On June 11, ICE agents trailed a car into the parking lot of Commodore John Rodgers Elementary/Middle School in Baltimore. For the family riding in that car, an everyday school drop off quickly devolved into chaos.

ICE agents pulled Jesus Acevedo Sanchez from the vehicle, pinned him to the ground and arrested him for being in the country ...Read more

NEW YORK — The NYPD will make public for the first time information about incidents in which a gun is fired but no one is struck under terms of a local law passed by the City Council Thursday.

“I believe this legislation will strengthen transparency around gun violence in our communities and provide the Council and the public with ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Homeland Security investigators conducted a wide-ranging surveillance campaign against Minnesota labor unions, trying to find evidence that they were part of an antifa conspiracy to finance domestic terrorism, according to federal records provided to the Minnesota 15, a group of protesters federally charged with impeding ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado woman accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at a Tesla dealership in Loveland alleged in a court filing this month that federal prosecutors unfairly targeted her as part of a politically motivated effort to punish enemies of President Donald Trump.

Lucy Nelson, 43, asked U.S. District Court Judge Nina Wang to dismiss the...Read more

The Kennedy Center Board of Trustees on Thursday voted to move forward with President Donald Trump's plan to close the building for renovations for two years, according to The Associated Press. During the same meeting, the board, which is filled with the president's allies, also voted to inscribe Trump's name on the building.

The votes came ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge issued a scathing order Thursday blocking a gambit by the Trump administration to take control of federal funding for homelessness programs in Los Angeles County.

In issuing a preliminary injunction, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter found that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development acted ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Immigration courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware are ordering people removed from the country in numbers not seen in at least a quarter century.

At the Philadelphia immigration court — which hears cases for most Pennsylvania and Delaware residents — orders of removal or voluntary departure rose 71%, from 1,230 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A “super” El Niño is now 95% likely to develop this year as the climate pattern gains dramatic strength in the Pacific Ocean — leaving officials across California and beyond bracing for a wet and potentially destructive winter.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche struck a conciliatory tone in his first speech since being confirmed to lead the Justice Department following months of turbulence and controversy that has tested the independence of the nation’s premier law enforcement agency and its credibility with the courts.

“I promise you that I will ...Read more

OTTAWA, Canada — A year ago, after a meeting with Canada’s provincial leaders, Prime Minister Mark Carney made a pledge that he has since repeated many times.

“Canada will not accept a bad deal,” he said about trade negotiations with President Donald Trump’s administration.

That promise is being put to the test as never before. ...Read more

The U.S. military campaign against Iran has so far failed to force the regime to capitulate. The Trump administration is betting once again that suffocating economic pressure will do the job.

Facing a shortfall of necessary munitions and wary of continuing an unpopular war, Trump and his top officials are returning to a familiar playbook: ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California prisons repeatedly and knowingly violated female prisoners’ civil rights by failing to prevent systemic sexual abuse, a two-year federal investigation revealed.

The state now has 49 days to address the issues outlined in a report released Thursday summarizing the U.S. Department of Justice’s investigation, after ...Read more

A class-action lawsuit filed this week against Kentucky State University alleges the university fraudulently advertised that its master’s of social work program was accredited when it wasn’t.

Emmanuel Smith, the plaintiff, is halfway through the master’s program and trying to transfer his credits to another university, but he can’t ...Read more

Border czar Tom Homan on Thursday defended plans to spend $20 million to equip immigration agents with gloves that deliver painful electric shocks to help them carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The tough-talking lawman said the 380-volt stun gloves would give Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents a useful tool...Read more

Fifty-six million years ago, Earth’s forests reached a tipping point. They had grown dense, lush canopies at the start of one of Earth’s most intense episodes of greenhouse warming. But those canopies began to thin.

As global temperatures rose by as much as 11 degrees Fahrenheit (6 degrees Celsius), heat and drought put stress on ...Read more

A largely overlooked part of the executive order President Donald Trump issued this week scaling back the schedule for childhood vaccines threatens legal action against the four states that don’t allow personal or religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements.

Those states — California, Connecticut, Maine and New York — are among ...Read more

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione is set to appear in a Manhattan courtroom Friday in his federal case for an eleventh-hour hearing that has fueled speculation he’s planning to plead out in relation to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The New York Times reported Thursday that Mangione was planning to plead guilty to unspecified ...Read more

DETROIT — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced her opposition to Consumers Energy's plan to sell its 13 hydropower dams to a private equity company in a Thursday letter to state energy regulators, warning the deal "would impose unacceptable safety and financial risks on Michiganders."

The Democratic governor urged Michigan's three Public Service ...Read more

SEATTLE — The University of Washington canceled a planned speech by Hasan Piker, saying the popular and controversial far-left streamer was disinvited from a speaker series after questions about the internal process for selecting speakers.

“It was determined that that the process for organizing this event did not meet the necessary level of...Read more

Border czar Tom Homan on Thursday defended plans to spend $20 million to equip immigration agents with gloves that deliver painful electric shocks to help them carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The tough-talking lawman said the 380-volt stun gloves would give Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents a useful tool...Read more