LOS ANGELES — Authorities arrested a podcaster at his Los Angeles-area home Thursday morning for allegedly threatening to kill the president of the United States.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California said in a post on X, that Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, was indicted by a grand jury on federal ...Read more

NEW YORK — Feminist icon Gloria Steinem, the lifelong activist whose pioneering work ran the gamut from women’s rights to magazine publishing to politics, has died. The Ohio native was 92.

The announcement was made on her Instagram, which said she died “peacefully at her home in New York City” on Wednesday, “surrounded by some of the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The latest court filings challenging federal indictments against protesters who staged an anti-ICE demonstration inside a St. Paul church have also questioned the investigation into the protest — an allegation bolstered by a judge’s unorthodox order to review the evidence the government used to level the charges.

The case is...Read more

WASHINGTON — Less than 24 hours before a key deadline for mail-in voting in the U.S. midterm elections, states are bracing for late-breaking developments in a legal battle over federal control of the process, including possible intervention from the Supreme Court.

A judge in Boston is weighing Thursday whether to extend a short-term order ...Read more

A recent plunge in U.S. labor force participation has sparked competing theories about whether persistent drivers — like aging and immigration — or more temporary seasonal shifts are to blame. Any evidence in upcoming jobs reports could reshape how policymakers view the labor market.

The decline in the share of Americans who are working or ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — As uncertainty mounts over President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict mail-in voting — as well as potential new rules at the state level — North Carolina plans to begin sending out absentee ballots on Friday, the first state in the nation do so.

In a statement released Wednesday evening, State Board of Elections ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Homeland Security Investigations is stepping up a voter fraud investigation in Missouri ahead of the November elections, seeking evidence to support President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of widespread fraud.

On Monday, CNN reported that Homeland Security Investigations, an arm of Immigration and Customs ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The deaths of two Assateague horses by vehicle strikes 12 days apart in August may have seemed sudden. But the danger posed by traffic to the island’s wild horses has been building for decades.

National Park Service records show that vehicles have killed 36 horses on Assateague since 1982. This summer, Dune Dancer Jolt and Susi ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Supreme Court justices pressed both the state and Republican challengers Thursday over whether a proposed congressional redistricting amendment should remain on the November ballot, questioning the state’s interpretation of election law while asking whether legal flaws should prevent voters from having a say.

Across ...Read more

Jailed music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is scheduled to be released from FCI Fort Dix earlier than expected.

Inmate 37452-054 is slated to be sprung from that New Jersey prison on Feb. 5, 2028, according to the Bureau of Prisons’ inmate finder.

TMZ reported last month that the 56-year-old Harlem native was listed as being due for release ...Read more

A former senior Haitian government official wanted on corruption allegations in his volatile homeland, who was arrested last week by U.S. immigration authorities, was deported Thursday along with dozens of other detained Haitian nationals.

Renan Hédouville, a lawyer and human-rights advocate who served as Haiti’s ombudsman, asked to ...Read more

The color of penguin poop, as seen from space, is offering a new window into how the ecology and the environment of Antarctica are changing over time.

Adélie penguins are one of the most abundant predators in the Southern Ocean. They rely on food sources in the ocean, but nest on rocky outcrops all around the Antarctic continent.

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Many Americans will pause on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to remember the nearly 3,000 people who were killed that day. The attacks became a shared national tragedy, the impact of which reached far beyond those who experienced them firsthand.

The aftermath of such a disaster can place enormous strain on a community. If ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For years, Hollywood has talked about a federal film and television tax credit that could help the industry combat the growing number of productions fleeing overseas.

This week, the entertainment business got a glimmer of hope.

After more than a year of quiet work from California lawmakers, industry lobbyists and Hollywood ...Read more

NEW YORK — Superstar Dolly Parton’s workday anthem “9 to 5” has resonated with generations of New Yorkers grinding out a living. Now, State Senators Erik Bottcher and Jeremy Cooney are working to rename 9/25 into “9 to 5” day to honor the country music icon.

Bottcher and Cooney are slated to announce plans on Thursday to introduce a...Read more

CHICAGO — More than half of school board candidates have signed a pledge calling for a three-year moratorium on the use of generative AI in Chicago Public Schools.

The moratorium, included in Illinois Families for Public Schools’ “Pledge to Protect Human-Centered Education,” also asks that the new 21-member elected school board limit ...Read more