As ICE agents ramp up activity around the country, Democratic state lawmakers in their second week of the legislative session continue to introduce legislation to push back against the agency's actions.

On Wednesday, Rep. Tarra Simmons, D-Bremerton, introduced the ICE Out Act of 2026, a proposal aimed at barring ICE agents from later becoming ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department announced Thursday it busted an organized crime group that targeted jewelry and retail businesses in the U.S. and abroad, including a theft in Los Angeles last month.

A monthlong investigation led to the arrests of two people and the identification of six others sought in connection with a ...Read more

With western states deadlocked in negotiations over how to cut water use along the Colorado River, the Trump administration has called in the governors of seven states to Washington to try to hash out a consensus.

The governors of at least four — Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Wyoming — say they’ll attend the meeting next week led by Interior ...Read more

BOSTON — Republican state Rep. Ken Sweezey hammered Gov. Maura Healey for placing blame on President Trump for the Bay State’s woes.

Soaring energy costs, illegal immigration bills, and quality of life issues plaguing Massachusetts are not D.C.’s fault, he said in a rebuttal to the governor’s State of the Commonwealth address.

Sweezey,...Read more

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves issued a “state of emergency” on Thursday in advance of a winter storm expected to cripple the Deep South with freezing rain and snow.

The announcement Thursday afternoon means state leaders can more quickly help counties affected by the storm.

“Please continue to monitor the forecast,” Reeves said in a ...Read more

The 5-year-old boy from Columbia Heights who was detained with his father this week is drawing international attention as both remain in a San Antonio, Texas, family detention facility.

The preschooler, Liam Conejo Ramos, and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Arias, were detained in their driveway after arriving home from school on Jan. 20.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin held more than three hours of talks with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on the latest peace plan aimed at ending his war in Ukraine.

“It’s so good to see you,” Witkoff said at the start of the meeting as Putin shook hands with the envoys in a video posted on the Kremlin’s ...Read more

MIAMI — The owners of Vendome have scheduled a sit-down with Jewish community leaders after officials and members of the public expressed outrage over a series of viral videos that appear to show controversial influencers partying to Kanye West’s song “Heil Hitler” inside the Miami Beach nightclub.

Miami Beach Commissioner Joseph ...Read more

Maryland Democrats are pushing legislation that would bar local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and prohibit law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings, drawing objections from sheriffs who warned the measures could undermine their work and Republicans who downplayed concerns about ICE in the state.

Both bills, which ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey delivered the State of the Commonwealth address to a packed chamber, diving right into the political hurdle of affordability before pivoting into an attack on President Donald Trump just days after kicking off her reelection bid.

The governor went right to the two main themes of her address: touting what she calls ...Read more

California State University has settled a lawsuit with its faculty union that restricts the university from divulging personal information to federal agencies investigating antisemitism on campus without the employee's knowledge, union leaders said.

The settlement requires CSU to notify employees "as soon as reasonably practicable" before ...Read more

CHICAGO — With frigid temperatures sweeping into the region, Chicagoans are being asked to take precautions and make alternate plans as the brutal cold closes area schools and sinks plans for a weekend polar plunge.

The National Weather Service has issued an extreme cold warning from 3 a.m. Friday until noon for central Cook County, including...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The head of Minnesota’s prison system accused U.S. Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, officials of spreading “misinformation” by falsely saying the state releases “criminal illegal aliens” to the public rather than turning them over to immigration officials.

At a news conference Thursday, Corrections Commissioner...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Immigrant rights advocates and nonprofits in Northern California have been responding to the mass U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids happening throughout the country.

Within the last three weeks ICE has made arrests at Immigration Courts in Sacramento and Los Angeles protests over immigration raids continue.

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A federal judge in Chicago on Thursday officially dismissed a lawsuit that led to her landmark injunction limiting the use of force by immigration agents during Operation Midway Blitz.

Though U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis agreed to dismiss the case “without prejudice,” which leaves open the possibility that the claims could be reinstated, ...Read more

A voice off-stage boomed “Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace!” and Donald Trump entered the same hall in Davos where he addressed the world’s elite just a day earlier. But it was a rather different collection of characters who showed up.

Among those summoned were the iconoclastic Javier Milei, the ever-smiling Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. wants to rewrite its defense agreement with Denmark to remove any limits on its military presence in Greenland, people familiar with the matter said, in what’s become a focal point for negotiators looking to meet President Donald Trump’s demand for control over the territory.

The original agreement, signed in 1951 ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho lawmakers rejected draft legislation Thursday to eliminate the Idaho Commission of Hispanic Affairs, which serves as a bridge between the government and the state’s growing Latino population.

The move comes after the Legislature’s Elon Musk-emulating DOGE committee looked into the commission. DOGE refers to the ...Read more

NORKOLK, Va. — Virginians could vote on a constitutional amendment that would allow the Democrat-controlled General Assembly to redraw congressional maps April 21. Del. Luke Torian, a Democrat, introduced legislation that would schedule the ballot referendum accordingly.

According to the bill, voters would be asked this question:

“Should ...Read more