CHICAGO — A beloved day care worker at a Spanish-immersion preschool in Chicago was arrested by federal immigration agents Wednesday, sparking outrage among parents, elected officials and the surrounding community as agents in President Donald Trump’s Operation Midway Blitz took the unprecedented step of entering the school itself.

In a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Democratic brand, badly bruised in 2024 when voters handed Republicans a governing trifecta in Washington, snapped to life Tuesday as the party collected victories up and down the ballot across the country.

Democrats won governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey while bolstering their legislative majorities in both states...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The death toll from Tuesday’s UPS plane crash has climbed to 12 including one child, Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg told TV station WHAS on Wednesday night.

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said it’s likely the child was with a family member visiting Grade A Auto Parts, one of two nearby businesses destroyed by fire sparked ...Read more

Race and money.

Those were the keywords in the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina’s latest push for federal recognition at a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday.

The Senate Committee on Tribal Affairs met to determine whether Congress should take up the Lumbee Fairness Act and provide the tribe with full federal recognition, which has been sought ...Read more

SEATTLE — At 8 p.m. every election night, candidates, consultants and other politics watchers obsessively click on the Secretary of State's website, waiting for the first vote tallies to roll in.

But in some recent elections — including on Tuesday — those initial vote counts have shown wildly inaccurate percentages in some closely watched...Read more

DETROIT — Federal prosecutors Wednesday charged a third Dearborn man in connection with an alleged Halloween terrorism plot targeting LGBTQ+ friendly clubs in Ferndale and what appears to be the Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio.

The case against 19-year-old Ayob Asmail Nasser was filed amid reports that two New Jersey men also were arrested...Read more

President Donald Trump’s escalating pressure campaign against Venezuela’s socialist regime — from designating the country’s drug cartels as transnational terrorist organizations to doubling the bounty on Nicolás Maduro to $50 million and deploying the largest military force the Caribbean has seen in decades — has found an unexpected ...Read more

Pope Leo XIV urged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to respect the spiritual rights of individuals in ICE detention after Catholic clergy members said they were prohibited from giving Communion to immigrants at a Chicago-area facility.

On Nov. 1, ICE officials refused to let a group of clergy members led by Bishop José María Garcia-...Read more

American transportation regulators will cut flights by 10% across 40 of the nation’s busiest airports starting Friday if the government shutdown continues.

The move is to alleviate pressure on air traffic controllers who have been working without pay for weeks.

Officials did not disclose exactly which airports or airlines would be affected ...Read more

SEATTLE — Mayor Bruce Harrell’s lead over challenger Katie Wilson grew slightly on Wednesday, following the afternoon drop of roughly 23,000 new Seattle ballots.

After leading Wilson by just over 7 percentage points Tuesday night, Harrell’s margin is now up to 8, 53.8% to 45.7%.

Though left-wing candidates in Seattle usually gain ground ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday the Federal Aviation Administration will cut flights by 10 percent at 40 high-traffic airports starting Friday due to constraints on the air traffic control workforce caused by the partial government shutdown.

Duffy and FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford called the move “proactive...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — At least 12 people were killed and several others were injured late Tuesday afternoon after a UPS cargo plane crashed near the Louisville airport.

At around 5:20 p.m., UPS Flight 2976, with three crew members on board, was departing Louisville bound for Honolulu, Hawaii, when “an accident” occurred, according to UPS. The ...Read more

Kentucky’s longtime Sen. Mitch McConnell wants his neighbors to know representatives in Washington are going to ensure federal resources make it to the site of a fatal plane crash in his hometown of Louisville.

At least 12 people are dead and more injured when a cargo plane crashed Tuesday evening at the Louisville Muhammad Ali International ...Read more

BOSTON — Leading Massachusetts Republican lawmakers are joining the choir of calls for Gov. Maura Healey to provide “full transparency” on the hiring of her cocaine-busted aide, who was previously charged in connection with a shooting.

House Minority Leader Bradley Jones and Senate Minority Leader Bruce Tarr are demanding that Healey ...Read more

Google and Epic Games Inc., maker of the popular Fortnite game, reached a settlement in their five-year antitrust fight over how developers distribute and monetize apps on Android phones, according to a court filing.

The exact terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed, but the accord comes as the Alphabet Inc. unit had already begun making ...Read more

As the government shutdown continues, Missouri recipients of federal food assistance will soon receive partial benefits for the month of November, according to the Department of Social Services.

In a news release Wednesday afternoon, DSS announced that the state had received guidance from the U.S. Department of Agriculture which allowed for ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered government officials to provide immigration detainees enough food, water and bed space, among other remedies, finding that the conditions at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement holding facility in Broadview do not “pass constitutional muster.”

A day after after former detainees ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Even as Gov. Ron DeSantis has pushed for Florida to be the most aggressive state in assisting the federal government with immigration enforcement, state law still allows hundreds of thousands of companies to skip doing an E-Verify check.

In Florida, private companies with fewer than 25 employees don’t need to use the ...Read more

MIAMI — Trump took a victory lap in Miami on the one-year anniversary of his 2024 election victory Wednesday, but his speech at a business-focused conference in downtown was shadowed by another anniversary: the crossing of the threshold to the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Trump’s meandering hour-long speech made little ...Read more