Christopher L. Keller

Members of the Louisiana National Guard patrol at Union Station, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump suggests more US cities need National Guard but crime stats tell a different story

August 29, 2025 at 8:31 a.m.

President Donald Trump has threatened to deploy the National Guard to Chicago, New York, Seattle, Baltimore, San Francisco and Portland, Oregon, to fight what he says is runaway crime. Yet...

A student walks through the Main Quad in front of Foellinger Auditorium on the University of Illinois campus Saturday, Feb. 15, in Urbana. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune)

More than 1,000 international students have had visas or legal status revoked

April 17, 2025 at 6:59 p.m.

At least 1,024 students at 160 colleges, universities and university systems have had their visas revoked or their legal status terminated since late March, according to a review of university...

A chain link fence protects a satellite station and other equipment behind the Bureau of Reclamation office Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. (AP Photo/Rebecca Boone)

USPS agrees to work with DOGE on reform, planning to cut 10,000 workers

March 14, 2025 at 2:31 p.m.

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy plans to cut 10,000 workers and billions of dollars from the U.S. Postal Service budget and he’ll do that working with Elon Musk ’s Department of...

FILE – The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood amid high winds in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File)

Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires

January 29, 2025 at 8:32 a.m.

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby dangers and instructions to help them stay safe.

Border Patrol vehicles survey a steel fence at the Southwest border with Mexico at Sunland Park, N.M., Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)

Migrant deaths in New Mexico have increased tenfold

October 16, 2024 at 11:34 a.m.

Ten times as many migrants died in New Mexico near the U.S.-Mexico border in each of the last two years compared with just five years ago.

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