A bill ordering the release of all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case is expected to come to a vote in the House of Representatives next week and is shaping up to win lopsided, bipartisan approval despite President Donald Trump’s steadfast resistance.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, who has resisted the measure at Trump’s behest for...Read more

Civil rights leader and former presidential candidate the Rev. Jesse Jackson has been hospitalized in Chicago, his organization said Wednesday.

Jackson, 84, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. with deep ties to Atlanta’s civil rights community, is under observation for progressive supranuclear palsy, or PSP, the Rainbow PUSH ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, in a departure from his typically optimistic outlook, said Thursday it will be “nearly impossible” for his incoming administration to complete a long-stalled affordable housing project in Manhattan’s Elizabeth Street Garden in light of outgoing Mayor Eric Adams’ latest move to block it.

On ...Read more

DETROIT — Nearly four dozen business, community and philanthropic leaders are part of Mayor-elect Mary Sheffield's effort to shape and guide policy that she vows will spread Detroit's rebounding fortunes citywide.

Sheffield, who takes office in January, unveiled the members of her Rise Higher Detroit transition team at Marygrove Conservancy ...Read more

A former teacher was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in prison for sexually abusing one of her students at a juvenile detention facility in Kentucky.

Elena Bardin, 27, of Columbia, was convicted in September of sexual abuse, unlawful transaction with a minor, and distribution of obscene material to a minor in connection with her abuse of a 17-...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A vacant, overgrown lot rests on King Road at the edge of the University of Idaho campus in Moscow. The stillness comes in stark contrast to the home that once stood there, brimming with activity from the college students who lived there.

Three years have now passed since a man entered the house in the middle of the night and ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Following the passage of the ‘One, Big Beautiful Bill’ this summer, Kentucky legislators say they will shift the way they make policy and create the state’s budget.

The federal tax and spending bill passed July 4 will largely impact the way the Kentucky General Assembly creates its two-year budget, said Speaker of the ...Read more

DETROIT — A federal grand jury late Wednesday indicted three Dearborn men on terrorism-related charges in the latest legal move in a case involving an alleged coast-to-coast conspiracy involving the Islamic State.

The indictment was filed two days after Ayob Nasser, 19, his 20-year-old brother Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud, 20, agreed to stay ...Read more

ATLANTA — After being arrested by federal immigration officials and sent to Stewart Detention Center earlier this year, Jesus Arizmendi Mora requested a hearing that could have led to him being set free on bond while his deportation case worked its way through immigration court.

A Mexican immigrant who spent more than 20 years living in the U...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has been handed his first loss in higher court since joining Miami Dade College’s defense in a lawsuit over whether the school’s Board of Trustees violated Florida’s Sunshine Law when it voted to give away land for Donald Trump’s presidential library.

Uthmeier asked Florida’s Third ...Read more

Pakistan has granted lifelong immunity to Field Marshal Asim Munir, in a move that would further entrench the military’s grip on power in the nuclear-armed nation.

The upper house of parliament approved the constitutional amendment bill on Thursday expanding Munir’s control over the military branches. It also gave the prime minister ...Read more

For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys and ducks.

But far less widely known is that the virus has devastated wildlife across the globe, killing millions of wild birds and mammals.

Few animals have been harder ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in 12 years, U.S. Catholic bishops issued a unified statement Wednesday to support the country's immigrants and oppose the Trump administration's "indiscriminate mass deportations of people."

The special statement was issued during the bishops' annual gathering in Baltimore. It was the first time since 2013 ...Read more

DENVER – Colorado officials are working to restore federally funded food assistance “as rapidly as possible” after the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history ended Wednesday.

Roughly 5% of the 600,000 Coloradans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known as SNAP, received their full benefits for November...Read more

Trailblazing civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized in Chicago on Wednesday due to symptoms from the neurodegenerative condition progressive supranuclear palsy.

His hospitalization was confirmed in a statement by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a social justice organization founded by Jackson.

The 84-year-old Baptist minister ...Read more

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy implored European Union allies to overcome their divisions on the use of frozen Russian assets, saying fresh funding is critical for his war-battered economy to stay in the fight against Moscow.

“I hope, God bless, we will get this decision,” Zelenskyy told Bloomberg Television in an interview late ...Read more

Trailblazing civil rights leader the Rev. Jesse Jackson was hospitalized in Chicago on Wednesday due to symptoms from the neurodegenerative condition progressive supranuclear palsy.

His hospitalization was confirmed in a statement by the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a social justice organization founded by Jackson.

The 84-year-old Baptist minister ...Read more