WASHINGTON — Brooke L. Rollins is posed to tackle foreign investments in U.S. agricultural land if confirmed as Agriculture secretary, but she will face some limitations on the scope of her power to do so.

President-elect Donald Trump announced on Nov. 23 that he will nominate Rollins to lead the Agriculture Department. Rollins was a senior ...Read more

Several members of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed Cabinet were hit with swatting calls, bomb threats and other harassing calls late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning, according to the FBI.

The agency issued a statement on Wednesday, saying the bureau was “aware of numerous bomb threats and swatting incidents targeting ...Read more

China released three Americans as part of a prisoner swap between the Biden administration and the Chinese government, according to a person familiar with the matter, a rare moment of cooperation between the adversaries.

A statement from the National Security Council said the three Americans — Mark Swidan, Kai Li and John Leung — would be ...Read more

CHICAGO — Former Ald. Daniel Solis’ testimony about his extraordinary turn as an FBI mole will continue for an abbreviated fourth day Wednesday before the corruption trial of ex-House Speaker Michael Madigan takes an extended Thanksgiving break.

Soils, the longtime 25th Ward alderman and Zoning Committee chairman, has been on the witness ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In Florida, 28 companies have controlled the medical marijuana market.

Now, after months of delay, Florida is allowing another 22 companies to join them.

For years, the marketplace has been dominated and controlled at all levels by a tight cluster of companies — only about two thirds of Florida’s licensed companies ...Read more

BOSTON — As Thanksgiving approaches, white sharks are still trying to have a feast of their own in these local chilly waters.

Shark researchers have seen a higher number of seals with shark bites along the Massachusetts South Shore this fall.

Whale and Dolphin Conservation’s Marine Animal Rescue and Response team has responded to seven ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration issued new sanctions against Nicolás Maduro’s regime in Venezuela on Wednesday, marking four months since he refused to cede power after losing the country’s presidential election.

The new measures include sanctions against 21 security and cabinet-level officials in the Maduro government as well as ...Read more

A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah started early Wednesday, after the sides reached a deal following weeks of U.S.-mediated talks.

The development is a first step to ending a war that’s killed thousands of people and forced more than a million to flee their homes. The U.S. hopes it calms the Middle East and ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Many of the residents who packed Tuesday night’s Mesquite City Council meeting said they were “disappointed” by the police union’s complaints against the chief of their city’s police department.

While meeting attendees spilled out of the overflow rooms, a union leader told the mayor and council that the Mesquite Police ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — When Jonathan Dalton first heard about psychedelic therapy, it sounded like a “bunch of hippie drugs” for “hippie veterans.”

As a Navy SEAL with a 23-year career, Dalton began to suffer from depression and anxiety and was looking for reprieve. Through the VA, he was prescribed SSRIs, drugs used to treat depression and ...Read more

DENVER — At least seven young people in Colorado youth detention centers were hospitalized following overdose-related emergency calls this year, including three teens who required life-saving naloxone at a Colorado Springs facility on the same day over the summer.

The Colorado Department of Human Services declined to provide The Denver Post ...Read more

A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah started early Wednesday, after the sides reached a deal following weeks of U.S.-mediated talks.

The development is a first step to ending a war that’s killed thousands of people and forced more than a million to flee their homes. The U.S. hopes it calms the Middle East and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Before sheriff's deputies found his body on Thanksgiving morning last year, shot to death in a desolate stretch of warehouses and pallet yards west of Compton, Eduardo Escobedo Sr. had become rich beyond his dreams.

The impoverished child of East Los Angeles had climbed the ranks of the Sinaloa cartel, the world's largest drug ...Read more

Nearly half of adolescents and three-quarters of adults in the U.S. were classified as being clinically overweight or obese in 2021. The rates have more than doubled compared with 1990.

Without urgent intervention, our study forecasts that more than 80% of adults and close to 60% of adolescents will be classified as overweight or ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico until fentanyl and undocumented migrants stop flowing over U.S. borders. Canada says it has a plan to boost border security — and points to U.S. government data that show most of the problems come from Mexico.

Agents captured an average of 1,810 ...Read more

A ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah started early Wednesday, after the sides reached a deal following weeks of U.S.-mediated talks.

The development is a first step toward ending a conflict that’s killed thousands of people and forced more than a million to flee their homes. The U.S. hopes it calms the Middle ...Read more