MINNEAPOLIS — Student attendance has dropped sharply in several Twin Cities school districts as families keep children home amid heightened fear over increasing federal immigration enforcement.

With 3,000 federal agents reportedly headed to Minnesota in what the U.S. Department of Homeland Security calls the largest immigration enforcement ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas A&M graduate professor was told by the school’s government and public service department that his Ethics in Public Policy class was canceled three days into the spring 2026 semester.

The university alleges professor Leonard Bright refused to submit information needed to be exempt from a new rule on teaching ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California officials are issuing warnings about a new flu strain that is increasing flu-related cases and hospitalizations statewide, with public health experts across the nation echoing the alerts.

A newly emerged influenza A strain, H3N2 subclade K, is already wreaking havoc globally and is affecting hospitals and clinics in ...Read more

DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis used his final State of the State speech to highlight achievements made on housing, education and transportation over his tenure, work that he said would continue through his final year.

He delivered his speech to a joint session of the Colorado legislature on Thursday as lawmakers grapple with a major budget gap as ...Read more

President Donald Trump met Thursday with Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado at the White House, highlighting a dual-track U.S. strategy that combines outreach to opposition figures with heavy pressure on Venezuela’s interim government through oil sanctions, maritime enforcement and tightly managed economic incentives.

White ...Read more

MIAMI — The city of Doral, Florida, will rename a section of an avenue in honor of María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who was barred from running in her country’s 2024 presidential election and later awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for her long-standing defense of democratic rights.

The resolution to rename Northwest...Read more

NEW YORK — An appeals court dealt a blow to Columbia graduate and pro-Palestine activist Mahmoud Khalil on Thursday in his legal battle against the Trump administration, reversing a New Jersey judge’s order freeing him from detention while he fights the government’s efforts to deport him.

The split two-to-one decision by the 3rd Circuit ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Several groups at the University of Pennsylvania representing Jewish students, faculty, and staff are seeking to protect their names and personal information from being turned over to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which is suing Penn to get it.

The EEOC in November filed legal action after the Ivy League ...Read more

Republican Rep. Don Bacon indicated there could be bipartisan support to impeach President Donald Trump for a third time if he invades Greenland.

Days after the Trump administration attacked Venezuela and took its leader into custody, the president began expressing renewed interest in acquiring Greenland. Polls overwhelmingly show Greenland ...Read more

A nationwide outbreak of salmonella linked to Live It Up Super Greens diet supplement powder has sickened 45 people, federal authorities said Wednesday.

Twelve of the 45 people were hospitalized for their illnesses, but no one has died in the outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control said in a statement.

Live It Up, the brand behind the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As global officials confirm that 2025 was Earth’s third-hottest year on record, a new poll shows Americans are sharply divided over the role of science in the United States.

A report published Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that a majority of Americans want the U.S. to be a world leader in science, but ...Read more

The White House has reportedly stashed millions of dollars from sales of Venezuelan oil in Qatari banks since the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro, raising huge questions about how the money will be allocated and if Congress and the American public will have a say.

An estimated $500 million from the first Venezuelan oil sales has already been...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A day after it abruptly notified Lexington-area service providers they would lose millions in already awarded federal funding for substance abuse and mental health services, President Donald Trump’s administration reversed course and reinstated the funding.

On Jan. 13, the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services ...Read more

CHICAGO — Former Vice President Kamala Harris will return to Chicago on Monday for this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Breakfast, Mayor Brandon Johnson announced.

Harris, the Democratic nominee for president in 2024, will deliver the keynote address at the annual event honoring the civil rights icon. It will be her latest visit ...Read more

President Donald Trump Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military troops on the streets of Minneapolis amid escalating clashes between protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carrying out his mass deportation push.

The White House threat, which came after ICE agents shot and wounded a suspect ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to tamp down unrest and the pushback against ICE agents working in the state.

Trump gave the warning early Thursday in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, after a federal agent shot a man in the leg Wednesday night in north Minneapolis ...Read more

NASA’s first medical evacuation from space went smoothly with the four members of SpaceX Crew-11 splashing down in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast early Thursday after an overnight departure from the International Space Station.

The crew of NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke along with JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and ...Read more

U.S. forces have seized another tanker linked to Venezuelan oil exports in the Caribbean, U.S. officials said, as Washington intensifies a sweeping campaign to enforce sanctions and choke off what it describes as illicit petroleum trafficking from Venezuela.

The latest operation, carried out before dawn Thursday, involved U.S. Marines and ...Read more

President Donald Trump Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military troops on the streets of Minneapolis amid escalating clashes between protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carrying out his mass deportation push.

The White House threat, which came after ICE agents shot and wounded a suspect ...Read more