MIAMI — California Gov. Gavin Newsom will be in Miami Friday night in the latest stop on a book tour that has looked a lot like an early campaign for a likely 2028 presidential run.

Longtime Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos and his daughter Paola Ramos — a journalist whose latest book interrogates the rise of the Latino far right — are ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — One person has died and two others were injured in a shooting Thursday morning inside a classroom at Old Dominion University.

The gunman is dead, according to a news release from the university.

Two sources close to the investigation said the shooter was Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a former Army National Guardsman who was sentenced...Read more

WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A gunman rammed his truck into a West Bloomfield Township synagogue Thursday afternoon and then opened fire on the temple, exchanging gunfire with security guards before he was killed.

The shooting happened before 1 p.m. at Temple Israel at 5725 Walnut Lake Road, west of Orchard Lake Road and east of Drake. ...Read more

DETROIT — Attacks on churches and places of worship have become more frequent, with two significant attacks in the Detroit and Flint region during the last year alone, before the attack on Temple Israel in West Bloomfield on Thursday.

FBI crime reports attacks or assaults against individuals at churches, synagogues, temples and mosques rose ...Read more

From a young age, Emir Balat was building things. First, it was electronic models on Roblox, a popular online game where users can generate their own 3D virtual worlds. Then it was writing code to sell sneakers.

Then, police said, it was a bomb plot.

By age 13, Balat had programmed a computer system to buy up new sneakers before they sold out ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Fort Snelling Immigration Court is holding expedited online hearings, largely in secret, for Somali nationals with asylum claims.

Nicknamed the “rocket docket” by attorneys and court observers, the only public notice of these hearings is a sheet of paper pinned to a board each day in the lobby of immigration court in the...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib and other Michigan members of Congress denounced the apparent attack on a Jewish temple in West Bloomfield Township on Thursday.

“The reports coming out of West Bloomfield are horrifying. I am praying for the safety of everyone at Temple Israel. No one should face violence anywhere, especially in a place...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge dismissed the bulk of the Gateway Development Commission’s suit over the Trump administration’s refusal to pay for the Hudson River Tunnel, because the funding has been temporarily restored by another court.

Siding with attorneys for the U.S. Department of Transportation, Judge Richard Hertling ruled in the ...Read more

DENVER — Mandatory evacuations are underway in Laporte in Larimer County because of a wildfire.

The evacuations were ordered around noon Thursday for Terry Lake Road south to Vine Drive and from Colorado 287 west to North Overland Trail.

Authorities are instructing people in the area to leave immediately.

Thursday’s wildfire risk is being...Read more

CHICAGO — The city of Chicago is asking the federal government to reconsider plans to reduce flights at O’Hare International Airport, deeming those plans “regressive.”

Last month, the Federal Aviation Administration said flight cuts were necessary at O’Hare, citing planned schedules this summer that “will exceed the airport’s ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — One person has died and two others were injured in a shooting Thursday morning inside a classroom at Old Dominion University.

The gunman is dead, according to a news release from the university.

The shooting happened just before 10:45 a.m. in a classroom inside Constant Hall, the center of the university’s college of ...Read more

Iran’s new ruler is already a marked man.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s supreme leader, is an unacceptable choice and threatened to assassinate him if he does not agree to U.S. demands.

Although the supreme leader possesses ...Read more

Two months after a so-called Doomsday Plane caused a stir by landing at Los Angeles International Airport, a similar plane sparked fear and speculation when it was spotted performing exercises at Fresno Yosemite International Airport on Sunday.

Both massive aircraft can act as the president's emergency operations hub in times of national ...Read more

DENVER — Denver International Airport officials are appealing to the public to donate grocery store and gas gift cards to help support Transportation Security Administration officers ordered to work without pay during the partial federal government shutdown.

It’s the second time in five months that DIA has campaigned for support to help ...Read more

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. — Shots were fired at a West Bloomfield Township synagogue Thursday afternoon after a vehicle rammed into the building's front door, prompting nearby schools to shelter in place and emergency officials to warn residents to avoid the area.

The incident happened before 1 p.m. at Temple Israel, 5725 Walnut Lake Road, west ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, vowed retaliation Thursday against the United States and Israel and signaled that Tehran will continue to choke off the world's most critical oil route, as the war strained global energy markets and raised new security concerns in the United States.

In his first public remarks since U....Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Two people were injured in a shooting Thursday morning at Old Dominion University.

The gunman is dead, according to a news release from the university.

The shooting happened just before 10:49 a.m. in Constant Hall, the center of the university’s college of business.

ODU police, Norfolk police and other emergency personnel ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats and voter advocacy groups are increasingly warning that Trump administration policies and actions could curtail voting in the midterm elections when it comes to changes on who can cast ballots and when it will count.

President Donald Trump and federal agencies have taken several steps over the past year they say will ...Read more

DETROIT — Shots were fired at a West Bloomfield synagogue Thursday afternoon, prompting nearby schools to shelter in place and emergency officials to warn residents to avoid the area.

The synagogue is located at 5725 Walnut Lake Road, west of Orchard Lake Road and east of Drake. No injuries had been confirmed as of 1:40 p.m., according to ...Read more