A quarter of immigration arrests since August were labeled by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as "collateral," a type of arrest and detention that's been challenged in court as an end run around civil rights.

Public outrage and lawsuits over the arrests may be tamping down the large-scale sweeps that foster them, but tens of thousands ...Read more

Tory Starr is worried about the people who get medical care at Open Door Community Health Centers along California's North Coast.

"They're the folks that work at restaurants. They're the teacher's aides," said Starr, a registered nurse who became Open Door's chief executive more than six years ago. Those patients, he said, are "really the heart...Read more

DETROIT — A bill introduced in Lansing that would require family court judges in Michigan to receive training before taking the bench is dividing some in the legal system, with some saying it's needed to prevent judges from making consequential mistakes, while others say it's "unconstitutional" and "unnecessary."

Under the law right now, a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A recent series of earthquakes in Nevada has served as a jolting reminder of the state's seismic risk.

It started with a scary earthquake near Reno, then more unsettling shaking near Las Vegas. Neither earthquake caused significant damage, but it has gotten Nevada talking about the large geological forces that caused them.

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s new decision gutting a key provision of the federal Voting Rights Act clears the way for state officials to drastically reshape not only Congress but also state legislatures, county commissions, city councils and even local school boards.

The ruling, released last week in a case called Louisiana v. Callais, dismantled...Read more

When he was elected pope on May 8, 2025, Robert Prevost, who took the name Leo XIV, greeted the crowd with Christ’s words to his disciples: “Peace be with you.”

Peace has become a central theme of the pontificate of the first American pope. In recent months, opposing the war in the Middle East, Leo has said that the “world is ...Read more

The University of Texas at Arlington was awarded a $4 million grant from Gov. Greg Abbott’s office to help develop a real time flood warning system for the Hill Country, the university announced Monday, May 4.

On July 4, 2025, over 130 people were killed in floods in Kerr County, including 25 campers, two counselors and a director at Camp ...Read more

California Department of Fish and Wildlife officials captured a bear Monday at Hansen Dam a day after it caused a stir among residents and triggered a police response.

A dramatic scene unfolded Sunday at Hansen Dam Recreation Area, in the San Fernando Valley near Pacoima, as an ursine interloper came too close for comfort to weekend crowds at...Read more

A man was shot by Secret Service officers near the White House Monday afternoon after agents spotted him carrying a concealed firearm and he opened fire, according to the agency’s deputy director.

Plainclothes surveillance agents patrolling the outer perimeter of the White House complex spotted what they described as a visible outline of a ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota state Senate has approved a sweeping violence prevention bill taken up after a violent year that saw the shooting deaths of two Minneapolis schoolchildren and the assassination of House DFL Leader Melissa Hortman and her husband.

The wide-ranging bill includes a ban on assault-style weapons and high-capacity ...Read more

Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel ramped up his rhetoric this weekend, calling the current U.S. administration “fascist,” after President Donald Trump suggested, apparently in jest, that he could send a U.S. aircraft carrier “on its way back from Iran” and easily take the island.

While recognizing attendees at an event in Palm Beach Friday...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, he began canceling federal grants that helped fund research across University of California campuses. The university system estimates that over 1,600 grants awarded to the research powerhouse have been impacted by those cuts, resulting in a potential loss of over $1 ...Read more

Hantavirus is suspected of spreading aboard a luxury cruise ship, killing three passengers and sparking new concerns as a once obscure disease, with an extraordinarily high death rate, rises amid changing climate conditions.

Officials are still trying to determine what happened aboard the ship, which commands fares of up to $28,845 for a 46-day...Read more

Miami Herald investigative reporter Julie K. Brown on Monday was honored by the Pulitzer Prize Board for her groundbreaking and impactful investigation into sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and the people and institutions that enabled him to abuse girls for decades.

The 2026 Pulitzer Prizes also recognized the Miami Herald and WLRN journalists as...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is suing Minnesota over the state’s lawsuit that aims to hold fossil fuel companies liable for climate change.

It’s the latest legal challenge to the state’s case, which alleges that Exxon Mobil, Koch Industries and the American Petroleum Institute misled the public by hiding and downplaying evidence that ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Democratic-Farmer-Labor majority in the Minnesota Senate passed a gun control package Monday that includes a ban on so-called assault weapons and limits on magazine capacities.

Its passage comes after years of debate at the state Capitol and two high-profile tragedies last summer: the August shooting that left two dead ...Read more

DENVER — Coloradans will no longer be able to make 3D-printed guns and agricultural workers will have to work 56 hours in a week before they qualify for overtime under a pair of bills signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis on Monday.

House Bill 1144, the ban on 3D-printed guns, goes into effect July 1. The law expands on Colorado’s prior ban ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Former North Carolina state Rep. Cecil Brockman won $2 million in state funding for a nonprofit in High Point that provides services for people with autism and other disabilities in 2023. Since then, nearly a fifth of that money went to his predecessor and former boss, Marcus Brandon.

Now the state is investigating whether ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — A Polk County man who told deputies he was trying to “beat the gay out of” a 5-year-old boy has been charged with aggravated child abuse for hurting that child, who suffered a fractured wrist and other injuries, and two others.

Andre Brown Jr., 33, of Davenport, was arrested Sunday and will face enhanced penalties because ...Read more