MINNEAPOLIS — A Minneapolis woman captured in a viral video of federal immigration agents dragging her from her car during Operation Metro Surge last winter has sued the federal government, alleging they used excessive force and violated her constitutional rights.

Aliya Rahman, a Bangladeshi-American who is autistic, alleges that agents ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Can your child keep that box turtle they found in the woods and fell in love with?

Maryland’s Department of Natural Resources is considering rules to prohibit taking native reptiles and amphibians from the wild, to more tightly limit ownership and to require permits for those taken before the new rules take effect. Public ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County judge who has been accused of sexual harassment, making racist remarks and mistreating fellow members of the bench was officially removed from office Tuesday, officials said.

The state Commission on Judicial Performance upheld 17 findings of misconduct against Judge Robert Draper, 84, according to a ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Federal prosecutors have divulged what kinds of evidence they are relying on to bring racketeering conspiracy and marijuana distribution charges against one of the state’s most powerful elected officials, as well as members of her family and former associates.

They made the revelations in a Nov. 6 court filing, asking a judge...Read more

CHICAGO — As aldermen grilled Mayor Brandon Johnson’s top procurement official for abruptly changing the mayor’s vague plan to test gunshot detection technology in Chicago neighborhoods, they were left without a key piece of information.

Before his administration backed off the small-scale pilot program the mayor had been promising would ...Read more

The U.S. is expected to lose its measles-free status this week as the Pan American Health Organization meets to review measles outbreaks in the Western Hemisphere.

Measles elimination means a country has not had a continuous, locally transmitted outbreak for at least 12 months. The United States is experiencing multiple measles outbreaks, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — British police have arrested a U.S. Army soldier on suspicion of being involved in a Russian espionage operation in a case that involved both U.K. and American authorities.

The 41-year-old man was arrested near Gloucester on Tuesday, and the national security case involves allegations related to Russia, the Metropolitan Police ...Read more

Despite Meghan Markle’s claims that she was “not strong enough, emotionally” to deliver a keynote speech on child safety at a European Parliament event Tuesday, following her father’s arrest on child pornography charges, she looked relaxed and even cracked a small smile while being photographed entering the parliamentary building ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Michigan U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain won reelection to her post as chair of the House Republican Conference in internal party elections held Tuesday, Nov. 10, after Democrats' rout of GOP candidates in last week's midterm elections.

McClain, a Bruce Township Republican elected to her fourth term last week, faced U.S. Reps. Erin ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Angela Alsobrooks spent much of the midterm campaign season traveling the country to help Democrats win competitive races. Now, the Maryland Democrat says she wants a bigger role in the party’s Senate leadership. However, she doesn’t have her eye on the Senate majority leader position, which her Maryland counterpart, U.S. Sen. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump wanted to know how Jensen Huang was holding up after admitting to an affair with a woman who may have been a Chinese spy. So on Monday, he spoke with the Nvidia Corp. chief executive officer — and came away satisfied with what he heard.

Recounting the conversation to reporters, the president said that ...Read more

The massive Democratic majority in the U.S. House and Senate that was ushered in by a historic blue midterm vote is an ideologically diverse one.

Candidates spent much of the past year differentiating their positions from the mainstream Democratic coalition. The result is a freshman class filled with as many progressive liberals as ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Mark Robinson, the scandal-ravaged former North Carolina lieutenant governor and 2024 Republican gubernatorial candidate, and his wife declared bankruptcy last week, court documents show.

Robinson and Yolanda Hill filed for bankruptcy Nov. 3 under Chapter 13, which creates a payment plan to pay back debts rather than ...Read more

A federal judge in Los Angeles on Tuesday canceled all future hearings and closed a hotly contested legal case that sought to force California to set aside ballots from some 20,000 people the Trump administration said were likely to be noncitizens.

But U.S. District Judge David Carter did not resist taking a final swipe at the Justice ...Read more

Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, decisively won a closed-door vote to lead the Republican minority in the House of Representatives in the next Congress after the GOP suffered sweeping losses in the midterm elections.

The right-wing firebrand beat Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Louisiana, by a healthy 106-73 margin in a secret-ballot election that came after ...Read more

As U.S. House members pushed for a potential vote Wednesday on whether to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his handling of the Iran war and other alleged “high crimes” against the nation, Hegseth prepared for a fight — with President Donald Trump squarely behind him.

“In the 250 years of our American republic, no secretary of...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Tuesday opted for a new face atop their ranks, electing Rep. Jim Jordan as the incoming minority leader for the 120th Congress after Republicans suffered massive losses in last week’s midterm elections.

The Ohio Republican defeated outgoing Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., in a closed-door, secret-...Read more

The 2026 midterm rout that awarded Democrats decisive majorities in the Senate and House has also sparked interest in the future of the U.S. Supreme Court.

With Democrats securing at least a 54-seat majority in the Senate on Jan. 3, 2027, the window is rapidly closing for President Donald Trump to appoint a new Supreme Court justice ...Read more

A British celebrity whose legal team warned that he may harm himself if identified by media outlets as a sexual predator has been identified as comedian and children’s author David Walliams.

Walliams, who denies any wrongdoing, had asked a U.K. court to stop news agencies ITN and Guardian News and Media from reporting on his alleged ...Read more

Arrests for low-level offenses, including vagrancy and drug possession, increased nationwide in 2025, even as violent crime continued to decline, according to a new analysis of federal data.

The analysis, which was released in late October by the criminal justice advocacy organization FWD.us, found that arrests for vagrancy, an offense often ...Read more