Masked federal agents have escalated immigration sweeps in Latino communities from Chicago to Los Angeles, prompting a series of lawsuits and an emergency Supreme Court ruling. In Los Angeles, the justices temporarily allowed agents to question people based solely on race, ethnicity or language, reversing a judge’s injunction; Justice Kavanaugh...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group from Europe to the Caribbean to “dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations and counter narco-terrorism,” the Pentagon said. The first-in-class carrier, recently near Split, Croatia, is more than 5,000 miles from the region and will take days to arrive. The...
A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand underwent major surgery after swallowing roughly 80–100 tiny neodymium magnets bought online, doctors at Tauranga Hospital reported in the New Zealand Medical Journal. The magnets linked into four chains, damaging his intestines; surgeons removed the magnets and sections of bowel, and he was discharged...
UFC 321 brings a heavyweight title defense as Tom Aspinall faces two-time challenger Ciryl Gane, with Mackenzie Dern vs. Virna Jandiroba for the vacant women’s strawweight belt in the co-main. The card also features Umar Nurmagomedov vs. Mario Bautista and Jailton Almeida vs. Alexander Volkov, with odds via DraftKings listing...
Taco Bell is doubling down on drinks with its in-restaurant Live Más Café counters, now open in Chula Vista and near UC Irvine and projected to reach 30 locations across Southern California, Dallas and Houston by year-end. The “bellrista”-run stations spotlight churro chillers, specialty coffees, and brightly colored refrescas. The...
DHS says Liberia has agreed to accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a wrongly deported Salvador native, with diplomatic assurances, and could remove him as soon as Oct. 31. A judge has barred his removal. Abrego Garcia was sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison in March despite a 2019 order, later returned...
A Paris court handed 27-year-old Dahbia Benkired a rare whole-life sentence for the rape and murder of 12-year-old Lola Daviet, ordering she serve at least 30 years. The first woman in France to receive this penalty, Benkired joins a list including Michel Fourniret and Salah Abdeslam. Lola was killed in...
President Trump halted trade talks with Canada after Ontario aired a U.S. ad featuring Ronald Reagan’s 1987 warning against tariffs. Trump called the spot “fake” and accused it of trying to sway a Supreme Court case on his tariffs, though the ad uses accurate Reagan quotes, reordered. The Ronald Reagan...
In a breezy valley north of Los Angeles, Rocco — a dog with credits from Veronica Mars to The Morning Show — still trains and poses, but work is thinning. Trainers say advancing AI lets productions build animal performances in post, squeezing a business already hit by COVID, 2023 strikes...
Argentina heads into midterm elections that will renew half the lower house and a third of the Senate, a crucial test for President Javier Milei as the peso slides and a U.S. $20 billion swap arrives. Milei warns he needs more seats to advance his agenda; his party holds 37...
