Donald Trump has promised voters that he would carry out a range of immigration actions, including deporting, with the help of the National Guard or military, millions of immigrants living illegally in the U.S.

Many of Trump’s plans do not require congressional approval, but they still might be hard to undertake at a scale that ...Read more

BOSTON — The Norfolk DA’s special prosecutor is again trying to get his hands on unpublished material about murder defendant Karen Read from a news outlet.

A few weeks after the new prosecutor requested Boston 25 to turn over an entire video of interviews with Read, the prosecutor has now filed a motion about a Boston Magazine reporter.

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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to involve anti-vaccine activist and conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his next administration in some capacity, but whoever else he picks to run the major health agencies will have a major impact on the GOP health agenda of the next four years.

Top posts require Senate confirmation, meaning ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago police on Thursday arrested a suspect wanted for the slayings of two Navy Pier workers earlier this week, hours after authorities released images and asked for the public’s help in finding him.

The suspect, thought to be a recently terminated ex-employee, is believed to have fatally wounded two workers at about 1:15 p.m. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Camarillo Heights resident Maurice Kerr stood inside the shell of his burned-out home Thursday morning.

With the surrounding rubble still smoldering and smoke choking the air, the 68-year-old said he did his best to fight the wind-driven Mountain fire, which started raining embers on his home soon after it started Wednesday ...Read more

Carbon dioxide emissions from private jets have increased by 46% in the last five years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment.

The researchers analyzed over 26,000 airplanes and 18 million trips — representing most private flights between 2019 and 2023 — and found that more than ...Read more

Hurricane Rafael’s strong winds knocked down Cuba’s entire electrical grid, ripped off roofs, uprooted trees and downed a baseball stadium light tower as it crossed over western Cuba on Wednesday afternoon.

Cuban authorities said the storm left “severe damage” in the provinces of Artemisa, Mayabeque and Havana, but no casualties, ...Read more

Nearly one month after Liam Payne’s fatal fall from a hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, three people — including a friend of the One Direction alum — have been charged in an ongoing investigation into his death, according to reports.

Authorities completed a series of raids at the unidentified friend’s home, the hotel where Payne died and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger and his attorneys were back in a Boise courtroom Thursday in their push to drop the death penalty as a possible sentence with murder convictions in the killing of four University of Idaho students at trial next summer.

After the hours-long arguments on the appropriateness of the death penalty and whether 29-year...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Camarillo Heights resident Maurice Kerr stood inside the shell of his burned-out home Thursday morning.

With the surrounding rubble still smoldering and smoke choking the air, the 68-year-old said he did his best to fight the wind-driven Mountain fire, which started raining ash on his home after it started Wednesday morning.

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NEW YORK — Mayor Adams spoke to President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday about working together to address “issues in the city,” Adams said, without going into specifics or disclosing whether they discussed the prospect of mass deportations or Adams’ pending criminal case.

“I communicated with the president yesterday to state that ...Read more

Pennsylvania was for months considered the key swing state that would decide the 2024 election. Candidates, political parties and advocacy groups spent over US$1 billion courting the commonwealth’s small number of persuadable voters.

We now know that former – and now future – President Donald Trump carried the state by the ...Read more

MIAMI — Hurricane Rafael, a Category 2 storm, is expected to slowly trek west across the Gulf of Mexico for the next few days.

This path is lined with less friendly conditions than the Caribbean — biting wind shear, dry air and cooler waters — that could work together to weaken the storm. By Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said, ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX managed Thursday to get off a Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral after scrubbing the launch twice earlier in the week.

A Falcon 9 carrying 23 of the internet satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 3:19 p.m. EST under cloudy skies.

Weather, though, was not a concern...Read more

LOS ANGELES — On his first day in office four years ago, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón issued a slate of progressive edicts that many prosecutors in his office said handcuffed them in the fight against crime.

When Nathan Hochman takes Gascón’s seat in less than 30 days, he has vowed to untie those same prosecutors’ ...Read more

Prince’s younger sister, singer Tyka Nelson, who died Monday, was visited by paramedics several times in recent months.

The 64-year-old, who was the pop star’s only full sibling, had emergency services come to her home at least six times starting in September and up to last Friday, according to emergency call logs cited by TMZ.

At least ...Read more

Nov. 5, 2024, was a tough day for cannabis legalization supporters.

Recreational legalization ballot questions in Florida, North Dakota and South Dakota all failed.

Two medical measures passed in Nebraska but face legal challenges over the validity of the signatures required to get the measures on the ballot. Why two measures?...Read more

Aging is often feared, resisted, and in the cruelest of cases, mocked and even punished.

Louise Aronson, a geriatrician and author of the book “Elderhood,” puts it well when she says older people who seek health care are often made to feel superfluous even if the intention is benign. In the workplace in general, being older seems ...Read more

Being a religious leader means wearing many different hats. At times, their congregations expect them to convey passionate confidence – to be models of faith and strength. But wise leadership also means listening and being willing to change your mind: from navigating a congregation in crisis to questioning once-firm beliefs.

The ...Read more

As the U.S. steels itself for another Trump administration, one area unambiguously in the incoming president’s crosshairs is climate policy.

Although he has not released an official climate agenda, Donald Trump’s playbook from his last stint in the Oval Office and his frequent complaints about clean energy offer some clues to what...Read more