CHICAGO — The deposition of Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino nearly ground to a halt last week as government lawyers repeatedly objected to questions by plaintiffs’ attorneys, including some about communications between Bovino and White House advisor Stephen Miller, court records obtained by the Tribune show.

The impasse prompted attorneys ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – Two men convicted of killing six people in Deltona in 2004 in one of Central Florida’s most notorious mass killings known as the “Xbox murders” were given the death penalty again during a resentencing hearing Monday.

Troy Victorino and Jerone Hunter had their original death penalty sentences thrown out after a U.S. ...Read more

President Donald Trump offered no new ideas to end the government shutdown and shrugged off demands by Democrats to address skyrocketing Obamacare insurance premiums in an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes.”

Echoing Republican talking points, Trump said he “won’t be extorted” by the opposition party into negotiations to reopen the...Read more

Nigeria reeled on Monday from U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim over the weekend that Christians are being systematically killed in the West African country, with blanket coverage across local media.

“They’re killing the Christians and killing them in very large numbers,” Trump said in comments while traveling on Air Force One on ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Before anyone received an official alert about the Eaton fire, a message lit up a pickleball group chat.

"Everyone look up, there's a vegetation fire on Canyon Close," the message read. "If you're anywhere near Eaton Canyon, I'd evacuate."

Over the next several days, the chat of about 50 people who met regularly at the ...Read more

After 10 years living on the streets of Duluth, Travis Johnson finally found a small apartment to call home.

Thanks to a state program called Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), which helped him make appointments, pick up medication and pay his rent on time, he’s been able to keep it.

“Four years ago, five years ago, I was starting to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Over the last decade, clinics have popped up across Southern California and beyond advertising something called magnetic e-resonance therapy, or MERT, as a therapy for autism.

Developed by the Newport Beach-based company Wave Neuroscience, MERT is based on transcranial magnetic stimulation, a type of brain stimulation that's ...Read more

The opening salvo in Mayor Brandon Johnson’s third budget cycle was directed clearly and unequivocally at President Donald Trump, but it also carried a pointed message to aldermen.

Employing dark imagery of federal troops waiting to touch down in Chicago and immigration agents snatching mothers outside schools, the freshman chief executive’...Read more

The recent roadblock thrown in front of Colorado’s voter-mandated wolf reintroduction by the Trump administration may force state wildlife officials to find a new source of wolves, just months before the next planned releases this winter.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife had contracted again with Canada for wolves to bring to the state after ...Read more

China and South Korea signaled a possible renewal in cultural exchanges during a weekend bilateral summit in Gyeongju, fueling investor hopes for an end to Beijing’s decade-long curbs on Korean entertainment.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korea’s Lee Jae Myung agreed to expand cultural cooperation, South Korea’s National Security...Read more

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s lead drug regulator George Tidmarsh resigned two days after being placed on administrative leave over personal conduct concerns, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Tidmarsh was appointed in late July to be the director for the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. He didn...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would skip attending the Supreme Court hearing this week over the legality of his worldwide tariffs regime.

“I don’t want to call a lot of attention to me,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he returned to Washington from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Sunday. “It’s not about me, it’s about our ...Read more

Dozens rallied at Boise City Hall on Sunday to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement just two weeks after the agency raided a horse racing event about 40 miles away in Wilder, where hundreds of people, including children, were rounded up, zip-tied and questioned about their immigration status.

Ulises Quintana, of Caldwell, was at the...Read more

Two of Southern California's busiest airports were experiencing average flight delays of at least an hour Sunday amid air traffic control staffing shortages due to the federal government shutdown.

The advisories from the FAA's Air Traffic Control System Command Center said the delays were expected to persist through Sunday night.

The issue ...Read more

Carlos Manzo was famous in Mexico for saying what few other politicians would: That cartels operated with impunity and needed to be confronted with brute force. The mayor of a city in an avocado-growing region beset by crime and violence, Manzo suggested authorities should beat criminals into submission — or simply kill them.

It was a ...Read more

Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth entered the race for governor on Sunday, drawing on her status as the state’s top Republican to mount a campaign against Tim Walz.

Demuth, the first Republican woman and person of color to lead the Minnesota House, is casting herself as a pragmatic alternative to Walz who can end the GOP’s long losing ...Read more

With two days left before Election Day and a record-breaking half million-plus early votes already cast, New York mayoral candidates Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo traded swipes and rallied supporters at church campaign stops just a borough apart Sunday morning.

Mamdani spoke to packed pews at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem, then ...Read more

All 50 states and the District of Columbia have laws requiring motorists to move over at least one lane or slow down when passing an emergency or service vehicle stopped on the side of the road with lights flashing.

They typically are called “Slow Down, Move Over” laws, aimed at protecting emergency responders, maintenance workers and ...Read more

More than 735,000 New Yorkers cast ballots during the nine days of early voting in this year’s pivotal mayoral race, a staggering turnout that puts the contest on track to potentially generate some of the highest local election turnout in modern city history.

According to tabulations released by the Board of Elections after polls closed ...Read more