CHICAGO — DePaul University’s President Robert Manuel testified before the U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee Wednesday morning, apologizing for any harm caused to Jewish students, faculty and staff since the terrorist attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.

Manuel joined the presidents of Haverford College and California Polytechnic ...Read more

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to reset ties between their nations and join forces to help strengthen the European Union’s defensive capabilities and competitiveness.

“As we face war on our continent, fierce global competition, accelerating climate and technological change, and threats of a...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Bucks County Sheriff Fred Harran says some opponents of his plan to have the department partner with ICE have used "Holocaust-era language" to slander him as the state's only Jewish sheriff.

In a statement shared with The Inquirer this week, as civil-rights groups prepared for a Wednesday news conference to oppose an ICE ...Read more

NEW YORK — “Boardwalk Empire” star Michael Pitt was arrested in Brooklyn last week for alleged sexual abuse and attacks against his ex-girlfriend.

The 44-year-old “Funny Games” actor has pleaded not guilty to all charges after he was arrested Friday night for assault injury with a weapon sexually motivated, strangulation sexually ...Read more

Republican efforts to slash billions in Medicaid funding would be “an attack on rural America,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear and three other Democratic governors said this week.

The cuts would strip health care from millions of low-income Americans and cause the closure of dozens of rural hospitals over the next decade, they said on a call ...Read more

President Donald Trump has said his tariffs on countries around the world will bring “jobs and factories roaring back” to the U.S.

Keith Maskus, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is among the economists and business representatives who don’t think that will happen. The sweeping tariffs have been ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Five Mexican citizens have been charged with participating in human smuggling after a small boat carrying migrants capsized off San Diego on Monday, killing four people including two children, authorities said.

Tragic new details about the deadly smuggling incident came to light Tuesday.

The body of a 14-year-old boy from India...Read more

SACRAMENTO — Sacramento’s Police Department routinely pays more than $15 million in overtime each year — totaling more than $100 million in the last decade — yet elected officials have not committed to an audit of the spending.

While public safety overtime is not new or unique to the capital region, the amount has increased ...Read more

DENVER — In a dramatic 11th hour move, House Democrats late Tuesday night tried to resurrect a dead-and-buried plan to slow Colorado’s first-in-the-nation artificial intelligence regulations from taking effect — a day after a senior Democratic lawmaker killed the planned delay and threw parts of the Capitol into chaos.

But the plan ...Read more

ATLANTA — When living in a dangerous homeless camp in Atlanta‘s Mechanicsville neighborhood, Willie Jeffries said people sometimes let him spend the night in their homes.

Jeffries finally got his own apartment in October, with help from nonprofit organizations that work with the city. After living in the Cooper Street camp for four years, ...Read more

ATLANTA — Atlanta City Council members warned Dickens administration officials Tuesday that the mayor’s proposed spending increases for next year — particularly across public safety — go too far as the city faces the harsh reality of a potential recession.

For months before the start of Atlanta’s budget season, the mayor’s office ...Read more

MIAMI — As Miami-Dade marks the unofficial beginning of mosquito season with a Wednesday event to help residents “Fight the Bite”, the Herald spoke to the head of the Mosquito Control Division, Dr. John-Paul Mutebi, to answer readers’ questions about the links to climate change.

Does climate change affect how many mosquitoes we have ...Read more