CHICAGO — Leo Feler’s message to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday began with him quoting the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Standing at a downtown news conference with local elected leaders, the 45-year-old Lakeview resident then said masked federal agents violated that foundational language that sets warrant ...Read more

Rescue operations and urgent evacuations continued in Cuba on Friday, as people remained trapped by severe flooding left by the torrential rains from Hurricane Melissa on rural areas and towns across the affected provinces on the eastern end of the island.

Cuban state television reporter Lázaro Manuel Alonso said emergency evacuations were ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Rhode Island granted a temporary restraining order Friday that would compel the government to distribute food stamp benefits for November.

Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island made the ruling from the bench in a lawsuit brought by the Rhode Island State ...Read more

Construction companies that have been tasked with demolishing the East Wing of the White House and building a $300 million ballroom for President Donald Trump are maintaining a low profile amid public backlash.

Websites for firms like Maryland’s EAI Rolloff hauling company appear to have since been taken down, offering no contact information ...Read more

CHICAGO — For months, Illinois transit leaders warned of a doomsday scenario that would hobble the region’s mass transit systems.

Dozens of bus lines were on the chopping block, they warned, along with whole portions of the “L.” Thousands of workers faced the threat of layoffs. Transit advocates warned that service cuts would have wide-...Read more

The Trump administration’s deadly bombing campaign of alleged drug-running vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean violate international law and should be investigated, the United Nations’ top human rights official said Friday.

“These attacks — and their mounting human cost — are unacceptable,” High Commissioner for Human...Read more

DENVER — Immigration authorities mistakenly identified a Durango father when they pulled him over earlier this week, a senior enforcement official said Friday, but agents still arrested the father and his two children in an incident that quickly sparked protests in the Colorado mountain town.

Gregory Davies, Denver’s third-ranking official ...Read more

NEW YORK — Amid debate in the mayoral election over NYPD staffing levels, Mayor Eric Adams on Friday announced a plan to significantly increase the department’s headcount, potentially leaving his successor with upward of 40,000 police officers by 2029, officials said on Friday.

Under Adams’ plan, announced Friday, the city would invest ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Transportation Authority released new renderings of the replacement Francis Scott Key Bridge, providing the most detailed look to date at the two-mile span planned over the Patapsco River as demolition and test pile work continue.

The new bridge would feature two 12-foot lanes in each direction, along with 10-foot-...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump late Thursday called for Senate Republicans to end the partial government shutdown by using the “nuclear option” to eliminate the legislative filibuster.

Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that Democrats “want Trillions of Dollars to be taken from our Healthcare System and given to others, who ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Democratic senators say Donald Trump’s recent acknowledgment of constitutional challenges to seeking a third term should end any notion that he could run again.

But some of the president’s Republican allies aren’t ruling it out. And one conservative group has begun building a road map toward a legally uncertain third ...Read more

Sean “Diddy” Combs is getting down and dirty in federal prison, where his first job as an inmate is cleaning and drying laundry.

TMZ reports that the 55-year-old disgraced Bad Boy Records mogul will be stationed in the laundry room — a far cry from the height of his hip-hop and entrepreneurial glory days — at New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix...Read more

More than 300 piles of cremated human remains were discovered in a desert just outside of Las Vegas, sparking a mystery for which authorities so far have few answers.

A local stumbled upon the site of the remains in July outside Searchlight, Nevada, a rural community about an hour south of Vegas, KLAS reported. By August, officials with the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two federal judges ruled the Trump administration’s decision to suspend food-aid benefits for tens of millions of Americans during the government shutdown is likely unlawful and that U.S. officials must use contingency funding to at least partially keep the program operational.

U.S. District Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The search for 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard took a new turn on Thursday when the FBI searched the girl's Santa Barbara County home weeks after she was reported missing.

Detectives escorted the girl's mother, Ashlee Buzzard, off the property to another location "that would not interfere with their ability to conduct a thorough ...Read more

DETROIT — FBI counterterrorism agents arrested at least three people Friday —including a juvenile — according to two sources familiar with an investigation that Director Kash Patel says thwarted a violent plot tied to international terrorism over Halloween weekend.

The sources have been briefed on certain aspects of the investigation but ...Read more

Virginia Giuffre’s family celebrated Prince Andrew’s ouster from royal life over his alleged ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, vowing that their fight for justice will continue.

“Today, an ordinary American girl from an ordinary American family brought down a British prince with her truth and extraordinary ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Californians renewing their public health plans or who plan to sign up for the first time will be in for sticker shock when open enrollment begins on Saturday. Monthly premiums for federally subsidized plans available on the Covered California exchange — often referred to as Obamacare — will soar by 97% on average for 2026.

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WASHINGTON — Two weeks ago, Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought announced a pause of $11 billion in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers funding. So far, though, the list of projects targeted is a mystery, prompting some people on Capitol Hill and in state governments to ask: Where’s the list?

Congressional aides from both sides of...Read more

President Donald Trump’s secretary of agriculture on Friday said the “silver lining” of the looming cutoff of SNAP food aid is a greater awareness of the downsides of what she derided as a “boated” and “corrupt” program.

USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, who says she won’t dip into a contingency fund to pay for SNAP amid the ...Read more