SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved $8.75 million Wednesday to address the ongoing Tijuana River pollution crisis through health studies, infrastructure improvements and an expanded air purifier program.

The funding package includes $4.75 million for epidemiological studies and a temporary infrastructure...Read more

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem already had weathered missteps in the past year pressing the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement policy and changes to federal disaster relief — and then came her response to immigration agents fatally shooting two Minnesotans.

The former South Dakota governor ...Read more

DENVER — At least one of Colorado’s collared wolves roamed widely across southwestern Colorado in the last month, a new map of wolf locations released Wednesday by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows.

One of the state’s 19 collared wolves traveled quickly through a number of watersheds in that region, including near tribal land, according ...Read more

NEW YORK — State prosecutors in Manhattan on Wednesday pushed to try Luigi Mangione for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in July, before his federal case gets underway.

In a letter to Justice Gregory Carro, Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann said state prosecutors should get to present their case before President ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Key Republicans in the Trump administration are retreating from their blanket defense of Border Patrol agents who fatally shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on a Minneapolis street, part of a larger effort by the White House to turn down the temperature after the killing provoked widespread outrage.

But it remains unclear whether the...Read more

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A bill barring law enforcement officers from concealing their identities while performing public duties advanced out of the Washington Senate Wednesday, sending one of the session’s most closely watched public safety proposals to the House amid heightened scrutiny of masked federal immigration enforcement.

Substitute Senate...Read more

A West Virginia librarian was arrested for allegedly using social media to recruit someone to assassinate President Donald Trump.

Ripley resident Morgan Leigh Morrow, 39, was taken into custody after she engaged in the “social media recruitment of individuals to pursue and assassinate President Trump,” the Jackson County Sheriff’s ...Read more

After weeks of the Trump administration verbally hammering Minnesota officials, it looked earlier this week like a détente was in sight over the immigration crackdown during which two citizens have been killed by federal agents.

But now, the bickering is back on.

Earlier this week, amid fallout from the killing of Alex Pretti, President ...Read more

Committees in the Maryland House of Delegates and state Senate have each passed legislation to end local formal agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sending the legislation to the floor of both chambers.

The House Judiciary Committee passed the legislation Wednesday, 12-7, and the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee ...Read more

A federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Transportation unlawfully withheld nearly $1 billion in electric vehicle infrastructure funding from 20 states and the District of Columbia, siding with a multistate coalition including Maryland.

The states argued the funding freeze violated federal law and jeopardized efforts to build a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The Nevada Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal’s challenge to a judge’s decision ejecting three of the newspaper’s journalists from witnessing an alleged victim testify in Nathan Chasing Horse’s sexual assault trial.

The challenge, filed Tuesday, argued that District Judge Jessica ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A preliminary report from federal investigators provided to members of Congress lays out the timeline of how Alex Pretti was killed by immigration enforcement agents — a deadly interaction that lasted less than five minutes.

A copy of the report, obtained by the Minnesota Star Tribune on Tuesday, says two officers — a Border...Read more

Former Navy Seal, professional wresting hall-of-famer and ex-Minnesota Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura believes his state might be better off if it were to become a part of Canada.

“Since Trump dislikes Minnesota so bad and we’re so ‘out of control,’ let’s join Canada,” he said during a recent appearance on The SpinSister’s ...Read more

BOSTON — Massachusetts population growth slowed in 2025 due to a a slow-down in the international immigration fueling growth in recent years, new data from the Census Bureau showed.

The population of Massachusetts grew 0.2% from July 2024 to July 2025, Census data released Tuesday showed, up to 7,154,084.

Like much of the country, ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The San Diego County Board of Supervisors approved an ordinance Tuesday that restricts federal immigration agents from accessing non-public areas on county property — such as offices, construction sites and storage facilities — without a judicial warrant or court order.

The Civil Liberties Enforcement and Accountability Rules,...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Sixty-three percent of Virginia voters support the commonwealth’s current once-a-decade redistricting process. But a narrow majority (51%) would support a proposed constitutional amendment that would change that method in response to redistricting in other states, according to a new poll.

The Wason Center at Christopher ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration’s controversial deployments of National Guard troops to six American cities since June cost about $496 million in 2025, and continuing the existing deployments as is would cost about $93 million per month, the Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.

And for each additional Guard unit that is ...Read more