DETROIT — A home on Detroit's west side exploded Thursday, obliterating the house, shaking nearby homes and leaving a pile of wreckage on the residential street.

DTE Energy confirmed an incident took place on the 91000 block of Forrer Street, where debris from the blast was strewn across the yard and across the street.

"Gas was on site at ...Read more

North Carolina’s Democratic Gov. Josh Stein is calling the General Assembly back in session Monday to pass Medicaid funding legislation.

Republican lawmakers, who control both chambers, aren’t going to do it, citing “an unconstitutional attempt to usurp the General Assembly’s authority to set its calendar.”

In a joint letter from ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fernando Gomez Ruiz had been eating at a lunch truck outside Home Depot when agents arrested him and 10 others in early October.

The diabetic father of two, who has lived in the Los Angeles area for 22 years, was detained and then quickly transferred to California's biggest detention facility, where he's been unable to get ...Read more

CHICAGO — Nearly 2 million people in Illinois will again receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits (SNAP) starting Friday, after weeks of federal uncertainty that left families scrambling to put food on the table.

The Illinois Department of Human Services, which oversees SNAP disbursements, expects all beneficiaries to ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The shouts on the beach were just like a stadium crowd celebrating a touchdown. That’s because that’s exactly what they were doing.

The hundreds of rocket fans that had come out to watch the second-ever launch of Blue Origin’s big New Glenn rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday then huddled ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order to expand foster care services to children moving out of the system into adulthood, bolstering one of first lady Melania Trump’s initiatives.

“We are going to protect American children in foster care, and we’re going to ensure that they will never, ever be forgotten,” Trump...Read more

Palmer Republican Sen. Shelley Hughes said Thursday that she is resigning from the Alaska Legislature later this week to focus on her gubernatorial run.

In doing so, Hughes became the second Republican senator from the Matanuska-Susitna Borough to resign from their seat this month, following Sen. Mike Shower of Wasilla, Alaska, who resigned to ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two federal officials told Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden that U.S. Border Patrol agents could be in Charlotte for enforcement as soon as this Saturday, according to a news release.

If not by then, they could be here early next week, McFadden said.

He did not know details of any planned operation, which was first...Read more

CHICAGO — Multiple immigration agents detained a man on Wednesday outside Cook County’s main criminal courthouse on the Southwest Side in a chaotic struggle that broke a fence and left blood on the pavement, according to video footage provided to the Chicago Tribune by the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.

It was not clear whether the...Read more

A Detroit man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Thursday for trying to provide material support to the Islamic State.

Jibreel Pratt, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood amid a renewed focus on Metro Detroiters trying to support the terror group, a focus driven by the arrests of at least eight men this fall, ...Read more

As part of ongoing immigration enforcement in Florida, three Florida sheriff’s offices, including Palm Beach County’s, received a total of $2 million to support those efforts.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office received a check for more than $994,000 during a news conference on Thursday at the sheriff’s headquarters at 3228 Gun Club...Read more

The Michigan House and Senate voted Thursday to institute a 45-day disclosure window before lawmakers can insert funding for special projects into the state budget, a significant change that came in response to a series of scandals tied to a wave of earmark spending.

House Speaker Matt Hall had pushed for the new reporting requirements, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — News that NASA federal employees had been called back to work at Maryland’s Goddard Space Flight Center to dismantle and move laboratories during the government shutdown drew a strong rebuke from members of Congress and a denial from NASA officials.

This is false,” NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens told The Baltimore Sun. �...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in 12 years, U.S. Catholic bishops have issued a unified statement to support the country's immigrants and oppose the Trump administration's "indiscriminate mass deportations of people."

The move marked a voice of support for immigrants — long a vital part of the U.S. Catholic Church — amid a year of ...Read more

The Trump administration sued California on Thursday, Nov. 13, over the redistricting plan approved by voters last week, an attempt to invalidate the new congressional maps meant to help Democrats pick up House seats in next year’s midterm elections.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that it was race, rather than partisanship, that drove...Read more

NEW YORK — Education advocates made a last-ditch effort Thursday to persuade New York City officials to request a delay of the state’s class-size law before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes office.

The 2022 law caps class sizes between 20 and 25 students, depending on their grade level. The city has two more school years to reach full ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized after a fall near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, in an incident related to a heart issue that comes three years after he recovered from a stroke.

The incident follows a busy week in which Fetterman, D-Pa., cast a key vote to reopen the federal government and engaged in a publicity tour to promote ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Shelby County man is suing the top law enforcement officials in Kentucky and the U.S., claiming his nonviolent felony conviction from 1997 should not prohibit him from owning a gun.

Hubert Ford filed suit in federal court Wednesday, against U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman.

Ford ...Read more

The record-breaking federal government shutdown marked yet another impediment to scientific research efforts at the Wistar Institute this year.

After a year in which federal research funding was thrown into uncertainty, with funding freezes and canceled grants, the shutdown meant that the National Institutes of Health were not able to review ...Read more