A man has been arrested, months after a burned body was found on the floor of a Miami home. Leer en español According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, firefighters responded to a blaze on the morning of Aug. 18, 2024, at a home in the 3000 block of Southwest 13th Street. Local 10 News learned the home was used as a multi-unit short term rental property, and police confirmed that the fire occurred in the rear unit. According to the arrest report, while working to extinguish the flames, firefighters discovered a burned body on the floor…
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Israel launched a major military operation Tuesday in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin that killed at least nine Palestinians and left at least 40 more people wounded, Palestinian health officials said, as Israel’s fragile ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza entered its third day. In Tel Aviv, four people were wounded in a stabbing attack and the suspect was killed by security forces, according to Israeli police. Authorities only identified the attacker as a 28-year-old “foreign national” but believe the stabbings were a terrorist act. Israel’s top general resigned Tuesday, taking responsibility for security failures tied to Hamas’ surprise…
A winter storm sweeping through the U.S. South on Tuesday was dumping snow at levels millions of residents haven’t seen before. Moisture from the Gulf of Mexico was combining with a low-pressure system and chilly air to drop significant amounts of snow in some spots. That included 10.5 inches near Lafayette, Louisiana by midday Tuesday — within striking distance of the state record of 13 inches set in 1960. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had 6 inches. More than 5 inches had fallen in New Orleans, breaking the record of 2.7 set in 1963. In Texas, the Houston-Galveston area had 2.4 inches…
Democrats knew this was coming. President Donald Trump promised a shock-and-awe campaign to deliver major policy victories immediately after he took office. Much of it was outlined in the Project 2025 document that Democrats predicted he would adopt. But in the hours since Trump’s inauguration, Democrats are struggling to confront the sheer volume of executive orders, pardons, personnel changes and controversial relationships taking shape in the new administration. In less than two days, the Republican president has moved to end diversity and inclusion programs across the federal government, withdrawn the U.S. from the Paris climate accords, blocked a federal law…
Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren’t human. Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but do not have the legal right to pursue their release since they aren’t human. DENVER (AP) — Five elephants at a Colorado zoo may be “majestic” but, since they’re not human, they do not have the legal right to pursue their release, Colorado’s highest court said Tuesday. The ruling from the Colorado Supreme Court follows a similar court defeat in New York in 2022 for an…
Public health experts say there could be massive implications after President Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.
With half the country firmly behind him and the blessing of America’s tech billionaires, President Donald Trump is moving at a breakneck pace to try to remake America.
Trump’s executive order freezing refugee programs could impact thousands of Afghans approved to resettle as refugees in the US.
All told, more than 1,500 people have been indicted or already prosecuted for the massive Capitol break-in. At least 17 were from Northern California. WASHINGTON D.C. — There was the aquaponics farmer from Half Moon Bay, the Sacramento Republican Assembly president who talked online about “going to war,” and the yoga studio owner from Gilroy. The Northern California residents were all named by federal prosecutors as people who joined the thousands of Capitol insurrectionists on Jan. 6, 2021, and now they’re all recipients of a pardon from President Donald Trump. RELATED: Former Proud Boys leader and Oath Keepers founder released…
The Chicago Bears have made it official, announcing Ben Johnson as their head coach Tuesday and scheduling an introductory news conference for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Halas Hall. The team issued its formal news release a day after news broke that the Detroit Lions offensive coordinator had agreed to join the Bears and was finalizing a deal. In a statement, general manager Ryan Poles called Johnson “a proven leader with winning pedigree and a mind toward innovation.” “Throughout our search process, I was thoroughly impressed by Ben’s character, intelligence, leadership and ability to connect,” Poles said. “A progressive offensive mind,…
A Central Illinois man is being held after being charged with murder in the 2020 death of a Harvey woman whose partially burned body was found in a forest preserve near Midlothian. Cook County sheriff’s police said Tuesday that 30-year-old Dakota Petrey, of Lewistown, was taken into custody Saturday and charged with first-degree murder and aggravated criminal sexual assault in the death of 22-year-old Vanessa Ceja-Ramirez. Her body was found Nov. 4, 2020, in the Midlothian Meadows Forest Preserve, near 15300 S. Pulaski Road, two days after she disappeared while on a walk there. Ceja-Ramirez was strangled and her body partially…
