Billionaire MAGA activist Elon Musk claims that being in public puts him at risk, particularly in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s killing.

The 54-year-old Tesla CEO expressed his concerns on “The Katie Miller Podcast,” which is hosted by the wife of White House adviser Stephen Miller.

In addition to saying his largely unpopular work with the ...Read more

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has fired senior members of a limited liability company’s leadership team and denounced a $30 million contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

“As a sovereign Nation, our values guide the decisions we make, and we acknowledge that this contract does not align with those principles,” ...Read more

BOSTON — An illegal immigrant from Peru with a history of reckless driving is now in ICE custody after allegedly hitting an Everett woman with his car so hard her shoes and pants came off before fleeing the scene Sunday morning, only to be ordered held on just $2,500 bail.

Immigration officials confirmed with the Boston Herald that the ...Read more

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado used her Nobel Peace Prize lecture on Wednesday to deliver a sweeping account of her country’s two-decade struggle against authoritarianism, portraying Venezuela’s crisis not only as a national tragedy but as a global warning about the fragility of democracy and the cost of freedom.

Machado...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As the Eaton and Palisades fires rapidly jumped between tightly packed houses, the proactive steps some residents took to retrofit their homes with fire-resistant building materials and to clear flammable brush became a significant indicator of a home’s fate.

Early adopters who cleared vegetation and flammable materials within...Read more

New Jersey is among the 10 states that allow a physician to assist a terminally ill patient in ending their own life, under certain conditions. But those patients must be New Jersey residents, a federal appeal court ruled.

The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals said last week that New Jersey’s limit of the aid-in-dying law to state residents is ...Read more

While the federal government was shut down, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services altered the name under the official portrait of Adm. Rachel Levine, a Pennsylvania doctor who served as the agency’s assistant secretary under former President Joe Biden, to her birth name or “dead name.”

Levine, who had previously served as ...Read more

Wednesday night’s Powerball drawing is for $930 million.

If no winner is selected, the jackpot will almost certainly top $1 billion with the holidays fast approaching. The jackpot — already the seventh largest in Powerball history — has a lump-sum cash value of around $429 million.

It would be second largest Powerball windfall of 2025. A...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego is launching an effort to make its pricey single-family neighborhoods more affordable to young families by rezoning some properties to allow duplexes, cottages, townhomes and bungalow courts.

City officials say the cheaper options would blend well visually with single-family homes and create more options for middle-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump administration must immediately end the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles, the latest legal blow to the president’s embattled efforts to police American streets with armed soldiers.

Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer said in his ruling that command of the ...Read more

A House Democrat filed articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday in a likely futile effort to oust the health and human services secretary.

Kennedy “has turned his back on science, on public health, and on the American people – spreading conspiracies and lies, driving up costs and putting lives at risk,” Rep. ...Read more

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado secretly left Venezuela in a bid to get to Oslo in time to accept her award but was forced to miss the ceremony because bad weather delayed her journey, a person familiar with the matter said.

Machado got out of Venezuela on Tuesday with help from some members of President Nicolas Maduro’s regime,...Read more

Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Corina Machado secretly left Venezuela in a bid to get to Oslo in time to accept her award but was forced to miss the ceremony because bad weather delayed her journey, a person familiar with the matter said.

Machado got out of Venezuela on Tuesday with help from members of President Nicolas Maduro’s regime, ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The Franklin County Coroner’s Office has identified the Kentucky State University student who died in an on-campus shooting Tuesday as a 19-year-old from Indiana.

Coroner Will Harrod said Wednesday morning De’Jon Fox Jr., 19, was killed in the Tuesday shooting police have called an “isolated incident.” Fox was a ...Read more

Haiti’s new Gang Suppression Force appears poised to meet its ambitious target of 5,500 troops, after a number of nations, including Chad and Bangladesh, offered to deploy soldiers, engineers and police offices to help the country’s beleaguered security forces combat armed gangs.

The strongest commitments during a conference Tuesday in New ...Read more

DETROIT — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick took to the airwaves on Wednesday to make his case for shedding the restitution he owes taxpayers as part of his public corruption conviction.

The current amount of restitution owed to Detroit is unclear, but a judge said in November 2024 that Kilpatrick owed $831,914. On Tuesday, Kilpatrick ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Trump Administration must end the deployment of the National Guard in Los Angeles.

Federal judge Charles R. Breyer said in his ruling that the guard should be returned to the control of Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Trump sent the guard to L.A. in June over Newsom's objections to deal with protests...Read more

President Donald Trump plans to speak to the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia as more than half a million people flee a revived border clash, one of eight conflicts the U.S. leader has claimed credit for ending.

Fighting between the neighbors, which has killed at least 12 people, erupted over the weekend along their 800-kilometer (500-mile) ...Read more

CHICAGO — With his namesake center due to open in just over six months, former President Barack Obama is in Chicago this week to see how construction is coming along — plus make a few other stops to promote and preview the multimillion-dollar endeavor, including a surprise visit to a South Side school.

On Tuesday, a group of 24 students ...Read more