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

LOS ANGELES — California is reporting more cases of cyclosporiasis than it would on average for this point in the summer, including two recent cases where residents ate at out-of-state Taco Bell restaurants, according to state health officials and data.

Despite the uptick, officials say California is not included in the cyclosporiasis ...Read more

A newly created secret CIA task force targeting Cuba could be paving the way for military action or influence operations seeking regime change on the island and is a significant escalation in the Trump administration’s campaign to force political and economic change on the island, a former senior CIA official told the Miami Herald.

Marc ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders aimed at denying citizenship to certain people born in the United States, his second attempt to curb birthright citizenship after the Supreme Court knocked down an earlier directive.

Under one measure signed Thursday, mothers deemed to be seeking entry to the U.S. for the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Education has opened civil rights investigations into antisemitism at San Jose State and San Francisco State, alleging that the universities have perpetuated harassment and fostered hostile environments for Jewish students on campus.

The DOE’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating whether the schools, both part of ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida wants to build at least five small detention facilities south of the Interstate-4 corridor, a possible new push by the state to bolster federal mass deportations in the wake of the closure of Alligator Alcatraz and a failed effort to convert an Orange County warehouse into a large holding facility for migrants.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A former California state parks officer accused of secretly recording nearly two dozen men, some of whom were minors at the time, inside an employee locker room made his first court appearance Thursday morning.

Kevin Pearsall, 59, of Long Beach, faces five felony counts of eavesdropping, 23 misdemeanor counts of secretly filming...Read more

A beaver that bit a 19-year-old fisherman at Cunningham Falls State Park earlier this week tested positive for rabies, the Frederick County Health Department said.

This is the second beaver to contract and test positive for rabies in the past two weeks. A 13-year-old boy who was swimming at the William Houck Area’s popular North Beach needed ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Former clerk of court Becky Hill won.

In recent years, Hill was revealed to have plagiarized parts of her book on Alex Murdaugh’s 2023 double-murder trial. She later resigned her Colleton County clerk of court’s post in disgrace. In 2025, she pleaded guilty to perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office. ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice says it has found that Duke University Law School discriminated against white and Asian applicants in favor of Black and Hispanic candidates in its admissions process.

The Justice Department says it found a “a deliberate effort to preserve racial outcomes” at Duke Law for the classes of 2023, 2024, and 2025 �...Read more

MIAMI — A man accused of turning off a diver’s oxygen supply after a dispute over a diving spot during lobster mini-season said the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission “cleared him” minutes after the incident.

But in a statement to The Miami Herald on Thursday, the FWC said officers located the boat that Michael Simpson ...Read more

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a complaint Thursday alleging that a cohort of the companies that make “forever chemicals” partook in a massive corporate shell game to defraud the state and others.

In an amendment to a 2022 lawsuit filed by Bonta against the makers of these chemicals, the state now alleges that several DuPont ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is sending 1,500 more troops to the embattled state of Michoacán after the U.S. announced this week that it temporarily stopped inspecting avocados there over security concerns, disrupting exports of the fruit.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that her government was doing everything in its power to ...Read more

SEATTLE — A man suspected of starting one of three catastrophic Spokane-area wildfires on Saturday is facing additional arson charges after allegedly admitting to starting 25 other fires around Riverside State Park since last July, according to a memorandum prosecutors filed Wednesday in Spokane County Superior Court.

By Wednesday, detectives...Read more