NEW YORK — Pro-Palestinian student protesters who forced their way into an academic building at Columbia University Tuesday now face expulsion, university administrators announced a day after the school suspended students who ignored an order to break up their encampments.

The occupation began shortly after midnight at Hamilton Hall, Columbia...Read more

DENVER — A second jury trial has been scheduled for the former Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed Christian Glass, signaling the criminal prosecution will continue just days after jurors failed to reach a verdict on the murder charge in an initial trial.

Andrew Buen, 30, is now scheduled to stand trial again in August ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A sailor died Sunday during training after he fell overboard at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, officials said.

Lyndon Joel Cosgriff-Flax, 22, was with a harbor security boat team conducting a familiarization exercise on the York River when he died, said Max Lonzanida, spokesperson for the Yorktown installation.

Cosgriff-Flax,...Read more

A former presidential candidate and head of the Senate was selected Tuesday to head Haiti’s new nine-member transitional presidential council in a deal that also designated a former minister of public works as Haiti’s next prime minister.

Edgard Leblanc Fils, 68, was named president of the transitional presidential council shortly before ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was held in criminal contempt for violating a gag order prohibiting him from commenting on participants in his hush-money case and fined $9,000 as his Manhattan trial entered its third week on Tuesday.

State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan made the decision moments after taking the bench and after telling Trump he�...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A jury in Sacramento convicted three Aryan Brotherhood prison gang members Tuesday on all counts in a weeks-long trial charging them with racketeering, conspiracy to commit murder and drug running inside California prisons.

The jury, which has been deliberating since last week in a trial that began in late February, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is recommending cannabis be reclassified as less risky, people familiar with the matter said — a move that could help the legal marijuana industry benefit from tax breaks.

Several steps remain in the process of rescheduling marijuana to Schedule III from Schedule I, said the people, who...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The man who fatally shot four law enforcement officers and wounded four others in east Charlotte on Monday had been convicted of crimes across the state, a Charlotte Observer review of public records shows.

Terry Clark Hughes Jr., 39, spent time in prison in 2011 and 2013, according to N.C. Department of Public Safety ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Democrats would vote to table Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s attempt to remove Speaker Mike Johnson, the caucus’ leadership announced Tuesday, likely inoculating Johnson in the event Greene triggers her motion to vacate the speakership.

The proactive statement, released after the caucus’ Tuesday morning meeting, marks ...Read more

NEW YORK — The City Council’s top tech official alerted Mayor Eric Adams this week that his administration must by law publicly release all information gathered as part of his controversial new “engagement form” system, which requires local elected officials to ask for permission before speaking with senior city officials about various ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A monthly payment of $750 to $1,000 would allow thousands of the city's homeless people to find informal housing, living in boarding homes, in shared apartments and with family and friends, according to a policy brief by four prominent Los Angeles academics.

Citing positive preliminary results of pilot studies in several cities,...Read more

MIAMI — Andrea Doria Dos Passos felt safe at Pridelines.

At the LGBTQ support center in South Beach, where staff knew her as “Maggie,” Dos Passos could put down her bags, shower, eat and listen to music. After first visiting the center earlier this year, she began coming in nearly every day until she was violently killed while sleeping ...Read more

ATLANTA — A little after 11 a.m., a group of about 15 protesters moved from the University of Georgia’s chapel to the Old College lawn, the scene of Monday’s protests and arrests.

Jan Davis Barham, associate dean of students, approached the group and said they needed to fill out a form if they wanted to stay.

“Happy to work with you in...Read more

DAVIS, Calif. — Majdi Abou Najm feels like time stopped a year ago when he learned his 20-year-old son, Karim Abou Najm, was brutally killed on his way home through a Davis park.

His son was a computer science major at UC Davis student just six weeks from his graduation. He was an aspiring software engineer with an impressive academic career ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida cities were left scrambling earlier this month when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 601, limiting how government-affiliated civilian boards can investigate the behavior of local law enforcement officers.

Fort Lauderdale commissioners will discuss the fate of the city’s Citizens’ Police Review Board at a May 21 ...Read more

Israel will consider joining cease-fire talks with Hamas only when the militant group responds to the latest internationally mediated proposal for a temporary truce and hostage release, state-run Kan News reported.

Citing an unidentified political official, Kan said the Israeli government is expecting an answer from the Iran-backed militant ...Read more