LOS ANGELES — A Laguna Niguel couple who has lived in the U.S. for 35 years is being detained in a Louisiana immigration facility and faces deportation to Colombia, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Gladys Gonzalez, 55, and Nelson Gonzalez, 59, originally entered the U.S. without authorization near San Ysidro in November ...Read more

A prominent son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is taking a leave of absence from Congress to live in the U.S., where he has sought to build Republican support for his father’s legal battles with the country’s Supreme Court.

Eduardo Bolsonaro, who represents Sao Paulo in Brazil’s lower house, said in a video posted to social ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge has ordered Chicago to install audible crossing signals at intersections with traffic lights to help people who are blind or have problems seeing to cross public streets.

The order would require the city to install at least 75 accessible pedestrian signals this year and more than 100 every year until at least 71% of ...Read more

The leader of Feeding Our Future sold vulnerable immigrants on a “perversion of the American dream,” persuading dozens of Somali business owners to join her $250 million pay-for-play scheme that made them millions of dollars before federal investigators caught up to the fraud, prosecutors said in their closing statements Tuesday in the more ...Read more

John F. Kennedy’s grandson Jack Schlossberg is pressuring podcaster Joe Rogan to have him on his show after the Trump administration releases unredacted documents pertaining to the 35th president’s assassination.

The 32-year-old liberal scion issued his challenge to “The Joe Rogan Experience” host in a video posted to Instagram Monday ...Read more

President Donald Trump released a cache of unredacted classified documents Tuesday related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy but experts say the documents are unlikely to put an end to speculation about the infamous killing.

Trump told reporters Monday during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ...Read more

Joining with protesters nationwide, advocates chanted and shouted Tuesday outside the state Capitol in Hartford to protest against cuts in the Medicaid health insurance program.

Democrats fear that President Donald J. Trump and budget-cutter Elon Musk could enact as much as $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid, which covers a wide variety of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump fired the two Democrats on the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday, leaving only two members of a five-person agency that is traditionally independent of the White House.

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya disclosed the firings, and both called the move “illegal.” The agency has been tasked for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin declined Donald Trump’s bid for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing instead to limit attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure while demanding that the U.S. and other nations stop the flow of weapons and intelligence to the neighbor his military invaded.

The Russian leader put forward...Read more

A federal judge blocked President Donald Trump from banning transgender people from the armed forces while a lawsuit proceeds, comparing his directive to past discriminatory bans on other minority groups.

The decision by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes spares thousands of service members from facing imminent dismissal. It’s also the latest ...Read more

North Carolina lawmakers have reached an agreement to pass a fourth round of funding for Helene recovery, allocating $524 million toward relief efforts.

In a near-unanimous vote, the state House passed the measure on Tuesday as part of a deal with the Senate, which is expected to take up the bill this week.

“We are proud to have worked ...Read more

NEW YORK — Progressive mayoral hopeful Jessica Ramos, whose campaign is in financial dire straits amid flagging fundraising, hired a new campaign manager this week who was recently fired as a top aide to one of her opponents, the Daily News has learned.

Trivette Knowles, a veteran New York political consultant, started his new job as campaign...Read more

House lawmakers in North Carolina approved a bill Tuesday that aims to prevent misunderstandings between law enforcement officers and drivers with autism spectrum disorder.

House Bill 21 would allow people to get a notation on the electronic record tied to their driver’s license that lets officers know they have autism. The bill would also ...Read more

A day after taking over as prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago in a historic transition, Stuart Young is calling for elections.

A statement from the Office of the Prime Minister on Tuesday said that Young had advised President Christine Kangaloo to dissolve Parliament as of midnight and that elections are to be set for April 28th, with ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Donald Trump will head to Philadelphia this weekend to watch the NCAA wrestling championships at the Wells Fargo Center, his first trip to the city since being sworn in for a second time as president.

Trump’s plans were first reported by Clay Travis, founder of OutKick, an American sports and political commentary ...Read more

The two Boeing Starliner astronauts left behind on the International Space Station are back on Earth, ending an odyssey that turned a planned eight-day trip into more than nine months in space.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who arrived aboard Starliner as part of its Crew Flight Test last June, returned home instead in a ...Read more

The latest not-food-in-your-food recall pulls Lean Cuisine and Stouffer’s frozen meals from shelves at Walmart, Publix, Kroger, Kroger-owned chains and other grocers.

As explained by Nestle USA’s recall notice, customers told Nestle about meals with “wood-like material,” and there has been “one potential choking incident” so far.

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