DENVER — A federal judge in Denver this week blocked provisions of a new state law that required Colorado’s only immigrant detention center to open its doors for regular health inspections.

The Thursday decision from U.S. District Court Judge Daniel D. Domenico defangs the most immediate part of House Bill 1276, which Democratic lawmakers ...Read more

Abbott Laboratories has agreed to pay $670 million to settle a high-profile lawsuit and claims made on behalf of thousands of others related to allegations that its formula for babies born prematurely causes a dangerous intestinal disease.

The settlement comes after an appeals court upheld a $495 million judgment against Abbott in the high-...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Two minutes, 55 seconds — that’s how long it took for Jaylen Edgar took to kill two people and injure several others in two separate shootings during a 2024 Halloween bash in downtown Orlando, prosecutors told jurors on day one of his trial Thursday.

During the daylong proceeding, the 12-person panel and a gallery full of ...Read more

Former Bishop Miege High School President Phil Baniewicz is not suitable for church employment, appointment, volunteer service or ministry involving minors or other vulnerable persons in the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, the archbishop announced Thursday.

Archbishop Shawn McKnight imposed the restrictions after the archdiocese’s ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Gina Davis, a Pasadena schoolteacher, was worried when she learned that a peacock who had lived in her neighborhood for years was found disoriented and wouldn’t eat or drink.

“Pretty much the entire neighborhood knows him, takes care of him,” she said of the white bird. Davis and her daughter call the peacock Sugar.

When ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowed to ramp up pressure on Iran by targeting its economic partners, he echoed former President George W. Bush’s warning to U.S. allies after the Sept. 11 attacks.

“You are either with us, or against us,” Bessent said in an interview with CNBC Thursday. “This is going to be the ...Read more

The Trump administration on Thursday imposed sanctions on nine Cuban state companies and the three top officials of the island’s main organization for cultivating foreign sympathizers, extending a pressure campaign that has now reached Cuba’s nickel industry, its construction ministry and the state agency that hires out Cuban labor to ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — For a second time, Attorney General Russell Coleman’s attempt to toss out extensive death penalty litigation has been denied. This time, by the Kentucky Supreme Court.

In a ruling handed down Thursday, the state’s highest court said it will not issue a “writ of prohibition” on nearly two-decades-long litigation about ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — Gov. Greg Abbott lauded Tarrant County as the perfect example of how to create meaningful tax relief for residents during a Thursday press conference, where he discussed his four-point plan to lower property taxes.

On Aug. 13, the county Commissioners Court first discussed its budget and tax rate for next fiscal year, ...Read more

FBI agents seized former Rep. Eric Swalwell’s phone and laptop Saturday under a search warrant tied to a federal civil rights investigation, records obtained by Bay Area News Group show.

The seizure occurred at San Francisco International Airport, and agents searched Swalwell’s Washington, D.C., home the following day as part of an ...Read more

The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions Thursday on an Ecuador-based cocaine trafficking network accused of using commercial fishing vessels to move thousands of kilograms each month toward Mexico, where major cartels allegedly helped smuggle the drugs onward to the United States.

The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets ...Read more

MIAMI — Ten defendants have been sentenced to federal prison for participating in a South Florida cocaine trafficking network that prosecutors say obtained drugs from a Mexican cartel, transported cocaine and hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash across the United States and included a cartel representative sent to Miami to oversee the ...Read more

The Southern Nevada Water Authority has agreed to leave some of its water in Lake Mead this year in exchange for cash to comply with what water managers expect to be a firm requirement to do so through 2028.

At a board meeting Thursday, directors ratified an agreement between the water authority and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that gives ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hundreds of Boyle Heights residents suffered health problems after a fire at a cold storage facility burned stubbornly for days, including respiratory infections, eye disorders and persistent cough, according to a new study.

The St. John’s Community Health study found the symptoms were “directly related to toxic exposure and...Read more

At least 23 Minnesotans have suffered foodborne infections and two have been hospitalized in an outbreak traced back to locally produced alfalfa sprouts.

The Minnesota Department of Health on Thursday urged people to discard any sprouts sold under the Everything Sprouts and Calco brands, which are available at numerous grocery chains, including...Read more

NEW YORK — An Albany woman was charged Thursday with planning to carry out an Islamic State-inspired terror bomb attack on the New York State Capitol.

Jessica Bowie, 35, told confidential federal informants that she wanted to buy bombs and weapons to carry out a terror attack and kill as many lawmakers as possible in support of ISIS.

“I ...Read more

Federal agents served embattled ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell with several search warrants over the weekend, seizing his phone and raiding his Washington, D.C., home, sources told CNN and CBS News.

The FBI took Swalwell’s electronic devices at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday and then searched his home the following day as part of an ...Read more

A federal investigation into former Rep. Eric Swalwell appeared to gain steam this week after agents seized his electronic devices and raided his Washington home over the weekend, even briefly holding the former lawmaker at San Francisco International Airport, a person familiar with the inquiry told the Los Angeles Times.

Swalwell, a Democrat ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Less than a week after a federal judge ruled that Idaho cannot enforce state abortion bans in certain physical or mental health-related instances, the Idaho Attorney General’s Office appealed the case to a higher court.

Idaho District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill issued his decision Aug. 13 in a case brought by Boise maternal-...Read more