CHICAGO — Exactly one year after Silverio Villegas González was shot and killed by an immigration enforcement agent during a traffic stop, his neighbors returned to the stretch of Grand Avenue in the western suburbs where he died.

But those who gathered in Franklin Park Saturday morning came not only to remember Villegas González. They ...Read more

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is defending the lone juror who refused to vote to acquit Lindsay Clancy of murder in the killing of her three children.

The juror, who has not been identified, single-handedly prevented a unanimous not-guilty verdict in the case, splitting the panel 11-1 on whether to find Clancy not guilty because of mental disease ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A trespasser tried to enter former Vice President Kamala Harris' cliffside home in Malibu on Friday evening, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and a Harris spokesman.

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were not home at the time, according to Eduardo Negrón, a spokesperson for Harris. He did not respond ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Living in Maryland next year could cost more, as state lawmakers consider raising taxes to address projected budget shortfalls and giving local governments greater power to raise revenue themselves.

This year, Democratic leaders cut services and pushed costs to the local level to keep their promise not to increase fees, a move ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rare rebuke of a campus event, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk on Friday distanced the university from a law school symposium about the 9/11 terrorist attacks that has faced criticism for including a lawyer for alleged 9/11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, along with speakers whom critics accuse of sympathizing with ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphians reacted with outrage when Drexel University and the Academy of Natural Sciences announced the closing of its museum on the Ben Franklin Parkway earlier this month.

But the museum is only a part of what the academy does. And while most Philadelphians think of dinosaurs and dioramas, the main business of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Iran-backed Houthis have asked the U.S. to abstain from targeting the militant group, as a worsening clash with Saudi Arabia inflames tensions in the Middle East.

“The Houthis called us, and they don’t want to fight with us,” Trump told reporters during a Saturday meeting in Dublin with Irish Prime Minister ...Read more

BEIRUT — It had been one year, eight months and 27 days since Atallah al-Drimly said goodbye to his son that Saturday morning in 2024, when Mahmoud insisted he could no longer stay away from the home he had fled and started walking north toward Gaza City. It was the last anyone saw of him.

But on July 28 — after fruitless searches in ...Read more

Anyone who has links to criminal organizations in Haiti should not be allowed to participate in the country’s forthcoming elections, the head of the Organization of American States said Friday, stressing that it is ultimately up to Haitian authorities to determine the eligibility of candidates to run for president, Parliament and local offices...Read more

DENVER — Mesa Verde National Park plans to return more than 4,000 sacred Native American objects and the remains of 85 Indigenous people in its possession, marking the largest potential repatriation in the park’s recorded history.

Park officials told The Denver Post last week that they have been conducting a thorough inventory of human ...Read more

In June 2024, during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, then-candidate Donald Trump got a glimpse of the technology that would come to define his second presidential term.

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and then-Chief Operating Officer Brad Lightcap showed the Republican a preview version of the artificial intelligence startup’s Sora image and ...Read more

Food prices for the rest of this year are largely headed in one direction: up.

Conagra Brands Inc. has told retailers to expect increases on products including Healthy Choice and Banquet frozen dinners. Campbell’s Co. said it plans to raise prices by 4% to 5% on roughly 60% of its products, mostly meals and snacks. Spice and condiment maker ...Read more

MIAMI — There’s a slew of investigative tools a state attorney’s office can use to pry loose evidence when no one is admitting to wrongdoing, but most of those options don’t appear to have been used by the grand jury investigating the flow of taxpayer funds to political ads and the Republican Party of Florida in 2024, according to a ...Read more

In his keynote address to the Republican midterm convention on Sept. 9, 2026, President Donald Trump promised that if Republicans retain control of Congress in November, he would authorize a US$5,000 payment to every American adult.

Trump’s offer seems to run afoul of federal laws, which make it a crime to pay for votes.

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WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee took a step toward holding billionaire Leon Black in contempt of Congress after he declined to comply with House subpoenas over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Black, the co-founder of Apollo Global Management, failed to appear before the committee on Sept. 3 and filed a lawsuit ...Read more

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump suggested he might be willing to allow a Chinese car company to build electric vehicles in the U.S. if it did so with American workers, while pledging to maintain the effective U.S. ban on imported vehicles from China.

Trump, speaking in a Fox News interview, rejected the suggestion that he would allow ...Read more