LOS ANGELES — New details have been released in the death of a Grammy-nominated gospel singer who was allegedly killed by his son inside his Santa Monica home in December.

According to details in the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner's autopsy report, Jubilant Sykes was brutally attacked on Dec. 8, 2025, suffering 68 stab wounds and several...Read more

HUDSON, Colo. — A group of immigration advocates on Thursday announced a new lawsuit aimed at preventing the Trump administration from opening a planned immigration detention facility in their community.

Together Colorado, a nonprofit collection of faith leaders fighting for humane immigration policies, and a Weld County resident sued the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Along Union Pacific Avenue in Boyle Heights, rat traps sit about every 10 feet along the sidewalk, with the aim of catching hungry rodents drawn to the burned-out warehouse holding millions of pounds of rotting meat.

But Lisett Navarrete, a 34-year-old resident, has little faith that they'll do the job.

"It's not like little ...Read more

U.S. auto safety regulators will start developing new requirements to ensure drivers and passengers can safely exit their vehicles, a significant move to address issues exposed by sometimes deadly incidents in which people have become trapped inside cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday that it would begin the ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade has resumed control of the former Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention camp, returning to the county a remote airfield previously used as a small airport for training landings and take-offs, the county’s Aviation Department confirmed on Thursday.

The news comes roughly a year after Gov. Ron DeSantis seized the Dade-...Read more

NEW YORK — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was coy last year when asked if the feds would be seeking to rename Penn Station as part of their takeover of the project — but now the demand is explicit.

In a letter sent Wednesday to Senate leadership on several committees — a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News — Duffy lists �...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois will annually honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 murder galvanized the Civil Rights Movement and became a glaring example of failures in the justice system, under a new law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Thursday.

“Every policy that advances justice passed, every bill signed, every monument built, is ...Read more

BOSTON — The Chair of the Massachusetts Democratic Party was arrested earlier this summer for alleged drunken driving, according to police records out of Southborough.

According to a Southborough Police log dated June 13, MassDems Chair Steve Kerrigan, 54, was arrested for OUI liquor, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, and a marked ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will visit Michigan on Monday and deliver remarks about the economy, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Thursday.

Trump's visit comes on the same day that the Gordie Howe International Bridge, a new and vital economic passage between the United States and Canada, will open to traffic.

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Tropical Storm Bertha continued to skirt Louisiana’s Gulf Coast on Thursday expected to keep its strength until making what would be its second landfall moving into Texas later in the day, according to the National Hurricane Center.

The system made its first landfall Wednesday at 3 p.m. EDT with 45 mph sustained winds in St. Bernard Parish ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Vance Boelter sat like a statue as his victims exposed the raw wounds with which he left them after he carried out the most shocking act of political violence in the history of Minnesota.

In a federal courtroom, before Boelter was sentenced to two consecutive life prison sentences plus 40 years for killing Rep. Melissa and Mark ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan added 493 more cases of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic illness, on Thursday, according to state health officials, bringing the state's total to more than 7,600, although cases appear to be leveling off.

The new cases, reported by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, mark a 6.9% increase over Wednesday, for a ...Read more

Many of the more than 5,000 people killed in Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes might have survived had authorities mounted a professional emergency response during the critical first 72 hours after the disaster, according to a new report that sharply criticizes the government’s handling of the crisis.

Released Thursday, exactly one ...Read more

A South Florida couple accused in the manslaughter of their baby has been captured in rural North Carolina, according to investigators.

Leon Alejandro, Jr., 21, and Samantha Angeline Feliz, 20, were arrested Wednesday at a rural home in the 900 block of Ledbetter Road near Rockingham, the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office said in a July 22 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump threatened to step up strikes on Iran and said he’ll hold the country responsible for any further attacks by the Yemen-based Houthis on Red Sea ships, potentially widening U.S. involvement in the Middle East war.

The Iran-backed Houthis earlier claimed assaults on two Saudi Arabian oil tankers, the group�...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said a new civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia depends on the kingdom normalizing ties with Israel, a condition that could derail a landmark deal his administration finalized just a day earlier.

In a social media post Thursday, Trump also said there would be “no enrichment” of nuclear ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As UC embarks on a new and speedier plan to determine whether to reinstate SAT standardized testing, the university's admissions board is also moving to reexamine key academic requirements that reach even further into California high school classrooms: the exact set of courses students must take to get in.

Those requirements ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said a new civil nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia depends on the kingdom normalizing ties with Israel, throwing cold water on a landmark deal his administration finalized just a day earlier.

In a social media post Thursday, Trump also said there would be “no enrichment” of nuclear material. The pact would ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter took in more than 300 birds from a Highlandtown neighborhood exotic animal shop following an investigation, a Baltimore City Health Department representative confirmed to The Baltimore Sun.

Baltimore’s animal control office responded to a 311 complaint last Friday about a business —...Read more

Marie Noon takes eight medications a day. One keeps her heart rate from spiking to avoid a stroke. One prevents debilitating headaches. Another ensures she doesn’t retain excess fluid.

More than a decade ago, Noon said, she was diagnosed with adult-onset Still’s disease, a rare type of inflammatory arthritis that can cause rashes, ...Read more