LOS ANGELES — As federal immigration raids continue to upend life in Los Angeles, Asian American leaders are rallying their communities to raise their voices in support of Latinos, who have been the primary targets of the enforcement sweeps, warning that neighborhoods frequented by Asian immigrants could be next.

Organizers say many Asian ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Lalo Schifrin, the six-time Oscar nominee and prolific composer best known for his Grammy-winning “Mission: Impossible” theme, has died. He was 93.

Schifrin died Thursday morning at a hospital in Los Angeles, his son Will Schifrin, a writer and producer, told the Los Angeles Times. He reportedly died of complications from ...Read more

As federal immigration raids continue to upend life in Los Angeles, Asian American leaders are rallying their communities to raise their voices in support of Latinos, who have been the primary targets of the enforcement sweeps, warning that neighborhoods frequented by Asian immigrants could be next.

Organizers say many Asian immigrants have ...Read more

NEW YORK — Bill Moyers, a soft-spoken former White House aide turned journalist who became a standard bearer of quality in TV news, died Thursday in New York. He was 91.

Moyers’ son William told The Associated Press his father died at Memorial Sloan Kettering hospital after a long illness.

Moyers began his TV career in 1971 during the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The wife of the man charged with shooting two Minnesota political leaders and their spouses said she was “blindsided” after learning of her husband’s alleged role, calling the attacks a “betrayal of everything we hold true as tenets of the Christian faith.”

Speaking publicly for the first time, Jenny Boelter issued a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Aided by a network of staff and unlimited money, Sean “Diddy” Combs long believed he was untouchable — hiding behind his celebrity while heading a criminal syndicate that enabled him to brutalize and humiliate women sexually, a federal prosecutor said in closing arguments Thursday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Slavik ...Read more

BALTIMORE — A day after a police officer shot a 70-year-old woman they said was wielding a knife, confusion and concern surrounded the West Baltimore neighborhood where she lived and died in relative anonymity.

Residents living on the same 2700 block of Mosher Street described their neighborhood as close-knit, though none who spoke with The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. and China finalized a trade understanding reached last month in Geneva, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said, adding that the White House has imminent plans to reach agreements with a set of 10 major trading partners.

The China deal, which Lutnick said had been signed two days ago, codifies the terms laid out in ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he wants to bring back a long-retired title: secretary of war. Why was it dropped in the first place?

Trump brought up the idea of a name change while introducing Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth at a June 25 news conference in the Netherlands, which hosted this year’s NATO summit.

“You know, it used to be ...Read more

Rapper Fat Joe took a stand on social media against allegations of coercion, intimidation and sex with minors that emerged last week in a lawsuit filed by his former hype man.

The Bronx native (birth name Joseph Cartagena) broke his silence Wednesday in a statement on Instagram informing followers that he has "been tested the last few months" ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger is headed to trial this summer.

Fourth Judicial District Judge Steven Hippler rejected a request Thursday to delay the highly anticipated capital murder trial after the 30-year-old’s public defense team argued that the delay was “necessary to protect” Kohberger’s constitutional rights. The judge found no...Read more

DENVER — A new, White House-approved portrait of President Donald Trump will soon hang in the Colorado State Capitol.

The new portrait bears a close resemblance to Trump’s official photograph for his second term in office, albeit with him wearing a blue tie in the painting versus a red one in the photo. The painting casts Trump against a ...Read more

The federal government’s push to reopen immigration cases in administrative closure could bring the court backlog to nearly 4 million cases.

As of April, there were over 398,500 administratively closed cases in the immigration system, according to data published by the Executive Office for Immigration Review, a sub-agency of the Department of...Read more

MEXICO CITY — President Donald Trump’s vow to “wage war” on drug cartels has resulted in bombshell accusations of money laundering against three Mexican financial institutions — allegations that produced a defiant pushback from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum.

“There’s no proof, just words,” a clearly agitated Sheinbaum ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Bryan Kohberger is headed to trial this summer.

Fourth Judicial District Judge Steven Hippler rejected a request Thursday to delay the highly anticipated capital murder trial after the 30-year-old’s public defense team argued that the delay was “necessary to protect” Kohberger’s constitutional rights.

“Defendant ...Read more

The nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization has designated UC Irvine as a “hostile campus” for Palestinian, Arab and Muslim students and faculty for what it describes as a pattern of discriminatory treatment toward students and faculty.

UC Irvine joins 23 other colleges, including UCLA, Pomona College and Stanford ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A secret, sweeping five-year probe of the Philadelphia School District’s compliance with federal asbestos regulations entered a new phase Thursday as the school board signed off on a deferred prosecution agreement to avoid criminal charges.

The agreement makes a national example of Philadelphia: it’s the first time ever ...Read more

President Donald Trump indicated that he might be preparing to ease his “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran, potentially undercutting a central policy dating to his first term and provoking consternation among foreign policy hawks who argue that now is the time to escalate — not lessen — pressure on Tehran.

Days after U.S. ...Read more