CHICAGO — A judge has dismissed yet another set of Operation Midway Blitz related charges, this time against against a man who had been accused of resisting or impeding federal agents during the Trump administration’s expansive immigration raids in and around Chicago late last year.

Prosecutors moved to drop the charges Feb. 5, according to...Read more

A person detained for questioning in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping case said he was released from custody early Wednesday.

The brief detention came hours after FBI officials released surveillance footage showing a masked individual approaching the 84-year-old’s front door the morning she was abducted.

Officials have not released the ...Read more

Congressional Democrats forced a vote Wednesday on a measure to rebuke President Donald Trump for his tariffs on imports from Canada, putting Republicans on the hot seat over the unpopular trade war.

The House was set to vote later Wednesday on a measure introduced by Rep. Greg Meeks, D-New York, that would overturn the “economic emergency”...Read more

The Justice Department has failed to obtain an indictment against six Democratic lawmakers who recorded a video last year encouraging military members to defy illegal orders.

The feds launched the investigation in November after the video was shared on social media. President Donald Trump and other leaders in his administration quickly blasted ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Cutting the percentage of out-of-state students enrolled in Florida’s top public universities would cost the schools millions of dollars, but they should be able to “work that out,” said the Polk County lawmaker proposing the change.

State Rep. Jennifer Kincart Jonsson, R-Lakeland, wants out-of-state students to make up ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has fired back at Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear for his recent comments about the agency on “The View.”

Beshear told the hosts of “The View” on Monday that, “every ICE agent should be withdrawn from every city and every community that they’re in.” The comments come on the ...Read more

BOSTON — Glioblastoma patients, long shut out from immunotherapies that have transformed patient care in other cancers, could finally benefit from a new treatment option.

Boston cancer researchers have found that a virus-based therapy improves survival in patients with glioblastoma.

A team led by investigators at Mass General Brigham and ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A “superbug” fungus is spreading in health care facilities across the country, and according to researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, represents a multi-drug resistant threat that requires early detection and response.

Candida auris, or C. auris, spreads easily in health care settings and ...Read more

NEW YORK — The city’s projected budget gap is now estimated to be about $7 billion — down from the $12.6 billion Mayor Zohran Mamdani warned of last month — though the mayor said the state still needs to step up to help balance the city’s budget and pay for affordability measures for New Yorkers, he testified in Albany on Tuesday.

The...Read more

A person of interest detained in connection with the abduction of Nancy Guthrie, who disappeared in Arizona 10 days ago, has been released, according to reports.

In a statement on social media, the Pima County Sheriff’s Department said deputies on Tuesday “detained a subject during a traffic stop south of Tucson,” but they stopped short ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A fast moving storm drenched Los Angeles overnight and triggered a flash flood warning in a local burn scar Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.

The storm dumped more than an inch of rain in Ojai in Ventura County, nearly three-quarters of an inch in downtown Los Angeles and dropped rain at nearly .75 inches an ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he accepted a U.S. offer to host another round of talks next week to end Russia’s war, with negotiators likely to zero in on the difficult issue of territory.

The newest round is slated for Tuesday or Wednesday, Zelenskyy told Bloomberg News, though it’s unclear whether Russia would agree to ...Read more

NATO will boost its Arctic presence with a new mission after U.S. President Donald Trump prompted an alliance crisis over his attempts to take Greenland.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced the mission, dubbed “Arctic Sentry,” on Wednesday, a day before the group’s defense ministers gather in Brussels.

The move comes just ...Read more

As the dust settles on days of high-stakes political drama in Westminster, Labour insiders from across the party have arrived at a similar conclusion: Buy Angela Rayner, hold Keir Starmer and sell Wes Streeting.

The U.K. prime minister’s position is seen as safe for the immediate future after every member of the Cabinet on Monday publicly ...Read more

Organic compounds found in Mars rocks are too abundant to rule out the possibility of Martian life in the red planet’s history, NASA scientists say.

In March of 2025, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered oily chemicals on Mars. These chemicals, called decane, undecane, and dodecane, are types of long molecules made of carbon and hydrogen. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nine people have died inside L.A. County jails so far this year, an alarming number for the Sheriff's Department as it continues to face a lawsuit from the state over the conditions in local lockups.

Sheriff's Department officials said they are continuing to make changes, hoping to reduce the number of in-custody deaths and ...Read more