MIAMI — The FBI’s investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in soccer sponsorship payments routed through local businesses to Argentina’s football association has escalated with a federal grand jury in Miami scheduled to hear testimony and review records on July 30.

A partial screenshot of a grand jury subpoena, which has ...Read more

A Secret Service agent assigned to protect Vice President JD Vance has reportedly been put on administrative leave amid an investigation into leaks of embarrassing information about his “inappropriate” travel requests including a planned helicopter ride to ferry his son to a golf lesson.

The unnamed agent is suspected of being the anonymous...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Attorney General Rob Bonta is backing Harvard University in its legal fight over frozen federal research funding, arguing the Trump administration’s actions could ultimately threaten California’s public universities and the state’s research economy.

Bonta joined a coalition of 20 other attorneys general ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Coral Springs man was supposed to use COVID relief loans he and his co-conspirators obtained from the U.S. government to cover business expenses such as payroll and rent.

Instead, they put the money toward helping finance the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse.

Keegan Harricharan, 42, was sentenced to...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened to step up strikes on Iran and said he’ll hold the country responsible for any further attacks by the Yemen-based Houthis on Red Sea ships, as the widening Middle East war puts new strain on global energy supplies.

Trump told Axios in an interview that he’s considering a “massive attack” ...Read more

DENVER — The U.S. Department of Justice sued Colorado on Thursday for offering in-state tuition rates to undocumented students who live in the state, the latest turn in an ongoing effort by the Trump administration to end such tuition breaks for students who are in the country illegally.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the ...Read more

Canadian officers have seized more than $101.5 million worth of illegal drugs, plus electronics and an anti-tank rifle, in what officials called one of the biggest single-investigation seizures in Ontario's history.

The investigation, dubbed Project Bay, focused on disrupting Canada's international drug trade and included support from U.S. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES —A federal grand jury this week indicted a famous Los Angeles sneaker seller for his role in an organized theft ring that stole more than $2 million worth of shoes from a Nike distribution hub.

Bereket Abraham, owner of Coolkicks, and 11 others are accused of operating the theft ring from July 2021 to June 2024, mainly targeting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The number of people living on the street — both in the city of Los Angeles and across much of Los Angeles County — is up compared to the previous year, dealing a fresh blow to Mayor Karen Bass as she runs for reelection.

Homelessness went up by 3.4% across the city compared to the previous year, according to two people ...Read more

NEW YORK — A driver in a fit of road rage used a meat cleaver to hack away at a man after the pair got into a fender-bender in Queens early Thursday, cops said.

The attacker got into a crazed argument with the 47-year-old victim after their collision at 26th Avenue and 127th Street in College Point about 5:35 a.m., police said.

As the ...Read more

Tropical Storm Bertha made its second landfall in two days after skirting Louisiana’s Gulf Coast and coming ashore near the border with Texas on Thursday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The system made its first landfall Wednesday at 3 p.m. EDT with 45 mph sustained winds in St. Bernard Parish near the Biloxi Wildlife Management ...Read more

NEW YORK — Dramatic new footage of a U.S. Army veteran’s full attack on 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan shows several passersby running for cover as he points what looks like a rifle at them.

Andrew Arrabaca, described as “quite clearly ill” by a federal judge, is being held without bail on an arson charge for starting a towering ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House’s growing frustration with Senate Majority Leader John Thune seeped into public again on Thursday, the second consecutive day team Trump has vented at the chamber’s Republican leader.

“His patience is running out,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, referring to President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is set for its next Starship and Super Heavy test mission from Texas now set for Friday because of poor weather Thursday from Tropical Storm Bertha. It’s the next step on Elon Musk’s company’s path to operational launches from Florida.

Now pushed by one day, it’s targeting what would be the 13th suborbital ...Read more

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill revealed Thursday that her administration was already trying to get rid of the vendor that she blames for thousands of illegal voter registrations in the state before she discovered the misstep.

Sherrill, a first-term Democrat, announced Tuesday that she learned almost a week prior that about 6,600 noncitizens had...Read more

MIAMI — As underwater temperatures continue to soar in South Florida, the coral shuffle has begun.

Scientists are eyeing any coral that isn’t tied down and making plans to move them somewhere safe: to deeper waters, to a shaded spot or even to land-based aquariums. They hope to avoid the disaster of 2023, when waters got so hot that a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — New details have been released in the death of a Grammy-nominated gospel singer who was allegedly killed by his son inside his Santa Monica home in December.

According to details in the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's autopsy report, Jubilant Sykes was brutally attacked on Dec. 8, 2025, suffering 68 stab wounds and several...Read more

HUDSON, Colo. — A group of immigration advocates on Thursday announced a new lawsuit aimed at preventing the Trump administration from opening a planned immigration detention facility in their community.

Together Colorado, a nonprofit collection of faith leaders fighting for humane immigration policies, and a Weld County resident sued the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Along Union Pacific Avenue in Boyle Heights, rat traps sit about every 10 feet along the sidewalk, with the aim of catching hungry rodents drawn to the burned-out warehouse holding millions of pounds of rotting meat.

But Lisett Navarrete, a 34-year-old resident, has little faith that they'll do the job.

"It's not like little ...Read more