Melania Trump put on a show of unity with her husband Tuesday night when she joined him and the rest of her family on stage in Florida to celebrate his stunning victory in the presidential election.

But as Donald Trump prepares to return to power in Washington, D.C., people close to her, as well as Melania “observers,” say that Americans ...Read more

MIAMI — For a third time in a row, Donald Trump grew his support among Latinos in Miami-Dade, becoming the first GOP presidential candidate in over three decades to win a Hispanic-majority county that was once solidly blue.

His vote share grew in practically every city in the county Tuesday night compared to when he first ran eight years ago,...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read’s team put their legal arguments to have her murder charge dropped in her second trial to the test under questioning from the justices of Massachusetts’ highest court on Wednesday.

Read, 44, of Mansfield, is accused of mowing down her boyfriend of two years, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and then ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Biden administration on Wednesday issued a final environmental review for a second lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The administration also identified a preferred alternative for the sale that would offer 400,000 acres in the refuge’s coastal plane, the minimum acreage required by Congress for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The special counsel overseeing the federal criminal cases against Donald Trump is preparing to drop the prosecutions of the president-elect before he is sworn in, according to a Justice Department official.

Special counsel Jack Smith is evaluating how to wind down two federal cases against Trump in order to comply with a ...Read more

Kamala Harris was a candidate of many firsts, including the first Black and South Asian woman to run for president as the Democratic nominee.

Her resounding, swift loss in the presidential race to Republican Donald Trump on Nov. 5, 2024, means many things to different people, including the fact that American voters are unable to break...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s 2016 transition was slowed because, as he admitted at a pre-Christmas rally that year, he didn’t think he would win. Eight tumultuous years later, the president-elect sounded Wednesday like he’s ready to get to work planning his second improbable term.

“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful ...Read more

A 51-year-old Lansing, Illinois, man was identified as one of the workers fatally wounded Tuesday afternoon at Chicago’s Navy Pier, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Lamont Johnson, of the 18300 block of Glen Oak Avenue, was fatally wounded in the 600 block of East Grand Avenue Tuesday, officials at the medical ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The last time Donald Trump was president, California led the liberal resistance to his agenda. Now it is poised to reprise the role.

In fact, as Trump’s return to power came into focus late Tuesday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he already had a plan to do so — that the state was “1000% focused” and ready to...Read more

DETROIT — Republican former President Donald Trump saw increased support in Detroit this election compared with 2016 and 2020, while voter turnout in Michigan's most populous city failed to match city election officials' expectations.

Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris received 90% of Detroit's support on Tuesday, while Trump earned 8%, ...Read more

ATLANTA — Georgia voters rendered an unmistakable election verdict backing Donald Trump’s White House bid, delivering him a solid victory that reasserted Republican ascendancy in the state and set Democrats down a restless path of soul-searching about their party’s future.

The president-elect carved a red path across Georgia to defeat ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove have been placed under quarantine Wednesday in light of an uninvited and unwelcome visitor: the oriental fruit fly, an invasive pest that attacks over 230 crops including fruits, nuts and vegetables.

The order by the California Department of Food and Agriculture bars fruit from within the...Read more

Now that former President Donald Trump has won his reelection campaign, there are many looming questions about how his next term will impact policies implemented during President Joe Biden’s administration.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris campaigned on the goal of curbing student debt. And while many efforts remain tied up in court, ...Read more

DETROIT — Republican Donald Trump won the presidential vote in the cities of Dearborn and Dearborn Heights in Tuesday's election on his way to winning Michigan after the former president courted voters in Metro Detroit's traditionally Democratic Arab American and Muslim communities.

Those community members who did not support Trump linked the...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — The National Hurricane Center said Hurricane Rafael grew into a major Category 3 storm Wednesday ahead of landfall in Cuba as it headed toward the Gulf of Mexico, while the Florida Keys remained under a tropical storm warning.

As of 4 p.m. Rafael, which first gained hurricane status at 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, remained a major ...Read more

Catherine, Princess of Wales, is on the up and up in her battle with an undisclosed form of cancer; just ask her husband, Prince William.

William offered an update on his wife's health Wednesday as he attended the 2024 Earthshot Prize Awards Ceremony in South Africa, telling Sky News in an interview that the former Kate Middleton is "doing ...Read more

CHICAGO — Jurors in the corruption trial of former House Speaker Michael Madigan saw a series of undercover videos on Wednesday made by a former ComEd executive detailing an alleged scheme by the utility to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars through do-nothing contacts to some of the powerful speaker’s longtime associates.

The videos, ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The investigation that led to the arrest Tuesday of former City Councilmember Omar Torres — who had resigned his position hours earlier — involves a family member who accused him of serial molestation in the late 1990s, according to court records and sources familiar with the case.

Detectives state in an explosive ...Read more

CHICAGO — Chicago police officials and prosecutors are set to announce charges in the fatal shooting of CPD officer Enrique Martinez earlier this week.

A press conference was scheduled for later Wednesday at CPD headquarters with Superintendent Larry Snelling, Mayor Brandon Johnson and Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx.

Martinez, 26, ...Read more