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CHICAGO (AP) — Some cities already struggling to shelter thousands of migrants are calling for federal help, concerned that an expected increase in the number of people entering the country when pandemic-era asylum restrictions end on the United States-Mexico border May 11 will further strain their budgets and resources. Chicago has long pledged to welcome [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A homeowner fired shots at a couple's car when they mistakenly turned onto his property while making an Instacart delivery. A Florida man was charged with killing and dismembering an Uber Eats delivery driver who brought food to his home. A woman was kidnapped and sexually assaulted while making a DoorDash [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat-turned-independent long known for his centrist views, voted for Joe Biden in 2020, but as Biden's re-election campaign begins, Lieberman is preparing to recruit a third-party candidate capable of defeating the Democratic president. "Centrists and moderates feel that he's governed more from the left than they [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Growing anger at the FBI from both parties in Congress has become a major hurdle for intelligence agencies fighting to keep their vast powers to collect foreign communications that often sweep up the phone calls and emails of Americans. Key lawmakers said they won't vote to renew the programs under Section 702 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s report last week that the economy grew at a 1.1 percent annual rate last quarter signaled that one of the most-anticipated recessions in the nation’s recent history has yet to arrive. Many economists, though, still expect a recession to hit as soon as the current April-June quarter — or soon [...]
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — Sexual abuse in the nation's federal prisons must be rooted out, the Justice Department's second-highest-ranking leader told prison wardens gathered for their first nationwide training since revelations that a toxic, permissive culture at a California prison allowed abuse to run rampant. The gathering included wardens from the country's 122 federal prisons. [...]
EAST PALESTINE (AP) — Jeff Drummond spends days and nights alone in a tiny room with fake wood paneling, two small beds and a microwave atop a mini refrigerator that serves as a nightstand — his pickup truck parked just outside the door at the roadside motel where he's taken refuge since early February. Shelby [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — On the 31st floor of what was once a towering office building in downtown Manhattan, construction workers lay down steel bracing for what will soon anchor a host of residential amenities: a catering station, lounge, fire pit and gas grills. The building, empty since 2021, is being converted to 588 market-rate [...]
OMAHA, Neb. — Rail unions want railroads to take some of the billions they're using every year to buy back their stock and spend it to hire more workers and improve safety in the wake of several high-profile derailments. The 12 unions that represent all of the more than 100,000 workers across the industry said [...]
TUMWATER, Wash. (AP) — The email went out to legal cannabis growers around Washington state. Another of their colleagues had gone under. "Liquidation sale," it said. Attached was a spreadsheet of items for sale: LED grow lights for $500 apiece. Rotary evaporators for hash oil, $10,000. Across the Columbia River in Oregon, where the state's [...]