U.S. President Donald Trump said he anticipated talks with Iran over a new nuclear deal in the coming days, building on a flurry of diplomatic activity aimed at averting war between the two countries.

“We have ships heading to Iran right now, big ones, biggest and the best, and we have talks going on with Iran,” Trump told reporters Monday...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once inquired about buying a private plane from University of Pennsylvania megadonor and Wharton School adviser Marc Rowan, emails released by the U.S. Department of Justice show.

The exchange, which appears among the three million documents unsealed Friday, occurred in early 2016, at a time ...Read more

Writer Neil Gaiman denied sexual misconduct allegations first brought forth against him more than a year and a half ago in a statement released Monday.

Gaiman, the bestselling fantasy author behind "The Sandman" comic books, and novels and shows "American Gods" and "Good Omens," called the allegations, which emerged in the summer of 2024, a "...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Howard County government revoked a building permit Monday that had been issued for a planned federal immigration detention facility in Elkridge, County Executive Calvin Ball announced during a news conference.

The detention center has been under construction in a former warehouse building in an office park at 6522 Meadowridge ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — A decades-old cold-storage facility in Reedley closed three years ago after an investigation is back under FBI scrutiny — and again, it’s tied to an illegal biomedical laboratory.

On Saturday, the FBI raided a home in Las Vegas, where they found “evidence of possible biological material to include refrigerators with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that “every officer” in the field in Minneapolis will wear a body camera after a national outcry over the killings of two U.S. citizens in the city, potentially easing the path to pass a government funding deal.

“Effective immediately we are deploying body cameras to every ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Democrat Jocelyn Benson raised the most money of the candidates running to be Michigan's next governor over the final two months of 2025, while Republican Mike Cox had the most cash still available to spend, according to disclosures that were due Monday.

The new reports detailed fundraising from Oct. 21 through Dec. 31 and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — State prosecutors have formally demanded that the Trump administration turn over any evidence gathered by federal authorities after the shooting death of Renee Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced Monday that her office had served what are known as Touhy letters on the Department of ...Read more

​NEW YORK — The Trump administration’s rewrite of long-recognized immigration law has left the special-needs daughter of a Long Island man stranded in Guatemala, foiled a Manhattan grandmother’s fight to reunite with her kids and grandkids, and indefinitely separated countless more Americans from their families, according to a lawsuit ...Read more

CHICAGO — The Cook County state’s attorney’s office on Monday said “a thorough analysis is being conducted” to assess the legality of a mayoral executive order that directs Chicago police to investigate potential wrongdoing by immigration agents, after the weekend signing was overshadowed by a political brouhaha due to social media ...Read more

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — San Mateo County’s first death penalty case in 15 years now has a trial date.

Judge Jeffrey R. Finigan set a trial date of Jan. 25, 2027, for Chunli Zhao, the Peninsula man accused of gunning down seven fellow migrant workers in the county’s deadliest mass shooting on record. If the trial date holds, it would come ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Human Services on Monday announced a new push to scrutinize providers in state-run Medicaid programs at high risk for fraud, including a significant expansion of unannounced site visits.

Human Services’ plan to significantly expand on-site validations comes as federal officials threaten to cut ...Read more

Federal officials have denied Alaska's request to cover all initial expenses associated with a costly and complicated disaster response effort following a catastrophic Western Alaska storm last fall.

Gov. Mike Dunleavy is appealing the decision, revising his request to ask that the Federal Emergency Management Agency instead pay 90% of the cost...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will slash tariffs on India to 18% after Prime Minister Narendra Modi agreed to stop buying Russian oil, easing tensions between the two countries.

Trump said Monday on social media that, following a phone call with Modi, he will lower his tariff on Indian goods from 25%, emphasizing that India ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s Office of the State Fire Marshal has completed its investigation into the deadly fireworks explosion in Esparto, and uncovered evidence of “illegal activity” and criminal wrongdoing, the agency announced Monday.

The findings have been provided to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, which has ...Read more

Kimbal Musk, brother of Elon Musk and resident of Boulder, Colorado, is referenced at least 140 times in emails exchanged between Jeffrey Epstein and his associates, according to a new batch of documents the Department of Justice released last week as part of the Epstein files investigation.

The emails range from exchanges between Kimbal Musk ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Another eight federal prosecutors have left or announced their intentions to leave the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the situation.

The departures come as the office is reeling after last month’s mass resignation, when six veteran prosecutors quit because of recent ...Read more

Controversial director Brett Ratner, whose documentary "Melania" about the first lady premiered last week, found himself in the headlines once again over his alleged ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

A photograph, part of the trove of files the Department of Justice's investigation into Epstein released on Friday, shows Ratner sitting on a couch with ...Read more