The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has formally reversed its plans to establish two ICE detention centers in Pennsylvania that were intended to hold up to 9,000 immigrants, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Wednesday.

The decision, which comes amid opposition from the state and from local communities, marks the end of efforts to convert warehouses ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Houthis, a militant group in Yemen who have been threatening to open another front in the Iran war, said they had targeted two oil tankers in the Red Sea.

Minutes before the Houthi statement on Wednesday, the U.K. Maritime Trade Operations Center said the master of a tanker has reported that the ship had been struck southwest...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate is on track to vote next week on President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, after he cleared a key committee hurdle.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., filed cloture on the nomination Wednesday, a day after the Senate Intelligence Committee advanced it 9-8 along party ...Read more

CHICAGO — Northwestern University and University of Chicago alumni involved in a class-action antitrust lawsuit regarding the schools’ tuition practices could soon see settlement payouts, according to a recent court order.

The payments result from a combined $284 million settlement that several elite universities reached after they were ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Sacramento religious leaders can no longer hold pro-immigrant monthly prayer vigils outside the John Moss Federal Building downtown.

A security guard at the building delivered the news last week to Sacramento Area Congregations Together, a coalition of faith-based community organizations. The group began organizing the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was in Georgia’s Cobb County on Wednesday, diving into one of the nation’s most closely watched political battlegrounds where Republicans are looking to flip a Senate seat in November.

The president and the GOP were hopeful his remarks at what was ostensibly an official White House event on the economy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has agreed to work with Saudi Arabia to develop a civilian nuclear program, a watershed moment following a years-long effort to curb the proliferation of nuclear technology in the Middle East.

The announcement comes as President Trump has vowed to continue executing a war against Iran over its own ...Read more

CHICAGO — The City Council on Wednesday approved a slate of non-binding referendums favored by opponents of Mayor Brandon Johnson for Chicago voters to consider in next year’s citywide election, the most contentious of which asks whether aldermen should have their own lawyer to advise them during conflicts with the city Law Department.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed veteran federal prosecutor Michael Martin to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in a bipartisan 62-36 vote.

Ten Democratic senators and one independent voted with the Republicans for Martin, including Democratic Michigan Sens. Gary Peters of Bloomfield ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Five candidates vying for three top-of-ballot offices made their appeal to law enforcement officers from over 200 counties on Tuesday at the annual Sheriffs Association of Texas conference in Fort Worth.

While the Republicans leaned on a long-time political loyalty from law enforcement, Democrats pulled out on the stops in...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — About 100 protesters gathered in downtown Raleigh on Wednesday to protest immigration agents’ activity around the country, and to memorialize immigrants and U.S. citizens who have died during their operations or in their custody.

The protest comes about a week after two immigrants, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastián ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — At the request of federal prosecutors, a judge on Wednesday dismissed the criminal case against a woman accused of crashing into immigration agents in a school parking lot during Operation Metro Surge.

Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert G. Tucker III on Tuesday filed the motion to dismiss Christina Rank’s case, saying that...Read more

WOODLAND, Calif. — A judge has declared Carlos Dominguez legally insane, and he will be committed to a state hospital in the stabbing deaths of two men in a 2023 Davis knife rampage.

Yolo Superior Court Judge Samuel T. McAdam ordered an Aug. 19 hearing to determine where Dominguez will be housed.

Dominguez’s sentence is 6 years, 4 months �...Read more

The federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on Wednesday tentatively set June 1, 2027, as the start date for their trial in New York, while establishing a procedural schedule that will first address the defense’s expected claim that the couple is immune from ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner said that this would be his fourth and final term in the Senate if his reelection bid is successful in November. Warner, a Virginia Democrat, has held the seat since 2009.

“I’ve been doing this for a while, and I’m so grateful to everybody,” Warner said at a campaign stop in Staunton. “I’m here to ask you to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Mamdani announced two new appointments to lead the city’s Economic Development Corporation — one city government veteran and one close ally to Mamdani — as the mayor looks to steer the nonprofit in a more democratic socialist direction.

Anthony Shorris, a former deputy mayor under Bill de Blasio and most recently a ...Read more

The Environmental Protection Agency is announcing a new exemption that the Trump administration says will loosen environmental regulations on diesel engines for U.S. commercial lobstermen.

The EPA is exempting a new lobster boat model from Tier 4 engine requirements, which were adopted in 2008. It’s something the federal agency says will, for...Read more

LAS VEGAS — As Lake Mead begins its nosedive toward historic lows, a bipartisan group of 12 Western representatives in Congress is calling for emergency funding to help fund solutions.

One of the officials who sent a letter to House leadership on Wednesday is Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., who said in a phone interview that the measure is in direct...Read more

A French model scout who arranged for models to meet Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead in his suburban Paris home.

An autopsy is expected to determine how Daniel Siad died, according to French publication Le Monde, who said the discovery occurred Monday night. He was 69.

His attorney said that if her client died from a heart attack, it will ...Read more