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After long-awaited government data showed underlying U.S. inflation cooled to a four-year low in November, economists agreed on at least this much: something was off.

In a report fouled by the record-long government ...Read more

A federal judge blasted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for ignoring court orders to release a Jamaican immigrant married to a U.S. citizen whom ICE detained for days inside a “putrid and cramped” holding cell...Read more

Police in Providence, Rhode Island, and other authorities, including the U.S. Marshals, are searching on a street off Route 28 in Salem, New Hampshire, as the investigation into Saturday’s Brown University shooting ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a move that could further reduce gender-affirming care for minors in Illinois, the federal government is proposing rules that would strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide such ...Read more

A Northern California elected official is under scrutiny over comments she made at an after-school meeting of a conservative students club, where she attributed her daughter's sexual orientation to childhood trauma and ...Read more

SYDNEY — The gray arched footbridge, just a few meters from the grassy park where Jewish people gathered to celebrate Hanukkah last Sunday, gave the Bondi Beach gunmen an elevated vantage point over the crowd they ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Thursday unveiled plans to create a state Department of Housing while spending $244 million on housing, part of his proposed 2026 supplemental budget.

A chunk of the investment ...Read more

Rapper Wiz Khalifa was sentenced on Thursday to nine months in a Romanian prison following his arrest last year for possession of marijuana.

Khalifa was arrested and briefly held in July 2024 after smoking onstage during ...Read more

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain's chief of staff has resigned following evidence that he colluded with the union's compliance director to falsify allegations against Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Mock, whose ...Read more

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore’s redistricting advisory commission decided on Thursday to “recommend a congressional map to the Governor and the General Assembly,” after the group’s final meeting. The commission will make...Read more

WASHINGTON — With no hope of preventing Obamacare health insurance premium costs from soaring in two weeks, Democrats and a few Republicans turned to ways to stop the increases when Congress returns in January.

But ...Read more

After years of debate, investigations and conspiracy theories, the Department of Justice is scheduled on Friday to finally release the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The release will come nearly 20 years after federal prosecutors...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday singled out a debt collection measure as his latest nonstarter in the budget proposal crafted by his aldermanic antagonists, who showed no signs of slowing their march toward ...Read more

CHICAGO — It was almost as if they never left.

When Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and a throng of masked federal agents returned to Chicago in a flash on Tuesday, residents across the city — armed with whistles, ...Read more

In December 2006, Jeffrey Epstein was the target of a criminal investigation that the FBI had code named “Operation Leap Year.” A 14-year-old girl claimed that Epstein had sexually assaulted her. Palm Beach police took...Read more

CHICAGO — A man accused of lighting a woman on fire on the CTA Blue Line last month has been indicted on additional federal charges alleging he lit a fire outside City Hall three days earlier.

Lawrence Reed, 50, was ...Read more

CHICAGO — After Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino and scores of his federal agents left Chicago last month, and immigration enforcement wound down, Matt DeMateo said daily life slowly but surely returned to normal.

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MINNEAPOLIS — A viral video of an ICE agent dragging a woman across the pavement in south Minneapolis on Monday was met with outrage, while the Department of Homeland Security says agents moved to detain her after she ...Read more

TikTok Chief Executive Officer Shou Chew told employees that the social media app’s parent company, ByteDance Ltd., signed binding agreements to create a U.S. joint venture majority-owned by American investors.

In an ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors announced new charges Thursday as they continue to investigate a massive fraud crisis across Minnesota’s social services programs, adding that 14 Medicaid-funded programs have cost $18...Read more