NEW YORK — Donald Trump is in no way limited by what he can say about witnesses at his Manhattan hush money trial if he chooses to take the stand in his own defense, the judge presiding over the case told him Friday — correcting a claim Trump made outside court.

On his way out of court Thursday, Trump claimed Merchan’s gag order — the ...Read more

Rishi Sunak’s ruling Conservative Party lost a bellwether parliamentary seat and was on track to shed hundreds of local councilors, a set of devastating election results that nonetheless fell short of a worst-case scenario that might have prompted a Tory bid to remove him.

The Conservatives’ widespread losses to the Labour Party echoed a ...Read more

When a pro-Palestine protester snatched an Israeli flag from a counter-protester on the steps of UC Berkeley’s Sproul Hall this week, it seemed as if it could go the way of violent clashes in universities in Southern California.

But the ensuing scuffle quickly de-escalated, and a relative calm returned to campus Thursday.

At Stanford, when ...Read more

NEW YORK — Police cleared out pro-Gaza encampments at New York University and The New School early Friday morning, arresting dozens of protesters urging the schools to divest from Israel over the war in Gaza, police and university officials said.

A rep for NYU said the request for the NYPD’s assistance came after protesters refused to leave...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A.J. took two small hits off a cannabis vape pen, a common ritual with his morning coffee. Moments after exhaling, a transfigured, kaleidoscopic version of the world emerged before his eyes.

“Some colors are seeping into the other colors,” the 30-year-old said, gesturing across his art-filled living room in Yorba Linda. “...Read more

A former Fulton County Jail inmate who says he was stabbed 13 times in the jail is suing the county and the Fulton Sheriff’s Office alleging they are responsible for the dangerous conditions in the jail.

The legal complaint, filed on Wednesday on behalf of Michael Horton, said the jail cell doors were left unlocked and just one guard was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Protests on college campuses related to the Israel-Hamas war and humanitarian crisis inside Gaza that turned violent this week handed President Joe Biden a political headache and former President Donald Trump a new attack line. The unrest showed the risks of being the incumbent and allowed Trump to — once again — push his ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Naomi Schumichen was on the phone with her sister on April 22, taking a walk around the Cal Poly Humboldt campus for fresh, coastal air. She heard shouting from Siemens Hall, and noticed an unusual number of police officers starting to swarm the building.

She watched as a growing number of protesters began chanting for an...Read more

Private Medicaid health plans lost millions of members in the past year as pandemic protections that prohibited states from dropping anyone from the government program expired.

But despite Medicaid’s unwinding, as it’s known, at least two of the five largest publicly traded companies selling plans have continued to increase revenue from the...Read more

If you were standing on the edge of a canyon in the San Juan Basin of the Colorado Plateau about 1,200 years ago, you may have heard a loud, distant sound reverberating off the rock faces and ricocheting across the desert.

Like the gong of a bell or the deep tone of a ship’s horn, the sound would be a rich single note cutting through the dry ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sam Andreano is currently putting the finishes touches on his split-lot property in Whittier. He's a guinea pig for state Senate Bill 9, a housing law that allows homeowners to divvy up their properties and build two or even four units on a once-single-family lot.

Andreano, 59, was one of SB 9's earliest adopters. He bought a ...Read more

Pro-Palestine protesters took down and cleared their encampment at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J., on Thursday after agreeing to a deal with the school’s administration.

University president Jonathan Holloway had issued an ultimatum giving the protesters until 4 p.m. to dismantle the encampment and disperse, or face trespassing ...Read more

BOSTON — In a simple sentence, federal prosecutors announced they would abide by an appeals court ruling and take another look to see if the Boston Marathon bomber deserves another death penalty trial.

“This letter is to inform the Court that the government will not be seeking panel rehearing or rehearing en banc of the decision in this ...Read more

NEW YORK — An officer fired off his gun inside Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall during the NYPD raid Tuesday, police sources said.

A spokesperson with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office Thursday confirmed the office’s Police Accountability Unit had opened a probe into the shooting.

The officers with the NYPD’s Emergency ...Read more