Latin America’s right-wing wave reaches Colombia on Friday, but the country’s new president is about to discover that governing a deeply divided nation is far harder than winning an election.

Conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella prevailed by the slimmest of margins after campaigning on the fiscal austerity of Argentina’s Javier ...Read more

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release about $65 million in unpaid fees to nonprofits that provided legal services to unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation.

U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin on Thursday further ordered the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to notify the court that the ...Read more

Merck & Co.’s Ebola vaccine and an antiviral drug from Gilead Sciences Inc. are set for wider use in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to blunt the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record.

The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention and Congolese officials plan to expand access to both products across two provinces as the ...Read more

Iranian lawmakers are debating the wording of a proposed deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz, with U.S. President Donald Trump insisting an agreement is getting closer.

Trump said the talks are “moving along” and gave no additional comment when asked about progress by White House reporters late Thursday. Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister ...Read more

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Laura Campbell was sick.

Flu-like symptoms. Debilitating leg pain. Heart palpitations. Anxiety. Nausea. Fatigue. She felt faint.

She visited the emergency department three times in the 2 1/2 years her family lived in their military housing on Vera Cruz Road in Virginia Beach. The Campbells moved into a four-bedroom ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A Hillsborough County firefighter paramedic who was fired for medical marijuana use may soon take his case to the Florida Supreme Court.

His push to save his job comes as the federal government takes a softer stance on medical marijuana — something his attorney and advocates say Florida must catch up to.

In 2019, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As details of an internal investigation into St. Paul Mayor Kaohly Her have emerged over the past week, so has a central question: Does the conduct amount to sexual harassment, or is Her’s personality being weaponized in a public fight with the St. Paul Police Department?

So far, the allegations against Her include that she ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security’s system for paying for detainee medical care has collapsed, records show, leaving a backlog of unpaid claims likely costing millions of dollars.

With a new payment system still not in place, advocates for immigrant detainees fear some are going without necessary treatment as medical ...Read more

CHICAGO — More than four dozen bodies in various stages of decomposition were recovered Thursday from the basement and attached garage at a South Deering funeral home on the city’s Southeast Side, according to multiple law enforcement sources with knowledge of the investigation.

Authorities received a tip about the South Chicago Chapel in ...Read more

PITTSBURGH — In a laboratory overlooking Fifth Ave in the heart of Oakland, unassuming machines as expensive as cars divide brain tissue from deceased patients with Alzheimer’s disease down to their individual cells.

The murmur of small talk among technicians mingles with the whir of these machines and the clink of glass instruments. It’s...Read more

President Trump targeted birthright citizenship again Thursday by signing a pair of executive orders purporting to narrow it — including by cracking down on "birth tourism" and limiting which children born to immigrants in the U.S. qualify.

The new orders follow a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that rejected an attempt by Trump to end ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass said Thursday that the Los Angeles Police Department should stop working with Flock Safety, warning that the company, which operates AI-enabled license plate readers that allow authorities to monitor vehicles around the city, had lost public trust.

In her most forceful comments to date on the topic, Bass said ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a vocal and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, drew a sharp line Thursday between his views and the party’s platform on the contentious issue of public safety and policing.

“Especially when it comes to public safety, I’ve been very clear that we have our police force, we have ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan health officials on Thursday said that residents can resume routine guidance for eating lettuce and salad greens as new cyclosporiasis cases and related emergency department visits are on the decline.

The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said the broad, precautionary recommendation to avoid bagged salad ...Read more

CHICAGO — Federal authorities sent Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart subpoenas for inmates wanted for civil immigration enforcement along with letters that threatened criminal charges if the office didn’t turn over the individuals, according to the sheriff’s office and public records obtained by the Tribune.

The New York Times was the first to...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is actively considering issuing an executive order on vaccines and autism as soon as next week, according to people familiar with the matter.

The effort is prompted by President Donald Trump’s interest in seeing additional action, according to the people, who asked not to be named to discuss internal ...Read more

Five months after winning the city of Leavenworth’s permission to reopen a shuttered prison as an immigrant detention center, CoreCivic has sold the Kansas facility to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for $238.4 million.

The nation’s largest private prison chain said in a press release Wednesday that it anticipates continuing to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California air regulators Thursday adopted a slate of new requirements aimed at neutralizing the rancid odors from the fire-damaged Lineage warehouse that still contains millions of pounds of rotting food.

The South Coast Air Quality Management District's hearing board, a five-member committee tasked with deciding ...Read more