CHICAGO — A Cook County judge on Thursday sentenced a man to eight years in prison after he pleaded guilty to a gun charge in connection with the shooting death of Chicago police officer Krystal Rivera, even as Rivera’s mother said he shouldn’t carry the weight of the “institutional failures beyond his control.”

Rivera, 36, a four-...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The City Council on Thursday approved a high-profile legislative package aimed at restricting immigration enforcement in Philadelphia, placing the city at the forefront of local resistance to President Donald Trump’s nationwide deportation campaign.

The seven bills, which were authored by progressive Council members Kendra ...Read more

DETROIT — Detainees at the privately run ICE detention center in west Michigan have gone without food for several days to protest poor conditions at the facility, according to attorneys and an anti-ICE advocacy group, though an ICE spokesperson denied that a hunger strike was underway.

A majority of the men in two cell blocks at the North ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz is writing a book inspired by Minnesotans’ resistance during Operation Metro Surge.

“Good Neighbors” will be published next year after the second-term DFL governor leaves office, publisher W.W. Norton & Co. announced Wednesday, April 22.

The publishing house described the work as a “passionate ode to ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Republican lawmakers want to add further limits on teaching about gender and sexuality in elementary schools, including creating a way to fine schools that violate the ban.

State Rep. Brenden Jones filed legislation on Thursday that would expand the current ban on instruction about gender identity, sexuality or ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department reclassified state-regulated marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a major shift that could increase legal cannabis sales and help a struggling industry.

The directive signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche moved licensed marijuana products from Schedule I — the same federal category as heroin ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A cellphone belonging to David Anthony Burke, better known as the singer D4vd, contained “a significant amount of child pornography,” a prosecutor said in court Thursday morning.

Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman made the claim during a court proceeding to schedule a preliminary hearing on murder ...Read more

D4vd, the singer now potentially facing the death penalty in the murder of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, is being held at the same jail as Nick Reiner, who could meet the same fate after authorities say he killed his parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner in cold blood.

The 21-year-old “Romantic Homicide” singer, born David ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department reclassified state-regulated marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a major shift that could dramatically increase legal cannabis sales in the coming years.

The directive signed by acting Attorney General Todd Blanche moved licensed marijuana products from Schedule I — the same federal category as ...Read more

NEW YORK — A swastika found scrawled on a bathroom wall at a Long Island high school led police to a cache of explosive chemicals in the teen vandal’s home purchased by the boy’s father, Nassau police said Thursday.

Now the 15-year-old Syosset resident and his 48-year-old father are facing a raft of charges stemming from the explosives ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis is mocking Rep. Hakeem Jeffries over the Democratic leader’s threat to unleash “maximum war” if the Sunshine State seeks to redraw its congressional districts to benefit Republicans.

DeSantis jokingly offered to pay for the Brooklyn lawmaker to travel to Florida and campaign against the GOP as it considers a new map that...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A cellphone belonging to David Anthony Burke, better known as the singer D4vd, contained “a significant amount of child pornography,” a prosecutor said in court Thursday morning.

Los Angeles County Deputy Dist. Atty. Beth Silverman made the claim during a court proceeding to schedule a preliminary hearing on murder charges ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Voters in the city of Los Angeles overwhelmingly cite the high cost of housing and homelessness as serious problems, but lack confidence in the ability of local and state government to make the city more affordable.

Those findings come from a poll commissioned by the Los Angeles Business Council and released Thursday ahead of ...Read more

U.S. and Iran tensions grew over the Strait of Hormuz with both sides maintaining their blockades of the critical waterway, creating an uneasy standoff with no new peace talks on the horizon.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the U.S. Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the strait, while the military said it intercepted two ...Read more

U.S. and Iran tensions grew over the Strait of Hormuz with both sides maintaining their blockades of the critical waterway, creating an uneasy standoff with no sign of peace talks on the horizon.

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered the U.S. Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the strait, while the military said it intercepted ...Read more