LOS ANGELES — For eight months, the Los Angeles City Council and Mayor Karen Bass have butted heads over police hiring amid a budget crisis.

The conflict began last spring when the council voted to reduce LAPD hiring to 240 new police officers this budget year — just half the officers Bass had requested — in order to close the city’s $1...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore released a $70.8 billion budget proposal on Wednesday for fiscal year 2027 that makes nearly $1.8 billion in program cuts and fund transfers to eliminate a projected $1.4 billion shortfall, in part by reducing cost-sharing with local governments.

The Maryland governor told reporters that the plan, which represents a...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would refrain from imposing tariffs on goods from European nations opposing his effort to take possession of Greenland, citing a “framework of a future deal” he said was reached regarding the island.

The decision, which Trump announced Wednesday on social media, marks a stark reversal for a president who has ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein issued a state of emergency Wednesday in advance of a winter storm forecast to wallop the state and much of the country over the weekend.

The state of emergency allows the governor’s office to initiate emergency plans, deploy emergency response teams and trigger protections against price ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal immigration agent shot at a suspect during a targeted operation in South L.A. on Wednesday morning, drawing a crowd of protesters to the shut-down street and intensifying safety concerns in the immigrant-heavy community.

A federal agent opened fire at a man after he rammed federal law enforcement with his vehicle while...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A 92-year-old “dancing” grandma, whose verve often kept her out late on Saturday nights, had her life cut short in an early morning weekend crash caused by an Orlando police officer who drove through a red light.

A preliminary accident report, prepared by Orlando Police and provided by the family, said the “at fault” ...Read more

SEATTLE — Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson has asked President Donald Trump for a major disaster declaration along with $21.3 million in individual assistance for people whose homes were damaged in December’s catastrophic flooding.

Ferguson’s request, made in a letter to Trump on Wednesday, covers only part of the cost to the state from the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — He’s the ever-present face, sans mask, of the Trump administration’s seven-week-old-and-counting federal immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities.

Just as he’s done during enforcement actions in Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commander at Large Greg Bovino shows up frequently in ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Federal officials say they’ve arrested 3,000 immigrants in Minnesota since Operation Metro Surge began in December and frequently describe them as the “worst of the worst” — “violent assailants, domestic abusers, and drug traffickers” — who’ve been allowed to run rampant because of the state’s sanctuary policies...Read more

Dozens of the world’s major rivers are so heavily tapped, they often run dry before reaching the sea. More than half of all large lakes are shrinking, and most of the world’s major underground sources are declining irreversibly as agricultural pumping drains water that took centuries or even thousands of years to accumulate.

In a report ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Baltimore metro area is bracing for a snowstorm that could be its biggest since the blizzard of 2016, with forecasters warning that heavy snow, ice, and bitter cold could grip the region beginning late Saturday and linger into next week.

FOX45 meteorologist Gerard Jebaily said snow could last through Sunday, with some areas ...Read more

BOSTON — The weekend is set to see dangerously cold temperatures across Boston, as well as a potential storm with a “pretty good dumping” of snow.

“Make sure that you’re bundling up and limiting your time outdoors Saturday and heading into Sunday,” National Weather Service meteorologist Emily McMinn told the Herald.

“And making ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The FBI provided its most robust explanation of the car chase and alleged assault that led an ICE agent to shoot a Venezuelan immigrant at his north Minneapolis duplex on Jan. 14, including how a case of mistaken identity triggered the chain of events that culminated in hours of unrest that night.

In a sworn affidavit, FBI ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A House committee recommended holding Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt of Congress on Wednesday, a key step on a path that could lead to criminal charges against the high-profile Democrats.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted to advance separate reports on contempt, citing the duo’s failure to appear ...Read more

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear had some choice words to say about President Donald Trump’s threats to take control of Greenland.

“Over the course of just one year, this president has taken America from being leader of the free world to the bully on the playground,” Beshear said Jan. 21 in Davos, Switzerland, while attending the World Economic...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Prosecutors say an alleged cult leader being tried for sexual assault “spun a web of abuse,” but the man’s attorney told a jury on Tuesday that the prosecution has no evidence.

Attorneys gave opening statements in the Las Vegas trial of Nathan Chasing Horse, 49, who is accused of targeting the Native American community and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready to rule against President Donald Trump’s attempt to immediately remove Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook, expressing skepticism during oral arguments Wednesday about a president’s control over the central bank.

The Trump administration had asked the justices to overturn lower court ...Read more