CHICAGO — More than four dozen bodies in various stages of decomposition were recovered Thursday from the basement and attached garage at a South Deering funeral home on the city’s Southeast Side, according to multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation.

Authorities received a tip about the South Chicago Chapel in ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — In a laboratory overlooking Fifth Ave in the heart of Oakland, unassuming machines as expensive as cars divide brain tissue from deceased patients with Alzheimer’s disease down to their individual cells.

The murmur of small talk among technicians mingles with the whir of these machines and the clink of glass instruments. It’s...Read more

President Trump targeted birthright citizenship again Thursday by signing a pair of executive orders purporting to narrow it — including by cracking down on "birth tourism" and limiting which children born to immigrants in the U.S. qualify.

The new orders follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that rejected an attempt by Trump to end ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass said Thursday that the Los Angeles Police Department should stop working with Flock Safety, warning that the company, which operates AI-enabled license plate readers that allow authorities to monitor vehicles around the city, had lost public trust.

In her most forceful comments to date on the topic, Bass said ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a vocal and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, drew a sharp line Thursday between his views and the party’s platform on the contentious issue of public safety and policing.

“Especially when it comes to public safety, I’ve been very clear that we have our police force, we have ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan health officials on Thursday said that residents can resume routine guidance for eating lettuce and salad greens as new cyclosporiasis cases and related emergency department visits are on the decline.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said the broad, precautionary recommendation to avoid bagged salad ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal authorities sent Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart subpoenas for inmates wanted for civil immigration enforcement along with letters that threatened criminal charges if the office didn’t turn over the individuals, according to the sheriff’s office and public records obtained by the Tribune.

The New York Times was the first to...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is actively considering issuing an executive order on vaccines and autism as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.

The effort is prompted by President Donald Trump’s interest in seeing additional action, according to the people, who asked not to be named to discuss internal ...Read more

Five months after winning the city of Leavenworth’s permission to reopen a shuttered prison as an immigrant detention center, CoreCivic has sold the Kansas facility to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for $238.4 million.

The nation’s largest private prison chain said in a press release Wednesday that it anticipates continuing to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California air regulators Thursday adopted a slate of new requirements aimed at neutralizing the rancid odors from the fire-damaged Lineage warehouse that still contains millions of pounds of rotting food.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District's hearing board, a five-member committee tasked with deciding ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California is reporting more cases of cyclosporiasis than it would on average for this point in the summer, including two recent cases where residents ate at out-of-state Taco Bell restaurants, according to state health officials and data.

Despite the uptick, officials say California is not included in the cyclosporiasis ...Read more

A newly created secret CIA task force targeting Cuba could be paving the way for military action or influence operations seeking regime change on the island and is a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign to force political and economic change on the island, a former senior CIA official told the Miami Herald.

Marc ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders aimed at denying citizenship to certain people born in the United States, his second attempt to curb birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court knocked down an earlier directive.

Under one measure signed Thursday, mothers deemed to be seeking entry to the U.S. for the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Education has opened civil rights investigations into antisemitism at San Jose State and San Francisco State, alleging that the universities have perpetuated harassment and fostered hostile environments for Jewish students on campus.

The DOE’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether the schools, both part of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida wants to build at least five small detention facilities south of the Interstate-4 corridor, a possible new push by the state to bolster federal mass deportations in the wake of the closure of Alligator Alcatraz and a failed effort to convert an Orange County warehouse into a large holding facility for migrants.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former California state parks officer accused of secretly recording nearly two dozen men, some of whom were minors at the time, inside an employee locker room made his first court appearance Thursday morning.

Kevin Pearsall, 59, of Long Beach, faces five felony counts of eavesdropping, 23 misdemeanor counts of secretly filming...Read more

A beaver that bit a 19-year-old fisherman at Cunningham Falls State Park earlier this week tested positive for rabies, the Frederick County Health Department said.

This is the second beaver to contract and test positive for rabies in the past two weeks. A 13-year-old boy who was swimming at the William Houck Area’s popular North Beach needed ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former clerk of court Becky Hill won.

In recent years, Hill was revealed to have plagiarized parts of her book on Alex Murdaugh’s 2023 double-murder trial. She later resigned her Colleton County clerk of court’s post in disgrace. In 2025, she pleaded guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice says it has found that Duke University Law School discriminated against white and Asian applicants in favor of Black and Hispanic candidates in its admissions process.

The Justice Department says it found a “a deliberate effort to preserve racial outcomes” at Duke Law for the classes of 2023, 2024, and 2025 �...Read more