ORLANDO, Fla. — While SpaceX continues to test its Starship and Super Heavy rocket in Texas, Space Force officials in Florida are preparing for a first launch as early as mid-2026.

SpaceX is awaiting the completion of a pair of environmental impact statements for its plans to launch from both Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the weeks since federal investigators announced that the devastating Palisades fire was caused by a reignition of a smaller blaze, top Los Angeles Fire Department officials have insisted that they did everything they could to put out the earlier fire.

But the Los Angeles Times has obtained records that call into question the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — No one seems to know what happened to Vicente Ventura Aguilar.

A witness told his brother and attorneys that the 44-year-old Mexican immigrant, who doesn't have lawful immigration status, was taken into custody by immigration authorities on Oct. 7 in South Los Angeles and suffered a medical emergency.

But it's been more than ...Read more

NEW YORK — Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided Canal St. in lower Manhattan Saturday afternoon again, arresting a West African migrant street vendor allegedly selling counterfeit goods.

The arrest, at Canal St. near Broadway around noon, came only about 15 minutes after the New York Police Department had completed its own vendor...Read more

The Trump administration is advertising for “deportation judges” in its ongoing push to fill jobs to aid its mass deportation campaign.

The call for judges by the U.S. Department of Justice marks the latest step in an enforcement strategy that has spread from border cities to major metropolitan areas. It reflects an effort to speed up every...Read more

CHICAGO — It’s a story repeating itself: Border Patrol agents flooding immigrant neighborhoods, showing dramatic force, storming Home Depot parking lots and preying on people at courthouses.

Those arrests erupted in Chicago. Then they were 750 miles away in Charlotte, North Carolina. And they will keep roving across the country.

But no ...Read more

Russia and Ukraine are fighting an increasingly intense energy war as they attempt to gain a meaningful advantage after months of stalemate on the front-lines and ahead of potential new peace talks.

Massive Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure are leaving businesses and households wrestling with lengthy power outages, as Moscow ...Read more

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