CHICAGO — A lawyer for the Department of Homeland Security had people scratching their heads in a Chicago federal court hearing Friday after telling the judge in an ongoing immigration lawsuit that some 16 body-worn camera videos from agents on the ground this year have been identified as part of “Operation Midway Blitz.”

U.S. District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security drew backlash over an AI-generated social media post featuring a Sikh man facing off against a character made to look like Optimus Prime from the movie “Transformers.” The agency later deleted the image.

Posted Wednesday to the official X account for DHS, the image created by artificial ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities probing the death of actress Hayden Panettiere are focusing on where the drugs and medications that played a role in her death came from, echoing similar probes that resulted in charges for suppliers in the deaths of Matthew Perry and Mac Miller.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local investigators ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Four Pennsylvanians who were vaccinated against measles have contracted the highly contagious illness, state officials announced Friday.

Called “breakthrough cases,” such infections in vaccinated people are rare, but sometimes occur if someone’s immune system “did not respond as well” as most patients’ to the ...Read more

New rules going into effect next week allow immigrants’ enrollment in safety net resources to be taken into account for lawful immigration status applications, the latest in the Trump administration’s immigration overhaul.

The rules will have wide implications for mixed-status households, as people without lawful status may forgo enrollment...Read more

DENVER — Denver school board members Monica Hunter and Donald “D.J.” Torres on Friday requested an independent investigation into allegations levied against them by the board’s president — including the accusation that Hunter made an antisemitic comment about a colleague, according to an email obtained by The Denver Post.

The request ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Trump administration has taken the case of whether Sigal Chattah can legally serve as Nevada’s top federal prosecutor to the U.S. Supreme Court.

A federal appellate court in August ruled that Chattah’s appointment to the position was illegal. The Trump administration appealed that ruling in a filing with the nation’s ...Read more

Powerful U.S. officials past and present faced families, survivors and first responders Friday at ceremonies to honor the 25th anniversary of the day 2,977 Americans died in terrorist attacks in Virginia, New York and Pennsylvania.

At the Pentagon, Condoleezza Rice, who was serving at the time under President George W. Bush as national security...Read more

Jose “Moke” Simon III recalls as a child in the ‘70s watching the creeks that flow into Clear Lake in Northern California turn black with fish — a fish found only in these waters — as they made their springtime run.

Someone would call from the neighboring reservation with the news: “The hitch are running!” Everybody would grab ...Read more

MIAMI — Roosevelt Sebastian Perdomo Torres saw the Amazon Prime Boeing 767-300 barreling toward him last Sunday as it overshot the runway at Miami International Airport.

Perdomo Torres, 27, was one of seven people in a van owned by Professional Ocean Service Corp, a company that cleans planes. The jet, operated by North Carolina-based air-...Read more

A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, families returned to the World Trade Center site Friday to read aloud the names of the dead, marking a milestone anniversary of a tragedy that reshaped America.

Mourners and survivors gathered around the twin waterfall pools that mark the footprints of the two towers in Lower Manhattan...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Twenty-five years after one of the most harrowing days in modern American history, several events in the Las Vegas Valley paid homage Friday to the first responders and thousands of people who were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

A large crowd turned out for the annual Tolling of the Bells took place at 6:45 a.m. ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Retired Philadelphia Police Capt. Mark Fisher gets winded and lightheaded while emptying the dishwasher or pushing his gas-powered lawnmower, his lungs forever scarred by the ankle-deep ash that he trudged through at ground zero.

When Fisher arrived at the nation’s worst crime scene, two days after the Sept. 11, 2001, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Trent Nettles was a toddler on Sept. 11, 2001.

Now 27, Nettles is an 11th-grade Advanced Placement U.S. history teacher — too young to remember the day but responsible for teaching it to students who weren’t yet born when it happened. His challenge was to make this lesson more than just another unit on the syllabus.

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A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, families returned to the World Trade Center site Friday to read aloud the names of the dead, marking a milestone anniversary of a tragedy that reshaped America.

Mourners and survivors gathered around the twin waterfall pools that mark the footprints of the two towers in Lower Manhattan...Read more

In one week, the U.S. Supreme Court has twice shot down Missouri Republicans' attempts to implement their gerrymandered map aimed at wresting an additional congressional seat from Democrats.

The Republican secretary of state, Denny Hoskins, was forced by the state's high court — during an unprecedented Thursday contempt hearing that could ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — SEIU United Health Workers West President Dave Regan allegedly tried to “extort” an SEIU state council endorsement of the billionaire tax ballot measure from other California union leaders, according to an investigation commissioned by Service Employees International Union.

The investigation and a second inquiry ...Read more