CHICAGO — Border Patrol Chief Gregory Bovino and dozens of federal immigration agents returned in force across Chicago and the suburbs Tuesday for a seemingly made-for-television jaunt about a month after he and scores of Border Patrol agents left town.

At least 100 U.S. Homeland Security agents or officers, including Bovino, were active in ...Read more

Boston residents are saying Mayor Michelle Wu’s two-year battle with the state Senate over a stalled plan to hike commercial taxes is causing them stress at a time when homeowners are bracing for a 13% increase in their property taxes.

No matter where they stand on the mayor’s legislation to shift more of the city’s tax burden onto ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s chief of staff is defending herself after granting an extraordinarily candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair in which she offers stinging judgments of the president himself and blunt assessments about his administration’s shortcomings.

The profile of Susie Wiles, Trump’s reserved, influential...Read more

Illinois should continue to recommend that nearly all newborns be vaccinated against hepatitis B, a state advisory committee decided Tuesday, in a move that could represent another break with federal vaccine guidance.

The Illinois Department of Public Health Immunization Advisory Committee voted unanimously Tuesday that Illinois “reaffirm and...Read more

WASHINGTON — Barbara Rose Johns was just 16 years old when she led her Farmville, Va., classmates in a student strike protesting unequal education. That 1951 student-led protest paved a path toward the Supreme Court and the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling desegregating public schools across the country.

On Tuesday, a bronze-...Read more

The General Assembly convened Tuesday in Annapolis for a special session to elect a new speaker of the House of Delegates and override bills that Maryland Gov. Wes Moore vetoed during the last legislative session.

By the end of the one-day special session, Maryland lawmakers had elected Prince George’s County Democrat Del. Joseline Peña-...Read more

Victor Acurio Suarez is 52 but childlike, born with developmental disabilities that have left him unable to live on his own.

He likes to talk to people, said his brother, who takes care of him. And on Sept. 22, in a Lowe’s parking lot near the brothers’ home in Seaford, Delaware, he tried to flag down an ICE agent, apparently thinking the ...Read more

Brown University President Christina Paxson remembered Ella Cook and Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, who were both killed during a shooting on the Providence campus over the weekend, as “brilliant and beloved” students.

“These were two young people whose amazing promise was extinguished too soon,” Paxson wrote in a letter to the school ...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson are engaged.

President Trump revealed his eldest son’s engagement at a White House holiday party Monday night, as Don Jr. also opened up about the next chapter of his life.

“It’s not often that I’m at a loss for words, ’cause we usually do the ranting and raving really well, but this is a little ...Read more

BOSTON — A 47-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night, the DA said.

Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police Department responded to reports of a man shot on Gibb Street.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro was transported to a local hospital and succumbed ...Read more

NEW YORK — In a free-wheeling farewell press conference Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams and his top aides waxed nostalgic about his years in charge of the country’s largest city, reminiscing about all the good, bad and ugly that came with it.

“Unfiltered, perfectly imperfect, no telling what I’m going to do and what I’m going to say at any ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Closed-door briefings on the Trump administration’s military campaign against alleged drug-smuggling boats provided lawmakers with little clarity on the overall strategy of the operation and whether the ultimate goal is to oust Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

After separate House and Senate briefings Tuesday from Defense ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson Tuesday all but ruled out approving an extension of Obamacare health insurance premium subsidies before Congress ends its 2025 session later this week, virtually guaranteeing consumer costs for the policies will double next year.

Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., and a small group of other House Republicans ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — When Andreas Probst’s wife and children talk about him, they speak of absences.

The weddings he will never attend, the grandchildren he will never hold, the calming figure who can no longer make them feel safe.

“My husband deserved to live,” his wife, Crystal Probst, told a judge Tuesday. “He deserved to golf again, to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A visibly frustrated Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed two executive orders on Tuesday, Dec. 16, aimed at addressing gun violence after his push for sweeping gun control laws failed to gain traction in the narrowly divided Legislature.

Walz had been pushing for bills banning assault-style weapons and large-capacity magazines after ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors on Tuesday announced murder charges against Nick Reiner, days after his parents — Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner— were found stabbed inside their Brentwood home.

Prosecutors said they will file two counts of first degree murder with special circumstances against Nick ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., on Tuesday said the Pentagon’s newly announced escalation of an investigation into him was part of an effort to deter service members and government employees from speaking out against President Donald Trump.

A Defense Department official confirmed on Tuesday that the Pentagon was escalating a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles prosecutors on Tuesday announced murder charges against Nick Reiner, days after his parents — Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner— were found stabbed inside their Brentwood home.

Los Angeles police responded to the Reiner home in the 200 block of Chadbourne Avenue about 3:40 p.m. Sunday after ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a new state-run website Tuesday that tracks what his office calls the "criminal cronies" around President Trump — just the latest trolling tactic by the California governor that directly mirrors Trump's own use of public resources for political score settling.

Newsom pegged the website's ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he will deliver a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday night but gave no details on what the topic will be.

“My fellow Americans: I will be giving an address to the nation tomorrow night,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then.”

The 9 p.m. speech will ...Read more