ST. PAUL, Minn. — As part of a federal investigation into a “massive scheme to defraud” Minnesota’s Housing Stabilization Services program, law enforcement carried out search warrants in the Twin Cities on Wednesday.

Eight locations were listed in the search warrant affidavit, including in St. Paul, Roseville and Little Canada. No one ...Read more

MIAMI — Five Hispanic male police officers have notified Miami Gardens that they intend to file a class-action whistleblower lawsuit claiming they were the targets of racial discrimination.

The Miami Gardens officers — who said they were suspended or demoted after filing complaints of unfair treatment with the city — have also demanded ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Orders from the administrations of President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis have achieved what vandals have tried and failed: The elimination of a street intersection on Boynton Beach painted with the rainbow colors of the LGBTQ+ progress pride flag.

The rainbow colors were removed Wednesday morning. The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Immigrant advocates are suing to stop what they allege is an unlawful effort by the Trump administration to ramp up arrests of migrants who appear at U.S. immigration courts.

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal district court in Washington, claims U.S. officials are violating migrants’ due process rights with courthouse ...Read more

TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel struck Syria’s military headquarters in Damascus on Wednesday and moved more troops to the border area in a bid, officials said, to prevent attacks against the Syrian Druze community.

Israeli forces have stepped up operations in Syria since Monday after deadly fighting between Druze, Bedouin groups and Syrian ...Read more

Greek authorities arrested the ex-wife of a University of California, Berkeley professor in connection with his murder in Athens earlier this month.

Marketing professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski was fatally shot July 4 in the Agia Paraskevi district of Athens, authorities told Greek media outlet To Vima.

Jeziorski, 43, was shot five times as he was...Read more

President Donald Trump's future presidential library has a growing list of corporate sponsors, and Democratic lawmakers are sounding alarms.

To settle Trump's lawsuit over edits to a CBS "60 Minutes" broadcast, Paramount Global agreed to pay $16 million to help finance the future library and cover the president's legal fees.

Walt Disney Co. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump denied he is seeking to remove Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, after raising the idea in a closed-door meeting with congressional Republicans that leaked to the media.

“No, we’re not planning on doing anything,” Trump told reporters on Wednesday. He later added, “I don’t rule out anything, ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 centered off Alaska's Aleutian chain Wednesday triggered a brief tsunami warning for coastal areas of the state.

The quake struck about 54 miles south of the community of Sand Point shortly after 12:30 p.m. at a depth of about 12 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The ...Read more

MIAMI — Immigrant communities are on edge after a newly revealed immigration memo from the Trump administration confirmed that migrants could now be deported to countries other than their own with as little as six hours’ notice — even in cases where those countries offer no guarantees of safety.

The policy, laid out in a July 9 memo by ...Read more

DENVER — A consultant claiming to work for the White House called several Republican county clerks in Colorado last week, seeking “third-party” access to secure voting equipment, election officials told The Denver Post.

At least 10 Republican clerks were contacted by consultant Jeff Small, officials said Wednesday. Small, who has Colorado...Read more

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford and a coalition of 19 other attorneys general urged members of Congress to pass legislation prohibiting federal immigration agents from wearing masks to conceal their identity.

In a letter sent to members of Congress on Tuesday, the attorneys general called for legislation requiring Immigration and Custom ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — American children today are dying at much higher rates than kids in similar countries. They’re also far more likely to suffer from a chronic disease than children in previous generations were.

That’s according to a new study from researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who dug through nearly two decades’...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's pick to lead the nation's top roadway safety agency assured lawmakers Wednesday of his commitment to reducing auto fatalities while sidestepping questions on more controversial topics, like the rollback of fuel economy regulations.

"Each year, we see approximately six million crashes, millions of injuries...Read more

The suspected gunman in a mass shooting that killed two people at a Florida State University campus earlier this year is set to go on trial in November, a judge said Wednesday.

Phoenix Ikner, 20, is accused of killing two people and wounding several others after opening fire near the university’s student union just before lunchtime on April ...Read more

MIAMI — The tents, beds and pens have been erected in the Florida Everglades, and hundreds of migrants have been shipped to the detention facility the state is calling Alligator Alcatraz.

Now what?

The site, built in eight days on a municipal airstrip located within the Big Cypress National Preserve, is part of a larger plan to expand ...Read more

President Donald Trump has signed into law two measures long sought by Alaska's congressional delegation to benefit Alaska Native people.

The provisions, called the Alaska Native Settlement Trust Eligibility Act and the Alaska Native Village Municipal Lands Restoration Act, had been repeatedly introduced by members of the Alaska congressional ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance’s attempts Wednesday to sell Republicans’ massive tax and spending law to Pennsylvania voters were overshadowed by President Donald Trump’s clash with his base over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal and mixed messages about potentially firing Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

Trump spent much of ...Read more