DENVER — A federal judge in Denver says immigration agents involved in the violent arrest of an 18 year old should be punished for violating a court order, and the federal government should release the teenager and pay his medical bills.

U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson wrote in a recent filing that U.S. Immigration and Customs ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Sept. 28 finalized an effort to set far looser environmental targets for new passenger vehicles while also transforming how cars and trucks are defined in the United States.

President Donald Trump's corporate average fuel economy rule, commonly known as CAFE, takes a much more relaxed approach than ...Read more

MIAMI — Federal prosecutors accused a former Colombian special-forces soldier of being one of the gunmen who shot and killed Haitian President Jovenel Moise, laying out the evidence against one of the newest defendants brought into the sprawling Miami prosecution surrounding the 2021 assassination.

Victor Albeiro Pineda Cardona was ordered ...Read more

Parents will soon be able to find out what their baby's diaper is made of under a new law signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom Monday that requires companies to disclose ingredients both on packaging and online.

Babies can go through about 3,000 disposable diapers a year, a basic-need product that has increasingly drawn concern from child health, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has not discussed selling arms to China, contradicting a suggestion made by his ambassador to Beijing.

“I never heard of that,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday, when asked about Ambassador David Perdue’s statement over the weekend. Trump initially appeared confused ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado will distribute almost $170 million to 91 rural healthcare providers next year to try to put them on a more solid long-term footing and improve patients’ outcomes.

The state will receive $1 billion over five years through the Rural Health Transformation Program created by H.R. 1. The sweeping tax law known as the “big, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Attorneys for Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming asked a judge Monday to hold the city in contempt and impose daily fines for failing to restore her office’s access to government records, even as Mayor Brandon Scott said he had directed his team to comply.

The petition escalates a months-long battle over the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The attorneys for Vance Boelter on Monday asked a Hennepin County judge to issue a gag order on state Sen. John Hoffman, his wife, Yvette, and their daughter, Hope, to prevent them from speaking publicly as his state case on murder and attempted murder charges proceeds.

Public defenders Bryan Leary and Raissa Carpenter filed the...Read more

SpaceX launched its Starship and Super Heavy rocket on Monday morning and made it to orbit for the first time ever despite losing one of its engines on its trip up to space.

“Insertion. Starship is orbital,” was the callout from mission control during the company’s livestream followed by cheers from employees watching the event.

“Huge ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Multiple people were injured overnight in a shooting at a nightclub in South Carolina, according to the Richland County Sheriff’s Department.

At about 1 a.m. Sunday, deputies responded to a call about a shooting at La Rumba, the sheriff’s department said in a news release. That’s a nightclub at 1745 Decker Boulevard, ...Read more

LONDON — President Donald Trump criticized the UK’s move to release on bail five men held over an alleged terror plot against a Royal Air Force base used by the U.S. for strikes against Iran, as British police continue to investigate foreign links to the incident.

“I’m surprised that they released them, I wouldn’t have done that,” ...Read more

Iranian officials have privately expressed pessimism about reaching a deal to end hostilities with Washington and reopen the Strait of Hormuz before the U.S. midterm elections in November, according to people familiar with the matter.

Iran and the U.S. made little progress during talks in New York on the sidelines of the United Nations General ...Read more

NEW YORK — A homeless woman savagely beaten to death with a stick in Central Park was once the sad subject of an eye-opening documentary about a gifted artist brought low by a tragic cycle of drugs, prostitution and mental illness.

Nearly two decades before her body was found in a gazebo not far from the Central Park’s popular boathouse ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A Michigan-based pastor who led a prayer at Donald Trump's second inauguration is advising people not to cast absentee ballots in the November election and is calling on the Republican president to declare a national emergency to allow for only a single day of voting.

Pastor Lorenzo Sewell made the comments while speaking at ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he does not expect the United States to need military force against Cuba and predicted the two countries would “make a deal,” in comments that came a day after CBS News reported that the Pentagon was laying the groundwork for possible operations on the island.

Asked whether any military action was planned, Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent the weekend using Air Force One to buzz the tower at major sporting events after last week’s summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping and as the Senate takes a final vote on a college athletics bill the chamber has spent weeks on.

He is slated to emphasize domestic issues as the midterm elections ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Transportation Department released a final rule Monday that aims to “reset” the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s fuel economy standards, rolling back substantial required mileage increases for automakers’ fleets implemented under the Biden administration.

Dubbed “Freedom Means Affordable Cars” by ...Read more

DETROIT — A Warren man died Sunday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle while teaching his daughter how to drive, police said.

In the incident, which happened on Warner Avenue near Stephens Road, a 62-year-old man was showing his 18-year-old daughter how to operate a motor vehicle. During the lesson, the young woman struck her father ...Read more

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. — For Chris Pangerl, Monday, Sept. 28, was his second groundbreaking for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in this bedroom community of Flint.

Pangerl said he attended the old church's first groundbreaking in 1981. He said he "did a lot of growing up" in the building as one of the youths who worshiped...Read more