CHICAGO — Shortly after her arrival last fall, Amelia Gray met Hudson, and the pair hit it off immediately. They touched their noses together in greeting and chuffed — a soft, breathy, snorting sound that signals affection or reassurance. Amelia Gray rolled on her back, gently pawing at her counterpart. Later that same day, they played in ...Read more

Across Massachusetts, snow accumulation reached over 20 inches in some areas as the massive storm set in to drop even more snow at a slower pace through Monday night.

“In terms of snowball totals, the general theme has been 12 to 17 inches throughout most, if not all, of southern New England,” said NWS meteorologist Francis Tarasiewicz as ...Read more

The death toll from this weekend’s bone-chilling winter storm has climbed to eight, with city officials investigating how so many New Yorkers lost their lives on the streets and whether the deaths were caused by the extreme cold.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Monday that several of the deceased were found to have had interactions with the city’...Read more

The three major Democratic candidates vying to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin clashed Monday night over who would be the strongest opponent to President Donald Trump and his aggressive deportation enforcement operations, each vowing to varying degrees to end the current tactics of his federal immigration agents.

The hourlong debate, ...Read more

The Canton group that was sued by acquitted murder defendant Karen Read is trying to toss her civil lawsuit, calling Read’s legal action an “act of revenge.”

After Read was found not guilty last year for the murder of Boston cop John O’Keefe, she sued witnesses from her high-profile case, who she argues framed her in connection with her...Read more

Greg Bovino, the U.S. Border Patrol commander who became the face of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, is leaving the city following a mounting public outcry over the killing of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in recent weeks.

Bovino and some Border Patrol agents are expected to begin departing as ...Read more

For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke with a single voice when advising the nation's families on when to vaccinate their children.

Since 1995, the two organizations have worked together to publish a single vaccine schedule for parents and healthcare providers that clearly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced plans Monday for an overhaul of its organizational structure in a move it said would help make the agency more efficient and support its ambitious air traffic control modernization plans.

The FAA and the US Transportation Department announced the changes in a statement that said ...Read more

Western North Carolina’s top federal defender has decried “threats to the rule of law” following the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by immigration officials in Minnesota.

“What we are witnessing on the streets of Minneapolis, and in other cities across the country, shocks the conscience,” John Baker, the federal public defender for the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Immigration detainees are subjected to mold on walls, contagious diseases, lack of medical care and lack of clean water and food at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino County, a lawsuit filed Monday against federal officials alleges.

Two people detained at the facility have died since October, and attorneys and ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Corrections said Monday they’ve identified 68 cases when they’ve transferred people from prison to federal custody and federal officials “falsely claim these same individuals were ‘arrested’ by waves of federal agents deployed into Minnesota communities.”

The U.S. Department of ...Read more

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle ruled Friday the Trump administration violated federal law when it withheld congressionally approved funds for electric vehicle chargers.

U.S. District Judge Tana Lin in June granted a preliminary injunction ordering the administration to restore the funding in response to a lawsuit brought by Washington ...Read more

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the United Kingdom wouldn’t have to choose between the United States and China, as he heralded “significant opportunities” for British businesses ahead of his trip to Beijing this week.

In an interview with Bloomberg on Monday, Starmer dismissed questions about whether he was seeking stronger ties with ...Read more

A deep freeze is gripping the U.S. as the worst storm so far this season winds down, leaving the country’s biggest electric grid in emergency status and bracing for record wintertime demand.

PJM Interconnection LLC, which serves 67 million people from New Jersey to Chicago, issued a grid emergency for Tuesday and warned demand will exceed 147...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Facing opposition from key Republican senators, President Donald Trump's nominee to be ambassador to Kuwait instead has taken a job with AmeriCorps in Washington.

Former Hamtramck Mayor Amer Ghalib said he started Monday as senior adviser for strategic partnerships at AmeriCorps, where his role will include working with local ...Read more

WASHINGTON — California Sen. Alex Padilla and Democratic colleagues proposed Monday overhauling what he called a “cruel” immigrant detention system.

The Senate is expected to debate immigration policy this week, as it considers funding for the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats said Monday they won’t vote for the DHS budget.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Attorneys for the Justice Department and Minnesota squared off in federal court on Monday over the continued presence of immigration agents as part of Operation Metro Surge.

The high-stakes hearing in Minneapolis centered on Minnesota’s bid to halt the surge of federal immigration agents to the state — described by the Trump...Read more

MADRID — Spain will approve an extraordinary grant of legal status to undocumented migrants on Tuesday, the government said in a statement.

The move aims to “guarantee rights and provide legal certainty to an existing social reality.” About half a million people could benefit, provided they were in Spain before Dec. 31, have no criminal ...Read more

Several people who witnessed federal agents shoot and kill Minnesota man Alex Pretti on the streets of Minneapolis were detained for several hours in a federal building, according to a report published Monday.

One of the witnesses, identified only as Javier, told local CBS affiliate WCCO that he and about two dozen other people were held in ...Read more