TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Hillsborough County firefighter paramedic who was fired for medical marijuana use may soon take his case to the Florida Supreme Court.

His push to save his job comes as the federal government takes a softer stance on medical marijuana — something his attorney and advocates say Florida must catch up to.

In 2019, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As details of an internal investigation into St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her have emerged over the past week, so has a central question: Does the conduct amount to sexual harassment, or is Her’s personality being weaponized in a public fight with the St. Paul Police Department?

So far, the allegations against Her include that she ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security’s system for paying for detainee medical care has collapsed, records show, leaving a backlog of unpaid claims likely costing millions of dollars.

With a new payment system still not in place, advocates for immigrant detainees fear some are going without necessary treatment as medical ...Read more

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