After days of searching hospitals and an improvised morgue, Daniely Hurtado believed she had finally found the body of her husband, one of the deportees from the United States on Flight 164 the same day two earthquakes devastated Venezuela.

She had already hired a funeral home to cremate him when, just two minutes before the body was taken away...Read more

The search for a gunman who shot four people at a high school graduation in Northern California, killing one, has ended with the arrest of a 17-year-old boy in Texas, police said.

Fairfield Police Department said Friday morning that detectives had identified a male teenager as the suspect and learned he had fled the state and traveled to Texas ...Read more

DENVER — A Colorado Springs man fell from a fourth-floor hotel window during an unsupervised psilocybin therapy session last year after his counselor served him psilocybin tea and then left him alone, the man alleged in a lawsuit filed this week.

Jacob Ramirez survived the fall but spent nearly two months hospitalized with serious injuries to...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has vetoed nine bills that were the subject of litigation and 18 months of delay — legislation that was only presented to the governor Friday after a Michigan Supreme Court order required their presentment.

The legislation, which the then-Democratic-controlled Legislature failed at the end of 2024 to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. would continue talks with Iran but considers the ceasefire between the countries to be over. His administration quickly moved to add additional pressure on Tehran.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to...Read more

MIAMI — Life as she knows it might be ending on Friday. Lilly, a 33-year-old community organizer, has lived in the U.S. for the last seven years. Like 350,000 other Haitians nationwide, she’s facing the loss of her deportation protections and work authorization under temporary protected status.

“I don’t know what tomorrow holds,” she ...Read more

Kristi Noem’s mother broke the news Friday that the former Department of Homeland Security secretary has begun divorce proceedings against her husband Bryon after 34 years of marriage — and after it was publicly revealed in March that the insurance agent and father of three allegedly liked to cross-dress as a woman with excessively large ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s historic State Capitol building will get two new statues — the first since Confederate statues were taken down in 2020 — as part of the new state budget.

The late Rev. Billy Graham, known worldwide as a conservative Christian evangelist preacher whose crusades drew thousands for decades, will be ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. revoked the legal status of a Hmong man who was recently pardoned by Minnesota officials and deported him from the country.

The removal of Tou Lue Vang of St. Paul comes one month after the Minnesota Board of Pardons granted him clemency as he faced deportation to Laos for raping a 10-...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher is publicly warning of what he says is a surge in violence involving Somali gangs — an issue he says has not received enough attention.

Fletcher’s brought the issue forward in a video he posted to social media Monday flanked by gang investigators, a day after one man was killed and four ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on democratic socialists who have won Democratic Party primaries could clash with his idea of creating investment accounts for American adults.

The administration this week already formally launched its Trump Accounts initiative for children, which includes a one-time government ...Read more

MIAMI — A South Florida business that is suspected of receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in sponsorship payments on behalf of the Argentine Football Association moved into an Aventura office suite at the beginning of the year, but then moved out this spring, according to public records and a Miami Herald visit to the location.

The FBI ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States would continue talks with Iran but considers the ceasefire between the countries to be over.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has asked us to continue ‘talks.’ We have agreed to do so, but the United States has stated to them, in no uncertain terms, that the Cease Fire is OVER!,”...Read more

After showing worryingly weak early interest, World Cup fans showed up at the last minute to boost Los Angeles hotel occupancy and room rates.

Ahead of the last tournament game in Los Angeles is on Friday, hotels popular with soccer fans said they were full and charging higher rates.

In early May, the American Hotel and Lodging Assn. reported ...Read more

A Ryanair Boeing 737 NG plane flying from Greece to Germany turned back for an emergency landing after an issue with its right engine, a cabin decompression event and a broken passenger window, according to safety regulators and the airline.

The Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki, Greece, to Memmingen, Germany, made an emergency landing Friday ...Read more

A new rule proposed by the White House Office of Management and Budget would fundamentally overhaul the way federal grants are awarded and overseen — a sweeping change that one scientific society said "would all but end the use of scientific merit in the selection of grants and programs across the government."

Proposed in late May, the rule ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A year before a massive fire at a Boyle Heights cold storage building sent polluted smoke into surrounding communities, the operator of the facility came to Los Angeles City Hall with a request.

Lineage asked about removing an emergency shutdown switch from the solar panels on the roof of the structure, according to the Los ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday night removed the remaining members of a federal commission intended to assist with federal elections, amid his broader effort to control voting procedures and election administration.

Trump fired Chair Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland from the Election Assistance Commission, while Republican ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A woman who authorities say married more than a dozen men in Las Vegas to fund her gambling has agreed to plead guilty to two felonies.

Jiaying Chen, 33, waived her right to a preliminary hearing during an appearance before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Rebecca Saxe on Tuesday.

Chen’s attorney, Thomas Wells, said she plans to ...Read more

The 2026 midterms are here, and negative campaign messaging is flooding screens across the U.S. In Texas’ Senate race, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s comments about Democratic Texas Rep. James Talarico have gone viral.

Rather than simply suggesting Talarico is weak on border security or inflation economics, Paxton’s ...Read more