A judge ordered President Donald Trump to sit for a deposition by Dec. 11 in his $10 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corp. after he missed an earlier date he’d agreed to.

The date was set Thursday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Enjoliqué Lett in Miami, who last week threatened to sanction Trump if he didn’t follow through on the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Department of Justice announced a sweeping take-down of doctors and others they say lured vulnerable patients into needless surgical procedures, sham treatment programs and bogus hospice care, bilking taxpayers for nearly $2 billion, according to charges released Thursday.

Among the most chilling allegations, two Angelenos ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla made a surprise visit Thursday to a Sacramento federal immigration holding center to inspect conditions and seek answers about Tuesday’s collision involving an ICE agent and an observer in Woodland.

“I want to see the condition of people, the level of activity, whether (ICE) will ...Read more

The Trump administration must stop sending armed agents to question immigrants it believes may have registered to vote illegally until after the Nov. 3 midterm elections, a federal judge in Oakland, California, has ruled.

The preliminary injunction issued late Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin is the latest development in...Read more

DETROIT — The U.S. Department of Justice plans to send election monitors to polling places in seven Michigan cities this fall, as voters in the battleground state prepare to pick a new governor and decide a series of races that could sway control of Congress.

Less than two weeks before the midterm election, the federal department within ...Read more

The Pennsylvania General Assembly has unanimously approved legislation that improves the state’s ability to investigate and prosecute internet crimes against children, sponsors of the bill said Wednesday.

House Bill 1098, sponsored by Rep. Jason Ortitay, a Republican from Cecil, would expand the investigation and prosecution of internet ...Read more

A 71-year-old man was killed early Thursday morning after a self-driving Tesla struck him as he was crossing Interstate 80 in Vallejo, the California Highway Patrol said.

Officers responded to a report of a crash on the westbound freeway around 2:35 a.m. Thursday, CHP said. When emergency responders arrived, they found the man's injuries had ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The string of El Niño-fueled storms that have closed roads, crumbled boardwalks and eroded beaches in Southern California in the summer and fall may have also brought a silver lining: a potential end in sight to the region's fire season, experts say.

Just a week after a 570-acre fire spread to hillside communities in Orange ...Read more

The late September death of a prominent British banking whistleblower has renewed interest on the expansive network of people connected to Jeffrey Epstein who have died, some under mysterious circumstances.

The latest death happened Sept. 23. Simon Andriesz, 57, a former British banker who exposed financial ties between Epstein and Trump’s ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For Alaskans who rely on federally funded services ranging from ferries to weather monitoring to energy projects, the first year of the second Trump administration was riddled with anxiety. Budget cuts, canceled grants and frozen funding streams became the norm, causing many Alaskans to wonder whether critical federal ...Read more

Christa Pike is now speaking in full sentences following her failed execution in September.

Pike’s ability to communicate has significantly improved amid her recovery, and she is now able to walk and move about on her own, her attorney told TMZ. Despite her strides forward though, doctors are still concerned about the potential for any long ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota law enforcement officials say the federal government is again refusing to share evidence from the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti during Operation Metro Surge.

The abrupt change comes after previous statements from state officials that evidence sharing had begun and working relationships with federal officials ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — The Justice Department on Thursday announced a federal grand jury indictment of Virginia Sen. Louise Lucas on felony charges related to alleged marijuana drug trafficking and money laundering.

Prosecutors charged Lucas and six others, including her two daughters, with an alleged racketeering conspiracy involving marijuana ...Read more

The U.S. ordered the departure of some diplomats and their families from Saudi Arabia due to the threat from Houthi militants, as the Iran-backed group carried out more deadly strikes from Yemen.

Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran was evacuated on Thursday following an alarm whose trigger remained unknown, according to people familiar ...Read more

Subtropical Storm Josephine continued to surge off the U.S. Atlantic coast while the National Hurricane Center kept its eye on another system.

As of the 11 a.m. NHC advisory, Josephine was located about 200 miles southeast of Nantucket, Massachusetts and 420 miles south-southwest of Halifax, Nova Scotia moving northeast at 12 mph with maximum ...Read more

DETROIT — Michigan's public colleges and universities lost thousands of students over the past year, according to initial data from the Michigan Association of State Universities, disrupting an enrollment stabilization after the COVID pandemic.

More than 5,200 fewer students are enrolled in the 15 public colleges and universities across the ...Read more

The U.S. ordered the departure of some diplomats and their families from Saudi Arabia due to the threat from Houthi militants, after the Iran-backed group carried out deadly strikes from Yemen.

Saudi Aramco’s headquarters in Dhahran was evacuated on Thursday following an alarm whose trigger remained unknown, according to people familiar with ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Florida won’t get the next SpaceX Starship launch, but with the first of three launch towers on the Space Coast near completion, Elon Musk expects the company to build up the launch rate quickly.

“We expect Starship to fly weekly at some point in the first half of next year, and then second half of next year twice weekly ...Read more

NEW YORK — When Medet Fidian spent $310,000 on one of New York City’s 68 horse carriage medallions in 2022, it was his second shot at the American dream. His first was driving a yellow cab after arriving here from Turkey in 1996.

“When you say ‘New York,’ the first thing that comes to your mind is Lady Liberty — and then a yellow ...Read more