A former executive for Chicago-based Verano, one of the largest cannabis companies in the United States, was federally indicted on charges of insider trading. The indictment Thursday accused Anthony Marsico, 39, of Bartlett, of using confidential information to make an illegal profit of about $607,000 by buying stock in another marijuana company that Verano planned to acquire. The deal to buy Minneapolis-based Goodness Growth Holdings Inc., now named Vireo Growth Inc., fell through. The two companies remain in court fighting over the failed deal. Marsico’s lawyers, Todd Pugh and Patrick Blegen, told the Tribune their client was innocent of the…
Amina Gilani quit her full-time insurance job in 2019 when the restaurant software company she co-founded in Canada, Sociavore, was accepted into a Chicago accelerator program for food industry startups. At the time, Sociavore, which is based in Ontario, had a staff of two people. Today it has about a dozen employees, and Gilani doesn’t consider it a startup anymore. “If I look at the timeline of the company and what’s happened since then, that opportunity was really important to us,” Gilani said about Food Foundry’s accelerator program, which connects its startups to investors and helps them get a foothold…
President Donald Trump has directed his Justice Department to pause enforcement of the TikTok ban until early April, but a host of questions remain – including whether Trump has the authority to issue such an order and if TikTok’s China-based parent would be amenable to selling the popular social media platform. In an executive order signed on Monday, Trump instructed the U.S. attorney general to not enforce the ban for 75 days while his administration determines “the appropriate course forward in an orderly way that protects national security while avoiding an abrupt shutdown” of TikTok. Under a federal law that…
WASHINGTON — For Marco Rubio, the easy part is over. He was confirmed by the Senate as secretary of state with unanimous support, Democrats joining Republicans in praising his acumen and judgment. Now comes the task that will make or break his tenure: retaining the full backing of his new boss, Donald Trump. The 53-year-old Rubio is coming into the job with more experience than President Trump’s previous secretaries of state, having spent the last 14 years in the Senate becoming intimately acquainted with U.S. foreign policy from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East and Latin America. But that traditional…
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cynthia Erivo, who is starring in the hit musical “Wicked,” was named Tuesday as the 2025 Woman of the Year by Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals. The theater group, which dates to 1844 and claims to be the world’s third-oldest still operating, said Erivo will receive her Pudding Pot award at a celebratory roast Feb. 5. Afterward, she will attend a performance of Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 176th production, “101 Damnations.” Actor Jon Hamm, who came to fame starring as ad executive Don Draper on the AMC series “Mad Men,” is the 2025 Man of the Year. He…
President Donald Trump once expressed concern with how low showerhead flow affected his “perfect” hair. Now back in the White House, he’s again taking aim at some high-efficiency household items — and that may mean higher water and electric bills in your home. One of Trump’s several dozen first-day executive orders promises to “unleash American energy,” including a pledge to ease efficiency standards for household appliances and fixtures. The standards are intended to make dishwashers, showerheads, refrigerators, laundry machines, toilets and the like use less energy and water. The higher-efficiency appliances can have higher upfront costs, but they save water…
U.S. stocks rose Tuesday after more companies said they made bigger profits at the end of last year than analysts expected and as Treasury yields eased. The S&P 500 climbed 0.9%, while many markets around the world took only tentative steps following Donald Trump’s return to the White House on Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 538 points, or 1.2%, and the Nasdaq composite added 0.6%. Trump has promised sweeping moves to reshape global trade and the economy, often at the expense of other countries, but most stock indexes in Asia and Europe made only modest moves. In the…
Israel’s top general resigned Tuesday, taking responsibility for security failures tied to Hamas’ surprise attack that triggered the war in Gaza and adding to pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has delayed any public inquiry that could potentially implicate his leadership. While a fragile new ceasefire in the Gaza Strip held, Israel launched a “significant and broad” military operation in the occupied West Bank, killing at least nine people and injuring 40, Palestinian officials said. Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi is the most senior Israeli figure to resign over the security and intelligence breakdown on Oct. 7, 2023, when thousands…
Rep. Elise Stefanik pledged Tuesday to push President Donald Trump’s “America First” stance if confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and roll out a review of U.S. funding critical for U.N. operations and its many agencies around the world. Noting that the U.S. is the largest single contributor to the United Nations, Stefanik said at her confirmation hearing that the country has to ensure its investments are making America safer, stronger and more prosperous — echoing Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “Our tax dollars should not be complicit in propping up entities that are counter to American interests,…