Happy Friday, folks. For the first weekend in December, many of our favorite artists are gifting listeners with brand new music—let’s get into it.

After several hiccups at last year's Essence Festival of Culture, organizers for 2026 have launched ticket sales earlier, revamped access to the popular, mini-concert Superlounge passes and promised ...

Albert Sun examined data on hundreds of thousands of immigration arrests in newly available government records. The federal deployments that have swept through major cities as part of President ...

Chih-Ming Feng, known in the Dallas restaurant industry as Petey, is a longtime line cook who was detained by ICE last month. Toby Archibald Dallas’ dining scene is rallying behind a longtime cook who ...

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A fatal crash in Oregon has drawn ICE into the case, marking the fourth time this year the agency has slapped an arrest detainer on a truck driver – a tool rarely used in trucking enforcement. The ...