WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice has charged nearly a dozen people with participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to help hundreds of Chinese nationals fraudulently obtain green cards through sham marriages to U.S. citizens, officials said Wednesday. American citizens were paid as muc
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to hold the role, will leave the Trump administration at the end of the month to spend more time with her young family. Leavitt, 28, called it a “bittersweet decision” in a social media post Wednesday shortly after P
By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has secured a criminal indictment against the former chief financial officer of the Southern Poverty Law Center, adding to its case against the prominent civil rights group. Heidi Beirich is facing three federal counts, i
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the youngest person to hold the role, will leave at month’s end, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Leavitt, 28, just recently returned to the White House after taking a brief leave for the birth of her second child in May. Lea
By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Aug 12 (Reuters) – A grand jury has indicted Nick Reiner in the December stabbing deaths of his parents, Hollywood filmmaker Rob Reiner and producer Michele Reiner, and added a special circumstance of lying in wait, prosecutors said on Wednesday. Nick Reiner pleaded not
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former Southern Poverty Law Center official has been charged in the Department of Justice’s broader criminal case against the Alabama-based civil rights group, a lawyer for the ex-official said Wednesday. Heidi Beirich, a political extremism expert who served as the law center’s
Washington (AP) — U.S. airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen last year killed more than 150 civilians, according to a Pentagon review of the attacks, which comes as concerns rise over civilian casualties during military campaigns under the Trump administration. The unclassified
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The metallic screech followed by a sad excuse for a bang. The tap-tap-tap of a cat eager to come in before dusk. The erratic thumping of moths doomed by the siren-pull of the kitchen light. Morning brings the soft knock of a neighbor, friend or relative who knows there is no
NEW YORK (AP) — Across the U.S., calls to “tax the rich” have become potent political slogans. But even in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s New York, getting the wealthy to pay more isn’t playing out as smoothly as supporters hoped. What seemed at first like an easy idea — slapping a new tax on people who own
The man charged with killing Charlie Kirk shouldn’t get the death penalty because the shooter “hit the intended target” and no one else was endangered when the conservative activist was shot from a rooftop as he addressed a crowd of thousands at an event in Utah last year, his lawyers said. Defendan
HOPKINS, Minn. (AP) — A man killed a woman and their child at a home daycare they own in Minnesota before taking his life, police said Wednesday. All six other children who were at the home have been reunited with their parents, and none were injured, according to authorities in Hopkins, a suburb of
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats remain mixed over what ideological direction the party should take. But across a series of closely watched primaries, they are sending a clearer message about the party’s path forward: They want change. In marquee Senate primaries in Michigan and Minnesota, progressive ca
Google on Wednesday unveiled its latest lineup of Pixel phones, with slimmer cameras that include more a powerful zoom and artificial intelligence features designed to help users accomplish things with fewer taps and swipes. With the improvements, the search giant hopes to give users a reason to buy
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave the administration at the end of the month to spend more time with her family, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday. Leavitt, 28, is the youngest person to hold the role. She was a press aide during Trump’s first term and has been one of
NAPPANEE, Ind. (AP) — Hoosier cabinets — the original all-in-one kitchen — were once a mainstay in early 20th-century American homes. Though they have long since fallen out of fashion, a giant, climbable replica has been unveiled outdoors in a northern Indiana town to celebrate the cabinet’s place i
CHICAGO (AP) — First responders and utility crews worked overnight into Wednesday clearing roads from trees and wires that were downed during severe storms in the Midwest that unleashed tornadoes, heavy rains and flash flooding while knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of customers. A 4-year
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Parent-teacher conferences can conjure a familiar scene: adults crammed into child-size chairs, listening to teachers run through a list of students’ achievements and struggles. For many families, they can also mean frustration. Today’s school conferences are sometimes 15 to
NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump pivoted the nation’s attention back to vaccines this week with an executive order that aims to scale back the childhood immunization schedule and space out shots into separate visits. After acting to overhaul the nation’s vaccine policy and guidance, the Trump
By Luc Cohen Aug 12 (Reuters) – The federal jail in Miami where social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate are being held has suffered from cooling and water problems and a confrontation between detainees and staff in recent months, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said. Brothers Andrew Tate, 39, an
By Doyinsola Oladipo NEW YORK, Aug 12 (Reuters) – The U.S. Travel Association said it is concerned the Trump administration’s visa bond program could be broadened beyond the dozens of countries currently covered, a move it says would have a detrimental impact on the travel industry and economy. The
By Michael Erman Aug 12 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s order directing Americans to receive separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines faces an immediate obstacle: none of the individual shots are licensed in the United States and experts say it could take years before any become available,
Aug 12 (Reuters) – Wisconsin Democrats on Wednesday chose Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley as their nominee for state governor, U.S. media outlets have reported. He will face off against Republican U.S. Representative Tom Tiffany in the November general election. (Reporting by Shubham Kalia
Doctors say President Donald Trump’s new executive order on vaccines is misguided and likely to stoke fear and confusion among parents at a time when measles is raging, immunization rates are falling and children are heading back to school. “Many families are finishing up that back-to-school checkli
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – A group of current and former Palestinian students and staff have sued Columbia University, alleging discriminatory treatment by the school against its Palestinian community since late 2023, according to a court filing in New York. • The lawsuit said
By Kanishka Singh Aug 11 (Reuters) – Powerful storms moved through the U.S. Midwest on Tuesday, leaving at least two people dead and nearly a million without power, officials said. Here are some details: • A 4-year-old child died after a tree fell on his home in Geneva Township in Indiana, Jennings
By Kanishka Singh and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – U.S. military operations in 2025 killed 153 civilians and wounded 243, a U.S. official said on Tuesday, citing Pentagon assessments. This compares with a Pentagon assessment that two civilians were killed and two were injured by U.S. mi
NEW YORK, NY, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Wisconsin Republicans on Tuesday chose Representative Tom Tiffany as their nominee for the state’s governor, according to U.S. media projections. Tiffany represents Wisconsin’s seventh congressional district and will face off against the Democratic nominee in the Nov
NEW YORK (AP) — Late mob boss John Gotti ’s reality TV star grandson has reported to federal prison after trying to stave off his sentence on fraud charges by saying he was going to donate a kidney to his ailing mother, Victoria Gotti. The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed Tuesday that Carmine Agn
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One after a trip last month in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat that he insisted didn’t scare him. Trump downplayed the extraordinary nature of th
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Tennessee, Alabama and Oklahoma plan to execute inmates Thursday in what would be the first time in nearly 16 years that three people are put to death on the same day in the United States. The executions come as a small number of states, including the three with scheduled let
