Carlos Manzo was famous in Mexico for saying what few other politicians would: That cartels operated with impunity and needed to be confronted with brute force. The mayor of a city in an avocado-growing region beset by crime and violence, Manzo suggested authorities should beat criminals into submission — or simply kill them.

It was a ...Read more

Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth entered the race for governor on Sunday, drawing on her status as the state’s top Republican to mount a campaign against Tim Walz.

Demuth, the first Republican woman and person of color to lead the Minnesota House, is casting herself as a pragmatic alternative to Walz who can end the GOP’s long losing ...Read more

With two days left before Election Day and a record-breaking half million-plus early votes already cast, New York mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo traded swipes and rallied supporters at church campaign stops just a borough apart Sunday morning.

Mamdani spoke to packed pews at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, then ...Read more

All 50 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring motorists to move over at least one lane or slow down when passing an emergency or service vehicle stopped on the side of the road with lights flashing.

They typically are called “Slow Down, Move Over” laws, aimed at protecting emergency responders, maintenance workers and ...Read more

More than 735,000 New Yorkers cast ballots during the nine days of early voting in this year’s pivotal mayoral race, a staggering turnout that puts the contest on track to potentially generate some of the highest local election turnout in modern city history.

According to tabulations released by the Board of Elections after polls closed ...Read more

The nation’s top transportation official on Sunday said a shortage of air traffic controllers likely will mean more worsening flight delays amid the government shutdown.

Speaking on two television network news shows, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said safety remains the government’s top concern as the nation’s airports — ...Read more

President Donald Trump said that immigration raids “haven’t gone far enough” despite videos showing physical confrontations among federal agents, immigrants and protesters.

“I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama,” Trump said in ...Read more

Nathan Sharp is trying to figure out how he’ll pay for health care now that the federal pandemic-era help that made his coverage more affordable is set to end.

The 49-year-old Crystal River resident learned this week the monthly cost of his Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, plan will more than double, jumping from $202 to $450. He said his ...Read more

Plumes of smoke drifted up from a fire steadily taking over a 30-acre prairie at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve, north of the Twin Cities. Amid the haze, five black drones zipped around.

More than 150 feet below the flying robots, research student Nikil Krishnakumar raised the controller in the air.

“It’s all autonomous now,” he ...Read more

Cameras rolling, Border Patrol chief Gregory Bovino sailed down the Chicago River in a convoy of government boats. His men held rifles as videographers filmed the stunt later posted to their social media.

The Trump administration had just launched an operation in the city to pursue “the worst of the worst” criminal undocumented immigrants. ...Read more

The paletero knew that, after 30 years of selling ice pops from a pushcart in South San Diego, it would be his last weekend in the United States.

But before Francisco Duarte, 59, and his wife prepared to turn themselves over to immigration agents to be deported across the border, he still had coolers with frozen treats known as paletas in ...Read more

A man detained inside California’s largest ICE detention center said staff confiscated his glasses and denied him immediate medical care after he fell from his bunk bed and sustained a head injury.

“It took them about a month to return my glasses to me. I had an accident because they took away my glasses. I couldn’t see, so I fell off my ...Read more

President Donald Trump threatened possible U.S. military action against Islamist militants in Nigeria if the country’s government doesn’t halt the groups’ “killing of Christians.”

In a post Saturday on Truth Social, Trump said he’s instructing the Pentagon “to prepare for possible action” and threatened an immediate cutoff in ...Read more

Many cancer types — breast, prostate, skin cancer — have 5-year survival rates and ample treatment options if caught early.

Colorectal cancer is not one of them.

With a 5-year survival rate of 15% once it's spread, colorectal cancer kills around 2,600 Pennsylvania each year. In Allegheny County, around 160 people died from the disease ...Read more

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said he expects U.S. nuclear-weapons testing sought by President Donald Trump to stop short of actual atomic bomb explosions for now.

“I think the tests we’re talking about right now are system tests,” Duffy said on Fox News’ "The Sunday Briefing." “These are not nuclear explosions. These are what we...Read more

Murilo Sampaio stood on a camouflage-painted boat on the Amazon, scanning for smugglers, when three oil barges appeared on the horizon.

The military police chief had been told to check for drugs on every vessel coming down the Solimões, the name given to the upper stretches of the Amazon in Brazil. As Sampaio and his crew reviewed the convoy�...Read more