CHICAGO — Aldermen passed the final part of a counterproposal to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2026 budget on Saturday, in a historic meeting that redraws the political lines at City Hall and further imperils his progressive agenda.

The consequential day was punctuated by hours of floor speeches with the usual finger-pointing and grandstanding ...Read more

A bipartisan House duo is drawing up a cryptocurrency tax framework that would provide a safe harbor for some stablecoin transactions and delay taxation of rewards earned by verifying blockchain transactions.

The cryptocurrency sector has clamored for legislation that would clarify the tax treatment of digital assets, even as a broader measure ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer has stepped into the case of a 52-year-old disabled Ecuadoran immigrant, telling the judge it would be “cruel” and “egregious” to deport the Seaford resident to face gang violence in his homeland.

The man, Victor Acurio Suarez, is unable to live on his own, always cared for by his younger ...Read more

The U.S. can maintain close ties with Japan while pursuing productive engagement with China, even as tensions rise between Asia’s two largest economies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

“We feel very strongly that we can continue with our strong, firm partnership and alliance with Japan, and do so in a way that continues to allow us to ...Read more

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he’s not the only person who could be the ruling party’s candidate for premier in next year’s election, though he added a defense of his qualifications to continue leading the country.

Asked by his ambitious Transportation and Construction Minister Janos Lazar at a town hall event why Hungarians ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — On a frigid, blustery Saturday, Rick Vandendolder stepped outside to follow in his immigrant father’s footsteps.

“My dad was with the Dutch resistance, and he helped hide Jews and others who were fleeing Nazi persecution,” the 73-year-old said. “I met some of the people that he saved, and I never dreamt that I’d be ...Read more

BOSTON — Public calls are growing for the FBI to give its promised $50,000 reward to a homeless man who provided information essential to leading authorities to the gunman they say killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor

Authorities say they received a tip from an anonymous source on Tuesday about a Reddit post on the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — By now, it’s become a familiar scene across the Twin Cities. Federal agents descend on a home or stop a car to apprehend someone who appears to be a Latino or Somali immigrant.

Within minutes, activists surround the agents; blowing whistles, shouting down law enforcement and gathering vital bits of information that could help ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers unhappy with Justice Department decisions to heavily redact or withhold documents from a legally mandated release of files related to Jeffrey Epstein threatened Saturday to launch impeachment proceedings against those responsible, including Pam Bondi, the U.S. attorney general.

Democrats and Republicans alike ...Read more

Nick Reiner may remain on suicide watch and in solitary confinement for the foreseeable future as he faces charges for the double murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner.

Nick was arrested last Sunday and later charged in the fatal stabbings of the beloved director, 78, and photographer, 70, whose daughter Romy discovered the grisly scene...Read more

ATLANTA — One of the biggest measles outbreaks of the past two decades is taking place less than 200 miles from Atlanta.

More than 130 people in South Carolina have contracted the infection in recent months — almost all of them children who were unvaccinated. Public health officials in the state said travel over the Thanksgiving holiday ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force announced Friday it has awarded satellite contracts with a combined value of about $1.6 billion to Rocket Lab in Long Beach and to the Redondo Beach Space Park campus of Northrop Grumman.

The contracts by the Space Development Agency will fund the construction by each company of 18 satellites for a network ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A police officer is placed on administrative leave after shooting a person after a struggle over a gun, according to a news release.

At about 3:15 a.m. on Saturday, officers responded to call about an officer involved shooting in the 600 block of 79th street. This is off of Jefferson Avenue in Newport News.

According to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Journalist and author Lou Cannon, who was widely considered the nation's leading authority on the life and career of President Ronald Reagan, died Friday in a Santa Barbara hospice. He was 92.

His death was caused by complications from a stroke, his son Carl M. Cannon told the Washington Post, where his father served for years ...Read more

The U.S. Coast Guard stopped and boarded an oil tanker in the Caribbean early Saturday that was last docked in Venezuela, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade.

The Centuries supertanker laden with up to 2 million barrels of Venezuelan crude was flying a Panamanian flag, according to ...Read more

A Pakistani court sentenced Imran Khan to 17 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption when in office, another setback for the former prime minster who has been in jail since 2023.

Judge Shahrukh Arjumand of an anti-graft court handed Khan the maximum prison sentence for illegally undervaluing and then obtaining expensive gifts ...Read more

MIAMI — After nearly two decades, the Justice Department on Friday finally released a small a portion of its voluminous criminal case files on the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

The DOJ, under pressure to comply with a law passed by Congress last month, released tens of thousands of pages by Saturday morning. The materials had been long...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shootings by Los Angeles police officers have increased dramatically this year, prompting Mayor Karen Bass to issue a statement Friday that said she is "deeply concerned" and seeking an explanation.

LAPD officers have fired their weapons in 46 incidents so far this year — killing 14 people and wounding 23 others — a roughly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — It didn’t take long for police to focus on Nick Reiner after his parents were found fatally stabbed in the master bedroom of their Brentwood home Sunday afternoon.

The challenge became finding him.

Reiner lived in Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner’s guesthouse but was not there when police arrived around 3:30 p.m. ...Read more