Less than three years after President Joe Biden pardoned a close ally of Nicolás Maduro, the Justice Department is once again targeting the businessman, The Associated Press has learned, an investigation that could bo...
Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the 5-week-old immigration crackdown in its home state of Minnesota.
The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser Frederick Douglass in a bipartisan move brokered by Black lawmakers.
More than two dozen privacy and advocacy organizations are calling on California Gov. Gavin Newsom to remove a network of covert license plate readers deployed across Southern California that the groups believe feed d...
A team of researchers say that human-caused climate change had an important impact on the recent ferocious wildfires that engulfed parts of Chile and Argentina’s Patagonia region, making the extremely high-risk condit...
The world’s largest aircraft carrier has been ordered to sail from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East, a person familiar with the plans said Thursday, as U.S. President Donald Trump considers whether to take possible military action against Iran.
The U.S. Justice Department has moved to drop charges against two men charged with assaulting Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in Minneapolis in January after an officer shot a Venezuelan immigrant, a court document showed on Thursday.
A supervisor at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s office in the Dominican Republic has been arrested as part of an investigation into abuse of a U.S. visa program for confidential informants, a current and former U.S. official briefed on the matter...
The Congressional Black Caucus and major civil rights groups on Tuesday marked Black History Month by relaunching a national plan to mobilize against what they say are the Trump administration’s efforts to weaken legal protections for minority communities.
Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb filed a lawsuit Thursday using an expansive racketeering law — originally crafted to prosecute organized crime — to put a landlord accused of providing unsuitable living conditions to his renters out of busin...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the focus of this investigation is to find out if the response violated state anti-discrimination and disability rights laws.
Analilia Mejia, a longtime progressive organizer allied with Sen. Bernie Sanders, has won a crowded special Democratic House primary to fill the open seat...
A federal judge has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to give immigrants detained in Minnesota access to attorneys immediately after they are taken into custody and before they are transferred out of state.
The High Court is to rule on Friday on whether the Home Office’s decision to ban Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws was lawful
President Donald Trump has reversed a key Obama-era scientific ruling that underpins all federal actions on curbing planet-warming gases.
A judge ordered Thursday that Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora be returned to house arrest again while awaiting trial after spending nearly a year in jail in his latest stint of incarceration.
Top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathy Ruemmler said Thursday night that she will leave the investment bank at the end of June, a move that comes after the recent release of additional documents detailing her often chummy conversations with notorious sex predator J...
Senate Democrats voted Thursday to block a motion to advance a House-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, putting Washington on the brink of a partial government shutdown that will affect more than 260,000 federal employees.
The legacy of Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show continues.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service improperly disclosed the confidential tax information of thousands of people to federal immigration enforcement authorities, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the situation.
Actors Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are in NYC federal court for a settlement conference in Lively's lawsuit against her former co-star.
Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who chairs the body, accused her of trying to “hijack” a hearing on antisemitism this week.
Federal judges in upstate New York appointed a new U.S. attorney on Wednesday only to see him abruptly fired by the White House, in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary.
Nurses on strike at two major New York City hospital systems have approved new contracts, but ones striking at another system have rejected the proposal, ensuring that the monthlong walkout will continue at some of the city’s major medical centers.
Valeria Chomsky says she and her husband Noam Chomsky made serious errors in judgment in their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
A disruption in reimbursements to states for disaster relief costs. Delays in cybersecurity response and training. And missed paychecks for the agents who screen passengers and bags at the nation’s airports, which could lead to unscheduled absences and long...
Investigators in Florida say a double homicide discovered during a well-being check was linked to a shooting rampage hours later in a gated community on the other side of the state, which left five more people dead including the suspected shooter.
A federal grand jury in D.C. refused the Justice Department’s attempts to indict six Democratic lawmakers over their comments to military service members — the latest rebuke of the Trump administration’s push to prosecute the president’s foes, according to ...
Nebraska’s Republican secretary of state will turn over sensitive information on every registered voter in the state to the U.S. Justice Department on Thursday after Nebraska’s highest court rejected a legal effort to block the move.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s top election official and a group of naturalized citizens settled a federal lawsuit Wednesday that will prevent the state from…
Montana’s Republican attorney general said Wednesday he’s investigating the city of Helena for potential violations of the state’s sanctuary city ban, after city officials passed a resolution discouraging cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
Nevada’s IT agency has rolled out a new policy aimed at standardizing the privacy of state data, months after a massive cyberattack crippled certain systems for weeks.
The Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser earlier this week, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the sit...
Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct, after newly released documents show he sent Jeffrey Epstein an email describing an undergraduate as a good-looking blonde while recommending her...
The House on Wednesday passed a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada, a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and a rare Republican rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family. The decision likely ends a bitter, yearslong legal battle...
The Trump administration reached a trade deal with Taiwan on Thursday, with Taiwan agreeing to remove or reduce 99% of its tariff barriers, the office of the U.S. Trade Representative said.
More than 800 students are pursuing degrees in the affected departments, which include African, Latino and gender studies.
The U.N. General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Thursday to approve a 40-member global scientific panel on the impacts and risks of artificial intelligence, with the United States strongly objecting.
President Trump is nominating a food service and hospitality executive to lead the National Park Service (NPS). Trump’s pick to lead the U.S.’s national parks, Scott Socha, is Delaware North’s president of parks and resorts, as well as president of Delaware...
MORRISTOWN, Ind. — A second teenager has been arrested in connection with a Columbine-inspired plot to shoot up a rural Indiana high school. In early January, Alexis Pickett, 17, of Rush County was charged with attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder ...
Israel is seeking to revoke the citizenship of at least two men convicted of terrorism offenses, marking what appears to be the first test of a 2023 law allowing...
In defiance of a Trump administration edict, New York City officials and activists raised the rainbow Pride flag again on Feb. 12 at the Stonewall National Monument, the birthplace of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, after it was removed over the weekend by the ...
An immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against a landscaper who was arrested in Southern California last year, and the father of three U.S. Marines is now on a path toward legal permanent residency in the U.S.
Jeanine Pirro has sued Rye, New York, and utility company Con Edison after she says she tripped on a roadway hazard during a walk. The lawsuit says the fall...
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s efforts to censure Sen. Mark Kelly and lower his retirement rank in the wake of a video in which the Arizona senator and other Democrats called on service members to reject unlawful orders.
Top Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathy Ruemmler said Thursday night that she will leave the investment bank at the end of June, a move that comes after the recent release of additional documents detailing her often chummy conversations with notorious sex predator J...
An Israeli citizen and reserve soldier were indicted on suspicion they used classified information to place bets on military operations using the Polymarket website, authorities said on Thursday. A statement by the Defence Ministry, Shin Bet internal securi...
Republican Sen. Thom Tillis from North Carolina suggested Thursday he could support a compromise that would allow the Senate Banking Committee to start hearings on Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve.
The immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to mass detentions, protests and two deaths is coming to an end, border czar Tom Homan said Thursday.
Republican businesswoman Karrin Taylor Robson is hitting the pause button on her effort to become Arizona’s next governor. She announced Thursday afternoon that she’s suspending her gubernatorial campaign. Robson said she doesn’t want a divisive GOP primary...
Adam Mosseri, the head of Meta’s Instagram, testified Wednesday during a landmark social media trial in Los Angeles that he disagrees with the idea that people can be clinically addicted to social media platforms.
The maker of a gun accessory tied to a racist shooting that killed 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo will pay $1.75 million to survivors and victims’ families and stop selling the device in New York, state Attorney General Letitia James said Wedne...
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