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

NEW YORK — New York filed suit against the Trump administration Friday for trying to bully state officials into revoking thousands of immigrants’ commercial driver’s licenses by blocking more than $73 million in highway funding.

The petition for review filed in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals by New York Attorney General Tish James and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The oldest son of Rob and Michele Reiner has published a heart-rending account of learning from his sister that their parents were dead and his troubled brother had been arrested for the slayings inside their Los Angeles home.

In a personal essay published Friday on Substack, 34-year-old Jake Reiner described the “nightmare”...Read more

The Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit by billionaire Elon Musk’s xAI that challenges Colorado’s dormant artificial intelligence regulations, just as lawmakers prepare to rewrite those rules.

The federal government announced Friday that it was intervening in the suit that xAI filed earlier this month. The company alleges that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department on Friday released a sweeping report calling for a significant expansion of the federal death penalty, including policy recommendations for faster executions, widening the use of capital punishment, and adopting additional execution methods.

Among key recommendations, the new report calls for the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday he is vetoing a controversial bill that would have enabled the NYPD to set up “buffer zones” around schools and universities during protests.

Mamdani said he was letting a corresponding bill, which will similarly authorize police to plan for security perimeters around houses of worship, go into ...Read more

President Donald Trump will send envoys to Pakistan with the intention of meeting with Iranian officials, while Tehran sounded a pessimistic tone on the prospects for talks to end the eight-week war roiling the global economy.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are set to depart Saturday for talks this ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rare rebuke, University of California Regent Jay Sures, an outspoken supporter of Jewish students and critic of pro-Palestinian activism, is speaking out in a blistering criticism of UCLA student government leaders amid a growing controversy over the campus visit of a freed Israeli hostage held by Hamas after the Oct. 7, ...Read more

The North Carolina General Assembly announced this week a new committee tasked with investigating the release of thousands of inmates during the COVID-19 pandemic.

For months, former Gov. Roy Cooper, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in November’s election, has faced attacks from Republicans that he is soft on crime because of a ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors in Miami have pursued cases to strip U.S. citizenship from at least four people so far this year under a concerted effort from the Trump administration to dramatically increase the number of denaturalization cases, according to a Miami Herald review of public statements and court records.

As part of the Trump ...Read more

MIAMI — After spending hundreds of millions dollars on Alligator Alcatraz, the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis says that complying with a federal judge’s order to provide more phones for people being detained at the site would be too costly for Florida taxpayers.

In a filing in federal court on Wednesday, lawyers for the Florida ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights has reopened an investigation into a Los Angeles Unified School District program originally intended to help elevate the academic achievement of Black students, according to a letter released by the conservative group that alleges the program is a form of race-based ...Read more

King Charles III will not meet with the brother of the woman that his own brother is accused of sexually abusing during the Monarch’s upcoming U.S. visit.

The king begins a four-day trip Monday that includes a visit to New York City and an address to the U.S. Congress. It will not include a meeting with Sky Roberts, whose late sister Virginia...Read more

Nicki Minaj’s full embrace of the MAGA movement has secured her a seat at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C this weekend, according to reports.

The “Super Bass” rapper will attend as a guest of Fox News, which is also hosting its own VIP party before the annual event on Saturday, USA Today reported. Other big ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said Friday that she is dropping her investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the cost for renovations at the central bank, a move that could clear a path for the Senate to confirm Kevin Warsh as Powell’s replacement.

“I have directed my office to close our investigation as the ...Read more