MINNEAPOLIS – A Democratic state legislator plans to introduce a bill requiring law enforcement — including the thousands of federal agents working in Minnesota — to show their faces on the job.

The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Lindsey Port, DFL-Burnsville, said she does not expect federal agents would comply with any such state law, but ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — First, it was a series of strong atmospheric rivers in January 2023 that set off a troublesome landslide, again splitting up the world-famous drive along Big Sur's iconic coastline.

Then, a second winter of drenching storms triggered two more slides, including one that completely buried another section of California's Highway 1 ...Read more

DETROIT — After Ramiro Sanders said he was thrown to the ground and handcuffed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside the 35th District Court in Plymouth in April, he and his spouse want to ensure courthouses and surrounding areas are safe for immigrants there on court business.

Sanders, who was released by ICE agents when...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating Michigan Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin following her part in a social media video reminding members of the military and intelligence communities that they may refuse illegal military orders.

Slotkin confirmed Wednesday that the office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California announced an investigation into Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI on Wednesday, with Gov. Gavin Newsom saying that the social media site owned by the billionaire is a “breeding ground for predators to spread nonconsenual sexually explicit AI deepfakes.”

Grok, the xAI chatbot, includes image...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The outcome of a trial over Missouri’s abortion regulations could ripple far beyond the state, potentially creating new availability for women in the Midwest and South who can’t access abortion close to home.

As a judge weighs the constitutionality of a litany of state restrictions on abortion, the stakes are clear for...Read more

DENVER — Colorado officials have identified three more bodies that were kept in a hidden room of a Pueblo mortuary run by former county coroner Brian Cotter and are now turning to public DNA databases to try to identify the remaining 15 people whose remains were found at Davis Mortuary.

Colorado Bureau of Investigation officials released an ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the Catholic Church will start delivering U.S. aid directly to people affected by Hurricane Melissa in Cuba.

“Today, we are announcing the first in a series of direct humanitarian shipments to Cuba as part of the $3 million of disaster assistance committed by the Trump Administration ...Read more

DENVER — Attorneys for discredited Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters will challenge her criminal convictions before the Colorado Court of Appeals on Wednesday, her latest attempt to escape a nine-year sentence after state officials dismissed a would-be pardon from President Donald Trump.

Mesa County jurors convicted Peters, 70, of four ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Mayor Brandon Scott declined to comment Tuesday on reports published in The Baltimore Sun that six former employees of Concentric Educational Solutions intentionally falsified records of the company’s tutoring and home visits for Baltimore City Public Schools between 2021 and 2024.

The Sun reported that Baltimore City Public ...Read more

An overwhelming majority of Venezuelans say they are deeply grateful to President Donald Trump for ordering U.S. troops into the country to capture strongman Nicolás Maduro — but even after that dramatic action, most do not believe the U.S. now governs Venezuela, despite Trump’s repeated assertions that Washington holds the real power in ...Read more

MIAMI — Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday appointed Adam Tanenbaum, a judge for the First District Court of Appeals, to the Florida Supreme Court.

DeSantis announced the appointment at Tanenbaum’s alma mater: Seminole High School in Pinellas County, where he graduated first in his class in 1989 — the same year as the kids in “Stranger ...Read more

Nick Reiner’s former attorney Alan Jackson still wants “the most robust defense” for the 32-year-old, accused of killing parents Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner, though he “simply can’t divulge” certain details about why he withdrew counsel last week.

Nick has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the Dec. 14 ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX is starting to get the ball rolling on its Florida launch card with its fourth mission of the year.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-98 mission with 29 Starlink satellites is targeting liftoff at 1:08 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a launch window from 1:01-5:01 p.m.

This ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A private investment partnership has purchased St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles and plans to turn the long-shuttered hospital into a one-stop shop where homeless people can seek help.

The new St. Vincent Behavioral Health Campus, expected to open in phases over the next two years, will eventually provide job training, ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his demand for the U.S. to take control of Greenland for national security reasons before a meeting of top diplomats in Washington and called on NATO to support his efforts.

“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” the president said in a social ...Read more

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is defending his decision to donate $10,000 to Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis last week.

As of Wednesday morning, a GoFundMe page created by Clyde Emmons has raked in nearly $700,000 in donations from more than 14,000 people, including Ackman, the founder...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his assertion that the U.S. needs Greenland for national security, urging NATO to back his efforts to gain control of the Arctic territory before a meeting of top diplomats in Washington.

“NATO becomes far more formidable and effective with Greenland in the hands of the UNITED STATES,” Trump said in a ...Read more

The Iranian government continued its crackdown on protests that have swept the nation despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of action over mounting fatalities.

The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that 2,571 people had been killed from late December through Wednesday, up from about 500 at the start of the week. ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will call a snap election early in the parliamentary session starting later this month, in a bid to shore up her leadership and secure a mandate for the new ruling coalition.

Takaichi told officials from the ruling bloc that she will give more details of the dissolution on Jan. 19, according to Liberal ...Read more