DENVER — The U.S. Department of Justice sued Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold on Thursday to demand that she release the state’s full voter registration list without any redactions.

The lawsuit follows months of demands from the federal law enforcement agency for voter and election data and other information about Colorado’s and ...Read more

President Donald Trump professed his admiration of miners Tuesday night at his Poconos rally, contending the brave workers are so enamored of their profession that Trump wouldn’t be able to convince them to swap jobs with anyone — including himself.

“I love miners ... They wouldn’t trade jobs with me if I gave them a beautiful, ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s White House claims that “Democrats allowed a $1+ billion heist to take place” in Minnesota, a figure the administration is using to justify his recent targeting of Somali migrants in Minnesota. During a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, Trumpasserted that “Somalians ripped off that state for billions of dollars,” ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hollywood has a rich history of personal vendettas, political discord and uncertain loyalties shaping the industry.

It just usually doesn’t involve the U.S. president.

President Donald Trump’s declaration that he will involve himself in the proposed sale of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. has thrust an already tumultuous battle ...Read more

CHICAGO — A month before his scheduled retrial on bribery charges, state Sen. Emil Jones III has agreed to enter into a deferred prosecution deal that will leave him with no conviction as long as he admits to certain illegal conduct and pays a fine.

The agreement with the U.S. attorney’s office was announced at a hearing Thursday before U.S...Read more

There’s a new, bipartisan congressional effort underway to support senior legal hotlines.

Led by Reps. Derek Tran, D-Orange, and Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pennsylvania, the bill establishes a competitive grant program to ensure hotlines are appropriately staffed with trained attorneys and paralegals, can provide older adults with support services,...Read more

NEW YORK — With just three weeks left in office, Mayor Eric Adams is filling slots on the city’s independent police watchdog board with members seen as being more supportive of cops — slotting in a retired NYPD inspector on Thursday after putting in a new interim chair earlier this week.

Together, the appointments to the Civilian ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Artificial intelligence systems designed to physically imitate natural brains can simulate human brain activity before being trained, according to new research from Johns Hopkins University.

“The work that we’re doing brings AI closer to human thinking,” said Mick Bonner, who teaches cognitive science at Hopkins. “What I ...Read more

The United States on Thursday unveiled a new round of sanctions aimed at tightening pressure on Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, targeting three nephews of First Lady Cilia Flores, a network of foreign business partners and a cluster of overseas shipping companies that U.S. officials say have helped move sanctioned Venezuelan oil through ...Read more

NEW YORK — The police officer overseeing the Pennsylvania arrest of Luigi Mangione testified that his officers did not need a warrant to search a backpack that allegedly ties him to the murder of a UnitedHealth Group Inc. executive.

Lt. William Hanelly of the Altoona Police Department said Thursday that officers properly arrested Mangione ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Street gangs from across Stockton will engage in truce talks Friday night in the wake of November’s deadly mass shooting, brokered by a group formed after the Uvalde, Texas, mass school shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead three years ago.

The Texas-based Youth Peace & Justice Foundation is gathering the ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan House Republicans have unilaterally blocked about $8.3 million in spending aimed at helping residents of Flint deal with the long-term fallout of the drinking water crisis, as the GOP leader, Speaker Matt Hall, said the emergency in the city is over.

In 2024, state lawmakers continued to set aside money annually to ...Read more

DENVER — Pueblo County School District 70 has reinstated a substitute teacher after suspending him indefinitely in September over a Facebook post he made about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

District officials placed Chris Sutton on what’s called “inactive” status on Sept. 16 after receiving complaints about a social ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate has confirmed veteran federal prosecutor Jerome Gorgon to serve as U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan, officially making him the top federal law enforcement official for Detroit.

Gorgon, a Detroit native and resident, has spent more than 15 years in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Detroit. His ...Read more

A coalition of Republican New Hampshire legislators joined the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance at the State House Thursday for a pair of press conferences highlighting what they called “the growing economic divide” between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

The campaign comes as Massachusetts has recently lost a handful of high-profile ...Read more

Kyle Rittenhouse, who was acquitted of killing two Black Lives Matter protesters during a 2020 demonstration, returned to social media this week to announce that he’s married.

Rittenhouse became a household name after shooting three people at a Kenosha, Wisc., protest following the killing of George Floyd. The then-17-year-old gunman was ...Read more

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — There were eight of them: hooded, merciless, armed men who burst into Micheline’s home, restrained her father at gunpoint and gang-raped her stepmother in front of them. They shot her father and torched their six-bedroom house. The gunmen then took her stepmother away.

The men blindfolded Micheline, then 14 years old...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a year of incalculable loss wrought by fire, Pacific Palisades this week has yet another: Its local newspaper.

The Palisadian-Post published its final edition Thursday. The newspaper was 97 years old.

“Our reporters have chased their last stories. Our presses have printed their last copies. Our corner newsstands have ...Read more