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CHICAGO — As the sun set on a recent evening, families lined up to buy elotes from Olga Martínez, a street vendor in Little Village, one of Chicago’s largest immigrant neighborhoods.

She was still holding on to hope ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — As Tropical Storm Debby grazed the Tampa Bay area last August, many Floridians treated it like any other summer rainstorm: Inflatable floats dotted Bayshore Boulevard, curious onlookers flocked to the beach...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Josue Arias drives around 71 miles over the winding roads and nauseating ups and downs of San Diego County’s backcountry, from tree-lined neighborhoods to the vast expanse of the Colorado Desert.

Sometimes...Read more

MIAMI -- When Andrew Baker looks out at the vacant lot next to his office on Virginia Key, he doesn’t see the trees or grass that are there now. He sees a factory of the future. One story tall, roughly the size of half a...Read more

Despite having lost an important federal lawsuit barring the use of the military for civilian law enforcement purposes, Donald Trump is still lawlessly promising to send troops into the streets of Chicago and other cities....Read more

DEL NORTE COUNTY, Calif. — In March 1972, Kurt Stremberg's parents gave him a predawn ride from their house in northwest California to his friend's home in the tiny town of Klamath, about 20 miles south of Crescent City ...Read more

John McGing couldn’t reach a human. That might be business-as-usual in this economy, but it wasn’t business; he had called the Social Security Administration, where the questions often aren’t generic and the callers ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- The retirees gathered at 8 a.m. near the G Line station in Canoga Park, impossible to miss in their neon yellow vests. They clutched trash bags and surveyed the expanse of trash-filled sidewalks and gutters ...Read more

Economist Matthias Doepke once believed the U.S. was the pinnacle of academia: open, diverse, global. He immigrated to Chicago from Germany to pursue his doctorate, and most of his classmates were international students.

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SEOUL, South Korea — In many parts of the world, convenience stores are the shops of last resort: cigarettes, sodas and laundry detergent. But in South Korea, you might find single malt whiskies, $800 French wines, 24K ...Read more

Imagine this: After years of toiling in the Southern California rat race, you buy a parcel of land in the high desert. It is here, on a sunny lot thick with Joshua trees, that you plan to build your retirement home.

But ...Read more

The primary care doctor for the East Palo Alto housekeeper with a chronic medical condition who collapsed when arrested by ICE last week was “catatonic” at Stanford Medical Center last Friday morning, and questioned ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri chapter of the NAACP on Wednesday sued to block a Republican attempt to gerrymander the state’s congressional map.

The lawsuit, filed in Cole County, marks the first legal challenge ...Read more

Minutes after U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene stood behind victims of Jeffrey Epstein as they shared their stories of abuse, she caught wind of what President Donald Trump had to say.

“This is a Democrat hoax that ...Read more

BOSTON — There is no conceivable reason for President Donald Trump to deploy U.S. military personnel to Massachusetts, according to Gov. Maura Healey.

Healey, speaking Wednesday to Bloomberg Television, said that the ...Read more

The Washington Supreme Court will issue the final say on a voter initiative passed last November that took aim at Washington’s natural gas and energy policies.

In an order Wednesday, Chief Justice Justice Debra Stephens...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read is set to have her car finally returned to her from the Massachusetts State Police, months after a jury cleared her of using the vehicle to kill her Boston Police officer boyfriend.

Read’s 2021 ...Read more

Harvard University scored a major legal victory in its battle with the Trump administration after a court ruled that the U.S. illegally froze more than $2 billion in research funding.

The U.S. government violated Harvard�...Read more

WASHINGTON — On a sweep of farmland hemmed in by the Mississippi River, where guards on horseback once watched over inmates picking cotton, officials on Wednesday proclaimed a new mission for one of America’s most ...Read more