WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told a federal judge Monday it will deplete what remains of a $6 billion contingency fund to pay a portion of food stamp benefits in November amid the ongoing partial federal government shutdown.

The court filings responded to an order over the weekend from Chief Judge John J. McConnell Jr. of the U.S. ...Read more

CHICAGO — Dayanne Figueroa was on her way to get coffee before heading to work when she encountered a chaotic scene in the West Town neighborhood of Chicago: heavily armed, masked federal agents making arrests on a residential street.

People yelled as vehicles honked their horn — a sign now used to alert neighbors that immigration federal ...Read more

DETROIT — Two Dearborn men and a group of alleged co-conspirators hatched a plan to commit a terrorist attack in support of the Islamic State, according to a federal criminal case filed Monday that described reconnaissance, firearms and fears the group was targeting an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Ferndale.

The case against Dearborn residents Mohmed ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — The escalating military strikes against alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific that have killed 64 people do not rise to the level of hostilities that would trigger statutory limits on the operations, according to a statement from a senior administration official Monday.

The claim comes as Monday marked...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Two parents and a grandmother in Lynwood have been charged with murder and torture after the couple's 8-year-old child was found dead in a cooler full of ice in Lynwood last week.

Destiny Luckie Harrison and Daniel Alberto Monzon, both 25, as well as Monzon's mother, 46-year-old Ana Carcamo Zarceno, were all charged with murder,...Read more

Montego Bay’s international airport opened with a reduced capacity over the weekend, even as the U.S. State Department warned Americans to “reconsider travel” to Jamaica.

The Caribbean nation slowly started the long recovery from the worst hurricane to hit Jamaica. Hurricane Melissa made landfall as a Category 5 at on Oct. 28 in New Hope,...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration told a federal judge Monday that it will comply with a court order to fund U.S. food aid benefits for November during the government shutdown, but only at 50% of the amount that eligible households normally receive.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture official also warned the court that it could take some ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — House Democrats are worried that two bridges to Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a flood mitigation project on the South San Francisco Bay shoreline, water and wastewater infrastructure in Queens, New York, and navigation projects on both coasts could fall victim to an administration threat to pause Army Corps of Engineers funding.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday over whether a law allows President Donald Trump to implement a worldwide tariff regime, in a case experts and lawmakers said ultimately could undermine Congress’ foundational power over taxation.

The Trump administration is set to urge the justices to find that those tariffs...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Life-saving stem cell transplants have been limited by the need to perfectly match the blood types of donors and recipients, but a new discovery by the Minneapolis agency that orchestrates these procedures in the U.S. could eliminate that barrier.

A study group of transplant recipients showed encouraging survival rates from ...Read more

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit has signed a $38 billion deal to supply a slice of OpenAI’s bottomless demand for computing power. Amazon shares jumped.

The ChatGPT maker will pay Amazon Web Services for access to hundreds of thousands of Nvidia Corp. graphics processing units as part of a seven-year deal, the companies announced on Monday.

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The U.S. State Department said it is coordinating with the Catholic Church to send $3 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba after Hurricane Melissa ravaged several provinces on the island’s eastern region.

“The United States is coordinating with the Catholic Church the distribution of $3 million in humanitarian assistance directly to those in...Read more

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