One morning this summer, a 9-year-old girl from El Salvador picked through colorful markers at a Houston-area shelter for migrant children and crafted a letter to her mom.

“I want to be with you already,” the little girl, M.R., wrote in misspelled, unpunctuated Spanish, adding hearts, a rainbow, and a large “I love you” surrounded by ...Read more

In the summer of 2022, Allison Mertzman and her wife, Leanne, asked their fertility clinic to destroy their embryos.

The married couple were living in California but storing their nine embryos for $3,000 per year at the clinic in Michigan, where Mertzman had resided before. After having two daughters through in vitro fertilization, the couple ...Read more

Hollywood legend Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead in their home in February 2025. Hackman had been living with Alzheimer’s and depended on Arakawa as his full-time caregiver.

Disturbingly, postmortem data suggests that Arakawa died of complications from pulmonary Hantavirus several days before her husband ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Fifteen years working as an emergency room nurse has convinced Kim Bogan that the only way to fix the American healthcare system is to tear it down and start over.

Her patients arriving for triage are sicker than ever. They can’t afford many of the prescriptions they get in the ER. And sometimes when patients die, she ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The sewage-tainted water from the Tijuana River is traveling farther north than previously suspected, suggesting communities beyond Imperial Beach may face potential health risks, according to a new study.

University of California, Riverside researchers, in cooperation with scientists from University of California San Diego’s ...Read more

MIAMI — While Donald Trump’s MAGA movement woke up to ruins from Tuesday’s nationwide wave of support for Democratic candidates, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ political star rose dramatically after Republicans narrowly evaded the same fate in Florida.

Since the election, the governor — who was on the outs with Trump and key figures in ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Among the 548 inmates sentenced to death in California is Robert Rhoades, who abducted 8-year-old Michael Lyons as he walked home from school in Yuba City on May 16, 1996, then tortured and raped him before stabbing him more than 70 times.

Michael was found dead the next day, his body recovered from brush along the banks ...Read more

MIAMI — The father of the 20-year-old co-pilot who died in Sunday’s Palm Beach County crash spoke for the first time about his daughter on Friday, saying he was one of the first people who taught her how to fly.

A licensed pilot himself, Allan Filgueiras said he had gone up with her in planes when she was as young as 12. She grew up in Boca...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials told the Trump administration that a woman who had become close to Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was working for a Chinese spy agency, which recruited her to collect information on him, The New York Times reported Friday.

The newspaper cited unnamed sources who it said had been ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington’s new income tax on high earners has survived a repeal effort at the ballot box by a wide margin.

But the 9.9% tax on household incomes above $1 million still faces a high-profile legal battle with major implications for the state’s budget and tax policy.

The court fight, which hinges on whether the tax violates the ...Read more

A governing body of Cornell University professors and instructors passed a vote of no confidence in university leadership over its handling of sexual assault, as rape allegations by a former student roil the Ivy League school.

The Cornell Faculty Senate on Friday approved a resolution expressing “no confidence in the ability of the central ...Read more

Paraguay’s Senate removed President Santiago Peña from office Friday, a dramatic downfall that paves the way for him to face potential criminal charges over his alleged role in the collapse of a major bank.

All 44 senators present voted in favor of Peña’s ouster, a day after the lower house of Congress unanimously backed his impeachment. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors have decided not to file charges against a prominent South L.A. anti-gang worker, just days after he was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit murder by Los Angeles Police and the FBI, a defense attorney and three law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times on Friday.

But while 62-year-old Clifford “...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — President Donald Trump flew into Kennedy Space Center on Friday night to join aerospace industry leaders and tout newly announced plans to hold an annual and lucrative expo to rival the likes of those held in Paris and England.

“Make America great again, that’s what we do. Our calling is to explore, our purpose is ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Kamlesh Shah sat next to his pastor in the public gallery in federal court in Sacramento on Friday, his gray hair neatly combed and falling slightly over his collar.

The latest Sacramento resident to appear in court as part of the Trump administration’s campaign to identify and criminally charge noncitizens who have ...Read more

The U.S. Justice Department moved Friday to voluntarily dismiss its lawsuit challenging the counting of 20,000 ballots in California, arguing the relief it sought is now impossible given Tuesday’s midterm election has concluded.

The Justice Department had sought a court order requiring state and Los Angeles County election officials to set ...Read more

MIAMI — Jason Reding Quiñones resigned Friday as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, ending a tenure marked by turmoil within the Miami-based federal prosecutor’s office and controversy over its involvement in an investigation targeting perceived enemies of President Donald Trump.

Reding Quiñones offered no explanation for...Read more

MIAMI — Harrowing recordings shortly before a Learjet 60 fatally crashed in Palm Beach County reveals air traffic control advised the 20-year-old co-pilot to “expect better rides ahead” moments before the plane hurtled into a thunderstorm and went down, killing all nine on board.

Nathalia Gadelha Filgueiras, of Boca Raton, was the one ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Prosecutors in the Alex Murdaugh case are denying they used flawed evidence to convince the county grand jury that indicted him on double murder charges in 2022.

“The State did not present false or fabricated evidence to the Colleton County grand jury,” prosecutors for the S.C. Attorney General’s office wrote in a court...Read more