U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen has met with a Maryland man in El Salvador who had been deported in an “administrative error” to the Central American country by the Trump administration and detained in a mega prison.

Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, on Thursday posted a photo of him with the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, on the X social media ...Read more

California will sue the Trump administration for dismantling AmeriCorps while ramping up its efforts to recruit people for its own state equivalent, according to Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The federal government laid off thousands of AmeriCorps members this week as part of an ongoing effort to downsize federal agencies. AmeriCorps members respond to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Survivors of the Eaton fire gathered Thursday morning in Pasadena to condemn State Farm's alleged mishandling of a slew of claims by policyholders who suffered losses in the blaze.

Speaking in front of State Farm's catastrophe claim tent on Colorado Boulevard,, the group urged California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara to ...Read more

The Department of Justice on Thursday asked the courts to go hard on disgraced former New York Rep. George Santos when he’s sentenced next week, citing his remorseless behavior on social media.

“The government respectfully submits this letter to advise the Court that Santos’s recent behavior continues to demonstrate that he remains ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The lawyer for the Hope Florida Foundation said Thursday that he couldn’t answer questions about what to do with a $10 million donation until it hired another attorney.

During the charity’s first public board meeting, attorney Jeff Aaron said he didn’t want to answer questions about whether the donation was legal ...Read more

The Leon County Sheriff’s Office is reeling after learning that the 20-year old suspect in a mass shooting on Florida State University’s campus is the son of one of their own — raised by a sheriff’s deputy and trained by sheriff’s deputies.

Phoenix Ikner was shot by police after opening fire on FSU’s campus around 11:50 a.m. on ...Read more

Students and faculty across California and the nation staged coordinated protests Thursday to collectively push back against what they view as the Trump administration’s attacks on higher education.

In the greater Bay Area, rallies protesting federal funding cuts and more took place at Stanford University, California State University — East...Read more

Students and professors at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois Chicago held events Thursday as part of the National Day of Action for Higher Ed, a nationwide effort to protest the Trump administration’s cuts to education funding and changes to policy.

President Donald Trump promised to pursue federal cuts to education and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams offered rare pushback versus the Trump administration after the president ordered a stop to a Brooklyn project slated to become the country’s largest offshore wind port.

“This is a huge project for us,” Adams said of the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal at his weekly news briefing. “Thousands of jobs. Being ...Read more

In apparent defiance of a federal court ruling, a Florida Highway Patrol trooper arrested a Georgia man in north Florida under a new state law that targets undocumented immigrants who enter the state illegally — though it turns out the man is a U.S. citizen.

Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, 20, was arrested Wednesday under a new state law that makes ...Read more

U.S. Food and Drug Administration researchers working on ways to make powdered infant formula safer were told earlier this month they’d be let go, just weeks after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to make the newborn staple healthier.

Kennedy announced what he dubbed Operation Stork Speed last month to ...Read more

Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo is urging the Trump administration to remove lithium tariffs.

The Republican governor sent a letter earlier this week applauding the president’s efforts to bring manufacturing jobs to the United States but expressing concerns about the tariffs’ impact on Nevada’s growing lithium industry.

“The continued ...Read more

DETROIT — The Faculty Senate at Michigan State University is urging university leaders to help form a "mutual defense compact" with other universities that would fight Trump administration actions such as research grant cuts and banning diversity initiatives, while the University of Michigan's faculty is considering advocating such a move.

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has sent home staffers at AmeriCorps, the national agency that supports public service and volunteerism, in the latest agency takeover as part of a wide-ranging effort to cut the size of government.

Interim agency head Jennifer Bastress Tahmasebi sent a memo to employees Wednesday placing them on ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The son of a Leon County Sheriff’s deputy killed two people at Florida State University and wounded six others on Thursday after gaining access to his mother’s handgun and going on a campus rampage, police said.

The shooter, identified as 20-year-old Phoenix Ikner, was shot by officers and taken into custody before ...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione was indicted on federal murder charges in the shooting of a UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive, paving the way for U.S. prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against him.

Mangione’s federal case has now been assigned to a U.S. judge, who will rule on disputes in the case and oversee a trial. Mangione has ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis rejected a bill that would have altered the state’s public records laws on Thursday, setting up a rare attempt by legislators to try to override the veto.

In a letter announcing his decision — the first veto of the 2025 legislative session — the governor wrote that Senate Bill 77 made some “...Read more

The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog said talks between Iran and the U.S. are at a “crucial stage” and warned they have limited time to resolve their years-long standoff.

“There is a possibility of a good outcome but nothing is guaranteed,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, ...Read more