TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday rebuffed criticism of poor conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center, by saying people housed there have the option to self-deport instead.

DeSantis said the U.S. Department of Homeland Security offers people at the detention center an “all-expense paid trip back to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — At least three deputies were killed and another person was injured Friday in an explosion at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Biscailuz Training Center, according to law enforcement sources.

The blast occurred just before 7:30 a.m. at the center on Eastern Avenue, which is home to the sheriff’s special ...Read more

President Donald Trump bowed to a storm of public pressure and ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to release some documents in the Jeffrey Epstein sex case after The Wall Street Journal published a purported racy happy birthday letter from Trump to the notorious pedophile.

In a late-night social media post, Trump told Bondi to release whatever ...Read more

The attorneys for alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione accused prosecutors of unlawfully obtaining and reviewing their client’s medical records in a Thursday letter to the court overseeing Mangione’s New York criminal case.

The defense team is seeking sanctions that range from recusing prosecutors to dismissing the case ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is readying plans for industry-specific tariffs to kick in alongside his country-by-country duties in two weeks, ramping up his push to reshape the United States' standing in the global trading system by penalizing purchases from abroad.

Administration officials could release details of Trump’s planned 50...Read more

MIAMI — An investment adviser who lives in a Coconut Grove luxury high-rise condo was arrested Thursday on charges of operating a Ponzi scheme and swindling tens of millions of dollars from Venezuelan investors and two Catholic dioceses in the South American country, according to a federal indictment.

Andrew H. Jacobus “induced” dozens of...Read more

MIAMI — Florida’s Democratic congressional delegation has introduced legislation aimed at shutting down the controversial immigration detention center in the Everglades.

Dubbed the “No Cages in the Everglades Act,” the six-page bill is led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston. It aims to ban the Department of Homeland Security and...Read more

Kentucky U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell has joined nine other Republican senators asking President Donald Trump’s administration to release more than $6.8 billion in frozen federal education funding.

In a Wednesday letter to Russell Vought, director of the Office of Management of Budget, the senators asked the administration to unfreeze federal ...Read more

The ex-wife of University of California, Berkeley professor Przemysław Jeziorski, who was gunned down in broad daylight in Greece earlier this month, has been arrested.

Jeziorski, who taught at the Haas School of Business, was killed in Athens on July 4, near the home where his two children — Zoe and Angelo — live with their mother, ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump could not contain his glee over CBS’ cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” — and he predicted that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel would be next to get the ax.

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” the president wrote Friday in a post on Truth Social. “His talent was even less than ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Six months to the day that flames ravaged Altadena and Pacific Palisades, Mayor Karen Bass was preparing to mark the occasion alongside Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leaders.

But instead of heading north to the Pasadena news conference last week, the mayor’s black SUV made a detour to MacArthur Park, where a cavalcade of federal...Read more

West Palm Beach is eliminating its rainbow crosswalk, which was created to support the city’s LGBTQ+ community. The decision isn’t voluntary, and the city plans a nearby demonstration of support for LGBTQ+ residents and visitors.

The city’s decision is a result of directives from the administrations of President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Funding originally awarded to a West Baltimore nonprofit food distribution and compost center will instead likely be used for a controversial Florida immigrant detention center known as the Alligator Alcatraz.

A joint Instagram post from President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently announced that the...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking the voter registration lists of several states — representing data on millions of Americans — and other election information ahead of the 2026 midterms, raising fears about how the Trump administration plans to use the information.

The DOJ is also demanding Colorado turn over all records related to ...Read more

CHICAGO — As the departure of Ald. Walter Burnett leaves Mayor Brandon Johnson with the challenge of picking his third Zoning Committee chair, the City Council’s Black and Latino caucuses have already begun jockeying for the highly coveted leadership spot.

Burnett, often dubbed the “dean” of the council as its most tenured member, will ...Read more

DENVER — Fire crews working across western Colorado made more progress containing and slowing the growth of several wildfires Thursday.

The largest fire of the bunch — the Turner Gulch Fire near Gateway — is now 34% contained, a sharp improvement from 9% reported Thursday morning. The wildfire’s growth also slowed, increasing by 179 ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Isolated storms are possible across the region Friday ahead of the climbing temperatures and humidity that are expected to set in over the weekend, the National Weather Service said in its forecast discussion.

A strong storm or two is possible Friday, mainly across northern Missouri, the weather service said.

High ...Read more