On Oct. 20, 2026, a week before Israel’s elections, dozens of men were detained on suspicion of evading the draft – arrests that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called “unacceptable.”

The young men attend ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, religious schools, whose students were long exempt from the military service mandatory for ...Read more

Federal immigration agents violently detained a 20-year-old U.S. citizen and Santa Maria, California, High School student with disabilities on Wednesday morning, according to school and city officials.

The student, who has limited verbal communication, was walking to school when agents tackled him, questioned him about his citizenship and ...Read more

BOSTON — Two State Police troopers have been suspended with pay as an internal affairs investigation plays out following an alleged rape at the Oak Bluffs barracks complex on Martha’s Vineyard in August.

An assistant director of security for the Boston Public Schools, Edward J. Brown, has been charged with the rape. But that alleged sexual ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A dozen No ICE Philly protesters were quickly ejected from the Criminal Justice Center on Friday morning as they called for greater protections for immigrants who go to the courthouse.

Group members entered the Center City building through different doors, then gathered in the center of the main-floor lobby to read a statement ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Baltimore City Board of Elections contractor retrieving ballots from a drop box near the Erdman Shopping Center was an uninjured bystander Thursday when a Baltimore Police officer shot and critically wounded a man during a foot chase, election officials said.

The contractor’s car was damaged by gunfire, but the ballots were ...Read more

BOSTON — Republican Lt. Gov. candidate Shawn Oliver isn’t abandoning his New Bedford City Council duties nearly a week following his arrest on OUI charges after allegedly crashing into several parked cars.

He’s doing so as calls for his resignation grow in the Whaling City. Councilors earn a base salary of $27,768 per year.

He earned $...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Police received reports of 106 firearms stolen from vehicles through Oct. 14 — approaching the total for all of last year — and Police Commissioner Richard Worley wants state lawmakers to hold accountable owners who fail to secure their guns.

Some stolen guns are turning up again in criminal investigations. Police ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — About 260 California billionaires would be subject to Proposition 40's one-time 5% wealth tax according to the Forbes Real-Time billionaires list. Just 30 of those billionaires or their spouses, or 1 in 8, spent money opposing Proposition 40, the billionaire tax, according to a Times analysis of recent campaign filings.

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Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, is speaking out amid reports that her estranged father, Thomas Markle Sr., had a massive stash of child sex abuse materials at his home in the Philippines.

“I am deeply distressed at the news that has come to light in the last 24 hours, and my thoughts are with any children who may have been harmed,” ...Read more

A Minnesota Star Tribune analysis shows roughly two-thirds of state residents in Medicare Advantage will lose their plans next year, forcing about 340,000 people to find new private coverage or evaluate options with original Medicare.

The disruption in Minnesota is greater than in any other state, reflecting a mix of local and national ...Read more

A tanker carrying diesel left the Russian port of Primorsk and intermittently signaled New York, potentially marking the first such shipment following a fuel-supply agreement between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

The vessel, hauling almost 43,000 metric tons of ultralow-sulfur diesel, left the Baltic Sea port on Thursday and would arrive in ...Read more

Wall Street strategists who recommended loading up on Brazil assets after Flávio Bolsonaro emerged as the frontrunner for president are about to see if they led clients astray or to profits ahead of Sunday’s too-close-to-call runoff.

Bolsonaro’s first-round lead over incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva spurred firms from UBS Global Wealth...Read more

On a Monday night in September 1964, television viewers watched a little girl counting petals on a flower. Her voice gave way to a man counting down, and then a nuclear blast filled the screen.

The ad ran as a paid spot only once, in support of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s reelection campaign. It never mentioned his opponent, ...Read more

DETROIT — “I’ve checked out.”

That’s how Dallas Cruze sums up his political journey from willing Trump voter in 2016 to now, when he says voting seems pointless.

Seated at a table in a board game store in suburban Detroit, the 34-year-old construction worker says that despite expecting to clear about $85,000 as a health and safety ...Read more

New Jersey public schools are weighing policies on how generative AI is making its way into classrooms and whether students and teachers should be allowed to use the technology.

Some require schools to get parental consent at the beginning of the school year for students to use AI for assignments, while others like Cherry Hill considered but ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — English is already Idaho’s state language, according to state law.

But on Election Day, voters will have the option to double down on the language’s official designation by voting to amend the state constitution.

If passed, the amendment would name English as the state’s official language in the constitution — and ...Read more

“You have cancer.” It’s a phrase that comes as a shock, then is quickly followed by a whirlwind of decisions that somehow feel fast and slow at the same time.

You have treatments to decide on. You are trying to figure out how you might work, care for your family and undergo a variety of intensive medical appointments all at the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge indicated Thursday that jurors in the upcoming retrial of a man accused of an arson that sparked the Palisades fire will not be allowed to consider whether Los Angeles firefighters adequately extinguished the blaze that prosecutors say later reignited and spread, devastating the community.

U.S. District Judge ...Read more