WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is nearing a key milestone in its “Make America Healthy Again” agenda — proposing a definition of ultraprocessed foods.

Stricter scrutiny of nutrition and food additives has been a focal point of the MAHA movement, gaining support from food policy experts as well as lawmakers across the political ...Read more

NEW YORK — An internal review of a little-known NYPD unit found that top police officials were driving around in souped-up vehicles meant to be used during undercover investigations, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Wednesday.

“The result of it was galling,” Tisch testified at a City Council budget hearing at City Hall. “We had ...Read more

Every major escalation in the Middle East sends shock waves far beyond the region. In the United States, those shock waves arrive not as distant tremors but as catalysts for domestic radicalization and violence, particularly against Jewish communities.

The data is unambiguous.

Following the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, ...Read more

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., faced harsh questioning about the partial government shutdown that has roiled air travel and President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown at his confirmation hearing to be Department of Homeland Security secretary.

The former mixed martial arts fighter vowed to take a less partisan and confrontational ...Read more

Iran said the United States and Israel struck its giant South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, the latest attack on energy assets in the regionwide conflict.

Oil prices jumped after Iranian state TV reported the airstrike, which raised fears of further risks to global crude and gas supplies. Gulf producers have significantly reduced output ...Read more

Venezuela’s vast oil wealth did more than sustain an ally in Havana. It helped finance a far-reaching intelligence and security apparatus — one tied to allegations of torture, political persecution and social control — that reshaped the country’s institutions from within, according to a new report.

The study, released by the Washington ...Read more

DETROIT — The federal Defense Department has named the University of Michigan as a potential partner institution for service members' higher education in a memorandum by Secretary Pete Hegseth despite multiple federal investigations into the university.

UM was named last month as a potential replacement for several institutions, the majority ...Read more

Newly uncovered allegations that Cesar Chavez, the farming labor leader, sexually assaulted minors decades ago are prompting cancellations of annual celebrations of his March 31 birthday, which is a federal holiday.

United Farm Workers, the union he and Dolores Huerta founded, said this week it will not take part in any Cesar Chavez Day ...Read more

WASHINGTON — At a Senate hearing Wednesday to consider the confirmation of Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., as Homeland Security secretary, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., opened by asking whether "a man with anger issues" can set the right example for federal immigration agents.

Mullin, President Donald Trump's pick to replace Secretary Kristi Noem, ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs is not going quietly into his prison sentence.

Despite receiving the good news that his release date was pushed up, the fallen rapper’s lawyers filed an appeal on Friday, TMZ reports.

The music mogul was originally set to be sprung June 4, 2028. As per the Bureau of Prisons website, Inmate No: 37452-054 will walk out ...Read more

DETROIT — When first responders arrived Thursday at Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township on a report of an active shooter emergency, smoke could be seen pouring through a vent on top of the synagogue, but arriving law enforcement had little idea what they would encounter inside.

More than 100 children and staff members were inside the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A longtime state representative wants to solve a problem in the Minnesota House — a tie of 67 Republicans and 67 Democrats — in part by drastically shrinking the state Senate.

The likelihood that senators would vote to eliminate 22 of their own seats is slim.

But state Rep. Paul Torkelson, R-Hanska, says it’s the best way...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Cesar Chavez, the iconic labor leader, is accused of sexually assaulting two underaged girls in the 1970s as well as fellow farmworker leader Dolores Huerta in the 1960s, according to an investigation from The New York Times.

The newspaper interviewed two woman who said they were sexually abused by Chavez — one repeatedly — ...Read more

Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, faced harsh questioning about the partial government shutdown that has roiled air travel and President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown at his confirmation hearing to be Department of Homeland Security secretary.

The former mixed martial arts fighter vowed to take a less partisan and confrontational ...Read more

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. ― Vice President JD Vance is returning Wednesday to Michigan, where he'll deliver a speech at a manufacturing facility in Oakland County amid criticism from Democrats about the nation's economy.

Vance, a Republican former U.S. senator from Ohio, is scheduled to speak inside Engineering Design Services Inc., an Auburn Hills...Read more

MIAMI – Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Tuesday that he is not pivoting from Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump’s line on a mass deportation of immigrants but is instead proposing ideas for a “path forward” for people with no criminal history who are bettering their communities.

Judd was speaking at a press event convened ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California is gearing up for a third straight day of record-breaking temperatures as an unusually long and strong March heat wave pushes the mercury up to 35 degrees above normal.

L.A. and Ventura counties broke more than a dozen daily temperature records Tuesday when Woodland Hills reached 101 degrees, Burbank hit 99 ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — After gaining near-unanimous approval in the Florida House, legislation aimed at strengthening state oversight of nursing schools died in the Senate this month, the third year in a row such efforts failed to get across the finish line.

Last year, both the House and Senate passed legislation intended to clamp down on low-...Read more

Recently, a patient came to the hospital where I work with a persistent cough. Their doctor had ordered a CT scan – a type of imaging that creates detailed cross-sectional pictures of the body’s interior – to look for pneumonia or another infection.

The scan ruled that out, but it also showed something unexpected: calcium ...Read more