WASHINGTON — Top House Republicans are plowing forward with plans to vote Tuesday on a roughly $1.2 trillion spending package that punts on full-year funding for the Homeland Security Department after securing support from their right flank on a key procedural vote.

After a meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House, Rep. Anna ...Read more

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Kaitlin Cooke of Cartersville, Georgia, was contemplating suicide when she started calling a statewide mental health crisis line in 2018. She said she would sneak outside and call the hotline ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho -- Living outside of San Francisco, Chris Paczocha and his wife had always leaned conservative, but they kept quiet about their beliefs, aware that most of their circle was more liberal.

But 2020 was a turning point. Paczocha and his wife were frustrated by growing unrest stemming from Black Lives Matter protests and six months of ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Segundo’s family kept watching the street, afraid to leave the house.

All around their south Minneapolis neighborhood, the Trump administration’s Operation Metro Surge was raging. Immigrants were being pulled from their cars through smashed windows and marched out of their homes into the freezing cold.

Segundo, 43, his wife...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — For weeks, administrators at this charter high school have arrived an hour before class, grabbed neon vests and walkie-talkies, and headed out into the cold to watch for ICE agents and escort students in.

Lately, fewer than half of the 800 sudents show up.

"Operation Metro Surge," the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led...Read more

Lydia Romero strained to hear her husband’s feeble voice through the phone.

A week earlier, immigration agents had grabbed Julio César Peña from his front yard in Glendale, California. Now, he was in a hospital after suffering a ministroke. He was shackled to the bed by his hand and foot, he told Romero, and agents were in the room, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Twin Cities area families continue to show faith in their Catholic schools.

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis reported last week that 19,663 students were attending the 80 Twin Cities area Catholic schools serving kindergarten through eighth grade.

That’s virtually the same number as in 2021-22 when families flocked...Read more

TALLAHASSEE —Florida’s Secretary of State has declared dead a 2026 ballot measure to legalize pot, saying it failed to get enough petition signatures to make the ballot — but supporters said Monday the announcement is premature.

Cord Byrd, an appointee of legalization opponent Gov. Ron DeSantis, sent a memo to the media at 6:41 p.m. ...Read more

Philadelphia's bombastic district attorney, Larry Krasner, is no stranger to opposition from within his own party, but the anger directed at him last week after he said ICE agents are "wannabe Nazis" was more pronounced than usual.

After making the comparison, Krasner faced a wave of criticism, including from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a ...Read more

The exhibits about slavery dismantled from the President's House have not been "destroyed," a federal judge said Monday after inspecting the panels in a storage room that's inaccessible to the public on the property of the National Constitution Center.

"I did not see anything that concerned me about the condition, because there are some marks, ...Read more

A U.S. judge declined to order the Trump administration to preserve evidence tied to the fatal shooting of Minneapolis nurse Alex Pretti by federal immigration agents, a setback for Minnesota state investigators who were initially blocked from the scene.

U.S. District Judge Eric Tostrud on Monday denied the state’s request to extend a ...Read more

The Las Vegas judge presiding over the ‘fake electors’ case voiced skepticism Monday about aspects of the case, including whether the defendants actually had an intent to defraud officials.

Six Republican defendants are accused of plotting to give Donald Trump Nevada’s electoral votes in 2020, even though Joe Biden won the state by more ...Read more

Republican opposition to President Donald Trump’s deal with Democrats to end the partial U.S. government shutdown began to crumble late Monday despite the ongoing a standoff over the administration’s immigration crackdown.

Trump implored House Republicans in a social media post to pass the spending measure “IMMEDIATELY!” He told ...Read more

The Illini Republicans club at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is facing backlash after posting an illustration on social media of a masked gunman holding a weapon to a kneeling man’s head — alongside the caption, “Only traitors help invaders.”

The Instagram post, published Friday, also says Alex Pretti and Renée Good �...Read more

President Donald Trump defended his plan to shut down the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years, calling it necessary to complete a $200 million renovation that includes the installation of a new Carrier Global Corp. air conditioning system.

“It’s in very bad shape. It’s run-down. It’s dilapidated, sort of ...Read more

An Illinois appeals court may soon decide whether to undo a controversial order by a Cook County judge that kept video footage and other records sealed related to the slaying of Chicago police Officer Krystal Rivera, after media outlets and the state’s attorneys office asked for the ruling to be vacated.

Such a ruling from the court would not...Read more

BALTIMORE — In a 99-37 vote Monday, the Maryland House of Delegates passed House Bill 488, fast-tracking a new congressional redistricting map to the Senate and setting the stage for a potential clash between Senate President Bill Ferguson and Gov. Wes Moore.

The bill, sponsored by Charles County Delegate C.T. Wilson, a Democrat, would ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The federal government’s decision to directly buy stakes in mining companies is largely without precedent in American history, and two mines with Nevada ties have been among the biggest beneficiaries.

But now, three high-ranking Democrats in Congress have questions.

“By privileging select corporations through direct ownership...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Maryland House on Monday approved a new congressional map that would favor Democrats in all eight of the state’s districts.

The 99-37 vote sends the measure to the state Senate, where its prospects for passage remain uncertain. Bill Ferguson, the chamber’s top Democrat, has opposed his party’s push to eliminate Maryland...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass, delivering the first of two State of the City addresses planned this year, urged Angelenos on Monday to come together ahead of the 2028 Olympics while announcing a push to clean up Los Angeles’ busiest streets in the run-up to the Games.

The mayor spoke at the Expo Center in Exposition Park in front of ...Read more