Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced rising calls to step down or be fired Wednesday over her handling of President Donald Trump’s Minneapolis immigration crackdown and the killing of Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

At least two Republican senators have joined many Democratic lawmakers in calling for the ...Read more

NEW YORK — The most recent person to die on New York City streets amid historic low temperatures refused offers for help from a concerned Queens supermarket manager who spotted him on a bench outside the store the night before he died.

When the manager returned to work the next morning, he was upset to find the man’s lifeless body sitting ...Read more

PONTIAC, Mich. — Oakland County has detected Legionella at two more of its buildings following a shrinking presence of bacteria inside two other buildings that initially had issues.

The county on Wednesday announced it detected two positive samples at the North Oakland Health Center and two at the county's Resource and Crisis Center from ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington's escalating legal costs — with billions of dollars in lawsuit payouts slamming state and local governments — have led state lawmakers to consider legislation forcing anyone suing public agencies to go through arbitration before taking cases to a jury.

The proposal, Senate Bill 6239, is the first serious effort by ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, ratcheting up pressure on the regime even as regional leaders sought to spur fresh diplomacy between the adversaries.

In a social-media post, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the ...Read more

As lawmakers convene for this year’s state legislative sessions, immigration has surged to the top of the agenda. Across the country, dozens of bills touching on immigration enforcement, civil rights and the role of federal agents have been introduced this month.

The proposals range from measures that would restrict where federal immigration ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Iran to make a nuclear deal with the U.S. or face military strikes far worse than the attack he ordered last June, ratcheting up pressure on the regime even as regional leaders sought to spur fresh diplomacy between the adversaries.

In a social-media post, Trump said the fleet of U.S. ships he’d ordered to the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For months, Gregory Bovino has been the public face of President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration raids across U.S. cities.

When the brash Border Patrol commander charged into Los Angeles last summer with the stated mission of arresting thousands of immigrants, he was unapologetic as agents smashed car windows, concealed ...Read more

SpaceX launched its latest national security mission, yet another GPS satellite that was originally to have been launched by United Launch Alliance.

A Falcon 9 that was delayed from Monday because of weather lifted off Tuesday night on the GPS III-9 mission to bring the satellite to medium-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Many families with children who could be directly affected by Immigration Customs Enforcement operations have been talking about the subject for weeks. Families who have not been impacted may not have discussed the subject, or know what to say. But all children have questions.

Katie Lingras, a child psychologist at the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The two volunteers spotted blue tarps hanging from trees in a wooded area off Orange Blossom Trail and pulled their car over hoping to count the people in the makeshift encampment near Apopka.

But as they approached on foot Monday, a pack of dogs bared their teeth and growled, so they quickly retreated from the area littered ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Despite the often gloomy forecasts about unprecedented challenges in higher education, Minnesota saw small gains in college enrollment in fall 2025 compared with 2024, marking two consecutive years of increases and signaling that students have returned after plummeting pandemic-era enrollment.

According to newly released data, ...Read more

No matter where you live in the United States, you have likely seen headlines about PFAS being detected in everything from drinking water to fish to milk to human bodies.

PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a group of over 10,000 synthetic chemicals. They have been used for decades to make products waterproof and stain- ...Read more

America’s role in the world is changing. If this wasn’t obvious before, it should be now, following President Donald Trump’s efforts to take over Greenland and his visibly strained relations with traditional allies in Europe and elsewhere.

But how much will the world change if America’s stance is different?

Some ...Read more

Nigeria “must do more to protect Christians,” a senior U.S. State Department official demanded on Jan. 22, 2026, during a high-level security meeting in the African nation’s capital, Abuja.

The comment followed an attack just days earlier in which more than 160 worshipers were kidnapped from three churches in Nigeria’s ...Read more

Medical marijuana could soon be reclassified into a medical category that includes prescription drugs like Tylenol with codeine, ketamine and anabolic steroids.

That’s because in December 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to reschedule marijuana to a less restricted category, continuing a process initiated by ...Read more

Over the past two decades, the concept of mindfulness has become hugely popular around the world. An increasingly ubiquitous part of society, it’s taught everywhere from workplaces and schools to sports programs and the military.

On social media, television and wellness apps, mindfulness is often shown as one simple thing – ...Read more

California marked a milestone this month with the return of an uninterrupted Highway 1 through the perilous, yet spectacular cliffs of Big Sur.

The famed coastal road was closed for more than three years after two major landslides buried the two-lane highway, and it took unprecedented engineering might and precarious debris removal to once ...Read more