In January 2025, Seema received an email from the International Organization for Migration saying that her flight from Pakistan to the United States, which she and her family were booked on after months of extensive interviewing and background checks by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, had been canceled.

“We had sold our ...Read more

Only 33 of Colorado’s 64 counties have an emergency shelter program specifically for survivors of domestic violence. In the greater Denver area, which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, there are only five shelter programs for survivors.

I study the policies and programs that serve...Read more

Imagine being a dentist, and your clients roll their eyes at you, comment that you don’t know what you’re doing – or even spit at you.

Unimaginable, right? But that’s what nurses experience when patients or their families do the eye roll or hit, bite or spit at them. What’s more, a bedside nurse may repeatedly endure bad ...Read more

When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and review dozens of regulations under the Clean Air Act. They included some groundbreaking rules, such as setting national air quality standards for ozone and fine particulate matter.

For each rule, we considered ...Read more

Heat pumps can reduce carbon emissions associated with heating buildings, and many states have set aggressive targets to increase their use in the coming decades. But while heat pumps are often cheaper choices for new buildings, getting homeowners to install them in existing homes isn’t so easy.

Current energy prices, including the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Sitting between a pair of Space Force colonels in room full of military and commercial aerospace representatives, U.S. Rep. Mike Haridopolos spoke his mind about some of the hurdles that have slowed launch endeavors in the U.S.

“What frustrates me as an American is capitalism is supposed to be faster than communism, and yet ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s chief federal judge canceled a contempt hearing ordering the Trump administration’s acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to appear in court, while lambasting federal immigration authorities over his concerns about how operations are being carried out in the state.

U.S. Chief District Judge ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Former Sangamon County Sheriff’s Deputy Sean Grayson was sentenced to 20 years in prison Thursday after his second-degree murder conviction for the 2024 fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a killing that generated national outrage, protests and calls for changes to police hiring practices.

Sangamon County Judge Ryan Cadagin...Read more

Medicare Advantage health plans are blasting a government proposal this week that would keep their reimbursement rates flat next year while making other payment changes.

But some health policy experts say the plan could help reduce billions of dollars in overcharges that have been common in the program for more than a decade.

On Jan. 26, ...Read more

Just more than a week before he was gunned down by ICE agents, Alex Pretti was involved in another incident with federal officers in Minneapolis, bystander video shows.

One clip — initially published by digital outlet The News Movement on Wednesday — was recorded on Jan. 13 near E. 36th Street and Park Avenue in Minneapolis’ Powderhorn ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — An independent election analysis gives Democrats a slightly better — but still not good — chance of winning the 2026 U.S. Senate race in Florida following the entrance of the newest candidate, Alexander Vindman.

The ratings change was one of two updates Thursday from Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of ...Read more

FORT MYERS, Fla. — Two people detained at Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention facility testified in federal court Wednesday to having to write lawyers’ phone numbers on their bunks and walls using bars of soap after being refused pens and paper — and then having the available phones glitch and fail when they tried to call ...Read more

MIAMI — A popular nightclub in Miami Beach seemed to have a plan, according to a new lawsuit.

Bring the “best looking” and “most intoxicated” women to the wealthy Miami brothers sitting in the VIP section of Basement, a local nightclub at The Miami Beach EDITION hotel, the suit filed last week in the Southern District of Florida ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal prosecutors say a 55-year-old man sprayed U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar with vinegar as she spoke on Jan. 27 at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis and has wished in the past that someone would kill her.

Anthony James Kazmierczak, 55, of Minneapolis was charged on Jan. 29 in U.S. District Court with forcibly assaulting, opposing, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The question of how to protect fish and the ecological health of rivers that feed California’s largest estuary is generating heated debate in a series of hearings in Sacramento, as state officials try to gain support for a plan that has been years in the making.

“I am passionate that this is the pathway to recover fish,” ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — White House border czar Tom Homan said Thursday, Jan. 29, that, after conversations with numerous political and law enforcement leaders in Minnesota, a plan is in the works to reduce the number of federal agents in the area.

That drawdown, Homan added, will require the cooperation of Minnesota law enforcement and political ...Read more