The federal government is supercharging its use of local cops to hunt down immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally as part of an unprecedented effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to deport millions of people.

Some 10,500 local police, county sheriffs, state troopers, university law enforcement and even ...Read more

One family in Virginia Beach, Virginia, just found out their health plan’s deductible will jump from $800 to $20,000 next year. About 200 miles north, in Maryland, another household learned they’ll pay $500 more monthly to insure their brood in 2026. And thousands of people in Idaho were greeted with insurance rates that’ll cost, on ...Read more

Florida could soon be teaching students about the “dangers and evils of communism” under proposed new academic standards that some argue amount to “propaganda” and wrongly aim to rehabilitate the reputation of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who pushed the “Red Scare” communist panic in the 1950s.

The new standards for middle-and-high-school ...Read more

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff to probe the potential harms of offshore wind farms, according to people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump marshals his administration to thwart the clean energy source he loathes.

In late summer, HHS instructed...Read more

In recent years, hundreds of thousands of Californians have purchased home insurance from a state-managed “last resort” insurance pool that has grown rapidly as private insurance companies have fled the market.

Now, in the wake of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires earlier this year, the Fair Access to Insurance Requirements (FAIR) Plan ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — In Connecticut classrooms, students are routinely insulting, threatening, cursing and physically assaulting teachers.

The issue is the most pressing in education today, teachers and education advocates say.

The tense climate has caused teachers to ask to move to other schools to teach, and some have been out on workers ...Read more

A U.S. appeals court agreed to reconsider a ruling that would allow President Donald Trump to send National Guard troops to Portland, Oregon, stalling the deployment again just as the state’s lawsuit challenging the plan heads to trial in a lower court.

The decision Tuesday by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco extends a ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD — Illinois House Democrats began pushing Tuesday for their own plan to provide an overhaul of the Chicago region’s mass transit systems, holding firm against plans to install a new fee on food deliveries and a real estate transfer tax and floating a menu of potential options to raise $1.5 billion in new revenue.

With time ...Read more

DENVER — Two children and their father on their way to school were detained by federal immigration agents in southwestern Colorado on Monday, sparking protests from demonstrators who tried to prevent the family from being separated and moved to different facilities.

Videos of the protest posted on social media Tuesday show law enforcement ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — State Rep. Jermaine Johnson, a Richland Democrat, known for his charisma on the House floor, is making a bid for the governor’s office.

If Johnson wins the Democratic nomination, winning the statewide election in a reliably red state will be a long shot.

“This state has never seen a candidate like myself run for ...Read more

The former BBC anchor who famously grilled Prince Andrew about his scandalous friendship with Jeffrey Epstein revealed Tuesday that Prince William threatened to remove the royal titles of Andrew’s daughters unless their disgraced father finally agreed to leave Royal Lodge, the 30-room mansion he and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson, occupy near ...Read more

VANCOUVER, Canada — President Donald Trump’s latest tariff salvo against Canada landed just as Mark Carney was setting out on a mission to insulate his country from the fallout of the trade war.

As the U.S. leader declared an additional 10% levy on Canadian goods this weekend — angered by a critical advertisement from the province of ...Read more

A coalition of immigrants’ rights groups has filed a lawsuit vying to halt the rapid expansion of California’s largest ICE detention center, which now detains nearly 750 people since opening in August.

The Hail Mary attempt to block operations at the remote ICE facility in the Kern County desert follows repeated allegations of inhumane ...Read more

Global emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases are expected to fall by about 10% by 2035, compared with 1990 levels, representing the first decline ever forecast by the United Nations. But the world remains well off course to keeping global warming below the 1.5C leaders committed to when they signed the Paris Agreement a decade ago.

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A top biosecurity adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services who believed messenger RNA Covid vaccines should be taken off the market was fired over the weekend, an agency official said.

Steven Hatfill, a virologist who advocated for unproven Covid-19 treatments like hydroxychloroquine during the pandemic, served for six months as a...Read more

When catastrophic Hurricane Dorian became the strongest storm ever to hit The Bahamas six years ago, submerging the islands of Abaco and Grand Bahama under floodwaters, the U.S. government was among the most generous of responders.

Washington, through the U.S. Agency for International Development, deployed search-and-rescue teams, airlifted ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump heads to South Korea on Wednesday for a high-stakes meeting with counterpart Lee Jae Myung, as the leaders seek to hammer out the details of a $350 billion investment pledge at the heart of a critical trade deal between the two nations.

South Korea is the final stop on Trump’s three-nation tour through Asia, as ...Read more

The New Jersey Department of Health has issued a public alert after a passenger with measles spent more than three hours last week at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Anyone who was in Terminal B on Oct. 19 between 2:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. may have been exposed, according to the bulletin.

The infected person is not a New Jersey resident, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Tou Thao, one of the four fired Minneapolis police officers convicted in George Floyd’s killing during an arrest nearly 5 1/2 years ago, is scheduled to be released from prison next week.

Thao, 39, was convicted in state and federal courts for his role in connection with the murder of Floyd on May 25, 2020, at the corner of ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s support among Hispanic Americans has declined noticeably since he took office, according to new polling.

In the latest survey by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 25% of Hispanic adults said they have a “very” or “somewhat” favorable view of Trump, marking a nearly 20-point drop ...Read more