CHICAGO — With the low hum of planes flying overhead, some 40 people wove through Franklin Park Monday night chanting out across the dark, quiet streets.

“Say his name!” they shouted. “Silverio!”

As questions continue to surface over how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents came to fatally shoot a man in Franklin Park on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A strong majority of Jewish Americans said they are concerned about antisemitism on college campuses but disagree with President Donald Trump's approach to combating it, a national poll showed.

By nearly 3 to 1, American Jews believe that Trump is using antisemitism as an "excuse" to "penalize and tax college campuses," ...Read more

DENVER — Federal immigration authorities have rescinded a policy that provided protections and affirming health care for transgender people held in the Aurora detention center, part of a broader push by the Trump administration to end those guardrails across the country.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials ended the policy ...Read more

The Trump administration has added Venezuela to its annual list of major drug-transit and production countries and, for the first time since 1996, decertified Colombia as a U.S. ally in the fight against narcotics.

The Presidential Determination for fiscal year 2026, issued by the Office of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, ...Read more

A growing share of Americans have a negative view of U.S. military operations abroad, according to a new YouGov poll. A strong majority also oppose the U.S. invading Venezuela to topple President Nicolás Maduro.

The poll — conducted Sept. 5-8 with 1,114 U.S. adults — comes as tensions between the U.S. and Venezuela have risen in recent ...Read more

U.S. naval forces in the Caribbean have sunk a third alleged drug-running boat off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said Tuesday.

“We knocked off, actually, three boats —not two— but you saw two,” Trump said on the White House lawn, following the release of footage Monday showing three alleged drug smugglers being killed ...Read more

Colombia’s dollar bonds dropped after the U.S. “decertified” the nation as a partner in the war on drugs amid the biggest cocaine boom in history.

The move by the Donald Trump administration is likely to hit foreign investment, multilateral funding and tourism, as a long-time ally of Washington now finds itself in the same rogue category ...Read more

A West Nile virus case has been confirmed in Lexington, according to the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department.

West Nile virus is most commonly spread through the bite of an infected mosquito, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the contiguous United States.

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A TV anchor who aired a tribute to Charlie Kirk — her former boss — resigned from her Illinois station after she said she was disciplined.

Beni Harmony, the now-former WICS reporter, announced Sept. 15 her resignation came “after being suspended for airing a non-partisan tribute to Charlie Kirk.”

“Two days ago, I lost a mentor, my ...Read more

CHICAGO — After months of closed door meetings and zipped lips from its members, a working group appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson to give him ideas to to plug next year’s $1.15 billion budget gap is rolling out a bunch of largely familiar, in some cases improbable options for Chicago officials to consider.

The report is a mix of revenue ...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can no longer oversee the prosecution of President Donald Trump in the 2020 election interference case, according to a decision issued Tuesday by the state’s highest court.

The ruling casts doubt on the future of the last remaining criminal prosecution of Trump. A nonpartisan state ...Read more

BEIRUT — Israel began a ground offensive into Gaza City, military officials said Tuesday, slow-rolling into the beleaguered city from multiple directions despite international opprobrium and even as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents remain within Gaza's devastated confines.

Weeks of intense bombardment that all but leveled the ...Read more

Israel started a long-threatened push into the heart of Gaza City after U.S. President Donald Trump’s top diplomat warned Hamas there’s a “very short window” for negotiations to end the war.

The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday its troops have begun an “expanded” ground operation in the de facto capital of the Palestinian ...Read more

The U.S. has “decertified” Colombia as a partner in the war on drugs amid the biggest cocaine boom in history.

The move is likely to hit foreign investment, multilateral funding and tourism, as a long-time ally of Washington now finds itself in the same rogue category as Venezuela, Bolivia, Afghanistan and Myanmar.

“The U.S. is ...Read more

Critics of affirmative action have launched a long-shot appeal aimed at stopping California from requiring training on unconscious bias in every continuing medical education class.

A July ruling by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld California’s right to mandate that every course doctors take to remain ...Read more

An increasing number of immigrants without legal status — even some who have lived here for decades — are finding it easier to seek opportunities in other countries than to stay in the U.S. amid threats of detention and deportation.

“This has never happened in our country before. We have had periods of voluntary departure, but not self-...Read more

For nearly 20 years, thousands of industrial plants across the U.S. and California have been required to track and report the greenhouse gas pollution they spew into the atmosphere.

This month, the Trump administration moved to permanently end that program, which has long held bipartisan support, originating during the administration of George ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California's late summer COVID surge is showing signs of peaking, but the state's war with the Trump administration over vaccines is just beginning.

Coronavirus levels in California's wastewater remain "very high," according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as they are in much of the country. But some ...Read more