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Gov. Ron DeSantis may have announced that Alligator Alcatraz is closed and the tents are gone, but that’s not enough for civil rights lawyers or a Florida federal judge.

Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Leaders at Tampa General Hospital welcomed U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Thursday as they vowed to improve patient access to nutritious food.

The announcement came about a week after the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump used a rare prime-time address Thursday night to renew his attacks on the security of U.S. elections, telling Americans that the nation’s voting system is “so broken” that “no...Read more

The U.S. launched fresh strikes against Iran as hostilities across the Middle East continued to escalate and shipping traffic slumped in the critical Strait of Hormuz.

American forces carried out a sixth consecutive night...Read more

Roller coasters parked. Beaches empty. Scoreboards blank. A skyline disappeared. As the eerie haze settled in over the city, summer quieted to a standstill.

Local air quality hit hazardous levels Thursday in Chicago and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The trunk line that ruptured early Thursday, sending thousands of gallons of water rushing down Sunset Strip and surrounding communities, was installed 110 years ago and has emerged as the latest example of...Read more

A key figure in the Feeding Our Future fraud investigation who fled the country after his indictment nearly four years ago is now in custody back in Minnesota after his arrest in Somalia.

Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, of ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota set a record for poor air quality Thursday as large swaths of the state remained under a hazardous air quality warning triggered by smoke from wildfires in the northern part of the state and ...Read more

What’s the most remarkable thing about the not-food-in-your-food recall of frozen Pillsbury Bread Roll dough that might have glass: that it involved 735,840 rolls or that the public didn’t learn about the June recall ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson’s budget team put city employee layoffs on the table Thursday to help close a budget deficit they said could reach $90 million through the end of this year.

While acknowledging the ...Read more

A San Ysidro, California, man was sentenced Thursday to more than five years in prison for impersonating a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent to defraud more than two dozen people, many of them undocumented ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed immediate reforms to a state fund that paid as much as $1,700 weekly to people claiming that such common ailments as allergies, asthma and erectile dysfunction hampered their ability...Read more

U.S. regulators are set to tie lettuce from Taco Bell to a parasite outbreak that’s sickened thousands in Michigan and nearby states, according to people familiar with the matter.

Taco Bell said it has voluntarily ...Read more

William Shatner is to make his live debut with new heavy metal band The *uckers at Riot Fest this September.

The Star Trek legend will take to the stage at Chicago's Douglass Park on September 20, and said of the honour ...Read more

Chloe Sevigny makes a New Year's resolution annually to "prioritise" her friendships, because she knows how important they are.

The 51-year-old actress stars in The Five Star Weekend, alongside Jennifer Garner, Gemma Chan...Read more

The screen star committed suicide on July 10, with the news of his passing revealed by actor Rob McClure on Instagram.

Cause of death has been confirmed as a gunshot wound, and his family are now hoping they can raise ...Read more

Local elected officials and environmental organizations called on negotiators of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to include binding solutions to the Tijuana River sewage and pollution crisis in any extension or ...Read more

As Canada grapples with hundreds of active wildfires, the rest of North America is feeling the impacts with air quality alerts.

In Philadelphia and elsewhere, the air quality score is considered unhealthy, particularly ...Read more

SpaceX tried to get its 13th suborbital test flight of its Starship and Super Heavy rocket off the ground from Texas on Thursday, but its engines had an automatic shutdown just as they were beginning to fire with the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House Budget Committee approved a fiscal 2027 budget resolution Thursday as the first step toward passing a filibuster-proof reconciliation bill to provide tens of billions of dollars for defense, farm ...Read more