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Boston chamber leaders confront state's crippling outmigration
BOSTON — The startling outmigration of 182,000 residents from Massachusetts in less than a decade is a glaring warning sign that the city has lost its edge, chamber leaders warn.
It’s not economic armageddon; it’s more of a landslide of losses piling up fast.
“We need to adjust to the new realities of the post-COVID world, and we’ve ...Read more
Brent oil surges near $100 as attacks halt Saudi energy sites
Brent oil approached $100 a barrel, before paring some of its gains, after Saudi Arabia said operations at several energy facilities in the kingdom’s south were halted by attacks.
The global benchmark was near $99, after rallying last week on a flare-up in Middle East hostilities and a pick-up in buying by China, the world’s largest ...Read more
Canada hits US imports with tariffs, intensifying trade war
Canada imposed tariffs of 15% to 50% on hundreds of products from the U.S. on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Mark Carney bets that standing up to President Donald Trump will eventually help Ottawa’s negotiating position with its biggest trading partner.
Carney’s government increased the import tax on many U.S. steel items to 50% from 25%, and ...Read more
Sheriff identifies the 5 victims killed on the ground in MIA cargo plane crash
MIAMI — The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday identified the five people who died when an Amazon cargo plane crashed through a runway at Miami International Airport two days earlier.
The jet operated by 21 Air overshot a runway at MIA and crashed into a passenger van carrying seven people working for a cleaning company at the airport...Read more
Family recovers all bodies after small plane crash between Bahamas and Miami
MIAMI — A Miami couple and their grandchildren took their private plane home to Miami on Monday after a Labor Day weekend spent relaxing at Great Harbour Cay in the Bahamas. They never made it back.
On Tuesday, family confirmed that all four bodies were found in the waters near North Andros Island, the last-known location of the small plane ...Read more
Is your flight delayed in Miami after Amazon plane crash? What to expect
MIAMI — Dozens of flights out of Miami International Airport are delayed or canceled on Tuesday as two of four runways remain closed. Investigators have descended on the scene after the crash of an Amazon cargo plane killed five people over the weekend.
As of 8:30 a.m., 42 flights are canceled at MIA and 62 delayed, according to the tracker ...Read more
Lindsay Clancy's lawyer asks President Trump to pardon mom
Lindsay Clancy’s tireless attorney is appealing today to President Donald Trump to pardon his client.
“I would hope that you would consider this young lady – the type of person she is and what she’s been through – and consider a pardon,” Kevin Reddington said on-camera this morning on Good Morning America.
Yet, Trump said after ...Read more
CBP agent to go on trial on lurid charges of raping and robbing Chinese sex workers
CHICAGO – Word was already spreading in the Chinese community in early 2022 about a federal agent who was raping and robbing sex workers at gunpoint when a plot was privately hatched to lure the perpetrator to a neutral location and offer him a deal: free sex if he stopped attacking women, federal prosecutors say.
Luis Uribe, a veteran U.S. ...Read more
Kentucky immigration arrests soar as more police ink agreements with ICE, report says
LEXINGTON, Ky. — An analysis by a Kentucky policy center shows the number of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests in the commonwealth continues to grow as the number of local agencies helping ICE has exploded over the past year.
The Kentucky Center for Economic Policy, using data from the Deportation Data Project, showed the ...Read more
How an LA charter school has all but eliminated chronic absenteeism among homeless students
LOS ANGELES — Scholarship Prep South Bay, a Wilmington charter school, touts a rare benchmark of success. Last year, none of the substantial number of homeless students it educates were chronically absent, school officials said, a goal they hope to maintain as school opens.
The school, which offers transitional kindergarten through eighth ...Read more
Could you survive The Oregon Trail? An emergency medicine doctor offers tips on how to not die in the great outdoors
If you grew up in the United States in the 1980s or ’90s, chances are you remember The Oregon Trail. For many like me, it was our first computer game and our first introduction to wilderness survival. We hunted buffalo, forded rivers, broke wagon wheels and, of course, learned about dysentery years before Google even existed, all while ...Read more
Huachuma, the Andean psychedelic cactus, is drawing Western seekers and raising ethical questions
For at least two decades, thousands of Americans have been going to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil to look for ayahuasca, a psychoactive brew traditionally used in sacred ceremonies in South America. Ayahuasca contains the psychedelic compound DMT, N-Dimethyltryptamine, and researchers are studying its effects on several conditions, ...Read more
Canada imposes tariffs up to 50% on US, risking wider trade war
Canada imposed tariffs of 15% to 50% on hundreds of products from the U.S. on Tuesday, as Prime Minister Mark Carney bets that standing up to President Donald Trump will eventually help Ottawa’s negotiating position with its biggest trading partner.
Carney’s government increased the import tax on many U.S. steel items to 50% from 25%, and ...Read more
Oil near $100 as Iran says Hormuz deal with Oman is close
Brent oil is closing in on $100 a barrel as traders watch for details of an Iranian deal with Oman to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, while strong Chinese buying tightens the market.
The global benchmark is less than $3 shy of triple figures after rallying last week on a flare-up in Middle East hostilities. Iran said the accord is...Read more
Israel left-wing leader Golan pledges to end wars after October election
Yair Golan, who heads Israel’s left-wing Democrats party, said he’ll join the government if the opposition wins next month’s election and will put tackling Jewish settler violence in the occupied West Bank on the agenda.
Ending the war with Iran, rebuilding Gaza and forging regional alliances will also be among his top priorities, the ...Read more
Facing healthcare gaps, Vashon Island expands mobile urgent care
VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — Bharat Mankad had been wheezing for a few days. It wasn’t an emergency, but the coughing was getting worse.
Mankad’s son wanted quick help for his 77-year-old father, but with no urgent care or hospital on the island, he had few options. He remembered hearing about a new type of medical team recently. He dug up the ...Read more
This LA mall was dead longer than it was alive. Then Taylor Swift and Beyonce discovered it
LOS ANGELES -- Even in a region known for its dead shopping malls, Hawthorne Plaza holds a unique distinction.
It has been closed longer than it was ever open, and the sprawling property in the center of the South Bay suburb has been the subject of debate and fascination for decades.
It opened along Hawthorne Boulevard in 1977, at the height ...Read more
Santa Clara County nearly tripled child removals. Is fear driving the decisions?
Since baby Phoenix Castro’s fentanyl overdose death at home in 2023 forced a fundamental reckoning at Santa Clara County’s child welfare agency, the number of children removed from their troubled homes has nearly tripled.
Parent advocates say this is a sign of a “foster care panic,” an overcorrection fueled by intense media scrutiny and...Read more
SNAP cuts could lead to kids losing free school breakfast and lunch
Cuts to the nation’s largest food assistance program will likely spill over into schools, causing students to lose access to free breakfast and lunch.
More than 1 million American children have lost access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, following a recent federal law. Now, as schools gear up for a new term, a ...Read more
How Hope Florida scrutiny rattled the final years of the Gov. Ron DeSantis administration
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The fallout from the Hope Florida scandal, which was reignited last month after a grand jury report leaked to the public, has been far-reaching.
When the state launched Hope Florida in 2021, it was meant to wean people off of government assistance. But in 2024, the organization and an affiliated foundation became enmeshed ...Read more
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