RALEIGH, N.C. — She’s never been the patient kind. But after her husband was taken by the U.S. Border Patrol on Nov. 18, all Esmeralda Escobar can do is wait.

Escobar reads her Bible whenever she thinks of Moises Benitez Diaz, just like he told her to do. To stay patient, she’s clinging to Psalm 25: “Let me not be ashamed. Let not my ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan green card holder detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for more than three months was released to reunite with his disabled son just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday.

When Heury Gomez returned home on Nov. 22, he said is first order of business was eating a decent meal, then seeing his mother and 18-year-...Read more

NEW YORK — Immigrant advocates stopped a large-scale federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency operation near Canal Street Saturday by blocking the entrance to a Chinatown garage where the masked agents had gathered, temporarily preventing them from leaving, officials and advocates said.

ICE agents needed to call in the New York ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — With a month to go in 2025, Florida has set a record for childhood drowning deaths this year, a grim statistic in a state that already leads the nation in children losing their lives in water.

Two Orlando lawmakers want to change that with required drowning prevention education information for new parents. State Sen. Carlos ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A judge ordered lengthy prison terms for a Nevada daughter and mother who pleaded guilty to working together to kill the daughter’s estranged husband at an Idaho campground.

Melissa Calumpit, 36, and Rosalie Morris, 60, admitted to driving from their home in Battle Mountain, Nevada, on July 12, 2024, to Martin Landing, a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops are investigating the death of a 73-year-old woman whose body was discovered as firefighters evacuated a Bronx apartment building during a massive fire, officials said Saturday.

The woman was found inside a sixth-floor apartment of the Sheridan Ave. building near E. 172nd St. in the Concourse section of the Bronx after the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said airlines should consider the airspace above and around Venezuela to be closed as his administration continues to threaten more aggressive steps against President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

U.S. forces have been massing in the region as Trump weighs military action that would go beyond U.S. strikes on boats that ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has slammed a report alleging he ordered U.S. service members to launch a second strike on a suspected drug-carrying vessel after an initial attack left two survivors, denying experts’ claims that he may be guilty of war crimes.

“As usual, the fake news is delivering more fabricated, inflammatory and ...Read more

CHICAGO — As heavy snow blanketed the Chicago area Saturday afternoon, the National Weather Service warned of up to 10 inches of accumulation by the morning. More than 1,000 flights were canceled at the city’s airports, while road conditions also grew hazardous.

The weather service expected total snow accumulations between 6 and 10 inches ...Read more

President Emmanuel Macron will meet his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Paris on Monday for discussions about the conditions for a “fair and lasting peace” in Ukraine, the French presidency said.

France and other allies of Ukraine have been stepping up their support of Zelenskyy, who is under pressure to agree on a U.S.-led peace deal ...Read more

President Donald Trump jolted an already-tense standoff with Venezuela on Saturday morning, declaring on his Truth Social account that all airspace “above and surrounding Venezuela” should be considered “closed in its entirety.”

Addressing “Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers,” he offered no operational details but...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs reportedly organized and funded an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner — at least by prison standards — for 1,000 of his fellow inmates at New Jersey’s FCI Fort Dix.

A rep for the Bad Boy Records founder, who’s currently serving a 50-month term for two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution, ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Speaking from his room at a Las Vegas hospital on Nov. 19, 16-year-old Mason Huff had a message for anyone who rides an e-scooter.

“Wear a helmet and stay vigilant,” Huff said, just after taking an allotment of pain medications. “Anything can switch up on you at any time.”

Two days prior, Huff, a student at Lake Havasu ...Read more

Black Friday shoppers were sent scrambling for cover after shots were fired at the Westfield Valley Fair mall in Santa Clara, California, injuring three, police said.

Three people were taken to the hospital with non-life threatening gunshot woundst, according to the San Jose Police Department,. Injured were an adult man, an adult woman, and a ...Read more