FREELAND, Mich. — Vice President JD Vance is visiting Michigan on Friday, making his first official stop in the state since he and President Donald Trump won the Nov. 5 election.

Vance arrived late Friday morning at MBS International Airport in Saginaw County. He was joined by his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, and Kelly Loeffler, ...Read more

The long-time personal contractor for Gene Hackman and his wife has opened up about his shock upon discovering their bodies, saying that he had seen the 95-year-old actor driving near his Santa Fe, New Mexico, home, just three months before his death, even though an autopsy showed that he had advanced Alzheimer’s disease.

Jesse Kesler, who ...Read more

A group of Senate Democrats are demanding answers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture after it gutted two programs aimed at providing produce to food banks and schools.

The USDA slashed $2 billion from the budgets of the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program and the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program...Read more

DETROIT — A Southfield man convicted of defrauding state unemployment insurance agencies of $6.3 million during the COVID-19 pandemic has been sentenced, officials said.

Kenny Lee Howard, 32, was given 94 months in prison Thursday, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Julie Beck said in a statement.

Howard, his ...Read more

BOSTON — The “unprecedented” migrant wave that slammed Boston Logan Airport forced airlines to pick up some of the $779,000 tab covering Massport’s response to the thousands of arrivals.

Massport estimates 5,500 migrants flew into Logan from July 2023 through last July as the quasi-state agency increased “security, terminal cleaning ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore-area leaders are fed up with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s cut of two programs that provide more than $1 billion for schools and food banks across the country to buy food from locally sourced farmers and ranchers.

Rep. Kweisi Mfume, a Democrat who represents most of Baltimore City, blamed President Donald Trump ...Read more

ATLANTA — A Middle Georgia man has been convicted of race-based hate crimes after threatening a federal postal worker and hitting the worker’s mail delivery vehicle with his tractor.

William Charles Franklin, 36, of Tennille, Georgia, was found guilty on Tuesday of four federal charges, including aggravated assault upon a federal officer, ...Read more

Every year as part of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, thousands of onlookers clad in green cheer on a boat crew sprinkling orange powder into the Chicago River to turn it a festive shade.

But with the federal government considering sweeping rollbacks to environmental protections, this Saturday many may wonder: How will the bright...Read more

The Miami shipper’s list of 134 items headed for the Caribbean looked pretty tame: tires, bicycles, refrigerators and mattresses.

But buried inside the container were a military-grade Barrett .50 caliber sniper rifle with silencer and an Uzi machine gun, along with dozens of other high-powered weapons and tens of thousands of bullets of ...Read more

Knowing which vaccines older adults should get and hearing a clear recommendation from their health care provider about why a particular vaccine is important strongly motivated them to get vaccinated. That’s a key finding in a recent study I co-authored in the journal Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Adults over 65 have a higher risk...Read more

Nearly a hundred years ago, a hastily crafted spaceship crash-landed in Smallville, Kansas. Inside was an infant – the sole survivor of a planet destroyed by old age. Discovering he possessed superhuman strength and abilities, the boy committed to channeling his power to benefit humankind and champion the oppressed.

This is the ...Read more

Hamas said it’s willing to release a living American hostage and four bodies of other dual nationals from Gaza, a surprise move the group said would advance ceasefire talks, though was treated with suspicion by Israel.

The Palestinian militant organization has agreed to free “Israeli soldier Edan Alexander, who holds American citizenship, ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked for messages to be relayed to U.S. counterpart Donald Trump during late-night talks with American envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow, the Kremlin said.

“Additional information was provided to the Russian side,” Peskov told reporters Friday, according to the Interfax news agency. “Putin asked Witkoff to ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin asked for messages to be relayed to U.S. counterpart Donald Trump during late-night talks with American envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow, the Kremlin said.

“Additional information was provided to the Russian side,” Peskov told reporters Friday, according to the Interfax news agency. “Putin asked Witkoff to ...Read more

China and Russia joined Iran in denouncing U.S. sanctions and backed efforts to restore a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran that President Donald Trump abandoned in his first term and now wants to replace.

The three countries — all sanctioned by the U.S. to varying degrees — stressed the need to end unilateral restrictions and urged the ...Read more

As former Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte rallied supporters in Hong Kong on Sunday, his team seemed unconcerned about rumors that the International Criminal Court might soon issue an arrest warrant against him.

Despite a bitter political feud with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Duterte’s team believed any legal action would first take ...Read more

Measles vaccination rates among kindergarten students in the Philadelphia region have been declining since the COVID-19 pandemic, and are now below the so-called herd or community immunity rate needed to keep the highly contagious virus from spreading.

Medical experts say that 95% of a community must be vaccinated against measles to keep the ...Read more

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — SpaceX will try again Friday evening to launch the replacement crew to the International Space Station where the pair of NASA astronauts who flew up last summer on Boeing’s Starliner have been waiting for a ride home.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Crew-10 mission is set to lift off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A at 7:...Read more

NEW YORK — The Department of Homeland Security raided the dorm rooms of two Columbia University students on Thursday night, just days after authorities detained a prominent pro-Palestinian activist in university housing.

In an email, Interim President Katrina Armstrong wrote that she was “heartbroken” to inform students and faculty of the...Read more