CHICAGO — Less than 10 months after reporting to federal prison, Edward Burke was expected to begin spending the rest of his sentence in the Chicago area Tuesday, according to sources close to the once-powerful alderman who have knowledge of the matter.

Burke was expected to report to a halfway house as soon as midday. It was not clear ...Read more

BOSTON – Massachusetts Senate Democrats were preparing to advance legislation Tuesday that requires all public schools to implement a “bell-to-bell” ban on student access to personal electronic devices like cell phones during the school day.

Supporters of the proposal argued that students perform better when they are not distracted by ...Read more

All flights at Milan Bergamo Airport were temporarily grounded after a man was sucked into the engine of a departing plane and died, according to reports.

The aircraft involved, an Airbus A319 operated by the low-cost Spanish airline Volotea, was preparing to takeoff from Bergamo for Asturias, in northern Spain, when the incident occurred ...Read more

Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman has been released from intensive care more than three weeks after he was shot and wounded in a politically motivated attack, that also left fellow Democratic lawmaker, state Rep. Melissa Hortman, dead.

“I can confirm John is out of the ICU and at a rehab facility,” Bess Ellenson, a spokesperson for the ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey approved a $5 million legal defense fund for immigrants as part of the fiscal year 2026 state budget she signed Friday, a pot of money supporters say helps people fight deportations but critics knock as providing protections to those in the country illegally.

The decision by Beacon Hill Democrats to provide state-...Read more

ATLANTA – The Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the organization’s Lawrenceville chapter and two Gwinnett County men have appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court their lawsuit over the county’s removal of the Confederate monument from the square in downtown Lawrenceville.

The filing came days after the Georgia Court of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs may have been acquitted of federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges last week, but the Harlem-born mogul is already being accused of additional sexual misconduct in yet another in a long line of civil lawsuits, this one claiming he masturbated into a shirt owned by the Notorious B.I.G. and threw it ...Read more

On “Liberation Day” on April 2, Donald Trump gushed about how trade was finally going to tilt in America’s favor after decades of its workers and companies being “plundered.” For the president, unfettered tariffs would soon make the U.S. “an entirely different country.”

Spelling out his policy of so-called reciprocity with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The reconciliation law signed by President Donald Trump last week will provide greater compensation to more victims of radiation exposure from America’s nuclear weapons programs through 2028, putting an end to a yearslong lobbying effort.

The language in the fiscal 2025 law spearheaded by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., would expand ...Read more

More than 1,300 earthquakes have hit Japan's Tokara Islands in two weeks, prompting evacuations of dozens of residents from the remote archipelago on the country's southern tip.

Although no major damage has been reported and no tsunami warnings have been issued, the Japan Meteorological Agency has cautioned that tremors as strong as a "lower 6"...Read more

ATLANTA — Michael Woolfolk was exonerated after spending 19 years in prison for a shooting authorities later determined was self-defense.

After serving nearly six years behind bars, Kelvin Bradley’s aggravated assault conviction was overturned and a judge ruled his actions during a 2011 repast were justified.

Both metro Atlanta men could ...Read more

CHICAGO — Ebony Payne knows a thing or two about nursing homes. Paralyzed from the neck down after a violent crime, Payne has lived in at least eight nursing homes over the past 20 years.

She knows that when residents ring the call button for help, they’re sometimes left waiting for hours, even if they’re waiting for assistance getting to...Read more

Tulare Lake was drained by farmers more than a century ago, and it has reappeared only rarely when floods have reclaimed farmlands in its ancient lake bed in the San Joaquin Valley.

Now, a coalition of tribal leaders, community activists and environmental advocates has begun an effort to restore the lake. They have been discussing a proposal to...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — It's a worldwide shift that has taken political scientists and sociologists by surprise: the growing ideological divide between young men and women.

In the recent U.S. presidential election, President Donald Trump won 56% of the vote among men ages 18 to 29, according to an analysis from Tufts University's Center for ...Read more

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended its emergency response for bird flu as the outbreak that sickened dozens of people, spread to cattle and drove up egg prices has abated.

The emergency designation ended in the last week, according to a person familiar with the matter who wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about it.

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The U.K. government is moving to ban employers deploying nondisclosure agreements to muzzle workers who have been victims of misconduct on the job, the Guardian reported on Monday.

Under the reforms being prepared as part of broader employee rights legislation by Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government, any NDA that tried to head off ...Read more