ICE’s plan to vastly expand its national detention network has faced a wave of bipartisan blowback, scuttling multiple planned warehouse conversions across the country.

Rumored sales or leases to Immigration and Customs Enforcement have been abandoned in places such as Mississippi, Tennessee and New Hampshire in part due to local elected ...Read more

Vote counting has started in Colombian primaries that will produce three candidates — one each from the conservative, leftist and centrist blocs — who will go on to face hard-line front-runners Iván Cepeda and Abelardo de la Espriella in May’s presidential election. Voters are also choosing members of the Senate and the lower house of ...Read more

Advocacy groups that want to see the equivalent of an Amber Alert system created for missing seniors and vulnerable adults are urging Michigan lawmakers to pass legislation that would pave the way for such alerts, though bills appear to have stalled in Lansing.

And the sponsor of one such bill said the longer it lingers without passing, the ...Read more

Most Allegheny County residents likely are unaware of a narrow stream with rust-colored water that meanders beneath roadways and private property in Mon Valley communities, including Elizabeth Borough and Forward Township.

Ultimately making its way to the Monongahela River, Fallen Timber Run is one of many polluted streams in the county — ...Read more

Parts of the terminal at Kansas City International Airport (MCI) were evacuated Sunday afternoon as a precaution after the airport received a bomb threat, officials with the Kansas City Aviation Department said.

Airport police were working with members of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to substantiate any potential threat, officials said ...Read more

UNION CITY, Mich. — Mackenzie Day and her family watched the tornado form over Union Lake, the area that bore the worst of the powerful storm system that swept through southwest Michigan on Friday.

The area of northwest Branch County was under a tornado watch, not a warning, so Day’s mother said they didn’t have to seek immediate shelter ...Read more

President Donald Trump is weighing the option of deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium, as officials grow increasingly concerned the stockpile may have been moved, according to three diplomatic officials briefed on the matter.

The U.S. and Israel struck key nuclear facilities during last June’s 12-...Read more

TALLAHASSEE – With five days left in its regular 60-day session, the Florida Legislature has yet to do the one thing required by the state constitution — pass a balanced budget. Missing deadline will mean the Legislature will go into extra innings as it did last year.

And it looks like the atmosphere of distrust created over last year’s ...Read more

A long-awaited critical habitat plan for Minnesota’s fuzzy, chubby and endangered rusty patched bumblebee may be delayed for a few months longer.

The Trump administration has asked a federal judge for another extension in completing the court-ordered plan, which could provide an extra layer of protection for the nearly extinct bees in urban ...Read more

Floridians likely to vote in this year’s midterm elections are deeply divided over President Donald Trump’s handling of immigration, polling shows, and a majority disapproves of the way ICE is handling its job.

The University of North Florida poll found likely midterm election voters were split evenly, with 48% approval and 49% disapproval ...Read more

President Donald Trump is weighing the option of deploying special forces on the ground to seize Iran’s near-bomb-grade uranium, as officials grow increasingly concerned the stockpile may have been moved, according to three diplomatic officials briefed on the matter.

The U.S. and Israel struck key nuclear facilities during last June’s 12-...Read more

Iran picked a new supreme leader and kept up attacks on the ninth day of the war in the Middle East, hitting a water plant in Bahrain, while Israel struck fuel depots in Tehran and threatened the Islamic Republic’s power grid.

The attacks overnight into Sunday came as Arab states across the Persian Gulf continued to face incoming missiles and...Read more

The Defense Department last week outlined a concise set of military objectives in President Trump's war against Iran, claiming its ultimate goal is to dismantle Tehran's ability to project power beyond its borders. Yet it may be targets the Pentagon has largely left unacknowledged that offer the clearest insight yet into Trump's true intentions....Read more

Pakistan said it’s discussed with Saudi Arabia joint measures they could take to halt Iranian drone and missile strikes on the kingdom, a first test of the mutual defense pact between the two countries.

Pakistan’s military said Saturday its powerful army chief Asim Munir met Khalid bin Salman in Saudi Arabia to discuss the deteriorating ...Read more

Colombians are voting in primaries Sunday that will produce three candidates — one each from the conservative, leftist and centrist blocs — who will go on to face hard-line front-runners Iván Cepeda and Abelardo de la Espriella in May’s presidential election. Voters are also choosing members of the Senate and the lower house of Congress. ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened to avoid signing any bill into law until a package of voting reforms is passed, his latest pressure tactic as the Republican-controlled Senate balks at the measure.

In a Truth Social post Sunday, Trump repeated his call for Republicans to partially eliminate the filibuster to pass the SAVE America Act, which ...Read more

It is that time again. Time to wonder: Why do we turn the clocks forward and backward twice a year? Academics, scientists, politicians, economists, employers, parents – and just about everyone else you will interact with this week – are likely debating a wide range of reasons for and against daylight saving time.

But the reason is...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After the loss of thousands of family homes and businesses to the Palisades fire, the subsequent closing of the community's nearly century-old newspaper felt like yet another a gut punch.

But as the infrastructure of the Palisades rises from the ashes, The Palisadian-Post is preparing to stage an unexpected comeback.

Longtime ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida voters, acutely concerned about affordability, are ready to vote in favor of a dramatic reduction in property taxes paid by residential homeowners.

The conclusions about their sentiments come from a University of North Florida poll that asked voters about a range of issues.

Affordability is top of mind for ...Read more

Samantha Smith of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, went into the operating room for emergency removal of an ectopic pregnancy. “I’m grateful I didn’t die,” she said, but she was shocked to see that the outpatient surgery was billed to her insurer for about $100,000.

Jamie Estrada of Albuquerque, New Mexico, twice received injections of ...Read more