CHICAGO — As thousands gathered at Chicago’s Millennium Park Friday evening for the annual tree-lighting ceremony, social media posts advertising the latest and what would become perhaps the deadliest “teen takeover” continued to spread online.

In mere hours, the holiday cheer turned into chaos. A 14-year-old boy was killed and eight ...Read more

NEW YORK — Los Angeles police have reportedly identified a second suspect in connection with the apparent murder of Celeste Rivas Hernandez, the runaway teen whose dismembered remains were found stuffed in the trunk of singer D4vd’s impounded Tesla in September.

Queens-born D4vd, real name David Anthony Burke, is also considered a suspect. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Roughly 300 Illinois National Guard members, activated by the Trump administration as part of the Operation Midway Blitz deportation raids and over the objections of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker, have spent more than a month housed not at a federal installation but at a state-owned National Guard training site — an arrangement that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Born in Mexico and brought to the U.S. by her parents when she was 1, Sara has lived in California nearly all her life. As an undocumented immigrant, she pays in-state tuition rates at East Los Angeles College — $619 per semester, a fraction of the $5,286 charged to out-of-state students.

Because of her immigration status, ...Read more

Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of slain President John F. Kennedy, is battling a rare form of leukemia and may have less than a year to live.

In an essay published Saturday in The New Yorker, the 35-year-old environmental journalist wrote her illness was discovered in May 2024 after she gave birth to her daughter. She was diagnosed with ...Read more

NEW YORK — After claiming for years that they couldn’t find any documents about what City Hall knew about the dangers of the 9/11 toxins swirling around Ground Zero, the city Department of Environmental Protection has now discovered 68 boxes worth of information that could be pivotal in learning more about what first responders and survivors...Read more

A Florida sheriff’s deputy was killed and two other people were wounded Friday after gunfire broke out during an attempt to serve an eviction notice in Vero Beach, officials said.

The suspected gunman, 37-year-old Michael Halberstam, died from his injuries Saturday afternoon.

Authorities said three deputies and a locksmith responded early ...Read more

Airlines canceled flights in and out of Venezuela in response to a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration advisory telling operators to “exercise caution” amid an escalating standoff between the U.S. and Nicolas Maduro’s regime.

Carriers including Colombia’s Avianca, Tap — Transportes Aereos Portugueses, Lan Airlines, Gol Linhas Aereas...Read more

Turkey is prepared to contribute a few thousand troops to a U.S.-backed, Muslim-majority force in the Gaza Strip, according to Turkish officials familiar with the matter, despite Israeli opposition to such a move.

The U.S. broadly supports Turkey joining the International Stabilization Force pushed by President Donald Trump, following Ankara’...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California lawmakers are demanding answers from U.S. Homeland Security officials following the deaths of two Orange County residents and nearly two dozen others while in federal immigration custody.

In a letter Friday to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, U.S. Reps. Dave Min, D-Calif., and Judy Chu, D-Calif., ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration is working behind the scenes on fallback options if the Supreme Court strikes down one of his major tariff authorities, looking to replace the levies as quickly as possible.

The Commerce Department and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative have studied Plan B options if the court ...Read more

Miss Jamaica is still hospitalized in intensive care days after falling off the Miss Universe stage, with her family saying she “isn’t doing as well” as they “would have hoped.”

Dr. Gabrielle “Gabby” Henry, 28, will remain in an ICU in Thailand for at least a week as “doctors continue their close monitoring and specialized care,...Read more

Airlines canceled flights in and out of Venezuela in response to a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration advisory telling operators to “exercise caution” amid an escalating standoff between the U.S. and Nicolas Maduro’s regime.

Carriers including Colombia’s Avianca, Tap — Transportes Aereos Portugueses, Lan Airlines, Gol Linhas Aereas...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It may have felt like the recent rain would never end in Los Angeles, but the record-breaking precipitation in Southern California has failed to translate into a much-desired dumping of snow at ski resorts across the state.

While Friday was originally set as the opening date of the Heavenly and Northstar ski resorts in the Lake ...Read more

MIAMI — The Justice Department is again asking a South Florida judge to unseal grand jury transcripts from the original federal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, citing a bill passed this week by Congress directing the U.S. government to release all its case files involving the notorious sex trafficker.

“[T]he Department respectfully ...Read more

European leaders and other allies told the U.S. that its peace plan for Ukraine needed “additional work,” in a rushed bid to try and slow walk a Trump administration determined to give concessions to Russia and impose terms by Thanksgiving.

They issued a statement at a Group of 20 summit in South Africa that President Donald Trump blew off ...Read more

Almost 200 nations gathered in Brazil for the United Nations’ annual climate summit capped two weeks of fraught negotiations with an agreement Saturday on new efforts to help guide their transition away from the fossil fuels driving global warming.

However, the accord dodged an explicit mention of the oil, gas and coal responsible for driving...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A shelter-in-place order was lifted Saturday morning for San Pedro and Wilmington after a massive and stubborn blaze involving hazardous materials erupted Friday night on a cargo ship, authorities said.

The order, due to potentially toxic smoke from the blaze, had covered a huge swath of the region from Western Avenue to the 103...Read more

Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro was arrested Saturday after a judge deemed him a flight risk following his conviction on charges that he attempted a coup after his 2022 election defeat.

Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Bolsonaro’s detainment after his eldest son, Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro, called on supporters to stage a ...Read more