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NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani is set to announce a new Office of Community Safety on Thursday, a step toward fulfilling his campaign pledge to install a new city department to handle responses to mental health crises ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature will move to change the name of state holiday Cesar Chavez Day following allegations of rape against the legendary labor leader, including from two women who said the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An immigration judge has denied the asylum claims of a Columbia Heights family whose 5-year-old son became a national symbol of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota, the attorney ...Read more

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman on Thursday cast the deciding vote to advance President Donald Trump’s nominee to helm the Department of Homeland Security — joining Republicans while other Democrats raised doubts that U.S. ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday spoke against a proposed cruise port in Manatee County that a leading cruise terminal operator has been floating to the Tampa Bay community since mid-January.

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A group of attorneys general are taking legal action to block Nexstar Media Group's proposed $6.2 billion acquisition of Tegna's TV stations, calling the deal bad for consumer cable bills and local journalism.

A lawsuit ...Read more

Even as a not insignificant portion of the nation draws a blanket of isolationism, xenophobia and monolinguality ever more tightly around itself, another faction has grown more interested in what's happening around the ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Explosive allegations that Cesar Chavez abused girls and sexually assaulted his fellow labor activist Dolores Huerta decades ago are roiling the farmworker community, leaving many stunned at the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the January 2025 firestorms swept through Altadena and Pacific Palisades they not only burned down homes but left thousands still standing riddled with smoke damage.

The disaster set the stage for ...Read more

Joseph Duggar, who starred on the TLC reality show, “19 Kids and Counting,” has been arrested over allegations that he molested a 9-year-old girl six years ago during a vacation in Florida, according to authorities.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 19-year-old from Mexico died Monday at a South Florida immigration detention center, according to a release from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

Royer Perez-Jimenez was found unresponsive...Read more

MIAMI — Roughly seven years after Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty to two prostitution charges in Palm Beach County in 2008, he secretly invested $1 million in an Israeli security technology startup that had signed deals ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — “The Great Figment Movie”? “The Fast and the Figment”? “One Figment After Another”? “Star Wars: Episode XIII – The Figment Menace”? Does Disney have a Figment movie in the works?

Well, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For weeks, Mehmet Oz has been waging a public feud with California leaders over health care fraud, accusing the blue state of failing to adequately combat such abuse.

Oz, who heads the U.S. Centers ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — This year marks a veritable museum-palooza as Los Angeles debuts four new major arts complexes, with three in the wings likely to open in advance of the 2028 Summer Olympics.

Immerse yourself in a ...Read more

BOSTON — The Public Employee Committee, which bargains health insurance benefits on behalf of City of Boston unions, is firing back at the Wu administration after its “ultimatum” over dropping GLP-1 weight loss ...Read more

Most people who get their health coverage through the Affordable Care Act say they face sharply higher costs, with many worried they will have to pare back other expenses to cover them, according to a poll released ...Read more

MIAMI — Two moms who agonized for years about the unsolved 2009 murder of their teenage sons in Liberty City are suing the Miami Police Department for not telling them that the killer had secretly confessed and been ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Democratic leaders of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition have introduced a lengthy bill aimed at navigating rising energy costs for American consumers.

Reps. Sean Casten of Illinois and...Read more

Iran maintained attacks on energy assets around the Middle East even after U.S. President Donald Trump called for restraint, with strikes on key oil and gas infrastructure triggering a fresh surge in prices.

Tehran’s ...Read more