Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker will lead a trade mission to Japan accompanied by a number of top legislators, political allies and business people, his office said Friday.

The trip comes as Pritzker has announced ambitious pushes into quantum technology, clean energy and manufacturing, all of which were among the industries his office said would be ...Read more

At least 70 Haitians are dead and dozens of others are unaccounted for following a massacre in a farming community involving one of Haiti’s most ruthless armed groups.

The surprise attack happened in the early morning hours Thursday in Pont-Sondé, whose residents had been trying to defend themselves against the Gran Grif gang. It is raising ...Read more

A year of conflict has ushered in a new era of mass displacement in the Middle East.

Since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the subsequent sustained Israeli bombardment of Gaza, Israel has expanded its operations on multiple fronts to include the West Bank, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon.

With fighting continuing ...Read more

ATLANTA — An off-duty Atlanta police investigator was fatally shot Friday morning after breaking into a Douglas County home, officials confirmed.

The Douglas sheriff’s office said it was around 5 a.m. when deputies responded to a home in the 8000 block of Orkney Way near the St. Andrews Golf Club about reports of an attempted burglary. The ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is being widely mocked for suggesting “they” control the weather as many Republican-leaning states, including her home state of Georgia, assess the destruction caused by Hurricane Helene.

“Yes they can control the weather,” the House Committee on Homeland Security official tweeted Thursday night, without...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Kim Kardashian wants Lyle and Erik Menendez, the brothers convicted in the grisly 1989 murders of their parents, to be freed.

The reality star, daughter of late O.J. Simpson attorney Robert Kardashian, has fashioned herself as an advocate for criminal justice reform. And, in a personal essay for NBC News, she wrote Thursday ...Read more

NEW YORK — Ingrid Lewis-Martin, Mayor Eric Adams’ embattled chief adviser, and former state Sen. Jesse Hamilton were joined on their recent trip to Japan by registered lobbyist Adam Clayton Powell IV and Lisa Lashley, a senior City Hall official overseeing hiring efforts, the Daily News has learned.

The trip, which Lewis-Martin has ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass selected Jim McDonnell to serve as the city’s next police chief Friday, ending a monthslong search process and ushering in a new era for one of the country’s largest police departments.

In picking the longtime lawman — who helped implement a federal consent decree as an LAPD assistant chief and...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — An Orange County judge refused to suppress accused suitcase killer Sarah Boone’s initial interview with police, in which she made statements that could undermine her planned “battered spouse” defense.

Judge Michael Kraynick’s order showed up on the court’s website this morning. The ruling, coming in the final hours ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Department of Investigation is probing Mayor Adams’ administration over its controversial effort to install weapons scanners in the MTA subway system and other locations, the Daily News has learned.

The DOI probe into City Hall’s acquisition of weapons detectors from Massachusetts-based Evolv Technologies — which comes as...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Supreme Court issued an execution notice for Richard Moore, who was convicted of shooting a convenience store clerk. He is scheduled to die on Nov. 1.

In 1999, Moore walked into Nikki’s Speedy Mart convenience store in Spartanburg County unarmed. His goal was to rob the store to buy cocaine.

He got into ...Read more

A complex weather system is blooming in the Gulf of Mexico, putting much of Florida in the path of a dayslong rainstorm starting late in the weekend and possibly spawning a tropical system that could impact the state by the middle of next week.

As of Friday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center increased the odds to 50% that a tropical ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Odds are back up that a system developing in the Gulf of Mexico could become a tropical depression or storm before it makes its way to Florida next week, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, forecasters are looking at the trough of low pressure currently with widespread showers...Read more

LINDALE, Ga. — Republican vice presidential hopeful JD Vance on Friday said the country under a Donald Trump presidency would “make our own stuff” by using “American working people” while speaking at a shuttered textile mill in Northwest Georgia.

Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, spoke before a crowd of a few hundred cheering ...Read more

The U.S. government will not renew the humanitarian paroles under a Biden program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, Haitians, Cubans and Nicaraguans to come to the U.S. over the past two years.

That means people who have used the two-year program to come to the U.S. and who do not have another way to stay will have to leave...Read more

ATLANTA — An off-duty Atlanta police detective was fatally shot Friday morning after attempting to break into a home in Douglas County, officials told Channel 2 Action News.

The Douglas sheriff’s office said it was around 5 a.m. when deputies responded to a home on Orkney Way near the St. Andrews Golf Club about reports of an attempted ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden appeared in the White House briefing room for a victory lap celebrating a rosy jobs report and resolution to the strike that had temporarily paralyzed ports along the Eastern seaboard, underscoring the economic tailwinds that have coalesced behind Kamala Harris in her election against Donald Trump.

It was ...Read more

SEATTLE — There are only 73 southern resident orcas left in our region's waters, according to the most recent count released by the Center for Whale Research. It is one of the lowest tallies since the center counted 71 orcas when it began its survey in 1976.

The 2023 census identified 75 southern residents counted in the J, K and L pods. ...Read more

CHICAGO — All members of Mayor Brandon Johnson’s school board plan to resign, the latest turmoil gripping his administration as it struggles for control of the Chicago Public Schools system led by embattled CEO Pedro Martinez.

Chicago Board of Education President Jianan Shi, along with members Elizabeth Todd-Breland, Mariela Estrada, Mary ...Read more