BOSTON — A 47-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night.

Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police Department responded to reports of a man shot on Gibb Street.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro was transported to a local hospital and succumbed to his ...Read more

CHICAGO — Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino is back in Chicago as he and his agents made arrests across Cicero and Chicago’s Southwest Side Tuesday morning.

Around 10:30 a.m., a squad of federal agents detained a man at 26th Street and Ridgeway Avenue as residents screamed and filmed them putting the man in a car. Standing on a street ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Inyo County Sheriff’s Office announced Monday it had recovered the body of a young male hiker that fits the description of Joseph Brambila, who disappeared on California's Mount Whitney in early November.

Brambila, 21, has been the subject of searches in the last month, and his family waged a desperate campaign on social ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two words have been missing from the Trump administration’s tough-talking, Navy-deploying policy toward Venezuela: or else.

While President Donald Trump and some top aides have expressed deep concerns about Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, who controversially rose to power in 2013 following the death of Hugo Chávez, they ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Another physician who played a role in providing ketamine to Matthew Perry weeks before the actor’s overdose death was sentenced to eight months of house arrest by a federal judge on Friday.

Mark Chavez, a former doctor, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine in October last year. In his plea ...Read more

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said that President Donald Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality” and is obsessed with retaliating against critics even if it undermines his own policies, according to a bombshell magazine story published on Tuesday.

Wiles, considered a trusted and loyal Trump insider, also trashed Vice President JD ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted they won’t release the full video of the Sept. 2 strikes on an alleged drug boat and controversial second strike on survivors after briefing members of Congress on Tuesday morning on military action in the Caribbean.

“In keeping with longstanding Department of War ...Read more

The Powerball jackpot has climbed to an estimated $1.25 billion after no one matched all six numbers for the 43rd drawing in a row Monday night, game officials announced.

Wednesday’s jackpot will be the second-largest Powerball prize this year, behind the $1.787 billion prize won in Missouri and Texas on Sept. 6, according to a Powerball news...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Leaders of a secretive religious group in Southern California's Inland Empire region have been charged with murder in two separate cases — the disappearance of longtime member Emilio Ghanem in Redlands and the 2010 death of 4-year-old Timothy Thomas in Colton.

Ghanem vanished in May 2023, just weeks after he decided to part ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It was supposed to be a weekend of celebration for Rob and Michele Reiner.

They attended Conan O’Brien’s Christmas party Saturday and planned to meet Barack and Michelle Obama on Sunday night.

But that gathering with the 44th president and former first lady never happened.

The Reiners were found dead in their Brentwood ...Read more

Immigration arrests under the Trump administration continued to increase through mid-October, reaching rates of more than 30,000 a month. But, rather than the convicted criminals the administration has said it’s focused on, an ever-larger share of those arrests were for solely immigration violations.

In 45 states, immigration arrests more ...Read more

Rob Reiner and wife Michele Singer Reiner, both of whom were found stabbed to death Sunday at their home in Los Angeles' Brentwood neighborhood, “tried in every way to help” son Nick, who has been arrested and held without bail in their grisly deaths.

An insider told People that the late couple “could never reach stability” with the 32-...Read more

A couple just weeks away from celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary were shot — and then died in each others arms — while trying to disarm a gunman on Bondi Beach, where more than a dozen people were killed during a Hanukkah event on Sunday.

Dashcam video shared on Chinese social media platform RedNote, and verified by NBC News, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nick Reiner has retained famed defense attorney Alan Jackson to defend him in connection with his parents’ slayings, Jackson confirmed while being followed by a throng of media in the downtown Los Angeles criminal courthouse Tuesday morning.

L.A. County prosecutors are expected to file murder charges against Reiner on Tuesday,...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — All charges were dropped Tuesday against a Tampa photojournalist who was arrested while covering a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility Miami.

David Decker, 52, was arrested alongside protesters outside of the Krome North Service Processing Center on Nov. 22. He told the Tampa Bay Times he was arrested...Read more

A Trump administration plan to pump more water to Central Valley farmlands is facing vehement opposition from Democratic members of Congress who represent the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and the Bay Area.

A group of seven legislators led by Rep. John Garamendi said pumping more water will threaten the availability of water for many ...Read more

State lawmakers of both parties said they plan to keep passing laws regulating artificial intelligence despite President Donald Trump’s efforts to stop them.

Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening that aims to override state artificial intelligence laws. He said his administration must work with Congress to develop a national AI ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a new state-run website Tuesday that tracks what his office calls the "criminal cronies" around President Donald Trump — just the latest trolling tactic by the California governor that directly mirrors Trump's own use of public resources for political score settling.

Newsom pegged the website'...Read more