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'Broadview Six' lawyers demand communications between US attorney's office and DC
CHICAGO — Lawyers for the “Broadview Six” are urging a federal judge to order the Chicago U.S. attorney’s office to divulge any communications with officials in Washington about the controversial case, saying in a filing late Tuesday that saying responses so far have been a “clever, subjective escape hatch” from candor and ...Read more
Alligator Alcatraz report raises alarms about Florida's other immigration center
MIAMI — The DeSantis administration’s failure to ensure humane standards at Alligator Alcatraz raises alarms about a second state-run immigrant detention facility run out of a shuttered prison in north Florida, according to a recently released inspector general report.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General ...Read more
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson pitches renters' rights compromise, opponents balk as fight continues
CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson is backing off a key part of his broad plan to bolster the rights of Chicago renters, but opponents say his proposal remains too extreme.
Johnson amended his so-called Protecting Renters Ordinance to remove “just cause” provisions that would have only allowed landlords to evict tenants or not renew their ...Read more
EU proposes Canada become the bloc's first 'associate member'
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Canada becoming the first associate member of the European Union, forging a novel transatlantic alliance as President Donald Trump tears apart the old one.
She offered the invitation during her state of the union address in Strasbourg, France, Wednesday, with Canadian Prime Minister ...Read more
At least 6 dead in helicopter crash and bus accident in California: 'A deeply traumatic day'
LOS ANGELES — Three people were killed when an NBC4 news helicopter crashed and burst into flames Tuesday night in Chatsworth not far from a serious accident involving a Metro bus that also left three people dead.
The area was already swarming with police, fire officials and the news media because of the bus crash when there was a fireball ...Read more
2 Cubans and a Venezuelan indicted for Russian assassination plot on US soil
In a rare accusation of a Kremlin-orchestrated plot on U.S. soil, a New York federal grand jury indicted a network of five people, among them two Cubans and one Venezuelan, of recruiting American citizens to carry out surveillance and assassinations of Russian dissidents.
The ring of five also targeted military and civilian infrastructure in ...Read more
8 rules to help you understand what campaign finance reporting reveals about influence and support – or doesn’t
News stories about campaign finance are frequent in any election season, and this year is no exception.
In Ohio, for instance, NBC reported in August 2026 that there had been over US$130 million in outside spending in the state’s U.S. Senate race. The story also summarized how much money the two candidates had raised from different ...Read more
AI can supercharge Putin's goals, not his great-power ambitions
When President Vladimir Putin imposed harsh censorship laws in the wake of his 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a major Russian publishing house took drastic action.
Faced with trawling through the thousands of volumes it had published over the previous twenty years in light of the new restrictive criteria, the Eksmo-AST group trained an AI agent to ...Read more
EU proposes Canada become the bloc's first 'associate member'
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Canada becoming the first associate member of the European Union, forging a novel transatlantic alliance as President Donald Trump tears apart the old one.
She offered the invitation during her state of the union address in Strasbourg, France, Wednesday, with Canadian Prime Minister ...Read more
Hurricane center dials back chances Atlantic system could develop
ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday reined in the chances a system in the Atlantic could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.
As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the trough of low pressure located several hundred miles east of Bermuda was continuing to produce disorganized showers and ...Read more
Prompted by new California and US laws, 2 new lawsuits demand return of Nazi-looted art
LOS ANGELES — For the first time since California and Congress passed a pair of laws bolstering U.S.-based claims to Nazi-looted artwork around the world, two lawsuits have been filed in California demanding prominent museums relinquish pieces seized during World War II.
In one case, filed in federal court in Los Angeles on Monday, the ...Read more
NBC4 helicopter crashes in California, killing 3: 'A deeply traumatic day'
LOS ANGELES — Three people were killed when an NBC4 news helicopter crashed and burst into flames Tuesday night in Chatsworth not far from a serious accident involving a Metro bus that also left three people dead.
The area was already swarming with police, fire officials and the news media because of the bus crash when there was a fireball ...Read more
Has dark matter been found? Scientists analyze signal deep underground
A mile beneath the surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, a single unknown particle separated from light, air and cosmic rays collided with the nucleus of a xenon atom, causing electrons to be knocked free in a flash of light — and confounding scientists.
This subatomic interaction captured as part of the LZ ...Read more
Army Corps resumes work at Brandon Road Project as invasive carp encroach on Illinois River
CHICAGO — More than a month after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halted work on the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, part of a $1.15 billion project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes, the agency announced last week it would resume construction.
The Army Corps’ Rock Island District — the main federal sponsor — issued a...Read more
Schools around Philly are no longer giving laptops to kindergartners and scaling back on screen time. It's a tech backlash
PHILADELPHIA — As her children start second and third grades in the Colonial School District, Elise LaChapelle expects they will spend no more than 20 to 30 minutes a day on their Chromebooks — limits the Montgomery County district has announced to parents.
Colonial also no longer allows elementary school students to take their laptops home...Read more
Police say Flock is invaluable. But as misuse mounts, many wonder how to rein in the surveillance system
CHICAGO -- The new headlines seem to pop up daily.
The Flock cameras were allegedly used by a former sheriff’s deputy in Wisconsin’s Kenosha County to stalk his then-girlfriend, who also worked as a deputy sheriff. In McHenry County, a police chief allegedly searched their vast network of automated cameras nearly 250 times to track former ...Read more
Maryland asks agencies to model 10% cuts amid $3.1B shortfall
Maryland state agencies are being asked to prepare for potential budget cuts of up to 10% next year as Gov. Wes Moore’s administration looks for ways to close a projected $3.1 billion shortfall, which is nearly double the amount for fiscal 2027.
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) asked all executive branch agencies and state ...Read more
Defendant smiles, flashes peace sign at sentencing for antisemitic attack in Times Square
NEW YORK — A man who pleaded guilty to attacking an Israeli tourist in Times Square smiled and flashed a peace symbol to photographers at his sentencing Tuesday.
When Judge Althea Drysdale asked Yehia Amin why he was smiling, the defendant replied through an interpreter that he wanted to look good for the cameras.
Amin was sentenced to 90 ...Read more
Boston dumps Flock cameras after data leaked to outside law enforcement
The City of Boston dumped a Flock camera program over privacy concerns after learning that the data it collected was not shared exclusively to Boston Police as intended, but was accessible to outside law enforcement nationwide.
What the city called a “vendor error” in the Boston Police Department Automated License Plate Recognition System ...Read more
US-China discuss cutting some tariffs as leaders prepare to meet
Prospects for an extension to the U.S.-China trade truce are solidifying as the two sides discuss slashing tariffs on goods including American energy and agricultural products ahead of the leaders’ summit next week.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday he’ll meet this weekend with his Chinese counterpart, He Lifeng, ahead of the ...Read more
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- Has dark matter been found? Scientists analyze signal deep underground
- Army Corps resumes work at Brandon Road Project as invasive carp encroach on Illinois River
- NBC4 helicopter crashes in California, killing 3: 'A deeply traumatic day'
- AI can supercharge Putin's goals, not his great-power ambitions
- EU proposes Canada become the bloc's first 'associate member'
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