The Trump administration’s top diplomat in Haiti may soon be leaving his post.

Henry T. Wooster, who has spent the past year shaping Washington’s response to the country’s vexing security and political crises as chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy, has been nominated as ambassador to Kenya, the White House announced Monday. Wooster�...Read more

Microsoft Corp. launched new artificial intelligence software designed to function like an always-active executive assistant, the latest evolution of its workplace AI efforts.

While AI bots like ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot are only visible to the user, the new tool, dubbed Scout, will appear on internal email and calendar systems as if it ...Read more

Human remains discovered next to a handgun in a remote northern New Mexico forest were identified this week as those of a missing woman who had worked at a high-security federal lab.

Melissa Casias was first reported missing almost a year ago from her home in Taos, N.M., where her daughter found her valuables — two phones, wallet, ...Read more

Debbie Brockman, the former WGN-TV producer whose aggressive detainment in October during Operation Midway Blitz went viral on social media, filed a $10 million personal injury claim against the U.S. government Tuesday for alleged harm suffered at the hands of federal immigration agents.

Brockman was tackled, handcuffed and placed in a van ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Survivors Committee wants some of its more prominent sexual abuse claims against the Archdiocese of Baltimore moved from federal bankruptcy court to Maryland civil court — a move that, if approved, would increase the church’s liability exposure by millions of dollars.

Testimony began Tuesday on the committee’s request to...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Federal officials on Tuesday announced an expansion to a program that uses Farm Bill funding to help farmers and ranchers preserve big-game migration corridors on private land. The announcement was made in Boise at a Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies conference.

The program, called Migratory Big Game: A ...Read more

MIAMI — For the first time, Catholic schools in South Florida are getting some extra help from the state to pay for security measures.

The recently approved state budget includes $15 million for security funding for Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Miami, which includes 68 schools in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

The ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois’ two Democratic U.S. senators called Tuesday for U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros to resign, saying his office has been “riddled with chaos, deep internal dysfunction, and alleged misconduct.”

“He must resign, and there must be an open, transparent, and nonpartisan search to nominate the next U.S. Attorney for the ...Read more

CHICAGO — Hoping to earn enough money to cover her son’s daycare, María Cuetia made her way downtown on Mother’s Day to sell mangos near Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue. Walking beside her cart was her 3-year-old son, proudly pushing his own toy cart through the crowded streets.

The boy had been sick for a few days, forcing Cuetia to...Read more

A suspect is dead and two police officers were injured in a shooting in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Tuesday.

The incident occurred on the 100 block of North Florida Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small said police were executing a search warrant on the block at the time of the shooting.

Small added that he had been to ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In less than 24 hours, Florida lawmakers questioned, debated and added to the November ballot what could become the most sweeping restructuring of the state’s tax system — and city and county governments — in a generation.

Now it’s up to voters.

Legislators voted largely along party lines Tuesday to approve a ...Read more

MIAMI — Fresh off a nomination from President Donald Trump to be the next U.S. ambassador to Brazil, outgoing Florida House Speaker Daniel Perez on Tuesday denied coordinating with the White House over a newly approved state tax break that could personally benefit him if he is confirmed for the diplomatic post.

The Miami Republican’s ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The Philadelphia Police Department has monitored social media activity criticizing artificial intelligence data centers, and said in an internally-generated report that so-called domestic violent extremists were “likely interested in targeting” the facilities with potential physical or cyber attacks.

Officials within the ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis has moved to appeal a Denver court’s order that prohibited him from telling state employees to comply with a federal immigration subpoena — his latest attempt to turn over information about the sponsors of undocumented children.

Polis’ attorneys filed the notice with the Colorado Court of Appeals last week, ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told congressional lawmakers Tuesday that Venezuela no longer poses the same national-security threat to the United States that it did under Nicolás Maduro, pointing to what he described as significant reforms undertaken over the past five months by the country’s interim authorities.

But Rubio cautioned that ...Read more

The White House Correspondents Association Tuesday rescheduled its annual dinner for July 24 after the shooting aimed at President Trump cut short the gala in April.

“We will not allow an act of violence to have the last word, especially during a year when we are reflecting on the 250th anniversary of America and everything we stand for,” ...Read more

An Albanian man’s pain grew so unbearable, he said, he pulled out his own tooth as he languished for months in a New Mexico immigration detention center. A Honduran mother of two said she was hospitalized for a heart problem after she was denied blood pressure medications while held in Florida. A Venezuelan man said his leg grew purple and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick of Bill Pulte to be the acting director of national intelligence got mixed reviews Tuesday on Capitol Hill, as some worried that the Trump ally may seek to weaponize the agency.

Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has been tapped by ...Read more