MINNEAPOLIS — Vance Boelter sat like a statue as his victims exposed the raw wounds with which he left them after he carried out the most shocking act of political violence in Minnesota history.

In a federal courtroom, before Boelter was sentenced to two consecutive life prison sentences plus 40 years for killing Rep. Melissa and Mark Hortman...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Political assassin Vance Boelter will spend the rest of his life in federal prison for the targeted shootings of two DFL state lawmakers at their homes a year ago, crimes the prosecution said Thursday at his sentencing “are among the most serious ever committed in the state of Minnesota and the country.”

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The former top federal prosecutor in Tacoma, who was fired by President Donald Trump within only an hour of assuming the vacant job, is alleging his removal is unconstitutional and suing the Trump administration, court records show.

Roger Rogoff, a former King County Superior Court judge and prosecutor, filed the federal lawsuit in the Western ...Read more

MIAMI — Miami-Dade has resumed control of the former Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention camp, returning to the county a remote airfield previously used as a small airport for training landings and take-offs, the county’s Aviation Department confirmed on Thursday.

The news comes roughly a year after Gov. Ron DeSantis seized the Dade-...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in Santa Clarita has issued a warning on Facebook that the latest nationwide TikTok social media challenge has begun to hit close to home.

According to the agency, the latest TikTok challenge involves teenagers recording themselves attempting to “kick in the front doors of homes ...Read more

Haiti remains mired in a lawless miasma even as the U.S. is threatening to force hundreds of thousands of people who fled the Caribbean nation back home, after the Supreme Court ruled that President Donald Trump can terminate their special immigration status.

Mike Waltz, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said this week that “wannabe ...Read more

Six contenders vying to be the next United Nations secretary-general argued their case to lead the world body at a time when conflicts in Iran, Gaza and Ukraine, as well as divisions among global powers, have deepened concerns about its effectiveness.

“I would like to see a UN that is back at the table on the scenarios of conflict,” Rebeca ...Read more

More than one-third of American households rely on natural gas stoves to prepare their meals.

Burning natural gas generates carbon dioxide, which is the main driver of climate change. But cooking on gas stoves is also an under-recognized and important source of indoor air pollution. Combustion of natural gas creates nitrogen dioxide ...Read more

It’s been four years since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the federal constitutional right to abortion.

In the immediate aftermath of the decision, national attention centered on implementation of state bans and a rapidly shifting legal landscape.

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The 2026 primaries are resurfacing controversies about mail-in ballots that were at the heart of election disputes in 2020.

California’s June 2 primary – in which candidates from every party ran together and the top two advanced to the general election – raised eyebrows because of its so-called “red mirage.” A mirage is a ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed proclamations on July 13, 2026, cutting the size of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by roughly 90% – meaning nearly 3 million acres will lose monument status and revert to ordinary public lands management in September. The Antiquities Act of 1906 requires presidents to use ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The United States will collect duties of between 10% and 12.5% on imports from most major trading partners, its biggest move yet to reconstruct President Donald Trump’s tariff wall that was pierced by the Supreme Court.

The new levies follow an investigation into the alleged failure of around 60 economies to prevent forced ...Read more

California and two other states have avoided the harshest water cutbacks the Trump administration could have imposed over the next two years to deal with the deepening crisis on the Colorado River.

The Los Angeles Times has learned that federal officials have agreed with an offer made earlier this year by California, Arizona and Nevada to ...Read more

Spotted lanternflies, the pest that has infested Maryland for 8 years, are shifting their populations across the state as increased predators, effective management techniques and community reporting play a role in the bug’s presence.

Although scientists disagree on whether the bugs are on the decline within the state, they agree that the ...Read more

The U.S. war with Iran escalated again Thursday as Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen attacked two Saudi Arabian oil tankers in the Red Sea, causing global oil prices to surge amid fears of yet another vital energy corridor being choked off by the conflict.

The attacks came after the Trump administration threatened additional strikes on Iran’s ...Read more

BALTIMORE — More than a month after a Baltimore father was arrested by federal immigration agents outside a pre-kindergarten graduation, Baltimore City Public Schools officials said Thursday they have changed district policies and are preparing additional guidance aimed at better protecting immigrant families when classes resume next month.

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta and other Democratic attorneys general are suing the Trump administration over imposing what they contend are "unlawful" conditions on federal grants intended to help states prepare and respond to disasters.

The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Rhode Island on Thursday, argues that the Department of ...Read more

MIAMI — The FBI’s investigation into hundreds of millions of dollars in soccer sponsorship payments routed through local businesses to Argentina’s football association has escalated with a federal grand jury in Miami scheduled to hear testimony and review records on July 30.

A partial screenshot of a grand jury subpoena, which has ...Read more