California families fighting to keep trans kids' medical records private won a brief reprieve in federal court Tuesday, after a judge in San José temporarily blocked hospital administrators from handing their files to the federal government in response to a criminal subpoena.

The decision bars Stanford's Lucile Packard Children's Hospital from...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Nearly one year after carrying out one of the most shocking acts of political violence in state history, Vance Boelter pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, and shooting Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette.

Boelter acknowledged that in agreeing to the plea deal, he will face two ...Read more

Contrary to any of the polite things Kimberly Guilfoyle has said about Donald Trump Jr. leaving her for Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson, America’s ambassador to Greece was privately “seething,” according to a new report, and reached out to Anderson’s billionaire ex-fiancé to work together to break up the new couple.

That’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County's district attorney says he believes four in five claims in the largest sex abuse settlement in U.S. history may be fake — a claim that dwarfs previous assumptions over the scale of fraud within the $4-billion payout.

District Attorney Nathan Hochman has asked the judge overseeing the bulk of the sex abuse ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Pasadena police officer shot and wounded a colleague in the shoulder inside the department’s parking garage last September during an incident the police chief described as “unsafe, out-of-policy horseplay.”

Police Chief Gene Harris, however, kept the shooting video under wraps for nearly 10 months by invoking an ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Police are investigating two pint-sized hoodlums suspected of putting the squeeze on a children’s lemonade stand in Southie — at gunpoint.

“There is little I can think of more disturbing than the innocence of a children’s lemonade stand being violated by an armed robbery,” Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn, who ...Read more

HAZEL PARK, Mich. — A local official contends Hazel Park is now the first community in Michigan to explicitly protect polyamorous people from discrimination, even though city officials said there have been no known explicit instances of such bias reported.

The Hazel Park City Council on Tuesday night unanimously approved an update to the city...Read more

The obstetrics staff was surprised the first time it happened in June 2025. A pregnant woman who was dependent on methamphetamine arrived at the hospital in labor. She showed an image of graffiti spray-painted on a bridge in downtown Denver that read “Have your baby at Lutheran.” She was scared, and in pain, but wanted to be somewhere she...Read more

Pennsylvania has become a hot spot for data center proposals and public backlash about where to build them.

I’m a law professor and executive director of Penn State’s Center for Energy Law and Policy. I’m also a native of Archbald, a borough of 7,500 residents in the Lackawanna Valley in northeastern Pennsylvania. My hometown ...Read more

More than any other U.S. president in decades, Donald Trump has aggressively pursued military interventions in Latin America.

On Jan. 3, 2026, U.S. special forces captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on charges of narco-terrorism. In the months before the operation, U.S. Southern Command began targeting small, fast-moving ...Read more

For millions of people, cannabis has become the unofficial prescription for lost sleep. But what feels like a solution may be quietly making the problem worse.

Consider these two cases:

She is 15 and has been lying in bed for the past hour. It is past midnight, and her brain will not quiet down. Her school bus comes at 6:20 a....Read more

On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey Norvell stepped out of a gully, lifted his shotgun and fired three shots at James Meredith, a Black civil rights activist and Air Force veteran.

Famous for integrating the University of Mississippi four years ...Read more

MIAMI — The calls came in from all over the world — France, Illinois and nearby Miami — as people with family and friends at one of the country’s most infamous immigration detention centers dialed the one number they trusted to get help: 911.

Again and again, confused and desperate family members, unsure how to reach Alligator Alcatraz,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump pulled back threatened military strikes against Iran, a stark reversal that came just hours after he vowed to hit the Islamic Republic “VERY HARD” and threatened to seize its oil infrastructure.

Trump on Thursday cited what he said were “discussions” that “have been brought to the highest level ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Immigration attorneys and advocates are accusing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials of retaliating against detainees taking part in hunger strikes over inhumane conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center.

The Immigrant Defenders Law Center officials said a Belizean man they represent, who has helped organize ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is nominating Jay Clayton to be the next director of national intelligence, following backlash over his selection of housing regulator Bill Pulte to serve in the role on an acting basis.

Clayton has been serving as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan and was chairman of the Securities and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Federal immigration agents detained individuals outside a Southeast Baltimore school during a pre-kindergarten graduation ceremony Thursday, disrupting the event and alarming families and educators.

The operation also drew swift condemnation from Maryland officials, who called the enforcement action near young children “...Read more

DEARBORN, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer told reporters Thursday that Michigan’s leaders were ready to “move forward” with opening the Gordie Howe International Bridge and were still hoping the new Detroit River span can be opened to traffic in “the next few days or weeks.”

“I’m hopeful that we can get it back on track and open ...Read more