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CHICAGO — The Border Patrol agent who has broken norms leading an immigration crackdown in Los Angeles reached Chicago on Tuesday, potentially signaling a new, more aggressive phase to an enforcement surge announced last week in the nation’s third-largest city. “Well, Chicago, we’ve arrived!” Gregory Bovino said in an X post that included a stylized … Read more

Parents whose teenagers killed themselves after interactions with artificial intelligence chatbots testified to Congress on Tuesday about the dangers of the technology. “What began as a homework helper gradually turned itself into a confidant and then a suicide coach,” said Matthew Raine, whose 16-year-old son Adam died in April. “Within a few months, ChatGPT became … Read more

McALLEN, Texas — New revelations about conditions at a Texas detention facility for immigrant families have stoked ongoing concerns from attorneys representing children. The details are part of a lawsuit where the government is attempting to end protections for children. Declarations from families held at the facility in Dilley, Texas, which was reopened in March, … Read more

DNA sampled from a rifle, as well as multiple other items, found near where President Donald Trump was playing golf in South Florida last year matches that of a man accused of trying to assassinate Trump that day, an FBI analyst testified Tuesday. Tuesday was the fourth day of testimony in the trial of Ryan … Read more

A California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and Lyle Menendez, shutting down another possible path to freedom for the brothers who have served decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 LOS ANGELES — A California judge has rejected a request for a new trial for Erik and … Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — A well-known chef who robbed a northern California bank in 2018 is facing charges again after three bank robberies in central San Francisco last week, according to police. Officers responding to a bank alarm around noon on Sept. 10 learned that a man passed a note demanding money to an employee, who … Read more

WASHINGTON — Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Susan Monarez will tell senators that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pressured her to endorse new vaccine recommendations before seeing scientific evidence, according to a copy of the testimony she plans to give during a Wednesday hearing. According to a copy of the prepared … Read more

NEW YORK — A member of New York’s Chinese dissident community pleaded guilty Tuesday to spying on his fellow activists on behalf of the Chinese government. Yuanjun Tang, 68, had long been an outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party, joining monthly protests outside the country’s Manhattan consulate and founding a pro-democracy nonprofit in Flushing, … Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles police officers fired over 1,000 projectiles at protesters on a single day in June as demonstrators pushed back against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and decision to deploy the National Guard to the nation’s second largest city. The police department released a state-mandated report Monday on use of force against … Read more

UNITED NATIONS — Mike Waltz almost certainly will not make his debut as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during a gathering of world leaders next week after delays and procedural hurdles postponed his confirmation. Waltz’s nomination was sent back to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week after Democrats blocked more … Read more