The death toll from the powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake that devastated western Colombia has risen to at least 254, according to the latest local and aggregated reports, as rescuers raced against time Wednesday to find people still alive beneath collapsed buildings.

More than 48 hours have passed since the earthquake struck Monday morning, ...Read more

CHICAGO — An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on Wednesday pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of battery for throwing a protester to the ground while he filmed the agent on his phone.

Adam Saracco, 41, entered the plea during a court appearance in Maywood and was sentenced to one year of supervision.

Saracco is thought to be the ...Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents could soon be equipped with gloves that deliver electric shocks to subdue suspected undocumented immigrants or protesters as they carry out President Donald Trump’s controversial mass deportation campaign.

The Department of Homeland Security plans to buy thousands of the gloves capable of zapping ...Read more

CHICAGO — A politically connected nonprofit at the center of a dispute with Mayor Brandon Johnson’s health department appealed to the mayor while competitively bidding for millions in city anti-violence funding, records show.

Acclivus Inc. CEO LeVon Stone sent then-Chicago Department of Public Health Commissioner Dr. Olusimbo Ige a “...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The chair of the California Senate's utilities committee said Tuesday that he was "deeply troubled" by electric company executives' recent threats to take action to protect their shareholders if they don't get legislation in Sacramento to limit their wildfire liabilities.

In a letter to Southern California Edison and ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For over two years, a 16-year-old transgender girl says she was bullied, excluded and discriminated against by her teammates and coaches at the Capital Crew youth rowing program housed at the Sacramento State Aquatic Center.

The alleged discrimination — which she says included segregating her from the rest of the team, ...Read more

Iran has reorganized its military to be more aggressive abroad as talks on ending the war with the U.S. remain mired in stalemate, a sign that Tehran is preparing for a protracted era of regional conflict.

A raft of top military appointments by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei marks a shift to an “offensive doctrine,” Mohammad Reza Naqdi, a ...Read more

Iran has reorganized its military to be more aggressive abroad as talks on ending the war with the U.S. remain mired in stalemate, a sign that Tehran is preparing for a protracted era of regional conflict.

A raft of top military appointments by Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei marks a shift to an “offensive doctrine,” Mohammad Reza Naqdi, a ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday was busy keeping track of three systems including one with a high chance to develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the most threatening is a tropical wave about 900 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands in the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A new LAPD report released Tuesday blamed poor planning and coordination for issues with the department's response to protests that erupted on city streets last summer in opposition to the Trump administration's immigration policies.

But apart from identifying those problems, the report concluded that police officers performed ...Read more

When Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state TV last week that he found it “very difficult” to reach the country’s Supreme Leader, it sparked fresh speculation about the whereabouts of Mojtaba Khamenei who hasn’t been seen in public since taking over as the country’s ultimate authority in March. By Monday, Pezeshkian told the ...Read more

Israel’s election in two months may see out Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-rightist government, but a major shift in West Bank policy would be needed for there to be peace in the territory, the top Palestinian diplomat said.

“You can change the faces as much as you want. If the policy remains the same, then the issues ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed the U.S. had “total control over the Hormuz Strait,” as Washington and Tehran hardened their positions in deadlocked negotiations over the critical waterway.

“We own it,” Trump told reporters at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington late Tuesday, an assertion Iran has dispelled via ...Read more

For nearly three decades, a onetime Compton gang leader named Duane "Keffe D" Davis has been one of the most vocal theorists about one of the most debated celebrity killings ever.

Rapper Tupac Shakur was at the height of his fame when he was fatally shot Sept. 7, 1996, while riding to a Las Vegas nightclub in a BMW driven by Death Row Records ...Read more

From a mountain of rubble in downtown Pereira, Colombian rescue workers called for silence to listen for sounds of life beneath their feet.

In a plaza full of families who slept outside after Monday’s devastating earthquake, voices dropped to whispers, machinery went silent and the frantic activity of dozens of volunteers paused. Some ...Read more

Political action committees are responsible for nearly two-thirds of all federal election funding, with about US$6.3 billion raised and $4.8 billion spent since January 2025. But their outsized political influence does not just come from their wallets. It’s also generated from their names.

Political strategists are adopting PAC ...Read more

Newly arrived refugees resettling in the United States face ending one long journey and embarking on another as they begin their new life here. But even after years of displacement, people who came to the U.S. as refugees still face significant obstacles to getting the healthcare they need.

As a social work scholar who studies refugee...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 10, 2026, calling for the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to be given as three separate shots at three separate appointments. The combined MMR vaccine is currently given at 12 to 15 months of age and again between ages 4 and 6.

In the order, Trump also urges states ...Read more

As summer temperatures soar across the United States and Europe, cities are being forced to confront the difficult reality that they’re getting dangerously hot.

Record-breaking heat waves strain power grids, send people to cooling shelters and can make the top floors of some apartment buildings unlivable.

One way to help ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With Los Angeles public schools opening Wednesday, district leaders are downplaying fears that a looming budget crisis could lead to a county takeover, as they navigate a mandate to move forward with plans to cut thousand of jobs, pressure employees to accept unpaid furlough days and close an unspecified number of school ...Read more