WASHINGTON — The United States and Venezuela have agreed to a deal that would give Washington a major stake in Venezuela’s oil reserves, President Donald Trump said Friday.

“At my direction, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, working closely with Highly Respected Interim President of Venezuela, Delcy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department is pushing back on requests for information about how it resolved President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service, accusing challengers of the deal of improperly using the courts to pry loose details they aren’t entitled to receive.

At a hearing on Friday, a ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has a message for New York: Let’s dance!

The 68-year-old governor Friday touted the state’s rollback of a regulation that required restaurants or bars to obtain special permission to allow any form of dancing on their premises.

She even got Kevin Bacon of “Footloose” fame to join her in a Twitter...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump lost another bid to move a challenge to his New York criminal fraud conviction to a federal court as a judge said that payments to an adult film star don’t constitute an official act that would be covered by presidential immunity.

U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein’s ruled against Trump on the issue ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s controversial policy mandating detention for nearly all undocumented immigrants is unlawful, a split Philadelphia-based federal appeals court ruled Friday.

In a 2-1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit held that ICE violated the federal immigration law and the Fifth ...Read more

The Trump administration is considering trading a parcel of Yosemite National Park to a private commercial developer, according to administration officials, members of Congress and documents reviewed by the Los Angeles Times.

The proposed deal would allow the developer to build a road connecting adjacent property it already owns in the ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man was arrested after federal agents caught him loading a van with more than $10 million worth of cocaine he stashed at a Queens self-storage facility, officials said Friday.

New Jersey resident Nelson Salcedo, 35, was charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance after what NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch described...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The mother of a central North Carolina teenager infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba is sharing the family’s story on a GoFundMe page to help with their medical and related expenses.

The N.C. Department of Health and Human Services announced Thursday that a teen was infected by Naegleria fowleri, an amoeba found in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is pursuing a major stake in Venezuelan oil reserves via a potential partnership between the Department of Defense and Alejandro Betancourt, a controversial energy investor who has become a key middleman between the two countries.

The negotiations are focused on as many as 17 oil fields that span Venezuela’...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Rocklin man implicated by federal investigators in connection with a suspected plot to attack a White House-hosted UFC event in June was indicted Thursday in Sacramento federal court, U.S. Attorney’s Office prosecutors announced Friday.

Christopher M. Perry, 38, is being held in federal custody. He was indicted on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. government is pursuing a major stake in Venezuelan oil reserves via a potential partnership between the Department of Defense and Alejandro Betancourt, a controversial energy investor who has become a key middleman between the two countries.

The negotiations are focused on as many as 17 oil fields that span Venezuela’...Read more

A section of Yosemite National Park could be cordoned off for private development at the request of the Trump administration, a national news outlet reported Friday.

NOTUS, a watchdog political news organization, reported Friday morning that Trump officials may be working with a private Nevada-based company to exchange roughly a quarter-mile ...Read more

PLYMOUTH, Mass. — During their first full day of deliberations, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy triple murder trial only asked one question: Could they see the knife Clancy used to slit her wrists and throat and the bottles of pills she was prescribed?

The question came about 40 minutes after they resumed deliberating Friday morning.

After six ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Jim Sheehan, the owner of a coffee shop in Driggs, has found himself at the center of a firestorm over access to abortion in Idaho.

After Sheehan, who owns Wydaho Roasters, was filmed in mid-August telling members of an anti-abortion rights group not to hold a meeting in his cafe, he has found himself the subject of national ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger’s new attorney has filed a motion to disqualify the judge in his case and has asked for a change of venue for his post-conviction proceeding.

The motions, filed Thursday by attorney Gregory Rauch, come after Kohberger last month in his first media statement since being convicted of the first-degree murders of ...Read more

Right-wing influencer and former Ye campaign adviser Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.

ICE’s inmate finder shows the United Kingdom native was being held in Louisiana on Friday. Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is scheduled to perform a Friday night show in New Orleans.

It’s...Read more

Califoria Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a bill into law that rewrites parental leave rules for local elected officials, ensuring that city council members won’t lose their seats when they become new parents.

The Family Friendly City Councils Act, authored by state Assembly member Dawn Addis, D-San Luis Obispo, was inspired by a 2024 ...Read more

After the Trump administration paid California offshore wind developers to abandon their leases and pursue oil and gas development instead, the state is fighting back.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the California Northern District, state Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission allege that one of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order halting new U.S. Postal Service restrictions on mail-in ballots, moving quickly to reinstate the challenged rules after they were paused in a high-stakes clash that could shape the November midterms and the fight to control Congress.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled ...Read more