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The U.S. Coast Guard stopped and boarded an oil tanker in the Caribbean early Saturday that was last docked in Venezuela, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said, after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade.

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For almost two decades, oil giant Chevron Corp.’s stubborn persistence in Venezuela looked like folly: with billion-dollar investments constantly under threat from the tug-of-war between Caracas and Washington, D.C.

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A judge has cleared the way for the Georgia State Election Board to obtain Fulton County ballots and other documents from the 2020 election.

Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney on Friday ruled that the ...Read more

Massachusetts political leaders are ramping up messaging against federal agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as the Trump Administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration continues.

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As the state prepares for its annual General Assembly session beginning Jan. 14, 2026, several laws passed last session are set to take effect Jan. 1.

Below is a sample of changes coming to Maryland law on New Year’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At least two people were killed and two police officers injured in a series of traffic incidents across Los Angeles late Friday and early Saturday morning.

The events — which occurred on a night of foggy...Read more

Pontiac is not Detroit, City Councilman Mikal Goodman noted. It's not Los Angeles or Chicago. But it is a place, he said, where national immigration politics are hitting home.

The city has seen rapidly increasing ...Read more

Jean Wilson Brutus, a 41-year-old Haitian national in ICE custody, suffered a medical emergency and died just one day after he arrived at Delaney Hall in Newark, according to federal officials.

Brutus is believed to be ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A 400-mile blanket of fog has socked in California’s Central Valley for weeks. Scientists and meteorologists say the conditions for such persistent cloud cover are ripe: an early wet season, cold ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal jury has acquitted a South L.A. man who was charged with stealing government property by towing an immigration agent’s vehicle during the arrest of a TikTok influencer in downtown Los Angeles ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Bx6 bus that barreled through the Bronx, terrorizing passengers as it slammed into multiple cars along a five-block stretch of Longwood Monday, had a history of brake problems, a Daily News investigation ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The $1,776 bonus checks the Trump administration is giving to active-duty service members will go to an estimated 115,000 sailors, Marines and Coast Guard personnel in San Diego County, where many are ...Read more

CHICAGO — Aldermen passed the final part of a counterproposal to Mayor Brandon Johnson’s 2026 budget on Saturday, in a historic meeting that redraws the political lines at City Hall and further imperils his progressive...Read more

A bipartisan House duo is drawing up a cryptocurrency tax framework that would provide a safe harbor for some stablecoin transactions and delay taxation of rewards earned by verifying blockchain transactions.

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PHILADELPHIA — Delaware Gov. Matt Meyer has stepped into the case of a 52-year-old disabled Ecuadoran immigrant, telling the judge it would be “cruel” and “egregious” to deport the Seaford resident to face gang ...Read more

The U.S. can maintain close ties with Japan while pursuing productive engagement with China, even as tensions rise between Asia’s two largest economies, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

“We feel very strongly that...Read more

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he’s not the only person who could be the ruling party’s candidate for premier in next year’s election, though he added a defense of his qualifications to continue leading ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — On a frigid, blustery Saturday, Rick Vandendolder stepped outside to follow in his immigrant father’s footsteps.

“My dad was with the Dutch resistance, and he helped hide Jews and others who were ...Read more

BOSTON — Public calls are growing for the FBI to give its promised $50,000 reward to a homeless man who provided information essential to leading authorities to the gunman they say killed two Brown University students ...Read more