With public attention focused on recovery from Hurricane Melissa, Cuban authorities recently announced that former minister of economy and deputy prime minister Alejandro Gil is set for trial and faces espionage charges, though they provided few details, bringing little clarity into a case that has puzzled Cubans for over a year.

In a statement...Read more

The Trump administration has sent 200 National Guard troops to Oregon, where they remain stationed despite a federal judge’s order barring the president from using them to quell protests in Portland, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said in court papers filed late last week.

Newsom said the White House has doubled the number of California Guard ...Read more

FLORA, Ill. — From across the state, several hundred mourners gathered Monday inside a cavernous gymnasium in rural southeastern Illinois to remember the son of Republican candidate for governor Darren Bailey, two of his grandchildren, and his daughter-in-law, all of whom were killed in a helicopter crash last month.

In what could have been a...Read more

Lawmakers have passed a bill to strengthen Illinois’ ability to make its own vaccine guidelines — legislation that follows months of tumult over vaccines at the federal level.

The bill expands the authority of the Immunization Advisory Committee, which is a group of doctors and other experts and leaders that makes vaccine recommendations to...Read more

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday said he was still deciding whether he’d sign legislation that would permit doctors to help terminally ill people end their lives, after the bill narrowly passed the General Assembly last week.

“It was something that I didn’t expect and didn’t know it was going to be voted on, so we’re examining it ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — ICE is “unnecessarily” placing dozens of immigrants detained at its largest California facility in criminal prison-like solitary confinement, according to observations from a disability rights watchdog group that toured the civil detention center.

The findings from Disability Rights California’s report, published Monday...Read more

WASHINGTON — As voters across the U.S. from New York City to New Jersey and Virginia to California prepare to cast ballots Tuesday, election officials are operating with sharply reduced support from a federal government agency that had previously helped states and localities counter bomb threats and cyberattacks.

The Cybersecurity and ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum ruled out a new “war on drugs” as a response to the assassination of a regional mayor who was shot at a Day of the Dead celebration, a brazen killing that has sparked national outrage.

“Returning to the war against el narco is not an option,” Sheinbaum told reporters Monday, referring...Read more

WASHINGTON — When it came to contemplating her retirement, Jane Campbell looked to George Washington for guidance.

Before presidential term limits were codified, America’s first leader famously set a precedent by opting to serve only two. It’s a lesson that Campbell, outgoing CEO and president of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, ...Read more

BOSTON — The hits just keep coming for the Canton Police Department.

After their officers were grilled on the stand for their questionable tactics during the Karen Read investigation, one of the department’s cops has been suspended amid “misconduct” allegations.

The town on Oct. 24 was reportedly alerted to the misconduct allegations ...Read more

MIAMI — When South Florida father, psychologist and small business owner Seth Grossman checked Obamacare’s enrollment portal when it opened Saturday, he saw the price for his family’s health care will jump from $3,000 a month to $4,500 if Congress doesn’t extend the current subsidies.

It’s a tale of shock and fear replicating across ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington sounded skeptical Monday of President Donald Trump’s proclamation effectively ending asylum in the United States, during oral arguments over a lower court ruling that found the president exceeded his authority under an immigration law.

A three-judge panel on the U.S Court of Appeals for the...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A business-backed nonprofit organization that's been helping fund Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's overseas trade missions should be investigated for failing to register as a lobbyist, a complaint filed by a longtime lawyer contended Monday.

Bob LaBrant, former general counsel for the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, authored ...Read more

Days after the announcement that the former Prince Andrew has been stripped of all his “titles” and “honours,” the royal family has made a big change to their official website.

On Thursday, Buckingham Palace released a statement saying that King Charles “initiated a formal process to remove the Style, Titles and Honours” from the ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — In an effort to replace federal food assistance blocked by a U.S. government shutdown, Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Monday issued a state disaster declaration.

Funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program is frozen due to an ongoing disagreement between Republicans and Democrats in Congress on how to fund the federal...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday that the state’s agriculture department will “be doing more” to help the nearly 3 million low-income Floridians who may be going without federal food assistance amid the government shutdown.

But DeSantis dismissed calls from state Democrats to declare an emergency, tap into emergency ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A judge significantly reduced former state Rep. Cecil Brockman’s bail on Monday in a hearing that revealed new details in the case, in which he is accused of sex crimes with a minor.

The bail, which a different judge originally set at $1,050,000, was reduced to $250,000 over the objections of Guilford County District ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told a federal judge Monday it will deplete what remains of a $6 billion contingency fund to pay a portion of food stamp benefits in November amid the ongoing partial federal government shutdown.

The court filings responded to an order over the weekend from Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.

People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal ...Read more