WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday about the legality of the process to mandate cost-free preventive care used by millions of Americans, in a case brought by a group of Texas businesses objecting to coverage for an HIV preventive drug.

The U.S. government has asked the justices to overturn a decision by the U....Read more

President Donald Trump criticized Sen. Chris Van Hollen as a “fool” and a “grandstander” on Friday for meeting with wrongly deported immigrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia in his homeland of El Salvador.

The president called out the Maryland Democrat for negotiating an attention-grabbing sit-down with Abrego Garcia after delicate talks with the...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Mark Levin is heading to Washington, at least for part of the time.

The longtime syndicated talk show host and Fox News personality is joining President Donald Trump’s administration as a member of his new Homeland Security Advisory Council, led by Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem.

“I am proud to announce the ...Read more

Late-night TV host Stephen Colbert didn’t look for laughs from U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, who was a guest on his “Late Show” Thursday night.

Instead, Colbert asked Warnock for advice on what Americans unhappy with the direction of the country under President Donald Trump should do with their despair and frustrations.

Warnock drew from ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The juvenile minke whale had been spotted swimming around San Francisco Bay for nearly a week by the time she beached herself off the coast of Emeryville April 8. Scientists had thought she seemed healthy, but after an examination, they determined she was acting abnormally and had to be euthanized due to illness.

It was the...Read more

NEW YORK — A man busted for starting a fire that damaged three Staten Island homes and threatened the life of an elderly woman told authorities the blaze started when he tried to burn sex toys in his backyard, documents reveal.

“I started the fire. I was in the backyard at my house and I lit two sex toys on fire,” Harry Torres, 37, told ...Read more

Amtrak trains struck people and occupied vehicles on the tracks about 800 times over a recent four-year period, causing 594 deaths and 279 injuries, a new audit by the national passenger railroad’s inspector general found.

In 2023 alone, an estimated 20% of the company’s locomotive engineers were involved in such a crash.

The Office of ...Read more

The Trump administration announced Friday that it has begun to release thousands of pages of classified documents on Democratic Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s 1968 assassination — a move that is almost certain to fuel renewed speculation about a pivotal moment in Los Angeles and U.S. history.

President Donald Trump’s release of the files is ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The man charged in the attack on Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro triggered an alarm outside the governor’s mansion but remained hidden before he set the residence ablaze, Shapiro said in an interview that aired Friday on "Good Morning America."

Shapiro told co-anchor George Stephanopoulos in the interview, which took place ...Read more

Legal battles between the Trump administration and advocates for deportees flown to prison in El Salvador have turned into conflicts between the government and the judges overseeing those cases. One federal judge, James Boasberg, accused Trump administration lawyers of the “willful disregard” of his order in March to halt those flights, ...Read more

One of the two people killed in Thursday’s shootings at Florida State University was the son of Ricardo “Monkey” Morales, a shadowy Cuban-American CIA operative and anti-Castro militant throughut the 1960s and ‘70s who died in a bar fight in Miami in 1982.

Roberto Morales, 57, was among several university employees who had gathered for ...Read more

Florida State University plans to hold a vigil on Friday evening after Thursday’s gunfire that left two people dead and several wounded.

Authorities identified the shooter as 20‑year‑old Phoenix Ikner, an FSU student and son of a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy. Officers shot and detained him at the scene before he was transported to the ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — At a Monday-night Bernie Sanders rally in Nampa, the crowd roared its approval when a speaker alluded to Boise Mayor Lauren McLean’s decision to keep flying an LGBTQ+ Pride flag outside of City Hall — despite a new state law banning the display of non-”official” flags.

But McLean’s move prompted a letter of rebuke ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The California Department of Education has ordered two South Bay school districts to provide anti-bias training after finding that teachers discriminated against Jewish students by providing lessons slanted against Israel when teaching about its ongoing war with Hamas in Gaza.

Two ethnic studies teachers at Branham High ...Read more

Authorities recently released a new cache of records in the death investigation of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa — including a series of heartfelt notes the couple left for each other, revealing the close-knit nature of their relationship even as Hackman's health declined amid a battle with Alzheimer's.

The letters are at times humorous, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shooting stars will usher in Earth Day starting late Monday night as the Lyrid meteor shower reaches its peak — and Californians will have some of the best views in the country.

The annual meteor shower event will be most visible in April and is named after the constellation Lyra, the harp, located near the point in the sky ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Celeste traveled from Peru to the U.S. two decades ago, then a young woman of 19, and overstayed her tourist visa. She had studied graphic design back home but, unable to work in her field without papers, instead found arduous work cleaning hotel rooms and offices in Los Angeles. She built a life here, making friends and taking ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A Maryland immigration case is attracting national and international media attention, and at the heart of it is a question: Where is home for Kilmar Abrego Garcia?

Abrego Garcia is a 29-year-old sheet metal apprentice who lived with his wife and children in Beltsville before being mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would “move on” if a way to end the war in Ukraine can’t be found soon — as Russia said a one-month pause on targeting Ukrainian energy infrastructure had ended.

“We need to figure out here now, within a matter of days, whether this is doable in the short term. Because if it’s not, ...Read more