Mexicans are divided about the need of tighter migration policies, amid a large influx of foreigners crossing their country toward the U.S. border, according to a new poll.

About 41% of respondents want Mexico to take a more restrictive stance on migration, while 40% favor more open policies, according to LatAm Pulse, a survey conducted by ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A parking spot shuffle coming up this weekend more than 250 miles above Earth will mark a unique feat for a pair of NASA astronauts who will become the first to fly in both Boeing’s Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft.

NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams who flew up to the International Space Station in ...Read more

A suspect has been identified in connection with the grisly killing of a camper in Montana who was initially believed to have been mauled by a bear.

The bloodied body of Dustin Kjersem was found on October 12 inside a tent about two-and-a-half miles up Moose Creek Road, east of Big Sky, police said.

A friend made the grisly discovery and ...Read more

When Tucker Carlson, the reactionary pundit fired in 2023 from Fox News, preceded Donald Trump at the Turning Point rally in Duluth, Georgia, on Oct. 23, 2024, he roused attendees by tacitly likening Trump to a stern father and Democrats to a rebellious, “hormone-addled, 15-year-old daughter.” Carlson insisted, “there has to be a point ...Read more

MIAMI — On paper, a Cuban immigrant by the name of Joel Regino Diaz Martin became a millionaire by declaring in corporate records that he was the owner of a Miami-area mental health clinic that collected about $4 million from Medicaid, the state’s health insurance program for low-income people.

In reality, most of the clinic’s ill-gotten ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office was just one of three to secure capital punishment in 2023, among California’s 58 counties. And prosecutors’ pursuit of the death penalty has slowed but hasn’t stopped, despite a statewide moratorium.

Twelve jurors will decide defendant Adel Sambrano Ramos’ fate ...Read more

The city of Beverly Hills has agreed to train its employees on abortion clinic protections after local officials interfered with the opening of an abortion clinic in “blatant” violation of state law, according to a proposed settlement to be unveiled Thursday by California Attorney General Rob Bonta.

Bonta’s office said the city’s then-...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center increased the odds Thursday that a system could develop in the Caribbean and become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, it said a broad area of low pressure is likely to develop over the southwestern Caribbean Sea by the weekend.

“Gradual...Read more

MIAMI — More than two years after a Biscayne Bay boat crash killed a 17-year-old girl and severely injured her classmate, the man who smashed his boat into a concrete channel marker that day — prominent real estate broker George Pino — is now facing a felony charge linked to the incident that could put him behind bars for up to 15 years.

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When open enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, starts nationwide this week, a group that had previously been barred from signing up will be eligible for the first time: The “Dreamers.” That’s the name given to children brought to the United States without immigration paperwork who have since qualified for the Deferred ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — For years, the effort to reduce tobacco use — particularly among youth and communities of color — has been the goal of some Kansas City lawmakers, citing concerns about the health consequences of the products.

But the effort to ban flavored tobacco products hit another roadblock recently, when local business owners ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Blue Origin hauled the immense first stage booster for its upcoming debut launch of its New Glenn rocket to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday.

Blue Origin CEO Dave Limp posted images to social media showing the 188-foot-long first stage with its seven BE-4 engines wrapped up in coverings with not-so-little Blue ...Read more

NEW YORK — Jesse Hamilton, the Adams administration’s top real estate official who’s ensnared in a corruption investigation, appeared in a promotional video for a Bronx warehouse that his city agency tried to buy — and the unusual clip was produced by an aide to Hamilton who also disseminated it to other city agencies, the Daily News has...Read more

CHICAGO — Over the last decade, hundreds of reports have cropped up across the Chicago area of people’s horrifying encounters with a large, winged creature with glowing red eyes. Last month, Park Ridge residents looked out their windows to the creepy sight of a hairless, dog-sized creature crawling around the suburb. Earlier in the summer, ...Read more

CHICAGO — When the teenager was asked if he wanted to share a statement at a court hearing for a former security guard at Dunbar Vocational Career Academy who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting him when he was a 15-year-old student, he worried that he wouldn’t be able to express his emotions in detail using his voice. So, instead, he ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At least 90 people have been infected with E. coli in a multistate outbreak that health officials say likely stems from onions served on McDonald's Quarter Pounders and could see the fast food chain taken to court.

At least 27 people have been hospitalized, two have developed dangerous kidney complications and one person in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Rancho Santa Margarita Mayor Carol Gamble, a founding member of the city's first council in 2000, will plead guilty to making a false affidavit on paperwork she filed to get on the ballot, according to Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer.

Wednesday's announcement comes a week after Fullerton City Council candidate Scott ...Read more