A federal appeals court Monday denied an emergency request from the U.S. Justice Department to step in and block California election officials from counting about 20,000 ballots from voters whose citizenship the Trump administration has questioned.

The three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals — composed of two judges ...Read more

NEW YORK — The MTA plans to put its fare checking teams back on city buses following a thorough look into the teams’ training sparked by two violent confrontations in recent months, NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow said Monday.

The teams, part of the MTA’s so-called Evasion and Graffiti Lawlessness Eradication, or EAGLE, program,...Read more

Three days after the U.S. Department of Justice sent letters to counties across California demanding that they turn over confidential voter registration information and not process ballots of people it alleged are not citizens, Santa Clara County refused to comply with the request, stating that turning over such information would be in violation...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — A proposed class-action settlement filed in federal court Monday would set aside up to $1.5 million to compensate people who were wrongly arrested or held in jail too long because of errors in software designed to bring North Carolina’s paper-based court system into the digital age.

The proposed settlement would need to be ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department accused former FBI Director James Comey of illegally directing the sharing of secret national defense information 10 years ago, according to a court filing unsealed on Monday.

Comey, who President Donald Trump has repeatedly said should be investigated and prosecuted, is alleged to have knowingly ...Read more

SEATTLE — Days before the midterm election, the Department of Justice is demanding Washington elections officials set aside the ballots of more than 400 people, asserting they are noncitizens who are illegally registered to vote.

At a news conference Monday, Charles Neil Floyd, the acting U.S. Attorney for Western Washington, said he’d ...Read more

DENVER — After Denver’s top Catholic cleric led a prayer over President Donald Trump in the White House last week, he said he knew the event might be used for political purposes — but he didn’t intend for his participation to be an endorsement of the president.

“We pray for people,” Archbishop James Golka told the Denver Catholic, a...Read more

CHICAGO — Ald. Anthony Beale tilted his head forward at his wooden desk Monday morning, peering over the spectacles that had slid down his nose for an opening salvo in City Hall’s budget negotiations.

Beale, the 9th Ward alderman, stared one by one at Mayor Brandon Johnson’s top finance leaders, feet in front of him — budget director, ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration’s unceremonious firing of veteran Manhattan prosecutor Maurene Comey was unconstitutional and flew in the face of “ nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent,” a federal judge ruled Monday.

The decision came in a September 2025 suit that Comey, a highly respected former fed, brought against ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — Fresh out of a closed-door City Council meeting in April 2019, then-Oakland Council member Sheng Thao was upset and wanted to strategize about what she had just heard.

She dialed Andy Duong, the well-connected scion helping to run the city’s recycling contractor, and allegedly revealed the city’s private legal strategy ...Read more

As hope that a mass revolt that could help topple the Cuban government fades away, the Trump administration is carefully watching the dynamics in Havana, looking for insiders willing to break away from the communist regime to push for changes on the island.

During the weekend, the administration made the strategy public: In a rare social media ...Read more

Officials on Monday opened applications for a $200 million clean energy auction to help fund solar, wind and other energy projects. But the program isn’t expected to lower residents’ electric bills anytime soon.

The Megawatts for Maryland program aims to increase electricity supply as demand grows, and officials say that more generation ...Read more

High tides inundated Southern California communities with water on Monday, flooding streets from Newport Beach to Long Beach, as the region braces for days of coastal flooding from near-record or record-high sea levels this week.

As high tide peaked Monday morning, water surged from Newport Harbor onto the streets of the Balboa Peninsula, ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The Trump administration’s list of people it says may be noncitizens who are improperly registered to vote is at the center of numerous fast-moving legal cases that could force changes to California’s management of next week’s midterm elections.

The list, which the administration has admitted may not be fully ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department accused former FBI Director James Comey of illegally directing the sharing of secret national defense information 10 years ago, according to a court filing unsealed on Monday.

Comey, who President Donald Trump has repeatedly said should be investigated and prosecuted, is alleged to have knowingly ...Read more

Companies with ties to President Donald Trump and his family are staffing up with lawyers and lobbyists, as Democrats threaten sweeping probes if they flip either chamber of Congress in the midterm elections.

With polls and prediction markets favoring a change in power, firms with connections to the Trumps — from cryptocurrency businesses, to...Read more