NEW YORK — New York City is gearing up for its first major winter storm of 2026 — and it could be one of its worst in years.

A winter storm watch has been issued for the tri-state area from late Saturday night through Monday afternoon, with a cold weather advisory slated to go into effect Friday night.

After an unseasonably warm Thursday, ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — In the end, the pressure on the family simply became too great.

Johny Merida Aguilara, the detained immigrant father of a 5-year-old son with brain cancer, has decided to drop efforts to stay in the United States and accept deportation to Bolivia.

His wife and three American-citizen children will also leave the country, though...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration lawyers have joined California Republicans in urging Supreme Court to block California’s new election map on the grounds that one district in the San Joaquin Valley was drawn to favor Latinos.

Two months ago, Donald Trump’s lawyers called on the court to uphold a new Republican-friendly election map in ...Read more

Nearly 500 people have stopped to sign a giant replica of the birthday card President Donald Trump gave to the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. The clandestine arts activism group Secret Handshake erected the pop-up monument Monday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The messages speak volumes about this ...Read more

As a growing number of encounters between civilians and Department of Homeland Security agents — including the widely scrutinized fatal shooting of Renee Good in Minneapolis — are scrutinized in court records and on social media, federal officials are returning to a familiar response: self-defense.

In more than a handful of recent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Spring in Southern California has a certain rhythm: Dodgers fans return to Chavez Ravine, the jacarandas start to bloom, and L.A.'s mayor gives a speech — usually a long one — about how the city is doing.

Mayor Karen Bass, running for a second term in the June 2 election, is shaking up that routine, by delivering two ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s Black Democratic lawmakers spoke with one voice Thursday against Attorney General James Uthmeier’s decision — announced on the federal holiday that honors Martin Luther King Jr. — that he won’t enforce about 80 state laws that he claims are unconstitutionally race-based.

Saying his action would ...Read more

A winter storm is not the only thing to worry about in South Carolina.

While flu cases have decreased since the first week of 2026, the state is still on alert for widespread flu activity.

Latest data from the South Carolina Department of Public Health shows that the influenza-like illness activity level is high and 6.4% of patient visits to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal officials have been searching for a place to expand immigrant detention in Minnesota, and the shuttered private prison in Appleton remains a leading option.

A building permit filed with Appleton city officials shows at least one contractor has been working on nearly $1 million worth of upgrades at the prison since late ...Read more

President Donald Trump revived his threats to use military force against Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests, saying late Thursday that an armada of U.S. Navy vessels was en route to the Middle East.

“We have a big flotilla going in that direction and we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters ...Read more

The Danish prime minister arrived in Greenland on Friday for talks on the island’s future after President Donald Trump seemingly deescalated his threats to take over the Arctic territory.

Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen flew to Nuuk from Brussels, where she attended a summit of European Union leaders and met with NATO Secretary General Mark ...Read more

The Danish prime minister is traveling to Greenland on Friday for talks on the island’s future after President Donald Trump seemingly deescalated his threats to take over the Arctic territory.

Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen is flying to Nuuk from Brussels, where she attended a summit of European Union leaders and met with NATO Secretary ...Read more

The Kremlin said the “territorial issue” remains unresolved after President Vladimir Putin held late-night talks with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on the latest peace plan for ending Russia’s war on Ukraine.

There’s “no hope of achieving a long-term settlement” to the war until Russia’s demands for territory in ...Read more

NUUK, Greenland — One year ago, days before Donald Trump reclaimed power, the head of Denmark's People's Party took a trip to Mar-a-Lago. Morten Messerschmidt thought he and Trump shared a common view on the perils of European integration. Together, he told local media at the time, they could make the West great again.

In Europe, just as in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said this week that Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested “over 10,000 criminal illegal aliens who were killing Americans, hurting children and reigning terror in Minneapolis,” since President Donald Trump took office a year ago, including 3,000 in the past six weeks.

The ...Read more

CHICAGO — Continued enrollment declines at Chicago Public Schools could escalate into a “crisis” that would significantly affect the city’s public education system in the years ahead, according to a new report from Kids First Chicago.

CPS’ current enrollment is more than 316,000 students — a near 28% decrease of more than 122,000 ...Read more

CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. — City Hall in Carmel-by-the-Sea soon could have this address: 662 Monte Verde St.

Seems pretty standard, right? Not in this wealthy little town on the Monterey Peninsula that has never had street addresses.

For 109 years, residents have used directional descriptors — City Hall is on the east side of Monte Verde ...Read more

A rather peculiar red phone booth appeared outside a San Francisco tattoo parlor this week urging residents in one of America's most liberal cities to "call a Republican."

Its counterpart, a blue phone booth, sits outside a bookshop in the staunchly conservative town of Abilene, Texas, where it encourages locals to "call a Democrat."

Together ...Read more

Given how this president is now wielding tariffs, it’s time to take away President Donald Trump’s BB guns.

We’ve been consistent in our view that the substantial increases to date under Trump in duties paid by importers are economically counterproductive and ultimately raise costs for American consumers. But the president’s tariff saber...Read more