FORT WORTH, Texas — The former FedEx driver who was sentenced to death in May for the capital murder of 7-year-old Wise County girl Athena Strand has had his request for a new trial denied.

Tanner Horner’s attorneys filed the motion in Tarrant County on June 4, alleging that widespread media coverage intimidated some key witnesses who ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Carlitos Ricardo Parias had long complained to his family about the quality of drinking water at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

In a video call from the Southern California facility where he is detained, he finally showed them proof — a plastic bottle filled with drinking water and what appeared to be worm-like creatures....Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A small city in Anoka County is asking the Minnesota Supreme Court for permission to use paper voter rolls, a change that critics argue could create long lines during this fall’s midterm election and set a precedent to allow other cities to follow suit.

The state’s high court is weighing a petition from Oak Grove, which ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal judge tossed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, saying the federal agency cannot compel the Illinois Board of Elections to release sensitive information about the state’s roughly 8.3 million registered voters.

Seven months after Trump’s DOJ filed suit, U.S. District Judge Colleen Lawless in the Central ...Read more

DENVER — Buying certain firearms will be notably more onerous starting Saturday as one of Colorado’s most consequential gun regulations goes into full effect.

Senate Bill 3 requires Coloradans looking to buy rifles and shotguns with detachable magazines or gas-operated pistols — weapons popularly conceived of as assault-style rifles — ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Emanuel Lexius’ market in El Cajon is typically bustling.

Not this week.

Lexius is Haitian, and so are most of the shoppers at Miche Caribbean Market. They come to stock up on familiar Haitian staples — Ti Malice vegetable oil spread, long-grain heirloom rice, Cola Couronne soda.

“People don’t want to be out,” he said,...Read more

The U.S. Army soldier charged with making winning Polymarket predictions based on classified information about the raid to capture then-Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro asked a judge to throw out the case, saying the alleged bets aren’t a crime.

Lawyers for Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a special forces soldier who prosecutors said was involved in...Read more

NEW YORK — Fear of mass deportation has gripped New York City’s Haitian community after the Trump administration announced that federal Temporary Protected Status for thousands of immigrants expired this week following a Supreme Court ruling.

The city’s hospitals, staffed by many TPS holders, and Haitian businesses may already be feeling ...Read more

Michigan joined Minnesota in announcing cyberattacks on its state water supply, saying nine systems were the target of attacks that intelligence officials have blamed on Iran.

Federal agencies have said at least seven states’ water systems were compromised, but didn’t name the states. No damage or injuries were reported.

Minnesota ...Read more

CHICAGO — When Chicago Public Schools passed its $9.96 billion budget on Thursday night, several board members made a high-stakes gamble: that state lawmakers will deliver $150 million in additional funding.

The Chicago Teachers Union and its board allies argued that CPS is chronically underfunded by the state, and that the amended 2026-27 ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York took a major step this week toward enacting new social media restrictions for kids and teens after the state finalized rules that curb access to a number of “addictive” design features.

The law, called the Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, aims to protect youth mental health by limiting algorithmic...Read more

BALTIMORE — When Maryland Democrats tried to redistrict congressional seats five years ago, a judge struck the effort down, calling the map “extremely gerrymandered.” This week, lawmakers seek to change the law to clear the way for another try.

In 2021, Democrats pursued a redraw of Maryland’s congressional map with lawmakers seeking to...Read more

Capital One Financial Corp. said in a court filing late Friday that it closed accounts belonging to President Donald Trump’s sprawling real estate company in 2021 for legitimate reasons after an internal review by the bank’s anti-money laundering team.

The lender made the revelation in a filing asking a judge to toss out a Trump ...Read more

President Donald Trump doubled down on his commitment to a $1.8 billion fund to help his supporters, saying he’d now work with Congress to make it federal law — even if it costs him his nominee for U.S. attorney general.

Trump said in a social media post Saturday that he would “push hard to get the Anti-Weaponization Bill” passed, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California's statewide minimum wage is set to rise next year.

Starting on Jan. 1, 2027, the statewide minimum wage will rise to $17.40 an hour, an increase Gov. Gavin Newsom boasted about on Friday.

Newsom — who has been eyeing a 2028 presidential run — said in a statement that California's fiscal policies helped turn the ...Read more

U.S. embassies across the Middle East urged Americans to exercise caution after President Donald Trump said he was considering new military strikes against Iran.

The warning came as Tehran’s Supreme National Security Council secretary, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, said Saturday that a continued U.S. naval blockade and any escalation would not ...Read more