CHICAGO – Newly released data shows that Operation Midway Blitz led to the deportation of nearly 2,500 immigrants — most of them with no criminal record — during last fall’s immigration enforcement surge that fueled massive protests and led to two shootings, one deadly.

A Tribune analysis of the data, released Monday, offers the first ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — As Kansas City considers big changes to its rules for developers seeking tax breaks, local affordable housing advocates want officials to pump the brakes and think more about the consequences of such a shift.

City officials are hoping to better align the requirements of all the agencies that grant developers tax breaks in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that state laws forbidding “conversion therapy” for minors violate the free-speech rights of licensed counselors.

The court said Colorado’s law violates the 1st Amendment. The free-speech ruling is likely to invalidate similar laws in California and 23 other states.

In an 8-1 decision, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday that Iran still retains the ability to launch offensive missiles a month into the war, even as U.S. and Israeli forces have carried out sustained strikes aimed at degrading Tehran's military capabilities.

"Yes, they will shoot some missiles, but we will shoot them down," Hegseth told ...Read more

As spring unfolds, new research highlights an issue for southwestern Pennsylvania residents: Most people know ticks are in their backyard, but few believe they’re actually at risk of contracting tick-borne illnesses.

Every year in the United States, an estimated 500,000 people are diagnosed with Lyme disease. The illness, caused by ...Read more

Imagine being asked to sit alone in a quiet room for 15 minutes with nothing to do – no phone, no music, no external distraction. In a well-known 2014 study, many participants found that task so challenging that they chose to press a button to give themselves an unpleasant electric shock instead of continuing to sit with their thoughts and ...Read more

In 1945, an angry mob confronted Aba Mizreh and four of his sons outside their former home in Paris. The Jewish family had hidden in Lyon during World War II, only to learn that their apartment had been looted and rented in their absence. Despite an eviction notice, the new tenants refused to leave, leading to a street fight.

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Cars on the road today are 99% cleaner than they were in 1970. Air quality in the United States is much, much better as a result. In Los Angeles, where I live, lead levels in the air were 50 times higher in the 1970s than today, and the amount of lead in kids’ blood has plummeted.

What made that drop possible is arguably the most ...Read more

Iran hit a fully laden Kuwaiti oil tanker off the coast of Dubai during a fresh wave of attacks around the Persian Gulf, a sign it’s willing to escalate strikes on energy assets as the war drags on.

The Tuesday assault on the Al-Salmi, a large crude carrier in an area packed with ships, is one of the most significant on a vessel since the U.S...Read more

With 35 candidates and about a third of Peruvians undecided or backing no one, a surprise contender could yet emerge in the final days ahead of the April 12 vote.

Conservatives Rafael López Aliaga and Keiko Fujimori have been stuck in a technical tie each with about 10% to 12% of support for weeks now, primarily from voters in the capital of ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — After years of falling further and further behind the Republicans and losing election after election, Florida Democrats are increasingly optimistic about the 2026 midterm elections.

This time, they believe, it isn’t just the usual wishful thinking.

At the Broward Democratic Party’s annual Obama Roosevelt Legacy ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — For thirty years, Julio Varona has built a life in Central Florida, enjoying the special status allowed to Cuban immigrants even though the U.S. government had a standing order to deport him.

Only now, amid high-level talks and heightened tensions between the United States and Cuba, does his deportation seem likely to happen �...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota risked irking President Donald Trump’s administration this month by prioritizing diversity in the use of nearly $200 million in new federal rural health grants

Hospitals applying for the funding were urged in the state’s application to “intentionally identify how the grant serves diverse populations, especially ...Read more

Armando Labrador owns and operates a plastic-surgery clinic in a Miami strip mall that advertises low-cost breast implants and liposuction. He dreams of being Cuba’s next president.

Labrador, 56, fled Cuba with his family as a teenager, after his father was imprisoned for almost eight years and his grandfather was executed. When he isn’t ...Read more

Carlos arrived at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in New Mexico in December, believing he was one step closer to reuniting with his children. By that point, his 14-year-old son and 16-year-old daughter had been in a federal shelter in Texas for nearly a year after crossing the border to be with him.

“I feel like I’m ...Read more

The U.S. and Israeli war on Iran has targeted the Islamic Republic’s most senior leaders and mobilized every branch of its sprawling state apparatus in a fight for survival.

In the past, power ultimately rested with the supreme leader, the country’s top authority. But since last year’s 12-day war, important national security and foreign ...Read more

France’s Emmanuel Macron is traveling to Japan this week where he plans to explore closer cooperation on maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz once the fighting has ceased.

Macron is scheduled to meet Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday in Tokyo, with the bilateral agenda being roiled by the Middle East crisis and its ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House threatened further escalation of its military campaign against Iran, which later attacked a Kuwaiti oil tanker near Dubai, as the war entered a fifth week with little relief for jolted global markets.

President Donald Trump said in a social media post Monday that if Tehran doesn’t reopen the Strait of Hormuz, �...Read more