BALTIMORE — A public health researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health was detained and arrested by federal immigration authorities while boarding a domestic flight at BWI Marshall Airport this week, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson confirmed to The Baltimore Sun.

Fatima Ameaka, a research associate at the...Read more

BOSTON — The mother of fallen State Police Trooper Kevin Trainor is seeking $20 million in damages, alleging negligence by the Saugus restaurant that served an intoxicated patron who caused a fatal crash.

Barbara Trainor has filed a wrongful death civil complaint in Essex County Superior Court against Tribu Mexican Kitchen & Bar and its ...Read more

Federal water managers on Friday announced a 10-year plan to manage the critical Colorado River that opens the door to unprecedented water supply cuts to three states and will require near-constant negotiation between water users in the river basin.

The report made public Friday is the culmination of years of intense and divisive negotiations ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, on Friday demanded a public hearing on the question of which reporters will get to cover his highly anticipated murder trial and asked for an overflow room to host a bigger audience.

In a letter to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he’s losing confidence in Iranian negotiators, the latest sign that the renewal of armed hostilities in the Middle East could drag on.

Speaking during a Cabinet meeting on Friday, Trump took issue with missile attacks that Iran launched earlier this week against U.S. forces in Jordan that ended a ...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A legislative inspector general’s investigatory report released Friday found disgraced former state Rep. Harry Benton violated state law by engaging in sexual harassment, and it also revealed the existence of a third female victim, a staffer for another state legislator who said Benton’s “creepy” behavior in a ...Read more

New York state authorities sued the predictions-market company Kalshi Inc. for allegedly running an illegal, unlicensed gambling operation in the state, marking another legal hurdle for an industry that has won support from the Trump administration.

The suit, filed Friday in state court in Manhattan, alleges that Kalshi’s prediction market ...Read more

MIAMI — An OnlyFans model accused of stabbing her boyfriend to death inside a luxury Miami high-rise will change her plea, her attorney announced Friday.

Courtney Clenney, 30, reached a plea agreement with prosecutors in her second-degree murder case, attorney Frank Prieto said in a statement. Clenney is accused of stabbing her boyfriend ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday are expected to charge an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.

According to an attorney for the officer, Daniel Flores, prosecutors will allege he violated the California Invasion of ...Read more

CHICAGO — The former Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy convicted of murdering Sonya Massey inside her home was denied medical release from prison Friday after an emotional hearing before the Illinois Prisoner Review Board.

The board voted 3-0 to deny Sean Grayson’s application, meaning he will remain in custody. Grayson’s lawyers have ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge says the federal government has fallen short in turning over a complete trove of evidence from the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross, following her order in a tangential case.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Shannon Elkins wrote in a court filing that the government has only partially complied with ...Read more

DENVER — The operator of Colorado’s only immigrant detention center is still refusing to allow state health inspectors to conduct an investigation into a tuberculosis case in the facility, a month after officials issued an order requiring access.

Amid the standoff, the company — Geo Group, which operates the facility for U.S. Immigration ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump blamed the state of Minnesota and Gov. Tim Walz for the coordinated cyberattack on over 30 water systems across the state even as officials say the attacks may have been carried out by Iran.

“They blame it on Iran, I don’t think so ... I blame it on Minnesota because they’re grossly incompetent,” ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — An F-35B fighter aircraft crashed Friday morning in the flightline area of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, a base spokesperson said.

“The pilot ejected, (and) was transported to a local medical facility in stable condition for evaluation and treatment of non-life threatening injuries,” the base added in a statement.

The ...Read more

Illinois U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth are pushing back on the federal government’s decision to limit flights at O’Hare International Airport for more than a year.

The Federal Aviation Administration this spring ordered limits on the number of flights into and out of the airport through Oct. 24, saying the number of flights ...Read more

CHICAGO — President Donald Trump’s administration has stopped work on a project to slow the spread of invasive carp in the Great Lakes, a move Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday said amounted to a major attack on Illinois’ and the nation’s freshwater supply.

The comments came hours after the Pritzker administration said it had asked the federal...Read more

WASHINGTON — As his nominee for attorney general hangs in the balance, President Donald Trump dug in on Friday, defending a controversial settlement that has angered some Republicans in the Senate.

It further upended Todd Blanche’s bid to permanently lead the Justice Department, as senators look for a path forward after canceling a planned ...Read more

Hamas said it agreed to disarm as long as Israel withdraws from Gaza and agrees to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, conditions that dent the prospects of a revival in the protracted peace process.

The militant group will give up heavy weaponry if Israel accepts those requirements, alongside the deployment of an ...Read more

Investigators on Friday released two notes apparently sent by the individuals who kidnapped Nancy Guthrie from her Tuscon, Arizona, home in February.

Federal and local law enforcement have worked for nearly six months to find Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” show co-host Savannah Guthrie, without success.

For months, the Los ...Read more