WASHINGTON — Inside the Supreme Court, as justices heard oral arguments in the case over birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend such a proceeding.

Outside the court, the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark — the San Francisco man whose landmark Supreme Court case affirmed birthright ...Read more

President Donald Trump says he hopes to pull the United States out of NATO as the rift in the trans-Atlantic alliance gets wider over his war with Iran.

Long a skeptic of the Western alliance, Trump said in an interview published Wednesday that he is well along the way to trying to pull the U.S. out of the North American Treaty Organization ...Read more

A Utah law firm has filed a personal injury notice of claim against the U.S. government on behalf of a Venezuelan national who was allegedly tortured at the Salvadoran maximum security prison CECOT.

Attorneys from Parker & McConkie wrote in a legal filing that their client — using the alias Johnny Hernandez — entered the U.S. legally and ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. —Lt. Gov. Jay Collins addressed the bomb threat at MacDill Air Force Base and touted his record on preventing foreign espionage at a news conference in South Tampa on Wednesday.

Collins, a former Green Beret in the U.S. Army, has repeatedly emphasized his 2023 bill that banned the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing or ...Read more

For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way to the moon.

NASA’s colossal Space Launch System rocket lifted off at 6:35 p.m. Eastern time from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, marking the start of the 10-day Artemis II mission.

In the hours and minutes leading up to launch, as the astronauts waited ...Read more

FBI Director Kash Patel joined U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R.-Pa., at a roundtable event in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to tout state and federal efforts to combat Pennsylvania’s fentanyl crisis, as well as a declining number of overdoses from the synthetic drug.

Attorney General Dave Sunday, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf, and district ...Read more

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to declare a major disaster in three southwest Michigan counties in the wake of tornadoes that resulted in four deaths, multiple injuries and significant property damage.

If the request is granted, the area could qualify for federal individual assistance grants to help with home ...Read more

A group of successful Cuban American entrepreneurs and business leaders from South Florida say they stand ready to contribute to Cuba’s rebuilding, but need to see major changes on the island.

At a meeting Tuesday evening in Miami, the Cuban Americans, representing an assortment of businesses in South Florida, discussed the potential for ...Read more

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday removed Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez from its sanctions blacklist, the latest step in Washington’s evolving approach toward one of the most powerful figures in Caracas’ ruling socialist establishment.

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Rodríguez had been deleted...Read more

WASHINGTON — More than five years after violent riots at the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump still can’t avoid lawsuits seeking to hold him legally responsible for the chaos that temporarily disrupted Congress’ certification of the 2020 election.

A federal judge in Washington handed a multipart loss to Trump on Tuesday night, keeping...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The number of homeless students in Los Angeles County is surging, with thousands more unhoused in the span of a single school year.

The number of students experiencing homelessness in the county rose by 28% — to 61,249 in the 2023-24 school year from 47,689 in 2022-23 — according to a pair of studies from the UCLA Center for...Read more

SAN DIEGO — Warships from San Diego and elsewhere have found it next to impossible in recent weeks to keep their location quiet as they headed for the Middle East and the war between the U.S. and Iran.

The March 18 departure of the San Diego-based USS Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, a three-ship task force that is en route to the Middle East ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A state investigation into how three Los Angeles County sheriff’s bomb squad detectives were killed by a grenade in a department parking lot has found a series of “willful” safety violations, including failure to provide effective training and explosives that were left unattended leading up to the incident last year.

A ...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA on Wednesday looks to send four astronauts on the most powerful rocket to ever launch humans, flying the Artemis II mission that will send them past the moon.

The Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft named Integrity sits on Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B awaiting liftoff during a two-hour ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Despite a circuit judge’s ruling that voided the resolution impeaching Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, her April trial in the state Senate will continue as planned, lawmakers say.

Tuesday morning, Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd voided Goodman’s March 20 impeachment in the House, saying she committed no ...Read more

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the Trump administration to restore the legal status of immigrants who used the CBP One app to enter the U.S. through the southern border.

The decision by Judge Allison D. Burroughs of the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts, appointed by former President Barack Obama in 2014, said in a...Read more

NEW YORK — Amid a scheduling nightmare presented by his dueling state and federal cases, a Manhattan judge on Wednesday pushed back the schedule in Luigi Mangione’s federal prosecution, saying his right to a fair trial was “paramount.”

​Lawyers for the Maryland man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a ...Read more

Obliterated by record hot temperatures in March, the statewide Sierra Nevada snowpack, the source of one-third of California’s water supply, stood at only 18% of its historical average on Wednesday, the second-lowest April 1 reading in recorded history.

Still, water managers said Wednesday that the state won’t face drought conditions and ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City parents can more easily find a child care program using a new searchable map unveiled by Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday.

The platform allows parents to filter programs by location, children’s age and cost, and features information on about 10,000 child care providers, including program settings and schedules, ...Read more