The hiring boom the FIFA World Cup was expected to bring to the U.S. looks like it may not end up materializing after all.

Ahead of the June 11 kickoff of the soccer tournament, the first in the U.S. since 1994, FIFA predicted the events could create the equivalent of 185,000 full-time jobs, primarily in leisure and hospitality. Many Wall ...Read more

A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was a “bad faith” attempt to manipulate the judicial process and barred him and his administration from citing its supposed settlement in any future regulatory or judicial proceedings.

Monday’s 56-page decision by U.S. District Judge ...Read more

The story is beginning to fade from the headlines. The fear, though, continues.

Monday will mark eight weeks since authorities say two teens, apparently radicalized by hate online, stormed the Islamic Center of San Diego and killed three congregants, including a security guard who engaged them in a gunfight. About 140 people were at the site ...Read more

United Nations officials in Haiti are calling for the immediate end to the recruitment and use of children by armed groups as three more gangs were added to the secretary-general’s annual list of parties responsible for grave violations against children in armed conflict.

The gangs Gran Grif, Krazé Baryé and 400 Mawozo were added in the ...Read more

The bright blue sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ outside the silver chain-link gate at Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport has been removed. The airstrip, formerly used to hold immigrants in industrial tents, is now cleared with only a few structures and cars remaining. And after Gov. Ron DeSantis invested over a billion dollars to...Read more

President Donald Trump reinstated the U.S. blockade of Iranian ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz and demanded a 20% reimbursement on all other cargo shipped through the waterway.

Trump’s announcement Monday, in which he asserted the U.S. would become the waterway’s “GUARDIAN,” intensifies an ongoing spat between Washington and ...Read more

Idaho voters will decide in November whether to restore widespread access to abortion after years of some of the country’s most restrictive abortion laws, election officials confirmed Monday.

Idahoans United for Women and Families said Monday that a ballot initiative it created to carve out reproductive healthcare protections, including the ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Law enforcement officials seized nearly $6 million worth of crack-cocaine destined for Philadelphia as well as thousands of fentanyl pills in a monthslong drug operation, authorities said Monday.

The seizure was the culmination of an 18-month joint investigation into several men who supplied or sold the potent synthetic opioid ...Read more

The sister of the late Lindsey Graham will take over for the final months of his U.S. Senate term, South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced Monday.

Darline Graham Nordone was named to temporarily serve in the U.S. Senate hours after President Donald Trump supported her appointment Monday.

“Lindsey has always been there for me, and now I ...Read more

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell released his first comprehensive statement along with his physician Sunday afternoon after a month of hospitalization and few details known surrounding his health condition.

McConnell, 84, was hospitalized June 14, but his team did not give details about his condition at the time, only saying he was receiving “...Read more

Donald Trump has lost a go-to ally in the Senate after the death of Lindsey Graham, with senior White House aides and other Republicans — and even some Democrats — saying the late senator had become a crucial part of the president’s legislative efforts.

The 71-year-old Budget Committee chairman and national security hawk was a fierce ...Read more

A federal judge has officially dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against former Philadelphia Proud Boys leader Zach Rehl, putting an end to a landmark prosecution that had at one point served as a leading example of the Justice Department’s effort to seek criminal consequences for people who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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NEW YORK — The final night of Jay-Z’s Yankee Stadium homestand got off to a late start and ran until nearly 3 a.m. due to apparent safety concerns.

The scheduled Sunday night performance, which was fittingly dubbed “Extra Innings,” finally got underway early Monday morning much to the chagrin of anxious fans.

The Hollywood Reporter ...Read more

After months of refusing to do so, the Justice Department has turned over a substantial amount of evidence from its investigations into the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during Operation Metro Surge to state investigators, a person familiar with the investigation but not authorized to speak publicly about the details confirmed to the ...Read more

DETROIT — The number of cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan climbed to 2,640 as of Monday morning, an increase of over 1,000 from Friday, according to the state's health department.

Forty-four people have reportedly been hospitalized, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said.

Monday's numbers are up from 1,562 on Friday. Cases ...Read more

DENVER — The private prison giant Geo Group has signed a multiyear contract with the Trump administration to reopen a shuttered prison in Hudson, Colorado, and turn it into an immigration detention center.

The long-expected agreement will nearly double U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s immigrant detention capacity in Colorado. The ...Read more

DETROIT — The number of cyclosporiasis cases in Michigan climbed to 2,640 as of Monday morning, an increase of over 1,000 from Friday, according to the state's health department.

Forty-four people have reportedly been hospitalized, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said.

Monday's numbers are up from 1,562 on Friday. Cases ...Read more

NEW YORK — A controversial bill to provide each New York City school paraprofessional with a $10,000 “workforce stabilization” payment — outside of the standard collective bargaining process — will go before the full City Council for a vote later this week, but Mayor Zohran Mamdani Monday said he has misgivings about the plan.

The ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — As the execution of convicted killer Dennis Sochor draws near, his victim’s sister is bracing for a reality she has dreaded for 44 years.

“I wish we had her home,” Marilyn Gifford said of her slain sister, Patricia. “I want her back. We want to lay her to rest.”

With his execution date set for Tuesday, time ...Read more