MINNEAPOLIS — The City of St. Paul, Minnesota, has hired an outside law firm to investigate sexual harassment allegations against Mayor Kaohly Her, including claims that she directed inappropriate sexual comments toward police Chief Axel Henry and other city employees.

The Minnesota Star Tribune obtained an April 1 letter sent by Henry’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of California offered seats to a record number of Californians this year, according to new figures released Wednesday, as it faces intense scrutiny of its admissions practices, including pressure from Sacramento to enroll more state residents and investigations by the Trump administration.

UC admitted 102,031 ...Read more

DENVER — The Denver City Council is weighing the addition of a “slavery acknowledgment” at the beginning of its meetings to recognize the forced labor of enslaved Africans and the legacy of that practice.

Councilwoman Shontel Lewis brought the proposal forward during a committee meeting Tuesday, originally calling it a “labor ...Read more

Glen Hansard, the Irish singer and songwriter best known for starring in the hit 2007 film “Once” — and for winning an Academy Award for original song with the movie’s “Falling Slowly” — died Wednesday in a motorcycle crash in Dublin. He was 56.

In a statement, Hansard’s representatives at ATC Management said he died “in the ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs has reportedly been placed in solitary confinement after a fight at his New Jersey prison, TMZ first reported.

The harsh punishment followed an altercation at FCI Fort Dix, unnamed sources told the outlet.

Fort Dix’s Admission and Orientation Inmate Handbook, lays out what this means.

While in “Disciplinary ...Read more

The U.S.’s conflict against Iran looks set to drag on, possibly for months, with the sides unable to break a deadlock over the Strait of Hormuz and achieve a lasting ceasefire deal, according to several current and former officials from the US, Iran and Europe.

The stark assessments from the people, who asked not to be named discussing ...Read more

DETROIT — The total number of reported cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan surpassed 10,000 on Wednesday as health officials continue to investigate the state's worst-ever outbreak of the parasitic illness.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services reported 397 new cases of cyclosporiasis, which usually causes frequent, watery and ...Read more

The clock is ticking on the end of Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants in the United States, meaning that it’s only a matter of time before the Trump administration can begin escalating their deportations to Haiti.

Technically, the administration’s policy ending TPS for Haitian and some Syrian ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. would hit Iran hard after a recent attack that targeted a military base in Jordan, as the war in the Middle East flared up once again following a recent pause in hostilities.

“We’ll be hitting them hard,” Trump said in a phone interview, Fox News reported Wednesday, adding that “they’re going to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Nicholas Shapiro, a professor at UCLA, was scrolling the city of Los Angeles' online data portal one day this spring when he noticed something odd.

A trove of Los Angeles Police Department records that were once regularly posted online was suddenly nowhere to be found. The records — everything from audio recordings of ...Read more

At picnics and World Cup watch parties across the United States this summer, people have been reaching for bowls of chips and guacamole. Most of that guacamole is made from avocados grown in Mexico – on orchards that, in what might come as a surprise, contribute less water pollution today than they did a decade ago.

There’s a ...Read more

Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, best known for starring in the 2007 indie darling "Once" and winning an Oscar for "Falling Slowly," the film's original song along with co-star Markéta Irglová, has died. He was 56.

Hansard died Wednesday morning following a motorcycle crash in Dublin, according to the Associated Press.

"With broken ...Read more

The U.S. said its forces were targeted by Iran overnight while Washington and Saudi Arabia struck Tehran-backed militias in Iraq, abruptly ending a days-long lull in hostilities.

The U.S. and Iran had paused tit-for-tat strikes at the end of last week to allow time for a diplomatic conclusion to their five-month war, leading to a significant ...Read more

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva maintained his lead over Flávio Bolsonaro ahead of October’s election as a cloud of controversies swirled around the conservative challenger, a new poll found.

Lula leads Bolsonaro by 6 percentage points, 49% to 43%, in a runoff scenario, according to an AtlasIntel survey for Bloomberg News published ...Read more

MIAMI — Andrew and Tristan Tate, who were recently arrested outside a Miami concert venue on new rape charges in the United Kingdom, aren’t the only controversial online personalities who have chosen Miami as home.

In fact, in the past few years, a growing number of influencers who built lucrative brands around hypermasculinity, dating ...Read more

The next foodborne illness outbreak could be much worse.

That’s the concern of food safety leaders across the U.S. who are raising alarms over federal cuts they say have made it harder to detect and stop the spread of foodborne illnesses, such as the recent outbreaks of cyclospora, which has sickened thousands in dozens of states. And they’...Read more