Despite a barren start to Colorado’s ski season, Winter Park Resort opened on Halloween and served up holiday powder.

The ski area’s secret is a contraption a few miles upwind of the chairlifts that looks like a meat smoker strapped to the top of a ladder. When weather conditions are just right, a Winter Park contractor fires up the machine...Read more

After the Justice Department shut the door on releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files in July 2025, FBI agents worked on drafts of a 21-page presentation of all the evidence the FBI had gathered in the case, including a summary of allegations against 11 men.

There’s no evidence that Epstein, a New York financier who sexually assaulted and ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — During a recent public hearing before the St. Paul City Council, Angela Clair recounted hearing a woman screaming as a caravan of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents grabbed her off the sidewalk near the child care center where Clair serves as director.

As a helicopter hovered overhead and legal observers blew ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The airspace over Los Angeles is among the most congested in the world, but the Hollywood Burbank Airport is uniquely situated, creating extremely tight parameters around the midsize airport.

Burbank’s main runway is particularly short, and there is significant, nearby air traffic from the busy Van Nuys Airport — located ...Read more

Anyone who has lived long in Kansas City — a city proud of its fountains, parks, first-rate sports teams and barbecue — could not help but see that it has also become a city with a burgeoning population of people experiencing homelessness.

Huddling downtown against the cold and heat. Raising sprawling, and, in some cases, dangerous ...Read more

Days before Haiti’s new ruling presidential council assumed power in April 2024, one of its senior members met with a foreign diplomat and declared that the transition government, installed after the ouster of Prime Minister Ariel Henry, would reopen a gang-controlled highway within 100 days.

Nearly 22 months later, as the council prepared to...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is implementing additional measures across the city to shelter vulnerable New Yorkers amid the brutally cold temperatures this weekend.

The mercury in New York City dove to nearly zero degrees Saturday night. A wind advisory warning of winds of 20 mph to 25 mph, with gusts up to 50 mph, producing dangerously ...Read more

BOSTON — U.S. Attorney Leah Foley said she will establish a fraud coordinator for Massachusetts after President Donald Trump’s newly established fraud czar at the White House and as more SNAP and other public benefits fraud schemes are uncovered in the state.

“The fraud coordinator will act as a primary point of contact for benefit fraud ...Read more

Haiti closed a vexing chapter in its ongoing political transition on Saturday, doing so in a subdued ceremony marking the end of the turbulent mandate of its nine-member presidential council and leaving the gang-ravaged country in the hands of it single, unelected prime minister and his Cabinet.

During the ceremony marking the end of the ...Read more

CHICAGO — In a memo sent to employees on Friday, the policy chief for Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke said the city’s “ICE on notice” executive order compromises potential prosecutions of federal agents by politicizing the investigations.

The executive order announced by Mayor Brandon Johnson last Saturday has ...Read more

Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong didn’t mince words during a show the band played less than 48 hours before they’re slated to perform at Super Bowl LX.

While playing a Friday night concert in San Francisco, the famously political frontman urged ICE agents to walk off the job, slammed the Trump administration and even changed the lyrics of...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A new grass-roots effort to track and slow down federal agents in the Twin Cities has turned into a game of cat and mouse — organized residents erect makeshift blockades to monitor the vehicles on their streets, and police officers tear them down.

One such blockade, constructed along the busy commercial corridor of Lyndale ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Parental neglect contributed to the previously unreported deaths of three Santa Clara County children in 2022, even after repeated referrals urged the county’s child welfare agency to intervene and ensure their safety, according to a newly released report that raises fresh questions about long-standing failures at the ...Read more

An Ohio man has been charged with threatening to kill Vice President JD Vance and possessing child pornography, according to the Department of Justice.

A federal grand jury indicted Toledo resident Shannon Mathre, 33, for allegedly making the death threats during the former Ohio senator’s visit to the northwest region of the state last month....Read more

BOISE, Idaho — In recent weeks, Republicans around the country responded to public outrage after federal agents killed a Minnesota nurse. People like U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and the Latinas for Trump cofounder said on podcasts or told interviewers that the Trump administration needs to go softer on immigration or potentially risk the midterm ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Within the myriad of initiatives contained in Gov. Josh Shapiro's 2026-27 budget proposal is what amounts to a $2 billion-a-year plug to stick in the gaping hole of Pennsylvania's finances: skill games regulation.

The 70,000 or so devices that resemble video slot machines and are found in many conveniences stores, bars and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A 42-year-old self-described “relationship anarchist” was arrested and accused of trailing roving federal agents in Minneapolis and ramming her vehicle into one of theirs.

Elizabeth Rose of Minneapolis appeared in U.S. District Court on Feb. 3 on a charge that she forcibly assaulted, resisted, opposed, impeded, intimidated ...Read more

In a case with a potentially far-reaching scope, the Michigan Supreme Court has closed the door on a wave of post-conviction challenges tied to the state’s use of judges as one-person grand juries.

In the unanimous opinion issued Feb. 4 and written by Justice Elizabeth Welch, the court said that its 2022 decision restricting the use of one-...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Right to Life of Michigan has filed suit against the state of Michigan over an amendment to the state's anti-discrimination law that the group said prohibits it from screening out employees who don't align with its views on abortion.

The federal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Western Michigan on Friday, argued ...Read more

OLYMPIA, Wash. — — For two hours Friday, legislative budget writers got an earful from opponents and praise from supporters of a proposed income tax aimed at the state's wealthiest residents.

The proposal, dubbed a millionaires tax" by Democrats who unveiled it this week, would apply the 9.9% tax on incomes of above $1 million a year.

At a...Read more