WASHINGTON — A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from carrying out for now the president’s latest effort to impose new limits on automatic birthright citizenship after losing an earlier legal fight before the U.S. Supreme Court.

In an order on Wednesday, a U.S. judge in Maryland ruled that President Donald Trump’s August ...Read more

Illinois health officials announced an outbreak of measles Wednesday in Douglas County in east central Illinois – news that comes amid a national resurgence of the illness.

There have been at least four confirmed, linked cases of measles in Douglas County, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health. An outbreak is defined as three ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Department of Correction signed what’s called a “warrant service officer” cooperation agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which allows officers to enforce administrative warrants within an agency’s own jail.

Idaho Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday touted the partnership, known as a 287(g) agreement...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — A Norfolk judge certified the case against a Navy electrician, accused of beating his wife before wrapping her in plastic wrap, and storing her body in the freezer of their downtown Norfolk apartment.

At a probable cause hearing on Wednesday morning, David Varela appeared in a Norfolk Juvenile and Domestic Relations courtroom ...Read more

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — For the second day in a row, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial told the judge in the case they couldn’t come to a consensus.

Despite the notes, jurors will return to Plymouth County Superior Court Thursday morning to continue their deliberations.

Just after the lunch break Wednesday, around 2 p.m., jurors ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has “real concerns” about the way Flock cameras — automated license plate readers that capture and store data gleaned from moving cars — are being used in the state, a spokesperson said Wednesday.

Open to banning the technology, Shapiro is wary of how Pennsylvanians’ privacy can be ...Read more

NEW YORK — The FDNY on Wednesday honored 36 heroes whose names will be added to the department’s World Trade Center Memorial Wall following their deaths due to 9/11-related illnesses.

“On Sept. 11, as it is every day, the men and women of the FDNY went to work protecting this city,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said at the ceremony inside the ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll made their first campaign stops of the general election on Wednesday with just 62 days until the incumbent Democratic governor’s matchup with Republican challenger Mike Minogue.

Healey and Driscoll first stopped at the Veterans Center of Fall River, touring the facility and speaking with ...Read more

SEATTLE —Before a key midterm election, Washington elected officials are warning voters it’s getting increasingly risky to rely on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver ballots in time to be counted.

At a news conference Wednesday in Seattle, U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell and Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs pointed to an uptick in ballots...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Vance Boelter entered not guilty pleas to state charges at a court hearing Wednesday, when a judge also accepted his demand for a speedy trial and postponed a ruling on whether to restrict his access to evidence in light of recent online posts prosecutors say he authored while jailed.

In filings submitted before the hearing,...Read more

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — The freelance journalist caught on camera smiling during a tense time in the Lindsay Clancy trial said it was “an honest mistake.”

What she doesn’t want to see lost in the social media fury is her childhood bond with Clancy and how mental health care is lacking in America.

“Lindsay is not a monster,” Brittany ...Read more

With the anniversary of Operation Midway Blitz less than a week away, the militarized tactics of immigration agents that roiled Chicago last fall were once again front-and-center in federal court on Wednesday as a judge weighs the merits of a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration’s policies are unconstitutional.

But U.S. District Judge ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some congressional Democrats and voting-rights advocates are taking President Donald Trump’s not ruling out a national emergency declaration around November’s midterm elections seriously and literally.

Trump raised eyebrows last month during an interview with conservative commentator Wayne Allyn Root, who had suggested to the...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho has seen an increase in the number of bats that have tested positive for rabies this year, as well as the number of possible contacts between bats and humans or pets, prompting a warning from the Idaho departments of Health and Welfare and Fish and Game.

In a joint news release Wednesday, the departments said 24 bats ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge ruled Wednesday there was no evidence of any inappropriate grand jury conduct by prosecutors in the case of a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent charged with robbing and sexually assaulting prostitutes in Chicago-area hotel rooms.

Lawyers for Luis Uribe had asked U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso to look at the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In what the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce believes may be a first since Dolly Parton received her star in 1984, the beloved country singer's Hollywood Walk of Fame star was vandalized earlier this week.

The damage came just a week after Parton's death at age 80.

Ana Martinez, a spokesperson for the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce...Read more

Pennsylvania officials reported two deaths associated with measles last week, amid a growing outbreak that has already sickened more than 500 people in the state this year.

Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, has clashed over the state’s characterization of the deaths with President Donald Trump’s head of the Department of Health and Human ...Read more