BOSTON — Democratic U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Jim McGovern (MA-02) say they will not attend the State of the Union address Tuesday night, joining Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) in boycotting the event in protest against President Donald Trump.

A growing group of congressional Democrats have announced they will instead be attending “The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration on Tuesday sued the University of California, alleging that UCLA administrators have “routinely ignored” and “failed to report” employee complaints of antisemitism since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s war in Gaza spurred a surge in pro-Palestinian campus activism.

In the ...Read more

Savannah Guthrie’s family is putting up its own $1 million reward that leads to the “recovery” of her elderly mother, Nancy Guthrie, who was nabbed from her home in the middle of the night early this month, and who the “Today” show host acknowledged may have died.

The 84-year-old matriarch was last seen at her Tucson home on Jan. 31, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is suing the city, claiming in a whistleblower lawsuit that Mayor Karen Bass “orchestrated a campaign of retaliation” to protect her own political future and paper over her failures during the most destructive fire in city history.

In the lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles ...Read more

The Pentagon warned Anthropic PBC that it would terminate the company’s military contracts on Friday if the artificial intelligence startup failed to meet government terms for use of its technology, according to people familiar with the matter.

During a meeting Tuesday between Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers continue their push for new gun control legislation in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, though without the support of rural DFLers and at least one Republican, the path forward remains unclear.

That hasn’t stopped the ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis and members of the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved roughly $40 million to reimburse local law enforcement agencies — primarily in rural counties — for a rapid buildup of equipment and detention capacity as part of the state’s escalating immigration crackdown.

The total marked a sharp, last-minute reduction from the $...Read more

MIAMI — A family member of a teenage girl found dead on a Carnival Cruise ship as it headed back to Miami in November said federal prosecutors have charged the teen’s stepbrother with her homicide, according to a recently filed court document.

Cleaning staff aboard the Carnival Horizon found 18-year-old Anna Kepner’s body underneath a bed...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A woman charged in the 2023 drowning deaths of two toddlers at the Almaden daycare she ran with her mother pleaded guilty Monday as trial hearings got underway, while her mother’s case continues toward a jury trial.

Nina Fathizadeh, 43, of San Jose, entered the plea and has a sentencing hearing set for May 8, according to...Read more

DENVER — The state Senate approved a measure Tuesday that would allow Coloradans to sue federal agents if they believed their constitutional rights were violated during immigration enforcement.

The Democrat-backed measure, Senate Bill 5, passed the chamber 20-11 on a party-line vote. It still needs to pass the House before it goes to Gov. ...Read more

DENVER — Three of Colorado’s congressional Democrats are calling on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to abandon plans to open a new immigration detention facility in the small Weld County town of Hudson.

“As ICE agents continue to terrorize our communities, illegally detain U.S. citizens and...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Just one year after the Illinois General Assembly failed to pass a school cellphone ban, Gov. JB Pritzker is asking lawmakers to advance an even stricter version of the proposal that mandates all public and charter school districts adopt a ban that runs throughout the full school day.

The latest push was part of Pritzker�...Read more

SEATTLE — Five people are dead, including a suspect, after a reported stabbing and a police shooting in Pierce County’s Key Peninsula, officials say.

A caller reported that a man was violating a no-contact order around 8:45 a.m. Tuesday, according to a statement shared by Key Peninsula Fire Department spokesperson Anne Nesbit.

Deputies ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami Beach leaders gathered Tuesday to send a unified message about the upcoming spring break season: yes, the city is relaxing some of its strictest rules and restrictions from recent years, but no, the party is not back on.

Speaking at Miami Beach Police Department headquarters in South Beach, Police Chief Wayne Jones said the city...Read more

MIAMI — The FBI is trying to “establish a possible motive” behind a North Carolina man who traveled to Palm Beach County where he was fatally shot early Sunday on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate by U.S. Secret Service agents and a sheriff’s deputy, authorities said.

Agents concluded gathering evidence of the shooting scene ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday the U.S. Postal Service is shielded from being sued even if its employees intentionally fail to deliver the mail.

In a 5-4 decision, the court said Congress in 1946 had barred lawsuits "arising out of the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission of letters or postal matter," and that includes ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch has launched an investigation into a caught-on-camera clash where a rowdy crowd pelted a group of uniformed cops with snowballs in Manhattan’s Washington Square Park.

“The NYPD is aware of certain videos taken earlier today in Washington Square Park showing individuals attacking cops,” Tisch ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will deliver the first formal State of the Union address of his second term on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. EST.

Major networks will carry it live, including ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and Fox News. Some, including C-SPAN, will have free livestreams available on YouTube as well.

Trump skipped a traditional State of the...Read more

Democratic lawmakers plan to bring people who say they were victimized by sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday.

Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin announced in a statement Monday that he and Virginia Rep. Suhas Subramanyam will be joined by the brother and sister-in-law of late Epstein ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Bronx nurse whose high school student son was grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents last year will be a guest of Sen. Chuck Schumer at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.

Raiza Contreras, 41, hopes her presence will spotlight what she calls the unjust treatment of her 21-year-old son, Dylan, ...Read more