expired and just two months after Mayor Zohran Mamdani ousted controversial former Sheriff Anthony Miranda from his job.

The new deal, ratified Wednesday, grants deputy sheriffs pay ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Wednesday ordered former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to sit for a deposition in his sexual harassment case while urging both sides to prioritize settlement talks.

Scheduling the Jan. 30 deposition at a virtual hearing, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Nicholas Moyne chastised Giuliani’s lawyer for trying to ...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