USNEWS AND WORLD

SAN DIEGO — At California’s southern border, two parallel, towering fences stretch for miles, their reddish steel beams cutting through rugged hillsides thick with tall stocks of yellow wildflowers and marking where Mexico ends and the United States begins. Around 10 days ago, as the end of a pandemic-era expulsion policy known as Title 42 … Read more

LAHORE: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has decided to file cases against the country’s top graft buster for “abducting” him from the Islamabad High Court on corruption charges.On May 9, Khan was arrested by the paramilitary Rangers in a corruption case from the Islamabad High Court and bundled into a prison van … Read more

We’ve long admired Chris Crowley’s reporting at Grub Street, the food and drink arm of the great New York magazine. The post TASTE Podcast 226: Chris Crowley appeared first on TASTE. #TASTE #Podcast #Chris #Crowley

Fatal house fires in Queens and Brooklyn left two families shattered Sunday night into Monday morning. The Queens blaze killed a one-year-old boy, and the Brooklyn fire killed a 67-year-old woman. Police responding to a call about a home on 106th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens, around 11 p.m. on Mother’s Day found Jason Eli unconscious … Read more

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Texas Department of Transportation will launch its annual Click It or Ticket campaign Monday asking drivers and passengers to buckle their seat belts the next time they get into their vehicles. According to TxDOT, 1,258 unbuckled drivers and passengers died in 2022, up 2.5% from the year before. TxDOT said law … Read more

She could be heard in the video saying to security, “Hey, stop! She wasn’t doing anything.” Monday, May 15, 2023 12:15PM PHILADELPHIA — Taylor Swift is going viral, but at the moment, it’s not for her popular Eras Tour or dozens of hit singles. The star was caught on video yelling at a security officer … Read more

Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, alerted a federal law enforcement agency to pro-abortion protests and rallies in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request. Internal emails show that the U.S. Marshals Service received regular alerts from Dataminr, a … Read more

The pressure is on Brandon Johnson to deliver Monday in his first speech as Chicago’s 57th mayor. But inaugural addresses are far better remembered for the mistakes mayors make than the soaring rhetoric they use. Consider Lori Lightfoot and Harold Washington, who each made the same mistake in their inaugural addresses — for different reasons, … Read more