The University of Kentucky will no longer offer gender-inclusive housing in accordance with House Bill 4, the state law passed earlier this year banning diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies at state universities.

Additionally, UK has ended financial support for identity-based student organizations and activities, UK spokesperson Jay ...Read more

Sen. Mitch McConnell is doing well after he was recorded tripping and falling in the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, according to a spokesperson.

The senator was walking with a security detail in the Russell Senate Office Building when a member of the progressive group The Sunrise Movement began questioning him about Immigration and Customs ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal authorities are now pursuing a misdemeanor charge against David Huerta, president of Service Employees International Union California, who was arrested during the first day of a series of immigration raids that swept the region.

Prosecutors originally brought a felony charge of conspiracy to impede an officer against ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago.

His lawyers filed an emergency appeal urging the court to set aside rulings of judges in Chicago and hold that National Guard troops are needed to protect U.S. immigration agents from hostile protesters.

The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An ex-LAPD officer who shot and killed an unarmed homeless man in 2015 — setting off a now decade-long legal fight over whether or not he should face criminal charges — was arrested on a felony murder warrant Thursday, authorities said.

Clifford Proctor, 60, was arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after flying back...Read more

Britain’s Prince Andrew will no longer be referred to as the Duke of York in light of his association with child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and amid the upcoming release of an explosive memoir from abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre.

“In discussion with The King, and my immediate and wider family, we have concluded the continued accusations ...Read more

Alexander Acosta, Donald Trump’s former labor secretary who resigned in 2019 over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, told the House Oversight Committee that he and other federal prosecutors investigating sex trafficking crimes against the deceased financier thought that taking his case to trial would be a “crapshoot.”

Among his reservations: ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. military struck a submarine designed for drug trafficking, amid reports that some aboard the vessel had survived — a first in the administration’s offensive against purported narco-traffickers.

“We attacked a submarine, and that was a drug-carrying submarine built specifically for the ...Read more

Cuba’s 94-year-old ruler Raúl Castro, who is officially retired, reappeared this week to preside over a rare national defense council meeting and reassert that he is Cuba’s ruler amid Havana’s increasing fears over chances of a U.S.-provoked regime change in Venezuela.

Looming heavily over the meeting, which took place on Wednesday but ...Read more

OpenAI has paused depictions of Martin Luther King Jr. after users generated “disrespectful” deepfake videos of the civil rights leader using its artificial intelligence tool Sora.

“While there are strong free speech interests in depicting historical figures, OpenAI believes public figures and their families should ultimately have control...Read more

New legislation authored by a San Diego lawmaker and just signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom creates an agency that will take key first steps toward reparations for Black Californians whose ancestors were enslaved — and toward what advocates say is repairing the lasting harms of American slavery.

Senate Bill 518, authored by state Sen. Akilah Weber ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday floated fresh hopes for an elusive peace in Ukraine and hinted that Volodymyr Zelenskyy could join his upcoming summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Meeting with Zelenskyy in the White House, Trump said the Ukraine leader would be on standby to join the talks with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, in case a chance ...Read more

President Donald Trump confirmed Friday that the Nicolás Maduro regime in Venezuela has been seeking to negotiate a deal with Washington, offering wide-ranging concessions in an effort to ease tensions between the two countries.

The comments from the White House came after a Miami Herald report on Thursday revealed that senior Venezuelan ...Read more

NEW YORK — Kayla Mamelak Altus, Mayor Eric Adams’ press secretary, plans to soon resign from her post, exiting early instead of staying through the end of his term in light of his decision to not seek reelection.

Her resignation is set to be effective late October or early November, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.

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Nearly 100 stolen ballots to decide the fate of California's congressional redistricting measure, Proposition 50, were found this week scattered throughout a homeless encampment in Sacramento County, officials said, sparking an investigation.

The ballots for the November special election were found among a large amount of mail and other debris ...Read more

Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez rejected as “false” a Miami Herald report that said a group of senior regime officials — led by her and her brother Jorge Rodríguez — had twice offered Washington a plan to replace Nicolás Maduro in an effort to ease tensions with the United States.

The Herald story reported that ...Read more

The California Faculty Association has sued the California State University after the university system handed over the personal phone numbers and email addresses of 2,600 Los Angeles campus employees to the federal government in response to an antisemitism investigation.

The lawsuit — filed last week — seeks a court order prohibiting CSU ...Read more

The son of Isak Andic, late billionaire and founder of the Mango fashion empire, is reportedly being investigated in connection with his father’s death, some 10 months after the fashion tycoon fell off a cliff in Spain.

Isak died in an “accident” on Dec. 14, 2024, Mango CEO Toni Ruiz said in a statement released at the time. He had been ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed a suite of privacy protection bills for transgender patients amid continuing threats by the Trump administration.

But there was one glaring omission that LGBTQ+ advocates and political strategists say is part of an increasingly complex dance the Democrat faces as he curates a more centrist profile ...Read more