A Minneapolis woman who went viral after videos circulated of federal immigration agents dragging her from her car has filed a new complaint with the Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights office over allegations of excessive force and constitutional violations.

The attorneys for Aliya Rahman, who was ripped from her car in January ...Read more

Chicago health officials are investigating a case of measles in a traveler who arrived at O’Hare International Airport on June 17.

The person likely caught the measles outside of the U.S., according to the Chicago Department of Public Health. It’s possible members of the public may have been exposed to the illness at O’Hare in terminal 5 ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — After hearing weeks of evidence about Jonathan Rinderknecht’s loathing of the kinds of wealthy elites who inhabit the Pacific Palisades, jurors on Tuesday began deliberating whether he should be convicted of setting a fire that grew to swallow the opulent enclave and became the worst blaze in Los Angeles history.

Prosecutors ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to spend a Wednesday excursion to the U.S. Capitol demanding divisive voter ID legislation. Frustrated Republican senators have other ideas.

Over lunch in a wood-paneled room on the Capitol’s second floor, several GOP senators plan to try to impress on Trump that his targeting of fellow Republicans,...Read more

Reports of a 23-year-old man falling from a nearly 600-foot waterfall at Yosemite National Park are under investigation by the National Park Service, according to authorities.

A Yosemite spokesperson offered minimal details about the Saturday incident at Nevada Fall except to confirm that a 23-year-old male was involved and that "emergency ...Read more

BALTIMORE — After erroneous ballots were mailed to Maryland residents earlier this year, Tuesday’s primary election was not just a referendum on candidates, but on how to vote as well.

At Bel Air High School, Michael Peters said people should vote in person, and mail-in ballots should only be sent to those who are unable to come to the ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is appealing the dismissal of criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant from Maryland who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last year.

In a notice filed Monday, U.S. Attorney Braden Boucek informed the court that the Justice Department would formally appeal a federal judge’s ...Read more

DENVER — Disgraced former Colorado Bureau of Investigation scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods pleaded guilty to four felonies Tuesday, closing a chapter in a years-long DNA testing scandal that continues to reverberate through the state’s criminal justice system.

The 65-year-old former CBI analyst will be sentenced to between 8 and 16 years...Read more

WASHINGTON — Top Democratic appropriators are calling on the Government Accountability Office to probe the Trump administration’s release of nearly $400 million of taxpayer funds for a White House East Wing modernization project that includes a ballroom.

Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, who is the ranking Democrat on the Appropriations ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With Bill Pulte just days into his job acting director of national intelligence, senators on both sides of the aisle are already expressing concern about his performance.

Pulte began Friday, after weeks of criticism over his appointment. On Monday, he reportedly began firing intelligence officials and staff at the DNI en masse, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is suing Mayor Karen Bass personally, alleging that, while campaigning for reelection, Bass defamed her, damaging Crowley’s reputation by blaming her for the catastrophic Palisades fire response.

Crowley sued the city in February, alleging Bass “orchestrated a campaign of ...Read more

Areas around the South Coast of Massachusetts were hit Monday night into Tuesday with flooding rain, though drought conditions persist across the state.

“The Mashpee Rotary was flooded and not passable, and the Newport area and Fall River, same thing – some flooded roads, roads closed in East Sandwich, Wellfleet, Truro,” said National ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With a fire burning at a Boyle Heights cold storage warehouse for a seventh straight day, scrutiny is growing over the operator of the massive facility and what sparked the blaze that has spewed bad air across the region.

State regulators have launched an investigation into the incident and some local officials have called it a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Bill Gates told U.S. lawmakers he believed Jeffrey Epstein may have been considering blackmailing him, according to transcripts released Tuesday by the House Oversight Committee.

In closed-door testimony June 10, Gates disputed details that Epstein recorded in emails to himself regarding the Microsoft co-founder’s extramarital ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Sunnyvale School District, which serves nearly 6,000 students, was sued Monday by two Christian parents who claim the district failed to allow them to opt their elementary-age children out of LGBTQ+ instruction they say conflicts with their faith — the latest case to put Bay Area schools at the forefront of a national ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The Trump administration has singled out two western North Carolina school districts as part of a nationwide push during Pride Month targeting schools over their bathroom policies for transgender students.

Buncombe County and Cabarrus County are among 13 school districts across the country in June that have had federal Title ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Prairieland Detention Center domestic terrorism case will be appealed, promised families and friends of eight defendants who were sentenced Tuesday morning. They also warned that a dangerous precedent has been set.

The eight defendants, described by federal prosecutors as antifa operatives, were convicted after three ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office announced criminal fraud charges against seven Medicaid providers on Tuesday, including a former Roseville schools employee who allegedly billed for personal care services for two years while living in Kansas.

The state fraud charges come from investigations by the attorney...Read more

MACUNGIE, Pa. — President Donald Trump’s speech on manufacturing in a key Pennsylvania swing district repeatedly veered into other topics and musings about elections in other states, like Maine and California.

It took the president nearly an hour to even reference by name GOP U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, the vulnerable incumbent whose district...Read more