DETROIT — West Michigan Republican and former U.S. Rep. Fred Upton is endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris' 2024 bid for the White House, saying his party's nominee, former President Donald Trump, is divisive, unhinged and has "not changed his colors."

"Watching Trump day after day, he's ignored the advice of many senior, respected ...Read more

CHICAGO -- Chicago Heights resident Stephanie Petersen was concerned by how many food recalls she saw daily on the Food and Drug Administration website.

“There was, like, (multiple) recalls every single day. And a lot of salmonella, listeria, a lot of different things,” Petersen said. “I was like, what is going on? It’s so many.”

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From the west end of the unincorporated town of Sutter wafts a strong smell, familiar to many and scorned by some.

In recent weeks the odor from a nearby hemp grow, which smells just like marijuana, has subsumed parts of the small town that borders farm land surrounding the Sutter Buttes, and even lingered in the air outside of the town’s ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The North Carolina State Board of Elections has ordered some Spanish-language signs warning noncitizens not to vote to be removed from around polling places. But others will stay up.

Multiple advocacy groups — including El Pueblo, Forward Justice, ACLU of North Carolina and the North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP ...Read more

An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

In a letter to Interior Department officials, the Center for Biological Diversity announced its intention to file a lawsuit, calling the mine an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s inspector general has begun an audit of Israel’s “proper use, storage and physical security” of American armaments, including missiles, drones and night vision devices.

The audit will be conducted under the Pentagon’s enhanced monitoring process of “accounting for sensitive defense articles” provided...Read more

OTTAWA, Canada — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pulling Canada’s welcome mat away from newcomers as record inflows sank public support for immigration.

Canada will admit nearly 20% fewer permanent residents next year, or 395,000, compared to this year’s expected level of 485,000, according to the latest government’s plan from ...Read more

Police in Argentina are reportedly focusing their investigation into Liam Payne’s death on not only the specific drugs in his system, but other small objects found in his hotel room.

According to TMZ, law enforcement sources in Bueno Aires are looking into the possibility that a hotel employee procured the drugs for the 31-year-old singer and...Read more

BALTIMORE — The owners and operators of the vessel that crushed the Francis Scott Key Bridge will pay more than $100 million to the federal government in civil damages.

The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that the funds from Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited, both Singapore-based corporations, will go to the...Read more

The Justice Department’s Election Threats Task Force released a statement Thursday giving updates on four men in different states accused of harassing election officials as Nov. 5 nears.

Teak Brockbank, 45, from Colorado, pleaded guilty Wednesday to threatening two election officials, a judge and federal law enforcement agents between ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Penn State has taken the unusual step of revealing it has "indefinitely" prohibited a biomedical engineer from conducting research, after a review of her scientific papers found several contained "unreliable data."

The investigation into the work of Deb Kelly was sparked by allegations that the data in some of the dozens of ...Read more

SEATTLE — A 15-year-old boy was charged Thursday with the murder of his parents and three of his siblings.

The Seattle Times typically does not name juvenile suspects unless they are charged as adults.

King County prosecutors charged the boy with five counts of first-degree aggravated murder and one count of first-degree attempted murder for...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón will ask a judge to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, two brothers serving life terms for killing their parents, a move that could pave the way for their release.

Gascón will request the brothers’ prior sentence of life without the possibility of parole be rescinded and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Chris Shields remembers watching the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol from his D.C. office and texting his friends still on the Hill.

They shared their disbelief and collectively wondered whether they should leave the city, Shields, a former staffer who left Congress in 2009, recalled Thursday afternoon from the eastern edge ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón will ask a judge to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, two brothers serving life terms for killing their parents, a move that could pave the way for their release.

Gascón will request the brothers’ prior sentence of life without the possibility of parole be rescinded and ...Read more

An Australian mining company’s lithium-boron mine in Nevada passed all environmental hurdles on Thursday, and an environmental group immediately notified the federal government that it plans to sue.

In a letter to Interior Department officials, the Center for Biological Diversity announced its intention to file a lawsuit, calling the mine an ...Read more

A Colorado farm has recalled onions it sold to McDonald’s before the fast-food chain’s E. coli outbreak, which killed one person in the state and sickened at least 49 people nationwide.

Taylor Farms, which is based in California but also grows vegetables in Colorado, issued a recall notice Wednesday for whole and diced yellow onions because...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators are facing what could be a major shake-up in subcommittee leadership after the upcoming elections, particularly in control over the largest slice of annual discretionary spending: defense.

Current Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Jon Tester, D-Mont., is in a perilous position in his ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The owners and operators of the vessel that crushed the Francis Scott Key Bridge will pay more than $100 million to the federal government in civil damages.

The U.S. Justice Department said the funds from Grace Ocean Private Limited and Synergy Marine Private Limited, Singapore-based corporations, will go to the treasury and the ...Read more