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DETROIT — Entire neighborhoods along the Black Lake in northern Michigan have been submerged amid ongoing flooding that may worsen in the coming days.

Drone footage taken along the river shoreline Thursday shows dozens ...Read more

The acting head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will leave the agency at the end of May after a tumultuous year managing President Donald Trump’s mass arrest and deportation campaign.

Todd Lyons has been the...Read more

DETROIT — Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield and Police Chief Todd Bettison on Thursday unveiled a six-point "community safety plan" that stresses working with the community and employing strategies to reduce accidental gun ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — An increase in deaths of seabirds along California’s coastline, including San Diego, is believed to be from starvation that many believe is linked to a persistent ocean heat wave.

SeaWorld San Diego said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — At a hearing Thursday, leading House appropriators from both parties condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent firing of Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George.

Members of the House Armed Services ...Read more

LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faced renewed calls from opposition leaders to quit after revelations that his former envoy to the U.S. failed security vetting and was still allowed to take up the post.

The...Read more

The U.S. government is preparing to make a version of Anthropic PBC’s powerful new artificial intelligence model available to major federal agencies amid concerns that the tool could sharply increase cybersecurity risk, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A decade ago, Los Angeles County was facing serious economic and social challenges, but residents felt "generally lukewarm" about their quality of life.

But lukewarm turned out to be L.A.'s high point.

As...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A statewide ban on students using cellphones in school could come as early as next summer under newly proposed legislation.

The bipartisan bill, AB 1644, introduced this week, would require all TK-12 ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York parents and advocates descended on City Hall Thursday to plead with Mayor Zohran Mamdani to break with his schools chancellor and impose a two-year moratorium on artificial intelligence in the ...Read more

SEATTLE — Only a fraction of Washington law enforcement officers have completed de-escalation and mental-health training mandated by state law and intended to reduce the use of force and improve public interactions with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Singer D4vd was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in connection with the case of a girl whose decomposing body was discovered inside his Tesla in Hollywood.

David Anthony Burke, 21, was taken into ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials urged U.S. oil producers to boost output, driving home a message to the industry that’s become more urgent amid the war in Iran.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has cried uncle in its bid to keep funding from the Second Avenue Subway.

In documents filed Thursday with the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. — where the MTA is ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Some North Carolina school districts are canceling classes on May 1 because they say so many teachers are planning to take May Day off to participate in a mass protest in Raleigh.

The North Carolina ...Read more

North Carolina evangelist Franklin Graham took to social media Thursday to express solidarity with President Donald Trump amid widespread backlash over recent posts by the president.

Trump shared an AI-generated image to ...Read more

After the tornado sirens cut out, Andrew Donaldson stepped out of his Clinton, Missouri, home and looked to the sky. Without their warning wail, he assumed he was safe.

But in the sky, he saw the unmistakable mark of a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Twin Metals Minnesota got a major boost on Thursday with the Senate vote to roll back a Biden administration ban on mineral leasing near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

The 50-49 vote on April ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Environmental advocates and opponents of a proposed mine near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness vowed to continue fighting after the U.S. Senate voted on Thursday, April 16, to repeal a mining ban ...Read more

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down a refuge run by the Catholic Church in Miami for migrant children who come to the U.S. alone will traumatize kids who have already experienced extreme hardship on their ...Read more