WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court has refused to halt a Florida federal judge’s decision to penalize President Donald Trump and his lawyers for “bad faith” conduct in his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service while he appeals.

The order on Tuesday leaves in place a July ruling that barred Trump and certain U.S. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Tuesday he had signed more than 20 bills meant to protect immigrants in the state and push back against the controversial enforcement actions driven by President Donald Trump.

But there was a notable measure not on the list.

Assembly Bill 1896 would impose a sweeping punishment for former ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Alex Hardy spent seven years battling chronic sinus disease, undergoing five surgeries and taking 10 rounds of antibiotics. But the experience that ultimately drew him into the Make America Healthy Again movement, he told a Washington conference Tuesday, was what happened when he stopped looking to conventional medicine for an ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado’s attorney general has joined a flurry of lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s plans to open a nearly 1,200-bed immigrant detention center northeast of Denver.

Attorney General Phil Weiser‘s office filed the latest suit in federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. ...Read more

North Carolina state law enforcement agencies face a Thursday deadline to enter agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that allow their officers to carry out immigration enforcement duties usually performed by federal agents, under a Republican-backed state law enacted this summer.

One of them, the State Highway Patrol, has ...Read more

DENVER — Denver City Councilwoman Shontel Lewis plans to withdraw a proposal requiring the council to read a statement acknowledging the impacts of slavery before its weekly meetings.

Lewis, who is running for mayor, said during a Tuesday committee meeting that she wouldn’t proceed with the idea after other council members asked her and a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Striking a blow to Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rollout of his signature pied-à-terre tax, a New York City judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of owners of pricey second homes and ordered the city to restart the process.

Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Wayne Ozzi found that notices the city mailed to homeowners informing them that ...Read more

Sen. Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican, appeared to confuse the Iowa Hawkeyes with the Atlanta Hawks in a hearing on Tuesday aimed at characterizing a prosecutor’s investigation into President Donald Trump as political.

Schmitt took aim at former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith during a Senate Judicial Committee hearing ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Attorneys for Alex Murdaugh are seeking deep digital data from approximately half a dozen cellphones allegedly associated with the 2021 killings of Paul and Maggie Murdaugh, according to a defense motion filed in state court this week.

The attorneys are asking state Judge Debra McCaslin to “compel production” of the deep ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison on Tuesday announced criminal charges against nine Medicaid providers who allegedly defrauded the state of $3 million.

The single largest instance of alleged fraud centers around a Duluth-based provider of psychotherapy services that the attorney general accuses of claiming more than ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD is reviewing hundreds of instances in which officers used Flock Safety, a controversial nationwide license plate reader network that uses artificial intelligence, the department said Tuesday.

The department has also enacted new rules about officers using outside vendors without approval, but a department spokesman said the...Read more

Like many Minnesotans, Niraphanh Insomphou’s family arrived here in the 1970s after her parents fled Laos. Over the decades, her siblings became U.S. citizens, but Insomphou — who has intellectual and developmental disabilities and is unable to speak — did not.

For nearly 40 years, she has lived in group homes and Medicaid has covered her...Read more

NEW YORK — Striking a blow to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s rollout of his pied-à-terre tax on the rich, a Staten Island judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of owners of high-value second homes who sued the city and ordered the city to start the process over.

Justice Wayne Ozzi found that notices the city mailed to property owners ...Read more

SEATTLE — Gov. Bob Ferguson called on Washington voters to reject an upcoming ballot initiative that would bar transgender girls from competing in girls sports at K-12 schools.

Ferguson’s opposition aligns him with dozens of other groups that are rallying against Initiative 638, including Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, the Seattle ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man walking with a cane as he exited a Brooklyn subway was dragged to his death after witnesses said his plastic shopping bag got caught in the train door, police said Tuesday.

Yaw Adu Boahene, 66, was getting off a rush-hour A train at the Utica Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant when his blue plastic bag seemed to get caught ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is using Customs and Border Protection funding to run pro-Trump political advertisements, Democratic appropriators said Tuesday.

The funding comes from last year’s massive GOP budget reconciliation law and was intended for CBP, said House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and House Homeland ...Read more

Cuba’s leaders will learn “the hard way” if they don't enact political and economic changes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday night, adding that the Trump administration is pushing for democratic elections in Venezuela.

In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News commentator Sean Hannity, Rubio said Venezuela needs economic ...Read more

The Trump administration has dropped its plans to build an immigrant detention center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in South Jersey, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.

The office said that in October, after the opening of an ICE detention site at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, Pentagon officials said they ...Read more