As terrorizing criminal gangs in Haiti continue their aggressive tactics, U.S. authorities are sending a strong message: Fire on U.S. embassy personnel or property and expect to be fired upon.

That was the action taken on Thursday when suspected gang members fired shots near the U.S. embassy compound, east of Port-au-Prince.

“Marines ...Read more

Ecuadorians head to the polls to determine the fate of a plan to rewrite the constitution pushed by President Daniel Noboa, who’s pitched it as an answer to the country’s acute security crisis.

The four-question Sunday referendum follows an usually short campaign, after the electoral authority called the vote in late September. Voters will ...Read more

The U.S. plans to designate a Venezuelan drug cartel allegedly led by Nicolas Maduro as a foreign terrorist organization, expanding the legal case for more aggressive action as it masses military assets in the Caribbean after months of deadly boat strikes.

The designation will take effect on Nov. 24, the State Department said Sunday. In ...Read more

Chilean communist Jeannette Jara and arch-conservative José Antonio Kast appear to be headed to next month’s presidential runoff that will spotlight starkly divergent views on how to lead one of Latin America’s richest economies.

With 27% of ballots counted in Sunday’s first round, Jara had 26.3% of the vote followed by Kast with 24.7%, ...Read more

“No fear, no hate, no ICE in our state.“

“I like my ICE crushed.”

“Nazis were just following orders, too.”

Those are some of the signs held by the hundreds of people who marched through downtown Raleigh on Sunday, objecting to a federal operation that started Saturday in Charlotte targeting people living in the country illegally. ...Read more

The 400 out-of-state National Guard troops deployed to Chicago and Portland, Ore., will be sent home in the coming days, according to multiple reports.

In Chicago, 200 Texas National Guard troops were sent to the city in early October but their deployment to the streets was stalled by multiple court rulings. In Portland, 200 California National...Read more

Staff and patrons of an international supermarket in the Charlotte area braced Sunday to see Border Patrol again after agents pinned down and arrested a teenage employee at the store Saturday.

Peter Han’s family has owned Super G Mart for 15 years. He took video Saturday of the teen employee who was pushing carts back to the store being ...Read more

Regina Gamboa still remembers the moment that changed everything: a Muslim woman handing back a can of pork during a pandemic food distribution, and Gamboa’s sudden realization that she didn’t even know what was in the boxes they were giving out.

“I really I felt bad that I may have offended her beliefs,” said Gamboa, executive director...Read more

Andrew Shields doesn’t want to be sleeping next to Interstate 5.

He dislikes that his bed consists of a foam block balanced on a coffee table, both of which are visible to people entering downtown. He knows that living outside makes it difficult for him to kick a drug addiction or take medication for his schizophrenia.

There’s just one ...Read more

Federal officials said Dana Williamson, the Sacramento political powerbroker who was indicted earlier this week, used her position while she was Gov. Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff to pressure state attorneys to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit with one of her former clients, gaming company Activision Blizzard.

According to the 23-count ...Read more

Chileans are voting on Sunday to elect a president as one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations faces the unfamiliar challenges of high crime, clandestine migration and a torpid economy.

Voters will choose between eight candidates, with top contenders including ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast, Evelyn Matthei from the center-right and ...Read more

Chileans are heading to the polls on Sunday to elect a president as one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations faces the unfamiliar challenges of high crime, clandestine migration and a torpid economy.

Voters will choose between eight candidates, with top contenders including ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast, Evelyn Matthei from the ...Read more

CARSON CITY — Four bills have passed both chambers of the Nevada Legislature and could soon be signed by the governor as a special legislative session enters its fourth day on Sunday.

Lawmakers approved a proposal to establish the Silver State Assistance Program, which sets up the framework for a state-supported system similar to federal ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has drawn headlines with bruising exchanges at the U.S. Capitol and town halls. She has a history of transphobic, racist and xenophobic comments. She has even indicated support for executing prominent Democrats.

But Sunday, the Georgia Republican said she regrets that sort of rhetoric and wants to change course....Read more

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said President Donald Trump is putting her life in danger with a social post calling her a traitor to the Republican Party amid a falling-out centering on government files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

An escalating clash between Trump and Greene — previously a fervent ...Read more

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there’ll be no Palestinian state and that Hamas will be disarmed — by force, if necessary — as the U.S. seeks U.N. Security Council approval for a Gaza plan that anticipates Palestinian statehood.

“Our opposition to a Palestinian state in any territory has not changed,” Netanyahu said at...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $2,000 “dividend” payments from tariffs to U.S. citizens would require congressional approval.

“We will see,” Bessent said on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures." “We need legislation for that.”

Trump, who has touted the billions raised in U.S. ...Read more

Chileans are heading to the polls on Sunday to elect a president as one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations faces the unfamiliar challenges of high crime, clandestine migration and a torpid economy.

Voters will choose between eight candidates, with top contenders including ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast, Evelyn Matthei from the ...Read more

Chuckwalla National Monument is more than an epic expanse of towering rocks, hidden canyons, ghost flowers, smoke trees and its namesake lizard. One of America’s newest protected public lands is a birthplace, a crossroads, a beloved relative and a historical document to the tribes of the California desert.

Stretching across 624,000 acres from...Read more

For years, the two patients had come to the Penn Memory Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where doctors and researchers follow people with cognitive impairment as they age, as well as a group with normal cognition.

Both patients, a man and a woman, had agreed to donate their brains after they died for further research. “An amazing ...Read more