Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the Catholic Church will start delivering U.S. aid directly to people affected by Hurricane Melissa in Cuba.

“Today, we are announcing the first in a series of direct humanitarian shipments to Cuba as part of the $3 million of disaster assistance committed by the Trump Administration ...Read more

DENVER — Attorneys for discredited Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters will challenge her criminal convictions before the Colorado Court of Appeals on Wednesday, her latest attempt to escape a nine-year sentence after state officials dismissed a would-be pardon from President Donald Trump.

Mesa County jurors convicted Peters, 70, of four ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Mayor Brandon Scott declined to comment Tuesday on reports published in The Baltimore Sun that six former employees of Concentric Educational Solutions intentionally falsified records of the company’s tutoring and home visits for Baltimore City Public Schools between 2021 and 2024.

The Sun reported that Baltimore City Public ...Read more

An overwhelming majority of Venezuelans say they are deeply grateful to President Donald Trump for ordering U.S. troops into the country to capture strongman Nicolás Maduro — but even after that dramatic action, most do not believe the U.S. now governs Venezuela, despite Trump’s repeated assertions that Washington holds the real power in ...Read more

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday appointed Adam Tanenbaum, a judge for the First District Court of Appeals, to the Florida Supreme Court.

DeSantis announced the appointment at Tanenbaum’s alma mater: Seminole High School in Pinellas County, where he graduated first in his class in 1989 — the same year as the kids in “Stranger ...Read more

Nick Reiner’s former attorney Alan Jackson still wants “the most robust defense” for the 32-year-old, accused of killing parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, though he “simply can’t divulge” certain details about why he withdrew counsel last week.

Nick has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Dec. 14 ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is starting to get the ball rolling on its Florida launch card with its fourth mission of the year.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-98 mission with 29 Starlink satellites is targeting liftoff at 1:08 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a launch window from 1:01-5:01 p.m.

This ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A private investment partnership has purchased St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles and plans to turn the long-shuttered hospital into a one-stop shop where homeless people can seek help.

The new St. Vincent Behavioral Health Campus, expected to open in phases over the next two years, will eventually provide job training, ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his demand for the U.S. to take control of Greenland for national security reasons before a meeting of top diplomats in Washington and called on NATO to support his efforts.

“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” the president said in a social ...Read more

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is defending his decision to donate $10,000 to Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week.

As of Wednesday morning, a GoFundMe page created by Clyde Emmons has raked in nearly $700,000 in donations from more than 14,000 people, including Ackman, the founder...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his assertion that the U.S. needs Greenland for national security, urging NATO to back his efforts to gain control of the Arctic territory before a meeting of top diplomats in Washington.

“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” Trump said in a ...Read more

The Iranian government continued its crackdown on protests that have swept the nation despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of action over mounting fatalities.

The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that 2,571 people had been killed from late December through Wednesday, up from about 500 at the start of the week. ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will call a snap election early in the parliamentary session starting later this month, in a bid to shore up her leadership and secure a mandate for the new ruling coalition.

Takaichi told officials from the ruling bloc that she will give more details of the dissolution on Jan. 19, according to Liberal ...Read more

NASA gave the go for the SpaceX Crew-11 mission to depart the International Space Station on Wednesday headed for an overnight splashdown back on Earth in the Pacific Ocean.

The four crew of NASA astronauts Zena Cardman, commander, and Mike Fincke, pilot, along with JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, both mission ...Read more

In the chaotic moments after he fatally shot Renee Good on Jan. 7, bystander video shows ICE agent Jonathan Ross approach her SUV, peer inside, then briskly walk away.

“Hey, call 911!” he yells to other agents before adjusting his mask. The SUV he arrived in then drives away amid a growing crowd of distraught neighbors.

“Don’t let him ...Read more

As part of its deportation efforts, the Trump administration has ordered states to hand over personal data from voter rolls, driver’s license records and programs such as Medicaid and food stamps.

At the same time, the administration is trying to consolidate the bits of personal data held across federal agencies, creating a single trove of ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Andrea Paola Hernández has one sister in Ecuador and another in London. She has cousins in Colombia, Chile, Argentina and the United States.

All fled poverty and political repression in Venezuela. Hernández, a human rights activist and outspoken critic of the country's authoritarian leader, Nicolás Maduro, eventually left, ...Read more

VANDALIA, Mo. — Kathy Briggs slipped her arms through the thick straps of a brand-new baby carrier, tugging it over her beige shirt as two other women stood beside her, tightening buckles and adjusting the padded waistband.

The carrier was still stiff from its packaging, and Briggs shifted her feet as one of the women gently lifted then-6-...Read more

Thailand is gearing up for a general election Feb. 8, which could usher in the fourth prime minister in three years. The snap vote is expected to produce a coalition government, heightening the risk of continued political instability.

Political upheaval has become the norm over the last two decades. A series of short-lived administrations have...Read more

CHICAGO — In Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood on the city’s West Side, a sandwich shop on North Avenue stands as it has for more than 20 years — menu prices taped over and over again on the wall, a door that squeaks and sticks in its groove, a bulletproof service window separating servers slinging Philly subs with a pile of fries and...Read more