WASHINGTON — Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told lawmakers Tuesday that the Justice Department is scrapping its plans for a $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” after a wave of bipartisan backlash on Capitol Hill.

His comments mark an abrupt reversal for the Justice Department amid criticism that the money would amount to a slush ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has spent months projecting confidence that a deal to end the Iran conflict is within reach. Israel’s determination to press ahead with its own objectives underscores his tenuous control over the outcome of the crisis.

The latest diplomatic rupture followed days of Israeli military escalation against ...Read more

The Coast Guard is resuming its search for a missing Michigan woman in the waters surrounding the Bahamas.

Divers with the Coast Guard have arrived and are preparing to reenter the Sea of Abaco in search of Lynette Hooker, 56, CNN reported, citing a U.S. official familiar with the investigation.

Coast Guard media spokespersons didn't ...Read more

SEATTLE — Mayor Katie Wilson does not have legal authority to pause Seattle’s rollout of police surveillance cameras, Council member Bob Kettle argued to her Monday.

Wilson's office pushed back, arguing that the decision of when, whether and how to use cameras was well within the mayor's purview. Still, the exchange represents an escalation...Read more

Nick Pasqual, an actor who appeared in “How I Met Your Mother,” has been sentenced to 32 years to life for the attempted murder of his estranged girlfriend, L.A.-based makeup artist Allie Shehorn.

Following a jury trial, Pasqual was also convicted of counts of injuring a spouse or partner, first-degree burglary and rape, according to court ...Read more

Developers of frontier artificial intelligence models will have the option to voluntarily submit new technologies for review by federal cybersecurity agencies under a new executive order that comes after President Donald Trump backed away from an expected order last month.

Trump issued the executive order on Tuesday morning in a private signing...Read more

Haunted Mansion riders squeezed out of their ride vehicles and helped free other passengers from their doom buggies during a highly unusual attraction evacuation at Disneyland that left former employees and longtime fans shaking their heads in disbelief.

Disneyland cast members evacuated the Haunted Mansion on May 27 after a small electrical ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Parents of transgender children who received care at Stanford’s children’s hospital are asking a federal judge to stop the hospital from turning over their children’s identities and medical records to the Trump administration as part of a criminal investigation.

A lawsuit filed against Lucile Packard Children’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is moving to drop controversial plans for a $1.8 billion fund to pay victims of alleged government “weaponization,” but will still provide immunity from any probes into the president’s past tax filings under a deal agreed to last month.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the pivot ...Read more

The Trump administration’s top diplomat in Haiti may soon be leaving his post.

Henry T. Wooster, who has spent the past year shaping Washington’s response to the country’s vexing security and political crises as chargé d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy, has been nominated as ambassador to Kenya, the White House announced Monday. Wooster�...Read more

Microsoft Corp. launched new artificial intelligence software designed to function like an always-active executive assistant, the latest evolution of its workplace AI efforts.

While AI bots like ChatGPT or Microsoft’s Copilot are only visible to the user, the new tool, dubbed Scout, will appear on internal email and calendar systems as if it ...Read more

Human remains discovered next to a handgun in a remote northern New Mexico forest were identified this week as those of a missing woman who had worked at a high-security federal lab.

Melissa Casias was first reported missing almost a year ago from her home in Taos, N.M., where her daughter found her valuables — two phones, wallet, ...Read more

Debbie Brockman, the former WGN-TV producer whose aggressive detainment in October during Operation Midway Blitz went viral on social media, filed a $10 million personal injury claim against the U.S. government Tuesday for alleged harm suffered at the hands of federal immigration agents.

Brockman was tackled, handcuffed and placed in a van ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Survivors Committee wants some of its more prominent sexual abuse claims against the Archdiocese of Baltimore moved from federal bankruptcy court to Maryland civil court — a move that, if approved, would increase the church’s liability exposure by millions of dollars.

Testimony began Tuesday on the committee’s request to...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Federal officials on Tuesday announced an expansion to a program that uses Farm Bill funding to help farmers and ranchers preserve big-game migration corridors on private land. The announcement was made in Boise at a Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies conference.

The program, called Migratory Big Game: A ...Read more

MIAMI — For the first time, Catholic schools in South Florida are getting some extra help from the state to pay for security measures.

The recently approved state budget includes $15 million for security funding for Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Miami, which includes 68 schools in Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties.

The ...Read more

CHICAGO — Illinois’ two Democratic U.S. senators called Tuesday for U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros to resign, saying his office has been “riddled with chaos, deep internal dysfunction, and alleged misconduct.”

“He must resign, and there must be an open, transparent, and nonpartisan search to nominate the next U.S. Attorney for the ...Read more