CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday ordered public buildings across the city and state to fly flags at half-staff in honor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at 84 after rising from an upstart Chicago organizer to a national leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

Their announcements joined messages from political ...Read more

Outrage erupted last month when Oklahoma City residents learned of plans to convert a vacant warehouse into an immigration processing facility.

Making matters worse was the secrecy of the federal government: City leaders received no communication from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement aside from a mandated disclosure related to historic ...Read more

In Velasco, a town in the eastern Cuban province of Holguín, a man was buried in a cardboard box, his body carted on a wheelbarrow to the cemetery because of a lack of both of wooden coffins and fuel.

In the capital city of Holguín, residents are cooking with wood and coal outside their homes, on sidewalks and empty streets.

In Guantánamo, ...Read more

Stephen Colbert blasted CBS for refusing to air his interview with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico — which wound up being shared online anyway.

“We were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert claimed on Monday night’s episode of...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hitting back at President Trump as the pair escalate their feud over the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New York and New Jersey.

After Trump denounced Gateway as a “boondoggle” that he claimed would be plagued by delays, Schumer accused him of playing politics with the sprawling public works project...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had himself a week, just not the kind political observers have become accustomed to, spending much of it behind closed doors while unable to broker a deal with Senate Democrats.

He dissed a Republican icon over trade policy. He backed down on plans to exclude Democratic governors from an annual gathering of...Read more

The grainy black-and-white image has become the center of the investigation into Nancy Guthrie.

At 1:47 a.m. Feb. 1, an individual appears at the door of her Tucson home. The person is wearing a balaclava, gloves and a backpack. A gun is holstered by the person’s waist, positioned at the front of their body and easily visible.

The person ...Read more

BOSTON —People are fleeing high-tax Massachusetts at a much higher rate than those moving to the Bay State, resulting in a net domestic out-migration of 182,145 over the past five years, according to a new watchdog report.

The Pioneer Institute has released a report detailing the state’s persistent challenge with losing educated working ...Read more

Hours after another shooting claimed the life of a teenage boy on Monday, Leo Williams, mayor of Durham, N.C., slammed the “status quo” of the city’s anti-violence efforts.

“Whether the headlines report a fatality or a close call, the trauma to our community is the same,” Williams wrote in a Facebook post Monday afternoon. “I know ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is expected to propose raising property taxes to balance the city budget on Tuesday, in the face of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s continued resistance to raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

The mayor is set to reveal his preliminary budget plans Tuesday afternoon at City Hall.

“We do have a big gap to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Californians looking to resume their weekly commute Tuesday awoke to see several major roads closed after heavy rains drenched much the state Monday — with the expected precipitation far from over.

Among the closures was a section of Highway 1 through Big Sur, which state officials just weeks ago celebrated reopening for the ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer is hitting back at President Donald Trump as the pair escalate their feud over the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel rail project connecting New York and New Jersey.

After Trump denounced Gateway as a “boondoggle” that he claimed would be plagued by delays, Schumer accused him of playing politics with the sprawling public works ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — A bill requiring Missouri schools to investigate antisemitic incidents passed the Missouri House Monday despite criticism that the proposal carves out protections for Jewish students not afforded to other groups.

House Bill 2061 passed on a 109–21 vote. It now moves to the Senate, where a similar measure stalled last year.

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A plan to eliminate safety inspections for most passenger cars and trucks advanced to the Missouri Senate Monday.

On a 104-43 vote, the House approved legislation to end a program in which vehicles more than 10 years old or those with more than 150,000 miles on the odometer are required to pass a state safety inspection ...Read more

NASA is looking to make sure the problems with leaks in its moon rocket have been remedied with another Artemis II test run slated for Thursday night that could set up a launch in early March.

Teams tried to run through what’s called a wet dress rehearsal on Feb. 2 but ran into familiar problems with leaks of cryogenic liquid hydrogen flowing...Read more

CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker and Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday ordered public buildings across the city and state to fly flags at half-staff in honor of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died at 84 after rising from an upstart Chicago organizer to a national leader of the Civil Rights Movement.

Their announcements joined messages from political ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A pastor at a Western Kentucky church has been arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a minor, Kentucky State Police announced Monday.

David Rodgers, 40, of Utica, was arrested around 7:35 p.m. Feb. 16 after an investigation determined he had a sexual relationship with a juvenile “through a position of ...Read more