LOS ANGELES -- When President Donald Trump deployed the National Guard to quell protests last month against immigration raids unfolding across Los Angeles County, he claimed widespread lawlessness forced him to send in the troops.

Days later, L.A. County District Attorney Nathan Hochman stepped in front of news cameras to announce charges ...Read more

When a Venezuelan immigrant was arrested last year and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Jefferson County, the teen’s mother hoped for justice.

J.E., who is being identified by her initials to protect her daughter’s identity, wanted the suspect to be convicted, locked away. She wanted to know he couldn’t hurt anyone ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — After more than 40 years as Minnesota’s only federally funded research center focused on people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, you might think Amy Hewitt would be confident that the Institute on Community Integration’s work would continue.

But Hewitt, director of the center dedicated to keeping disabled ...Read more

Saddie Kolterman imagines she’s on a sinking ship. The room she’s in is slowly filling with water. She can see a window to escape, but it’s just out of reach. Even if she does get out, she has no idea what she’ll find beyond — an island, or just an expanse of open ocean.

For the 26-year-old, life in the U.S. military is all she has ...Read more

Nicole Silva’s 4-year-old daughter was headed to a relative’s house near the southern Colorado town of La Jara when a vehicle T-boned the car she was riding in. A cascade of ambulance rides ensued — a ground ambulance to a local hospital, an air ambulance to Denver, and another ground ambulance to Children’s Hospital Colorado.

Silva’s...Read more

After shooting erupted at Blue Grass Airport and Richmond Road Baptist Church, injuring a Kentucky State Police trooper and killing at least two parishioners Sunday, community and elected officials reacted to the violence.

Police killed the suspect at the church.

Gov. Andy Beshear asked for prayers for the dead and injured.

“Please pray for...Read more

Two people were killed and three others, including a Kentucky State trooper, were injured Sunday in a pair of shootings involving one suspect at Blue Grass Airport and a church in Lexington.

The trooper was shot at the airport, and four people were shot about 16 miles away at Richmond Road Baptist Church.

Police also shot and killed the ...Read more

Beverly Gumm and her daughter, Star Rutherford, were cooking lunch in the basement of Richmond Road Baptist Church, in the fellowship hall, Sunday afternoon when a man came through the back door and asked for one of Rutherford’s sisters.

They told the man she wasn’t there. He responded: “Well, someone is gonna have to die, then,” and ...Read more

King Charles III will host U.S. President Donald Trump for a state visit in September, the second time Trump will have received the highest honor offered to a visiting dignitary by the U.K.

The King will host Trump and first lady Melania Trump at Windsor Castle from Sept. 17-19, Buckingham Palace said in a statement on Monday. It follows Trump�...Read more

President Donald Trump and his allies have seized upon a new way to criticize the head of the U.S. central bank: his handling of an expensive renovation of the Federal Reserve’s headquarters.

The construction project offers the clearest example yet of how Trump and those in his orbit are looking for every opportunity to scrutinize Jerome ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. will send more Patriot air-defense batteries to Ukraine, which Kyiv has said it needs to protect itself from Russian airstrikes.

“We’re not paying anything for them,” Trump told reporters Sunday on his way back to the White House. “But we will get them Patriots, which they desperately need.”

The ...Read more

The E.U. is preparing to step up its engagement with other countries hit by Donald Trump’s tariffs following a slew of new threats to the bloc and other U.S. trading partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

Contacts will take place with nations, including Canada and Japan, and could include the potential for coordination, said ...Read more

Several people have been taken into custody Sunday after a masked gunman fired shots toward the recreation yard at a southeast Georgia regional youth detention center, officials said.

The Claxton Regional Youth Detention Center was placed under lockdown as a precaution after the shooting and the GBI has been contacted, according to Department ...Read more

Mexican officials were taken aback by President Donald Trump’s latest tariff threat after paying frequent visits to his top aides in Washington to convince him their efforts to fight drug trafficking were paying off.

For months, U.S. officials have been effusive about Mexican cooperation on issues related to the border and security. “Very ...Read more

Five wildfires are burning on thousands of acres in western Colorado, including one that crossed into the state from Utah, fire officials said Sunday.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis made a verbal “disaster declaration” Sunday afternoon for the fires currently spreading across Colorado’s western slope, according to a news release from his ...Read more

At the risk of angering the city and his neighbors, Minneapolis developer and landlord Hamoudi Sabri last week opened a private homeless encampment in the parking lot of a long-vacant building he owns on E. Lake Street. About 20 people have moved in.

Sabri said he plans to open a second encampment in the North Loop on the same site where he had...Read more

CHICAGO — On a warm, late June morning at Truman College in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood, Mayor Brandon Johnson welcomed attendees to the first of several budget roundtables.

He hit on a familiar litany of positive developments, touting a drop in crime, expanded mental and behavioral health services, and youth employment opportunities.

“...Read more

The National Hurricane Center continued Sunday to predict a system could develop near Florida this week that could develop into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 2 p.m. tropical outlook, forecasters said a trough of low pressure is likely to form near the southeastern U.S. coast in the next day or two and then ...Read more