Current News

/

ArcaMax

Michael Blackshire/Los Angeles Times/TNS

Hochman restored 'normalcy' as LA's top prosecutor. Can it last under Trump?

Current News / News & Features /

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

Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post/TNS

ICE deportations are derailing Colorado criminal prosecutions

Current News / News & Features /

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

Jerry Holt/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

Program that works to keep disabled people in the community could fall to federal budget ax

Current News / News & Features /

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

Ana Ramirez/The San Diego Union-Tribune/TNS

Stay or go? For some transgender San Diego sailors and Marines, Trump's ban leaves one option: 'Come and find me'

Current News / News & Features /

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

Alex Wong/Getty Images North America/TNS

Insurers fight state laws restricting surprise ambulance bills

Current News / News & Features /

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

Ryan Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS

Officials react to fatal shooting at Richmond Road Baptist Church, injured officer

Current News / News & Features /

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

Ryan Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS

Two women killed at Lexington, KY church, officer injured at Blue Grass Airport

Current News / News & Features /

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

Ryan Hermens/Lexington Herald-Leader/TNS

Women killed in KY church shooting were mother and daughter, died 'serving the Lord'

Current News / News & Features /

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

Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/TNS

Trump to head to UK for his second state visit in September

Current News / News & Features /

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

Paul Brady/Dreamstime/TNS

Trump allies open new front with Powell over building rehab

Current News / News & Features /

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

Jens Büttner/Getty Images North America/TNS

Trump says he plans to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine

Current News / News & Features /

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

Budget reconciliation bill aids Alaska oil development, but also presents near-term challenges with gas crisis

Current News / News & Features /

The newly signed tax, spending and immigration bill seems likely to complicate efforts to resolve the natural gas crisis in Southcentral Alaska because it quashes Biden-era tax credits that supported wind and solar projects, people familiar with the state's energy industry say.

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act also could boost oil and gas ...Read more

James Arthur Gekiere/Belga/AFP/Getty Images North America/TNS

EU plans to engage more with other nations hit by US tariffs

Current News / News & Features /

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

Tyson  Horne/The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS

Georgia detention center under lockdown after masked gunman fires shots, officials say

Current News / News & Features /

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

CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images North America/TNS

Mexico's 'cool-head' Trump approach tested by new tariff threat

Current News / News & Features /

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

Tiney Ricciardi/The Denver Post/TNS

Colorado wildfires: Gov. Polis makes disaster declaration for five wildfires burning thousands of acres on western slope

Current News / News & Features /

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

Susan Du/The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

Minneapolis landlord opens homeless camps in his parking lots in defiance of city

Current News / News & Features /

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

Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune/TNS

Upcoming Chicago budget 'grimmest picture of all' for Mayor Brandon Johnson, aldermen

Current News / News & Features /

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

National Hurricane Center/TNS/TNS

Hurricane center keeps forecasting potential system near Florida

Current News / News & Features /

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

'Gothic fire' burns 35K acres in Nevada

Current News / News & Features /

A fire spanning 35,000 acres was burning in Nye County, Nevada, on the Nevada Test and Training Range, according to the Bureau of Land Management, Southern Nevada District.

The fire, referred to as the Gothic fire, was first reported in a remote area on July 4 and grew from 8,000 acres on Thursday to 35,000 acres by Saturday, with zero ...Read more