The U.S. Justice Department demanded that Nevada Secretary of State Francisco Aguilar preserve records related to the 2024 election while the federal government appeals a court ruling in a lawsuit that seeks the state’s unredacted voter registration database.

In a litigation-hold letter, DOJ official Eric Neff also informed the state’s ...Read more

The National Transportation Safety Board released transcripts of recordings Wednesday from the Amazon cargo plane that skidded off the runway at Miami International Airport, revealing repeated warnings that the plane was flying too close to the ground and too quickly just before the crash.

Joseph Carroll, 55, and Jaime Filipe Silva Molina, 37, ...Read more

Iran is ready for a more intense war and will escalate counterstrikes if the U.S. continues attacking its territory and infrastructure, according to a senior official from the Islamic Republic.

Tehran has no intention of backing down in the face of an American naval blockade and attacks on its oil tankers, said the official, who asked not to be...Read more

MIAMI — A federal judge refused to release Andrew and Tristan Tate from a Miami jail while they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, finding that the controversial social-media personalities remain flight risks and pose a danger to the community.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren F. Louis denied the brothers’ requests for bond Wednesday, ...Read more

BOSTON — Lindsay Clancy’s attorney says he is prepared to ask that the court dismiss the case against the Duxbury mother accused of murdering her three children, as more jurors speak out after the mistrial.

Continuing his post-trial appearances on national television, Kevin Reddington has said he will request that the case be thrown out ...Read more

UC Berkeley's law school discriminated against white and Asian applicants by illegally using race in admissions, the Department of Justice alleged Wednesday in an investigative finding that expands the Trump administration's probes into University of California admissions practices.

For more than a year, the federal government has focused its ...Read more

NEW YORK — When they talked on 9/11 about facing a new world, city officials didn’t envision a fire department that would continue to suffer traumatic losses from a 25-year-old terror attack.

“I cannot tell you your lived experience in this quarter century,” FDNY Commissioner Lillian Bonsignore said at a special FDNY commemorative ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A woman who worked for labor leader César Chávez and the United Farm Workers organization he helped found is suing a pair of related nonprofits for negligence, sexual harassment and civil rights violations, claiming they facilitated her abuse and did nothing to protect her and others from his unwanted sexual advances.

The ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court wants Secretary of State Denny Hoskins to explain himself.

Chief Justice W. Brent Powell late Tuesday ordered Hoskins, a Republican, to appear in person Thursday and explain why he should not be held in contempt for ordering local election officials to use a gerrymandered congressional map that ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal appeals court on Wednesday denied an attempt to block Missouri from using a gerrymandered congressional map in November, a decision that struck a blow to opponents of the map who appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

The ruling from the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to block Judge Stephen R. Clark’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Justice Department has launched an investigation into conditions at Los Angeles County's Men's Central Jail, following years of concerns about poor conditions and inmate deaths.

The government will probe whether Los Angeles County has provided "humane" conditions to individuals housed there, and notified Sheriff Robert ...Read more

The last of the defendants in U.S. custody in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse is set to go on trial later this month.

Christian Emmanuel Sanon, a Haitian-American pastor who has lived in Broward County and elsewhere in Florida, hired former Colombian soldiers to protect him in Haiti while he aspired to replace Moïse,...Read more

DENVER — United Airlines officials canceled a planned flyover of a passenger jet escorted by a squadron of F-16s over Denver for a private 9/11 memorial after “concerns in the community,” the company said Wednesday.

Denver emergency management officials published a notice about the flyover earlier this week to let residents know the event...Read more

DENVER — Dozens of community members filed into Arapahoe County District Court on Wednesday morning, slowly filling the fourth-floor courtroom in support of a group of protesters arrested during a July anti-ICE demonstration.

Supporters moved from one courtroom to the next shortly before 9 a.m., as the four protesters stood before judges for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration proposed on Wednesday to exclude undocumented and temporary immigrants from the data used to apportion House seats after the 2030 census, continuing a push from his first term.

The changes, coupled with reducing the demographic data collected about Americans, could mean shifts in congressional seats among...Read more