CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Two federal officials told Mecklenburg County Sheriff Garry McFadden that U.S. Border Patrol agents could be in Charlotte for enforcement as soon as this Saturday, according to a news release.

If not by then, they could be here early next week, McFadden said.

He did not know details of any planned operation, which was first...Read more

CHICAGO — Multiple immigration agents detained a man on Wednesday outside Cook County’s main criminal courthouse on the Southwest Side in a chaotic struggle that broke a fence and left blood on the pavement, according to video footage provided to the Chicago Tribune by the Cook County Public Defender’s Office.

It was not clear whether the...Read more

A Detroit man was sentenced to nine years in federal prison Thursday for trying to provide material support to the Islamic State.

Jibreel Pratt, 26, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Denise Page Hood amid a renewed focus on Metro Detroiters trying to support the terror group, a focus driven by the arrests of at least eight men this fall, ...Read more

As part of ongoing immigration enforcement in Florida, three Florida sheriff’s offices, including Palm Beach County’s, received a total of $2 million to support those efforts.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office received a check for more than $994,000 during a news conference on Thursday at the sheriff’s headquarters at 3228 Gun Club...Read more

The Michigan House and Senate voted Thursday to institute a 45-day disclosure window before lawmakers can insert funding for special projects into the state budget, a significant change that came in response to a series of scandals tied to a wave of earmark spending.

House Speaker Matt Hall had pushed for the new reporting requirements, ...Read more

BALTIMORE — News that NASA federal employees had been called back to work at Maryland’s Goddard Space Flight Center to dismantle and move laboratories during the government shutdown drew a strong rebuke from members of Congress and a denial from NASA officials.

This is false,” NASA press secretary Bethany Stevens told The Baltimore Sun. �...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For the first time in 12 years, U.S. Catholic bishops have issued a unified statement to support the country's immigrants and oppose the Trump administration's "indiscriminate mass deportations of people."

The move marked a voice of support for immigrants — long a vital part of the U.S. Catholic Church — amid a year of ...Read more

The Trump administration sued California on Thursday, Nov. 13, over the redistricting plan approved by voters last week, an attempt to invalidate the new congressional maps meant to help Democrats pick up House seats in next year’s midterm elections.

The U.S. Department of Justice alleged that it was race, rather than partisanship, that drove...Read more

NEW YORK — Education advocates made a last-ditch effort Thursday to persuade New York City officials to request a delay of the state’s class-size law before Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani takes office.

The 2022 law caps class sizes between 20 and 25 students, depending on their grade level. The city has two more school years to reach full ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized after a fall near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania, in an incident related to a heart issue that comes three years after he recovered from a stroke.

The incident follows a busy week in which Fetterman, D-Pa., cast a key vote to reopen the federal government and engaged in a publicity tour to promote ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Shelby County man is suing the top law enforcement officials in Kentucky and the U.S., claiming his nonviolent felony conviction from 1997 should not prohibit him from owning a gun.

Hubert Ford filed suit in federal court Wednesday, against U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman.

Ford ...Read more

The record-breaking federal government shutdown marked yet another impediment to scientific research efforts at the Wistar Institute this year.

After a year in which federal research funding was thrown into uncertainty, with funding freezes and canceled grants, the shutdown meant that the National Institutes of Health were not able to review ...Read more

Florida approved a new curriculum on Thursday to teach public school students about the “dangers and evils of communism,” academic standards that some historians have criticized as propaganda.

Members of the State Board of Education, meeting in the Panhandle, also signed a Heritage Foundation education pledge to teach students about “good...Read more

NEW YORK — The City Council on Thursday endorsed Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s call for the state to pony up more money for child care programs in the Big Apple — and laid out a series of suggestions for how he could make the system as a whole more effective.

The Council, under the leadership of outgoing Speaker Adrienne Adams, unveiled ...Read more

A 3.6-magnitude earthquake shook the Vallejo area in Northern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.

The 6-mile deep quake hit about 2 miles from Vallejo at 12:41 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, according to the USGS.

More than 1,200 people from as far away as Burlingame and San Francisco reported feeling the tremor to the agency at of 1 p.m...Read more

As Gov. Gavin Newsom flew around the country last year campaigning for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, his chief of staff Dana Williamson — known as one of California’s toughest political insiders — was not only helping to helm the ship in Sacramento, but under criminal investigation by federal law enforcement.

The ...Read more

MIRAMAR, Fla. — Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Florida law enforcement officials announced Thursday the deportations of more than 200 criminals, many of whom are sex offenders, as part of a 10-day operation across the state, touting Florida as the “model” for immigration enforcement across the country.

ICE Deputy Director Madison...Read more

With the swearing in of a newly elected Democrat in the U.S. House on Wednesday, Rep. Thomas Massie got enough signatures on his petition to force a House vote on the release of documents related to the late sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

But the effort still has a long way to go from petition to document release.

House Speaker ...Read more

A social media influencer visited a protected island off the eastern coast of Australia, filmed herself starting an “illegal” campfire and posted the video, environmental officials said. Now, she’s been fined and warned.

The woman lit “an illegal fire” while visiting K’gari Island, a “World Heritage environment” site formerly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit over conditions at the largest immigration detention center in California, as migrant advocates and Democratic members of Congress have pressed for more oversight of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement expansion.

The complaint in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District...Read more