CHICAGO — The Rev. George Clements helped propel the Black Catholic movement, created the “One Church, One Child” initiative urging adoption and, against church practice, adopted children himself.

Those headline-grabbing and sometimes polarizing moves served as cover for the late South Side pastor to orchestrate a “decades-long child ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Cook County medical examiner’s office has identified all 55 people whose remains were found decomposing inside a Southeast Side funeral home this summer, authorities told the Chicago Tribune.

Officials previously indicated there were 56 remains found at South Chicago Chapel, but it was actually 55, said Natalia Derevyanny, a ...Read more

A judge is mulling an ICE agent’s attempt to stand trial in a federal courtroom instead of Hennepin County Court after hearing arguments spanning more than two days and tearful testimony from the defendant.

The ICE agent, Gregory Morgan Jr., is charged with two counts of second-degree assault for allegedly pointing his gun at two motorists ...Read more

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday announced the state will invest $371 million in the Port of Philadelphia, a commitment he said will help create thousands of jobs and boost the port's capacity to handle container cargo and automobiles.

Shapiro said the state funding will "unlock" at least $200 million in private investment and $266 ...Read more

India’s External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar laid out his country’s approach to some of its most consequential relationships in a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg Editor in Chief John Micklethwait on Tuesday.

Jaishankar said India and China are exploring ways to make incremental progress on their long-running boundary ...Read more

After a monthslong journey that took them from the registrar of voters to police custody and back, thanks to California’s Supreme Court, more than 650,000 ballots cast by Riverside County voters will meet their end.

As required by state law, the ballots — cast in the November 2025 Proposition 50 special election — are being destroyed ...Read more

The man who orchestrated the killing of rapper Tupac Shakur, fueling a bicoastal feud that involved gang members and record company executives, has been sentenced to 40 years to life in prison.

While sentencing Duane “Keffe D” Davis on Tuesday, Clark County District Court Judge Carli Lynn Kierny said: “You don’t get to take a man from ...Read more

Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook says she will be unable to attend a Nov. 5 hearing at the White House that’s part of a new investigation into mortgage fraud allegations by President Donald Trump.

Cook will be “executing her official duties as governor at financial and monetary policy meetings in Europe” then, her lawyer, Abbe Lowell, ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal jury will sort out whether a young Brooklyn woman on trial for charges she got automatic weapon training from ISIS is a terrorist or a victim of an oppressive Islamic state, in what’s believed to be the first U.S. court trial of an alleged female ISIS member.

Halima Salman was 17 when her father brought her and her ...Read more

The crisp predawn skies over Central Florida had curious eyes wondering what was unfolding, as an orangish-blue wispy cloud billowed into life ahead of the rising sun.

For those in the know, what was forming is often called the “space jellyfish” effect, the result of the exhaust from a rocket launch creating luminescent clouds that expand ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A dozen senators from both parties bluntly told President Donald Trump in a letter Tuesday to reverse a deal he announced last week to allow U.S. purchases of Russian diesel fuel.

The proposed waiver of U.S. energy sanctions on Russia would permit the purchase of several hundred thousand tons of the fuel from that country, ...Read more

Doctors diagnosed Pope Leo XIV with lung cancer and removed the lower lobe of his right lung during surgery, the Holy See said.

The operation at Rome’s Gemelli hospital followed the earlier discovery of a nodule on his lung. The diagnosis confirmed suspicions from pre-operative tests, the Holy See said in a statement. “The procedure was ...Read more

CHICAGO — A day after a national news report linked them to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a former executive at Chicago’s Loretto Hospital and one of his top medical suppliers were arraigned on a superseding indictment alleging they stole almost $16 million from the small safety-net facility.

Anosh Ahmed, who served as chief financial ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The season’s first Santa Ana wind event will begin Wednesday and ramp up Thursday, bringing significant fire risk to parched Los Angeles County.

Between Thursday afternoon and Friday afternoon, large swaths of Southern California will see sustained winds of 20 to 40 miles per hour and gusts from 40 to 60 miles per hour, ...Read more

Kimberly Guilfoyle resigned her post as ambassador to Greece on Tuesday, after being asked to do so by President Trump amid a wave of misconduct allegations she has denied.

Guilfoyle, a former Trump campaign surrogate and onetime fiancee of Donald Trump Jr., faced allegations including an offer to use her influence in Trump’s orbit in ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Tuesday rejected calls from his political base to fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch after federal immigration agents shot a man in the neck last week, injuring him.

“Tisch is the police commissioner. I have no plans to change that,” Mamdani said in Queens Tuesday morning, his first media availability ...Read more

New York City Council Speaker Julie Menin announced Tuesday that she and Mayor Zohran Mamdani have agreed to a deal to abolish the embattled Central Park horse carriage industry starting in 2028, bringing an end to a longstanding city tradition that has come under increasing criticism in recent years.

The Council is expected to vote on the ban ...Read more

CHICAGO — With his city budget pitch for next year looming, Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday again argued large corporations must pay more taxes to help Chicago balance its books.

Johnson remained tight-lipped on his specific budget plans during a City Hall news conference, but hinted he may also propose higher taxes on cloud computing ...Read more