LOS ANGELES — In the days since he charged a Los Angeles police officer with a crime for capturing evidence of his co-workers’ racist remarks, Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan Hochman has been the subject of withering criticism from Mayor Karen Bass, former cops and even some of his own prosecutors.

The chorus of voices decrying ...Read more

Amid a crippling energy crisis in Cuba, U.S. companies have exported about $96 million in fuel to the island’s private sector in the first half of this year while the Trump administration has cut off oil supplies to the island’s government, according to U.S. port data.

According to the data compiled by the U.S. Cuba-Trade and Economic ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Ramsey County and state officials are suing two Somali gangs to try to stop violence at the Minnesota State Fair, alleging they have previously created a public nuisance in and around the Fairgrounds through fights and shootings.

Two civil complaints filed jointly Wednesday in district court by the Ramsey County Attorney’s...Read more

President Donald Trump has revived his threat to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook over unproven allegations of mortgage fraud, according to a letter seen by Bloomberg, a move that could renew a legal fight over the central bank’s independence.

In a letter dated Wednesday, Cook was told that Trump is “considering removing” her and ...Read more

NEW YORK — A number of homeowners are suing NYC over the Mamdani administration’s rollout of the pied-à-terre tax on expensive second homes, arguing the city “has arbitrarily and capriciously foisted” on city dwellers the responsibility of proving they’re full-time residents who shouldn’t be hit with the surcharge.

The lawsuit, ...Read more

NEW YORK — Reading scores of New York City public school students plummeted this past school year, erasing improvements in the subject recorded a year before, data released Friday showed.

Only about half of all students in grades three through eight scored as proficient in English Language Arts — a drop from about 56% scoring proficient the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Dozens of people who were charged or convicted in connection with the violent riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, have filed lawsuits seeking millions of dollars from the U.S. government after the Trump administration walked back the sprawling prosecution effort.

The latest case, filed on Friday in Washington, was brought...Read more

BALTIMORE — The family of a man struck and killed by a Metro train in Pikesville is suing the Maryland Transit Administration, hoping to learn more about what led to his death and compensate his two children for their loss.

According to the lawsuit, which was transferred Tuesday to Baltimore County Circuit Court, Kaseem Malik Ray went to the ...Read more

Haverford College and a Jewish group suing the school over its handling of antisemitism allegations have reached a settlement, according to federal court documents.

The documents in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania did not include details of the settlement, but a lawyer for the plaintiffs says Haverford President...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — More than two weeks after a Cary woman went missing while on vacation in the Caribbean, her husband says the “most likely scenario” is that she drowned but that some details don’t add up.

Elizabeth “Liz” Waddell, 44, was last seen July 22 on Grand Anse Beach in Grenada, after security footage showed her swimming by a...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As Calaveras County mourns the first death linked to the Gann fire, Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency in the county as crews battle the wildfire that has blackened more than 10,000 acres since Monday.

Firefighters are steadily gaining ground on the blaze, now at 10,347 acres, and 40% contained, Friday ...Read more

DENVER — A Colorado mountain town is wielding its zoning codes in an attempt to stop federal immigration agents from locking people up in a strip-mall holding cell.

The City Council in Glenwood Springs, the Roaring Fork Valley destination known for its historic hot springs, voted Thursday night to sue the landlord who leases the property used...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Northwest school district has filed a lawsuit against a Denton County shooting range after two stray bullets were found at the site of a new middle school that is set to open Wednesday, Aug. 12, officials said.

Barksdale Middle School at 6901 Mulkey Lane in Northlake, is about one mile south of the Quail Creek Shooting...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Austrian deputy consul general, in the Twin Cities from his posting in New York, lifted the top off a cardboard box and pulled out a tiny piece of art.

The handful of people gathered Wednesday afternoon in a dining room at Oak Ridge Country Club in Hopkins leaned closer and squinted.

The 1847 watercolor miniature, just 3 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana said Friday he intended to vote to confirm Todd Blanche to be attorney general, ending a weekslong back-and-forth with the White House to win over GOP holdouts.

All eyes were on Cassidy’s Friday morning floor speech after his fellow Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of ...Read more

MIAMI — A former federal prosecutor who was fired because he had made critical blog posts about Donald Trump during his first term as president has sued the top U.S. law enforcement officials in the nation and South Florida, saying in a lawsuit filed Friday they violated his free-speech rights when he was summarily terminated last year.

Will ...Read more

In a new finding, a coroner’s report released Thursday showed nine backcountry skiers killed by an avalanche in February near Lake Tahoe died of asphyxiation, not from traumatic injuries from getting hit by hurtling slabs of snow and swept away.

The heavily redacted reports leave questions unanswered, including whether any of the three ski-...Read more

CHICAGO — Authorities on Friday began the grim task of removing remains from a South Deering funeral home on the city’s Southeast Side, as police continued to investigate after the decomposing bodies of more than 50 people were found Thursday.

Personnel on scene rolled out one body at a time, wrapped in white bags, as city and state ...Read more