Kentucky has joined the list of states being sued by President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice as part of a months-long effort to access Kentucky voters’ personal information.

The DOJ claims that the information is needed to ensure “election integrity,” while officials like Republican Secretary of State Michael Adams claim that the...Read more

Minnesota’s chief federal judge on Thursday sharply escalated the ongoing confrontation between the judiciary and the state’s top federal prosecutor’s office over violations in immigration cases, including raising the possibility of holding people in criminal contempt in the future.

In a rare rebuke, U.S. District Chief Judge Patrick ...Read more

CHICAGO — As many lined up to pay their respects for the late Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. Thursday — his casket lying in repose at Rainbow PUSH’s South Side headquarters through Friday — funeral arrangements in the Civil Rights icon’s native state of South Carolina were announced.

The Jackson family and members of the South Carolina ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Shortly after enduring a series of winter storms that damaged roads and flooded businesses, Southern Californians may be pleased to learn that blue skies and toasty temperatures are on deck as possible record-setting heat sweeps into the region this week.

A high-pressure system will bring significant warming to the Southern ...Read more

President Donald Trump put his son-in-law Jared Kushner and longtime friend Steve Witkoff in charge of resolving the war in Ukraine and a standoff with Iran. On Thursday, they juggled those momentous issues within hours of each other.

Dispatched to Geneva, Switzerland, Kushner and Witkoff met Iranian officials at the Omani ambassador’s ...Read more

U.S. and Iranian officials ended the latest round of nuclear talks in Geneva on Thursday by agreeing to re-convene as soon as next week, opening the door to further diplomacy even as President Donald Trump masses military forces in the region.

With just days to go before Trump’s deadline to reach an agreement, the two sides agreed to resume ...Read more

RICHMOND — Del. Lee Ware, R-Powhatan, rose for a point of personal privilege Thursday afternoon and took the opportunity to urge against the passage of a bill that would remove several Confederate statues from Capitol Square in Richmond. SB636 passed the Senate along party lines earlier this month and will soon come before the House of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Netflix bowed out of the Warner Bros. Discovery sweepstakes Thursday, conceding the prize to Paramount Skydance.

The move came after Warner Bros. Discovery switched gears, announcing that Paramount Skydance’s revised bid had topped the one on the table from Netflix.

Warner’s reversal is the latest twist in Hollywood’s ...Read more

One of the four people the Cuban government said it killed in an open-water shootout Wednesday is an American citizen, the U.S. State Department confirmed Thursday evening.

The spokesperson told the Miami Herald one of the people injured was a citizen as well, a third person involved in the incident was on a visa for fiancés of U.S. citizens ...Read more

A key Pentagon official on Thursday brushed off criticism from senators over the department’s role in an episode that led the Federal Aviation Authority to briefly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas, earlier this month.

Under questioning during his Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing to become the top Pentagon official in...Read more

Would-be Donald Trump assassin Asif Merchant was caught on video as he spread a napkin out on a hotel room table, put down a creamsicle-colored vape, and said, “This is the target. How will it die?”

Merchant, who’s accused of trying to mastermind a political assassination at a 2024 U.S. campaign rally, thought he was speaking with a ...Read more

Cuban officials identified Thursday the remaining three men who were killed in a shooting with a Cuban coast guard vessel and one who was detained after a group of 10 allegedly used a Florida-registered boat for a “terrorist infiltration” of the island.

Pavel Alling Peña, Ledián Padrón Guevara and Hector Duani Cruz Correa were killed ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Gov. Wes Moore — stepping into territory more often associated with presidents — invited the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team to visit Maryland’s capital.

Moore’s invitation represents the latest in a political-sports drama that began when President Donald Trump appeared to slight the women’s team ...Read more

A Denver law firm accused the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday of illegally coordinating the arrest and transfer of an immigrant without proper legal status last year.

The nonprofit law firm, Towards Justice, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Sheriff Lou Vallario after months of allegations raised by Glenwood Springs-based ...Read more

Two Maryland lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday aimed at protecting the independence of inspectors general and ensuring they can access records needed for official investigations.

GOP Del. Ryan Nawrocki and Democratic Del. Vaughn Stewart said Thursday that current rules allow agencies under investigation delay or block oversight by ...Read more

A group of former U.S. Department of Justice attorneys say the ongoing federal attempt to force Minnesota officials to turn over its voter rolls amounts to a “fishing expedition” not supported by law.

Sixteen former DOJ lawyers who worked on voting issues say the department “overstepped its bounds” in the dispute that has since ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two Democratic secretaries of state said they were told the Trump administration isn’t planning to send federal immigration enforcement agents to polling locations during November’s congressional elections.

State officials were told during a call Wednesday with federal authorities that Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...Read more