DETROIT — An Ann Arbor nurse helped a Mexican immigrant escape from federal custody by letting him flee Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital, unsealed federal court records alleged.

The case against Chloe Renae Freeman, 29, of Whitmore Lake describes a daring night-time escape during the nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration and an ongoing...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Hennepin County judge signaled his intent Wednesday to issue a temporary gag order in the state murder case against Vance Boelter, barring the convicted killer and all witnesses from public statements prior to trial.

The decision comes just two days after public defenders Bryan Leary and Raissa Carpenter filed a motion asking ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is urging Michigan voters to oppose a ballot proposal that would call a new constitutional convention to rewrite the state's governing document.

In a webinar Wednesday, the Democratic governor came out in opposition to the proposal largely on the grounds that a convention could be used to "roll back and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A former NYPD sergeant admitted Wednesday that he posed as an ICE agent and demanded a Queens woman report with her family to an immigration facility to settle what prosecutors called a “personal vendetta.”

Atickul Islam, 30, threw away his police career and possibly his freedom with text messages he sent March 29, 2025, when ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Three of the 17 people facing firearms charges following a weekend shooting near Towson University are enrolled there as students, the university said Wednesday.

A Towson University spokesperson confirmed that Joseph Duwana, 21, Kevin Kotchi, 21 and Kenneth Nambou, 23, are listed as students for the fall semester.

All three men ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A fifth person has died amid Pennsylvania’s growing measles outbreak, state health officials confirmed on Wednesday.

The Pennsylvania Department of Health said in a news release that an unvaccinated resident of Lancaster County tested positive for measles and has died.

Health officials said they would not release any ...Read more

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants with legal status are at risk of losing government health coverage starting Oct. 1, state data shows, signaling that the impact of Medicaid changes in President Donald Trump’s signature legislation from 2025 may be greater than anticipated.

Many lawfully present immigrants will be among the first people to ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City will press ahead with its rollout of the controversial pied-à-terre surcharge as planned while appealing a judge’s decision ordering Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration to restart the process.

Court papers filed in the Second Division, Appellate Department by the city Law Department late Tuesday triggered an ...Read more

BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and the attorneys general in Arkansas and Alabama filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. Supreme Court, suing California, Massachusetts and New York to invalidate the so-called “shield laws” that have allowed providers in those states to send abortion medication to people in states ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The National Urban League and several local housing nonprofits nationwide challenged part of the Trump administration’s last-minute cancellation of congressionally appropriated funds.

The lawsuit, filed Tuesday night in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on one portion of the $810 million cancellation...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., sued former special counsel Jack Smith on Wednesday, alleging that his prosecution of the president also unconstitutionally pulled in her records as a member of Congress.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, moves a political fight over the sweep of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Proposition 42 is a proposed constitutional amendment that would do two big things: block new state taxes on personal property, including financial assets, and limit certain retroactive state taxes.

It would apply to new taxes enacted or taking effect on or after Jan. 1, 2026 — a provision aimed squarely at the Prop. 40...Read more

PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University will open an innovative campus in Miami after a $3 billion donation from hedge fund CEO Kenneth Griffin, whose nationally historic gift will also aim to bolster CMU’s flagship Pittsburgh campus.

The gift from Griffin — the founder of Citadel whose nearly $50 billion net worth makes him the 37th ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has released a new report detailing nearly 1,000 cases of child sex abuse allegedly committed by 270 clergy across the Fall River, Worcester and Springfield dioceses, first publicly exposed in 2002, and the institutional failures that allowed the abuse to occur and continue.

The report ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill last week to narrow an exemption to the California Environmental Quality Act for manufacturing facilities. But the long-running political struggle over the cornerstone law continues apace, with both sides now turning their full attention from the Capitol to the voters.

That’s because one ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani has finally received high-level security clearance from the federal government, after nine months on the job without it, the mayor said Wednesday.

It’s unclear when he got the green light, though the news comes after Mamdani met with President Donald Trump at Gracie Mansion last week during the United Nations...Read more

New reports about Presley Gerber’s final hours before his Sept. 20 death in a sober living home in Santa Monica, California, reveal that Cindy Crawford’s troubled son was able to check into the facility, even though he was known to be under the influence of drugs.

Even more, Gerber reportedly brought drugs into the home that he would use ...Read more

Thursday is fueling up to bring the noise with two SpaceX launches on the Space Coast that could bring three boosters back for landings that could bring sonic booms across Central Florida.

First up at 11:10 a.m. EDT is only the second crewed mission to fly from Florida this year, and one that features an astronaut raised in Volusia County.

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The U.S. Justice Department has filed a judicial misconduct complaint against Minnesota’s former chief federal judge and others on the bench who gave media interviews regarding the government’s violations of court orders during Operation Metro Surge.

Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Wednesday the department filed the complaint ...Read more