The United States will designate Venezuela’s Cartel de los Soles as a Foreign Terrorist Organization on Nov. 24, a dramatic escalation in Washington’s confrontation with strongman Nicolás Maduro and his closest allies.

The move is being widely read in Venezuelan political circles as an ultimatum: a final window for Maduro to negotiate his ...Read more

A lopsided congressional vote ordering release of the Jeffrey Epstein files was looming as soon as Tuesday after President Donald Trump abruptly changed his tune on the measure after months of stonewalling.

With Trump’s support, it was unclear if any Republicans at all would vote against a bill that GOP leaders tenaciously fought against and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two stark-white cruise ships loomed over a muddy Amazonian estuary, an odd sight from a beach where two children waded in the water.

The diesel-powered vessels towered over the impoverished riverfront neighborhood where trash littered the ground and a rainbow sheen from household and street runoff glistened on top of rain ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a Trump administration appeal that argues migrants have no right to seek asylum at the southern border.

Rather, the government says border agents may block asylum seekers from stepping on to U.S. soil and turn away their claims without a hearing.

The new case seeks to clarify the ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump has endorsed Emilio González for Miami mayor, adding to the roster of major GOP politicians throwing their support behind the former city manager and deepening the partisan divide that has shaped the officially nonpartisan race ahead of the Dec. 9 runoff election.

“It is my Great Honor to endorse Emilio T. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Out on his farm in Dundee Township, Cliff McConville sees geese landing in the fields where his turkeys and chickens graze. It’s a sight that often unnerves poultry producers, as migratory waterfowl carry and spread a highly infectious strain of bird flu that has been resurging in the United States for the last three years.

So far...Read more

CHICAGO — Out on his farm in Dundee Township, Cliff McConville sees geese landing in the fields where his turkeys and chickens graze. It’s a sight that often unnerves poultry producers, as migratory waterfowl carry and spread a highly infectious strain of bird flu that has been resurging in the United States for the last three years.

So far...Read more

A special tribunal in Bangladesh sentenced exiled former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death, finding her guilty of crimes against humanity for her role in the violent crackdown on student-led protests last year.

The three-judge panel found the ousted leader guilty of ordering the killings of students and instructing law enforcement agencies ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Republicans in California have diverging opinions on President Donald Trump's immigration enforcement policies, according to a study published by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute on Monday.

The Trump administration has deployed a sweeping crackdown on immigration, launching ICE raids across the country and removing ...Read more

NEW YORK — Top officials at City Hall and the NYPD worked to undermine sexual harassment and retaliation accusations made by a female sergeant and three other cops against Timothy Pearson, one of Mayor Eric Adams’ top advisers, court papers filed Friday allege.

After Sgt. Roxanne Ludemann first accused Pearson of sexual harassment and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Kris Edwards waited at home with friends for his wife, Erika “Tilly” Edwards, to go out to dinner, but she never made it back to the house they had purchased only four days earlier. Around 9 p.m. on June 29, a hit-and-run driver killed Tilly as she walked to her car after a fundraiser performance in Hollywood.

“I’ve just...Read more

Removing the most dire warning from hormonal therapies to treat menopause is likely the right call, women’s health experts say, but exuberance for the treatments could be getting ahead of the evidence.

Since 2003, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration required a “black box” warning — reserved for the most-serious side effects — on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In the opening pages of his new memoir, Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman acknowledges he's not the best fit for a career in politics.

He doesn't excel at small talk and isn't wild about crowds. He looks "like a skinhead" and his sometimes "ornery" disposition means "no one will mistake (him) for a good time."

The "only reason...Read more

Paul John Bojerski was born to Polish parents in a German refugee camp a year after World War II ended. His family legally emigrated to the United States in 1952 when he was five.

More than seven decades later, the 79-year-old Sanford grandfather – still a man without a country – found himself in legal limbo in the Alligator Alcatraz ...Read more

National Domestic Violence Hotline: People who have experienced domestic abuse can get confidential help at thehotline.org or by calling 800-799-7233.

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The immigrant from India believed her husband when he said that if she wasn’t gone by the time he got to their Georgia home in 10 minutes, he would kill her.

She said her husband and ...Read more

A special tribunal in Bangladesh is expected to rule Monday on whether ousted leader Sheikh Hasina is guilty of crimes against humanity for her role in the deadly crackdown of student-led protests last year.

The country has been on edge for several days following a wave of bomb and arson attacks that took place amid protests organized by ...Read more

Ecuador’s voters delivered a sharp and surprising repudiation of President Daniel Noboa’s attempt to consolidate power, defying the polls and rejecting his proposals for constitutional reform.

In a nationwide referendum, Ecuadorians spurned Noboa’s proposals to create a new constitutional assembly, to allow the return of foreign military ...Read more

The Massachusetts Special Commission on Xylazine will hold preliminary meetings Monday and Tuesday, in efforts to study the increasing presence of the dangerous animal sedative in the state’s illicit drug supply.

The special commission, formed under a law signed by the governor in December 2024, is tasked with forming recommendations to “...Read more

U.S. airlines will be able to resume normal operations starting Monday after more than a week of government-mandated flight reductions.

The U.S. Transportation Department and Federal Aviation Administration announced late Sunday they would lift cuts across 40 major U.S. airports that were imposed during the government shutdown, starting from 6...Read more