MIAMI — Shortly after Henry Parra and Adam Hlavaty were killed in a helicopter crash in Kenya, their home was ransacked and their identities stolen as part of a targeted scheme, just two of the many victims of what police believe is an elaborate criminal network.

Two people have been arrested in connection with the crime so far and more ...Read more

Two of the highest-ranking law enforcement officials in California are publicly sparring over the integrity of state elections, trading barbs on social media that highlight the fierce partisan divide on the issue heading into the November midterms.

In a post to X on Wednesday, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the top federal ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump will snub the Sept. 11 ceremony at ground zero marking the 25th anniversary of the terror attacks reportedly because he wasn’t going to be permitted to deliver a speech at the event.

Instead of lower Manhattan, Trump is expected to attend a 9/11 ceremony at the Pentagon where he will make a speech, while ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal First Amendment lawsuit filed by a former Fort Worth Independent School District principal against the school district was dismissed Thursday after an ongoing battle over her reassignment, which stemmed from an investigation into her social media posts.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman issued an opinion and order...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson announced her office has filed additional criminal charges against Lyndell Mays, one of three adults accused in the mass shooting outside Union Station following the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory rally on Feb. 14, 2024.

Mays was originally charged with second-degree murder...Read more

MIAMI — A Brazilian doctor whose wife set off a firestorm by linking President Donald Trump and the first lady to Jeffrey Epstein fled from Miami-Dade days before he was set to go to trial for allegedly conducting cosmetic procedures without a license.

Joao Araujo, 57, is now on the lam, telling a Brazilian journalist Sunday he “escaped the...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday slammed President Donald Trump for jump-starting his trade war with Canada, which she called a lose-lose conflict for both countries that is hitting New York especially hard.

Hochul predicted Trump’s Republican allies will pay a heavy price at the ballot box in the congressional midterm ...Read more

USC and UCLA are joining the rush to embed artificial intelligence and new digital technologies into college coursework as the academic year begins, announcing new AI majors and initiatives, betting that degrees built partly or entirely around AI will launch careers and pay off after graduation.

At USC, the Viterbi School of Engineering is ...Read more

Paolo Zampolli, a special envoy for President Donald Trump, was part of a United Nations passport-selling scheme that led to the death of a former U.N. president, according to Amanda Ungaro, an ex-Brazilian model and former U.N. diplomat who had a 20-year-relationship with Zampolli.

In an interview she gave to a Brazilian journalist ...Read more

You’ve probably heard it for years, every time you get a prescription for antibiotics: “Make sure to take all the pills.”

Traditionally, clinicians have given two reasons for these strict instructions: So the infection doesn’t come back, and so you don’t end up with bugs so hearty that antibiotics can’t kill them.

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On Aug. 27, 2026, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America,” claiming his administration had already “notified all of the various people you have to notify.”

The name change, which Ontario Premier Doug Ford had dismissed as rhetoric when it was first suggested, comes amid an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — For the last six months, President Donald Trump has attempted to control the narrative of the Iran war.

As days, weeks and months passed, he repeatedly said that an agreement to end the conflict was close at hand and that Iran was already defeated. Between fraught negotiations, Trump has gone from conciliatory to antagonistic, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new analysis of California data shows that four years after college graduation, students who obtain among the most competitive and in-demand bachelor degrees, mostly tied to fields in STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — are the highest-earning graduates, with salaries over $100,000 a year.

Also among the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Though SpaceX’s powerful Starship won’t be flying from Florida for some time, the company’s powerhouse Falcon Heavy is set for a rare launch early Sunday.

The Falcon Heavy – essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together – is set to take flight with NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Friday said the short-lived Tropical Storm Dolly had broken apart to become just a tropical wave as it sped toward the Caribbean.

As of the NHC’s 11 a.m. advisory, the remnants of Dolly was located about 1,000 miles east of the Leeward Islands moving west at 25 mph. It still had maximum ...Read more

In January 2026, during Operation Country Roads, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and state and local law enforcement detained roughly 600 immigrants across West Virginia.

Many of those arrested were held in the state’s already overpopulated jail system, which until this spring was part of a national network of immigrant ...Read more

Iran’s top diplomat said resuming diplomacy with the U.S. “isn’t impossible,” after what he described as “creative discussions” with Qatar, a mediator in the war between Washington and Tehran.

Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on X on Friday that progress “hinges on U.S. understanding of one simple fact: pressure doesn’t work...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Friday said the fast-paced Tropical Storm Dolly was keeping form for now in the Atlantic as it heads toward the Caribbean, but is forecast to degenerate before any landfall.

In the NHC’s 5 a.m. advisory, the center of Dolly was located about 1,145 miles east of the Caribbean’s Leeward ...Read more

Before Prem Prasad Subedi could see anything, his keyboard began to shake.

“It felt like a cyclone forming,” said Subedi, a customs officer in Nepal. “Like the blast of wind you feel when a helicopter is landing.”

On Wednesday, the 50-year-old had turned up around 8 a.m. at his office in Nepal’s Rasuwa District, near Timure Bazaar ...Read more

On a July afternoon in 2024, a private jet carrying three men from Mexico touched down at a small airport a few miles west of El Paso. Federal agents were waiting on the tarmac to greet them, handcuffs at the ready.

The first to disembark was Joaquín Guzmán López, a son of the infamous Sinaloa cartel leader "El Chapo." Pudgy and dark-haired ...Read more