A man accused of stabbing two neighbors and slashing his own father in a wild brawl after a couple’s dog peed on his front yard was released without bail on Friday.

Judge Anthony Battisti ordered Akeem Alexander, 34, released after he pleaded not guilty to assault, attempted assault and criminal possession of a weapon at his arraignment in ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Delta tunnel project cleared a key regulatory step Thursday after the Delta Stewardship Council — a state body created in 2009 following the Legislature’s passage of the Delta Reform Act to oversee planning — voted to uphold the state’s finding that the project complies with the Delta Plan.

The approval came ...Read more

A judge questioned whether President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Treasury can proceed with Trump effectively in control of both sides of the litigation.

U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams on Friday ordered the Justice Department, which represents the agencies, to explain in writing ...Read more

Ford Motor Co. denied a news report that it has held talks with Geely Automobile Holdings Ltd. about bringing Chinese car technology to the U.S. market.

A Ford spokesperson told Bloomberg News that no such talks have happened or are happening with any Chinese carmaker about technology sharing or platform sharing in the U.S.

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A family that rushed to Michael Jackson‘s defense amid allegations of sex abuse around the time of the pop star’s 2009 death now says they were covering for him.

Dominic and Connie Cascio and three of their five children interviewed with Oprah Winfrey in 2010. When asked if Jackson molested any Cascio family members in the time they spent ...Read more

A Los Angeles judge denied singer Cher’s efforts to put her son Elijah Blue Allman under a temporary conservatorship.

Allman reportedly attended the hearing by video from a psychiatric hospital. The 79-year-old performer’s case was denied without prejudice when she failed to show “sufficient urgency,” according to TMZ.

Cher is ...Read more

A senior Taiwanese official expressed concern that President Donald Trump might make concessions on the self-governed island in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said that Taiwan was working hard to prevent such a scenario.

“What we are the most afraid is to put Taiwan on the menu of the talk between Xi Jinping and President ...Read more

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump can’t use an executive proclamation to bar immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border from seeking asylum — a cornerstone policy of his aggressive agenda to limit all immigration to the United States.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed in a 2-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The FBI has joined the investigation into the suspicious disappearance of 74-year-old Naiping Hou, a resident of Rancho Cucamonga and father of noted cryptocurrency investor Wen Hou.

FBI officials said the agency was joining the investigation begun last year by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. They said the ...Read more

BOSTON — Two Massachusetts men have pleaded guilty to breaking into Harvard Medical School and detonating fireworks last Halloween night, a crime that caught the eye of FBI Director Kash Patel.

Logan David Patterson, 18, of Plymouth, and Dominick Frank Cardoza, 21, of Bourne, could face up to five years in prison after they each pleaded ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Supreme Court on Friday wiped out Baltimore’s $153 million opioid verdict, sending the case back to a lower court and dealing a major blow to the city’s efforts to hold drug distributors liable under public nuisance law.

In a brief order, Chief Justice Matthew Fader said the court was acting in light of its recent...Read more

DENVER — A new bill proposed by Colorado lawmakers would tighten oversight of their own security while removing their personal and financial records from publicly available databases, a move that comes nearly a year after a gunman killed a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in their home.

House Bill 1422, introduced Wednesday by a bipartisan ...Read more

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he recently had successful treatment for cancer and is “in excellent physical condition.”

The leader, 76, said on X that doctors discovered a malignant prostate tumor at a “very early stage.” He didn’t say when that happened, but said it hadn’t spread. He was given the option of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Philadelphia has ordered the government to pay nearly $40,000 in legal fees to an immigrant who sued ICE over its attempt to make him wear an ankle monitor — a new wrinkle in how the judiciary has been pushing back on President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

U.S. District Judge Kai N. Scott...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The decision over whether the U.S. government will seek the death penalty in the case of accused political assassin Vance Boelter is now in the hands of the Justice Department.

Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen on April 22 submitted his recommendation to Justice Department officials in Washington regarding a death ...Read more

An appeals court on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s closing of United States borders to asylum-seekers.

An executive order by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day last year, and later guidance to turn asylum-seekers around without a court hearing, are “unlawful” and “cast aside federal laws affording individuals the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Charges have been dropped against six people arrested last year for using chalk to protest the state’s erasure of crosswalk colors memorializing the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, with Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell citing flimsy evidence and a selectively enforced statute in a Friday press conference.

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TAMPA, Fla. — The remains of one of two missing University of South Florida graduate students were found on the Howard Frankland Bridge on Friday, and hours later, a suspect was arrested in connection to the case, authorities said.

The remains of Zamil Limon, 27, were discovered on the bridge Friday morning, and 26-year-old Hisham Abugharbieh...Read more

Lawyers representing D4vd, the singer charged with murdering and sexually abusing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, say they’ve received antisemitic hate mail amid the explosive case.

The person behind one such note, viewed by TMZ, said they were “sicken(ed)” the lawyers would defend the 21-year-old “Romantic Homicide” singer, born...Read more