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MIAMI — A billion-dollar crisis is brewing among Miami-Dade parents with young children — and their employers.

Child care costs are draining parents’ wallets and hitting their employers’ bottom lines, according to...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Adrian Metoyer first heard government officials describing his best friend as an “active shooter” and threat to his community, he was furious.

Keith “Pooter” Porter was a lot of things: a jack...Read more

Brazil’s Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva talked to a trio of regional counterparts about Venezuela on Thursday, as leaders across the Americas search for a response to the stunning U.S. raid that toppled Nicolás Maduro.

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President Donald Trump has said a pardon for Sean “Diddy” Combs is off the table after reportedly receiving a personal letter from the disgraced hip-hop mogul.

During an interview with The New York Times, the 79-year-...Read more

Two people were shot by federal agents on Thursday in Portland, Oregon, according to local police.

The episode occurred a day after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he planned to meet with Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient María Corina Machado as soon as next week, as he weighs the future governance of the ...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday signed into law sweeping energy-related legislation that promotes battery storage and makes wind and solar power more effective, among other initiatives, with the goal of reducing electricity ...Read more

SEATTLE — The state Department of Licensing revoked Immigration and Customs Enforcement access to a data search system Wednesday after discovering the federal agency used it to get information about a Kirkland man ...Read more

As part of ongoing efforts to prevent and combat the fraud that has roiled social services programs meant to help Minnesotans in need, the state Department of Human Services announced Thursday, Jan. 8, that it will freeze ...Read more

The humanitarian aid group Doctors Without Borders, also known by its French name Médecins Sans Frontières, is once again suspending medical services at a clinic in Haiti’s gang-ridden capital of Port-au-Prince.

The ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s State of the State address came a day after President Donald Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from dozens of international and United Nations organizations, including the U.N. Framework ...Read more

At the top of the new U.S. food pyramid are a bright red steak and a packet of ground beef. That reflects the new U.S. dietary guidelines’ emphasis on animal proteins. Plant-based sources of protein like almonds and ...Read more

DENVER — Attorney General Phil Weiser on Thursday expanded a lawsuit filed to keep U.S. Space Command in Colorado to now encapsulate a broader “revenge campaign” that he said the Trump administration was waging ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The families of all four University of Idaho murder victims sued on Wednesday the university attended by the man who killed their loved ones, alleging gross negligence, wrongful death and violations of ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom used his final State of the State address to underscore California’s jaw-dropping crime figures — stats that he said refute the president’s claims about widespread murder and mayhem.

To put in ...Read more

The news that a woman in Minneapolis had been gunned down by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, and that her parents lived in Valley Falls, Kansas, reached Bill Klenklen on Wednesday night when his daughter ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal immigration agent identified as Jonathan Ross shot and killed Renee Good, 37, on the morning of Jan. 7 during an enforcement operation near E. 34th Street and Portland Avenue in south Minneapolis,...Read more

Travelers from several countries visiting the United States for tourism and business purposes are now being required to pay a “visa bond” between $5,000 to $15,000 that experts say is designed to drown immigrants and ...Read more