LOS ANGELES — Jordan Rivers, who is running to represent a harbor-area district on the Los Angeles City Council, said he will continue his campaign after a report surfaced that he stabbed a neighbor when he was 12.

Rivers, 22, is the sole challenger to incumbent Tim McOsker in the June 2 primary election.

In a lawsuit, Nicholas Parszik and ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore City Council members introduced a bill Thursday aimed at banning private detention facilities in the city, following a surprise inspection of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office and holding facility.

The measure, pushed by Council President Zeke Cohen, would use the city’s zoning code to prohibit ...Read more

The president of the Arizona State Senate said he had provided records to the Federal Bureau of Investigation related to a review by Republican lawmakers into the 2020 presidential election.

“Late last week I received and complied with a federal grand jury subpoena for records relating to the Arizona State Senate’s 2020 audit of Maricopa ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday tried to assuage concerns his war with Iran could become another prolonged military campaign, calling it a “little excursion” that could be wrapped up “soon.” He also urged House Republicans to add several white-hot social issues to a voting overhaul measure as a trap for vulnerable ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he plans to waive oil-related sanctions, have the U.S. Navy escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and predicted the war with Iran would resolve “very soon” as he confronted mounting economic and political pressures after days of dramatic fluctuations in oil markets.

The president said he didn...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The United States Postal Service will issue commemorative postage stamps celebrating lowriders.

The new set, out Saturday, celebrates a counterculture movement rooted in the 1940s working-class Mexican American/Chicano communities of the American Southwest.

Featured in the collection are five models: a blue 1958 Chevrolet ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A key U.S. Republican senator said he’s launched an investigation into the Food and Drug Administration’s recent denials of treatments for rare diseases, adding political pressure on an agency that’s already in turmoil.

Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson said he’s seeking the FDA’s written denials to drugmakers, known as ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Dominic M. Miller pleaded guilty to one count of unlawful use of a weapon in Jackson County Circuit Court Monday for his role in the 2024 Chiefs Super Bowl rally shooting that killed a Kansas City-area mother and injured dozens.

The 20-year-old Kansas City man was accused of firing the fatal shot that killed 43-year-old ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Gracie Mansion counterprotesters accused of throwing homemade bombs came to New York with a powerful powder explosive nicknamed “Mother of Satan,” a notebook filled with handwritten notes — and a plan to go “bigger” than the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, federal prosecutors said Monday.

Ibraham Kayumi, 19, and Emir ...Read more

NEW YORK — One year after the arrest of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian activist acknowledged he was in denial — almost naive — about what was happening to him at the time.

Khalil, 31, a green-card holder with Algerian citizenship, was returning from an Iftar with his pregnant wife, an American citizen, to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he plans to waive oil-related sanctions, have the U.S. Navy escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and predicted the war with Iran would resolve “very soon” as he confronted mounting economic and political pressures after days of dramatic fluctuations in oil markets.

The president said that he...Read more

A federal jury on Monday found the Alexander brothers guilty of orchestrating a sex-trafficking conspiracy involving the drugging and raping of dozens of women over decades, from New York City to their hometown of Miami.

The 12-person jury, which deliberated for three days in New York federal court, convicted twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 38, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota could soon legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin mushrooms on a small scale, as lawmakers point to emerging research that suggests the psychedelic drug could help treat intractable mental illnesses.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is pushing to create a pilot program allowing for therapeutic use of the drug ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two NYPD officers who played a critical role in preventing the ISIS-inspired mayhem outside Gracie Mansion Saturday from becoming a potentially deadly terror attack deserved special commendation, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said on Monday.

Emir Balat, 18, who lobbed an improvised explosive device into...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are set to abandon their long-shot bid to decriminalize sex work across the state at the bill’s first committee hearing this week.

Sen. Nick Hinrichsen, a Pueblo Democrat and the measure’s sponsor, announced Monday morning on the Senate floor that he would voluntarily kill Senate Bill 97 at the start of its ...Read more

NEW YORK — The Alexander brothers were found guilty on all counts Monday in one of the largest sex trafficking cases ever tried by the Department of Justice.

The jury found Tal, 39, and twins Alon and Oren Alexander, 38, guilty of a 10-count indictment alleging they carried out a more than decadelong sex trafficking conspiracy starting around...Read more

Dozens of civilians, including children, wounded by an Iranian drone strike in Bahrain. France deploying warships to secure shipping commerce in the Strait of Hormuz. Australia taking heat from President Donald Trump over its handling of the Iranian women’s soccer team. Markets across Asia plunging as the price of oil surged.

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A bill to enhance penalties for repeat domestic violence offenders unanimously passed the Florida Legislature and will head to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s desk for final approval.

The House of Representatives last week unanimously passed HB 277, introduced by Rep. Debra Tendrich, D-Lake Worth Beach, who is herself a survivor of domestic violence. Sen...Read more

A federal judge on Monday ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration had acted “unlawfully” in appointing three new officials to lead the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey — the third time in seven months that judges have concluded the administration violated the Constitution while seeking to shape the leadership of that ...Read more