MIAMI — Exactly 260 days after immigration agents arrested a prominent Haitian businessman at his South Miami home, U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles questioned why Dimitri Vorbe had been held for so long without due process.

“I am concerned about the whole idea that the petitioner can just be detained indefinitely,” Gayles said on June 9...Read more

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For months, Marie’s 11-year-old daughter wasn’t acting like herself. The fifth grader was often fatigued, sleeping more. She wasn’t eating enough, and spent more time alone.

“...Read more

It’s not every day that physicians coin a new name for a disorder — and that the disorder plagues a majority of Americans.

Last month, the American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology released guidelines for physicians on a syndrome it’s calling “CKM syndrome” or cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome, which they ...Read more

In a Kansas Democratic governor primary shaped by personal attacks and long-simmering animosity, dueling accusations could jeopardize the party’s ability to unify behind whoever wins next Tuesday.

Will Lawrence, chief of staff for term-limited Gov. Laura Kelly, says his boss chose to go public with her divorce last year because she felt she ...Read more

Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment and declined to answer questions from a Senate committee more than 100 times on July 29, 2026.

The Republican-led hearing – convened to scrutinize Fauci’s management of the pandemic and the origins of COVID-19 – was the latest chapter in a political story that began in 2020, when ...Read more

President Donald Trump is traveling to Las Vegas next week to promote his administration’s Working Families Tax Cuts, his second such appearance in the valley this year, the White House said.

Trump is slated to again highlight the tax provision of the 2025 One Big Beautiful Bill Act he signed into law. The legislation included tax deductions ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S.-led Board of Peace had reached an agreement for Hamas to disarm, though questions remained about the extent of the accord and officials suggested it would not be implemented immediately.

U.S. and Board of Peace officials said details of the deal would have to be refined over the next couple of weeks, with ...Read more

The Ecuadorian woman whose arrest by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at Denver International Airport last week went viral was released from federal custody Thursday afternoon, according to her lawyer.

Chantal Alejandra Morales Rojas was released on a $3,000 bond and will return home to Oakland with her family and friends while ...Read more

By the end of 2024 the number of people in Orange County who struggle to eat every day had jumped to a level not seen since the Great Recession, and in the 18 months since then, the situation has almost certainly grown worse, according to national data and observations from people connected to local food nonprofits.

A new report from Feeding ...Read more

An organization focused on the separation of church and state has accused a Lexington middle school of letting church representatives “proselytize” local middle schoolers.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation on Wednesday demanded that Fayette County Public Schools “immediately stop allowing pastors from a local church to proselytize ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S.-led Board of Peace had reached a deal for the “complete disarmament” of Hamas and other armed groups in the Gaza Strip, as well as putting the area under a new Palestinian government, marking a breakthrough in implementing his 20-point peace plan.

“This is a monumental step toward lasting PEACE and ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — An Apex teen who was detained last year by immigration agents despite being a U.S. citizen is now seeking damages from the Trump administration for what he says was a wrongful arrest and “unjust” treatment by the officers.

On Nov. 18, Fernando Vazquez Orea — who was born in Raleigh and was 18 when he was detained — was...Read more

The U.S. State Department presented a map of Africa that mislabeled every nation on the continent that it attempted to highlight at the International AIDS Conference in Brazil this week.

Nigeria, a vast country sitting on the Gulf of Guinea, was shown as a landlocked nation in the Sahara desert. Mozambique, whose Indian Ocean coastline ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami’s top Catholic leader is continuing to advocate for a three-year extension of temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants in the United States, calling the humanitarian crisis in Haiti a “house on fire” that would be “unconscionable” to send people back to.

Archbishop Thomas Wenski ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The World Cup and a focus on premium beer brands helped to buoy sales, Anheuser-Busch InBev leaders reported Thursday.

For its most recent quarter, ending June 30, revenue grew 5.6% — $1.65 billion — to $16.66 billion, compared to the same period last year, beating analysts' expectations of $16.29 billion.

Volumes were up 0.9...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A 50-year sentence for a minor convicted of second-degree murder is akin to "cruel or unusual punishment" and thus is unconstitutional, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Thursday in the latest in a series of decisions chipping away at prison sentences for youths convicted of murder.

The 6-1, party-line high court ruling will ...Read more