A senior Taiwanese official expressed concern that President Donald Trump might make concessions on the self-governed island in his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and said that Taiwan was working hard to prevent such a scenario.

“What we are the most afraid is to put Taiwan on the menu of the talk between Xi Jinping and President ...Read more

A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump can’t use an executive proclamation to bar immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border from seeking asylum — a cornerstone policy of his aggressive agenda to limit all immigration to the United States.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed in a 2-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The FBI has joined the investigation into the suspicious disappearance of 74-year-old Naiping Hou, a resident of Rancho Cucamonga and father of noted cryptocurrency investor Wen Hou.

FBI officials said the agency was joining the investigation begun last year by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. They said the ...Read more

BOSTON — Two Massachusetts men have pleaded guilty to breaking into Harvard Medical School and detonating fireworks last Halloween night, a crime that caught the eye of FBI Director Kash Patel.

Logan David Patterson, 18, of Plymouth, and Dominick Frank Cardoza, 21, of Bourne, could face up to five years in prison after they each pleaded ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland Supreme Court on Friday wiped out Baltimore’s $153 million opioid verdict, sending the case back to a lower court and dealing a major blow to the city’s efforts to hold drug distributors liable under public nuisance law.

In a brief order, Chief Justice Matthew Fader said the court was acting in light of its recent...Read more

DENVER — A new bill proposed by Colorado lawmakers would tighten oversight of their own security while removing their personal and financial records from publicly available databases, a move that comes nearly a year after a gunman killed a Minnesota lawmaker and her husband in their home.

House Bill 1422, introduced Wednesday by a bipartisan ...Read more

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he recently had successful treatment for cancer and is “in excellent physical condition.”

The leader, 76, said on X that doctors discovered a malignant prostate tumor at a “very early stage.” He didn’t say when that happened, but said it hadn’t spread. He was given the option of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge in Philadelphia has ordered the government to pay nearly $40,000 in legal fees to an immigrant who sued ICE over its attempt to make him wear an ankle monitor — a new wrinkle in how the judiciary has been pushing back on President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportation agenda.

U.S. District Judge Kai N. Scott...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The decision over whether the U.S. government will seek the death penalty in the case of accused political assassin Vance Boelter is now in the hands of the Justice Department.

Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen on April 22 submitted his recommendation to Justice Department officials in Washington regarding a death ...Read more

An appeals court on Friday struck down the Trump administration’s closing of United States borders to asylum-seekers.

An executive order by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day last year, and later guidance to turn asylum-seekers around without a court hearing, are “unlawful” and “cast aside federal laws affording individuals the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Charges have been dropped against six people arrested last year for using chalk to protest the state’s erasure of crosswalk colors memorializing the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting, with Orange-Osceola State Attorney Monique Worrell citing flimsy evidence and a selectively enforced statute in a Friday press conference.

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TAMPA, Fla. — The remains of one of two missing University of South Florida graduate students were found on the Howard Frankland Bridge on Friday, and hours later, a suspect was arrested in connection to the case, authorities said.

The remains of Zamil Limon, 27, were discovered on the bridge Friday morning, and 26-year-old Hisham Abugharbieh...Read more

Lawyers representing D4vd, the singer charged with murdering and sexually abusing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez, say they’ve received antisemitic hate mail amid the explosive case.

The person behind one such note, viewed by TMZ, said they were “sicken(ed)” the lawyers would defend the 21-year-old “Romantic Homicide” singer, born...Read more

NEW YORK — New York filed suit against the Trump administration Friday for trying to bully state officials into revoking thousands of immigrants’ commercial driver’s licenses by blocking more than $73 million in highway funding.

The petition for review filed in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals by New York Attorney General Tish James and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The oldest son of Rob and Michele Reiner has published a heart-rending account of learning from his sister that their parents were dead and his troubled brother had been arrested for the slayings inside their Los Angeles home.

In a personal essay published Friday on Substack, 34-year-old Jake Reiner described the “nightmare”...Read more

The Department of Justice has joined a lawsuit by billionaire Elon Musk’s xAI that challenges Colorado’s dormant artificial intelligence regulations, just as lawmakers prepare to rewrite those rules.

The federal government announced Friday that it was intervening in the suit that xAI filed earlier this month. The company alleges that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department on Friday released a sweeping report calling for a significant expansion of the federal death penalty, including policy recommendations for faster executions, widening the use of capital punishment, and adopting additional execution methods.

Among key recommendations, the new report calls for the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Friday he is vetoing a controversial bill that would have enabled the NYPD to set up “buffer zones” around schools and universities during protests.

Mamdani said he was letting a corresponding bill, which will similarly authorize police to plan for security perimeters around houses of worship, go into ...Read more

President Donald Trump will send envoys to Pakistan with the intention of meeting with Iranian officials, while Tehran sounded a pessimistic tone on the prospects for talks to end the eight-week war roiling the global economy.

Special envoy Steve Witkoff and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are set to depart Saturday for talks this ...Read more