Peter Mandelson, Britain’s former ambassador to the U.S., resigned from the U.K.’s ruling Labour Party to avoid causing it “further embarrassment” after the latest revelations about his links to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Mandelson is facing questions about payments totaling $103,000 made to him and his partner by Epstein ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for about two years to carry out renovations after his takeover prompted a significant backlash.

“I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease ...Read more

Ballots are being counted in Costa Rica in an election dominated by soaring drug violence that has shocked a country historically known as a peaceful tourist haven in a turbulent region.

Ruling party candidate Laura Fernández, who served as chief-of-staff for President Rodrigo Chaves, led polls by a wide margin ahead of the vote largely due ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s public support remains solid while a new opposition alliance is struggling to resonate with voters, opinion polls over the weekend showed, positioning the ruling party for a comfortable majority in the upcoming lower house election.

A victory for Takaichi would consolidate the power of the Liberal ...Read more

Democrats face a tough map in their quest to flip the Senate this year, but their candidates – both incumbents and challengers – continue to outraise their Republican opponents in several battleground races, new federal filings show.

Both parties are also contending with competitive primaries across the country, with a handful of candidates...Read more

The recent FBI raid of a Georgia county election office is a precursor to battles ahead as President Donald Trump’s administration steps up efforts to obtain sensitive voter information from states.

The effort has set up legal showdowns with 24 states and Washington, D.C., with the Justice Department suing them for refusing to turn over voter...Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s plan to protect India’s economy from Donald Trump’s tariffs is coming into sharper focus.

The latest outlines of India’s plan to live in the new world order dominated by the U.S. president came on Sunday in an annual budget announcement that was packed with support for exporters battered by U.S. tariffs, ...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker threw his two-term former running mate a $5 million political lifeline, largely bankrolling a political action committee aimed at helping Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, recent federal campaign finance documents show.

Pritzker’s Dec. 4 contribution to the Illinois Future PAC enabled ...Read more

A 6-year-old boy pressed close to his mother’s hip as they sat together on a bench in Denver immigration Judge Brea Burgie’s courtroom Tuesday morning.

The boy’s green sneakers kicked the air, his legs too short to touch the ground. His dark, gelled curls sat immaculate on his head, aside from a single indentation where his mother’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he wasn’t involved in the Texas Senate District 9 race, where a Democrat flipped a historically Republican seat in the Fort Worth-area, despite endorsing the candidate and urging voters to get out to the polls.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet’s defeat of Republican Leigh Wambsganss in the longtime GOP district ...Read more

South Florida iguana removal companies were scooping up hundreds of cold-stunned and dead lizards Sunday in a seemingly record-breaking roundup due to the cold snap, according to local business owners.

“We are scooping them up by the dozens,” said Blake Wilkins, owner of Redline Iguana Removal in Hollywood.

It was 35.1 degrees with a wind ...Read more

South Floridians awoke Sunday to find “frozen” iguanas in their yards, streets, sidewalks and driveways after record low temperatures stunned the invasive reptiles.

At 8:50 a.m., 10 minutes before the Florida Wildlife Conservation Commission opened its Sunrise drop-off location Sunday morning, John Bridgman and his wife, Lindsey, waited ...Read more

The number of ICE detainees booked into the Orange County Jail without any local criminal charges has surged more than fourfold in recent months, massively straining facility staff and creating unsafe conditions, county officials say.

Many of those inmates have been there multiple times, shuffling out and back every three days in order to ...Read more

Imagine attending a funeral where the person who has died speaks directly to you, answering your questions and sharing memories. This happened at the funeral of Marina Smith, a Holocaust educator who died in 2022.

Thanks to an AI technology company called StoryFile, Smith seemed to interact naturally with her family and friends.

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The White House is responding to increased criticism and legislative action taken by elected Democrats against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), including an executive order and legislation filed by Gov. Maura Healey restricting the agency’s abilities and operations in Massachusetts.

“ICE officers are facing a 1300% increase in ...Read more

While Swedish Hospital preoperative nurse Joanie Paskert didn't know Alex Pretti, she feels connected to the 37-year-old intensive care nurse federal agents killed in Minneapolis last Saturday.

"I might not have worked at the same facility as (Pretti), but that's my co-worker," she said. "That's my brother. He's one of us. So to hear that not ...Read more

Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos returned home to Minnesota on Sunday, Feb. 1, with his father, ending a detention that carried the Columbia Heights preschooler hundreds of miles from his school and family and turned him into a national symbol of the human toll of immigration enforcement.

Liam and his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, boarded a ...Read more

When Antonio Romanucci, the attorney representing the family of Renee Good, was admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, he wanted to purchase something to commemorate the honor.

In the court souvenir shop, he noticed porcelain turtles for sale.

“Why the turtle?” he asked a clerk.

The clerk responded, “The wheels of ...Read more