WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday called for Michigan Democratic U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin and other Democratic lawmakers to be arrested and put on trial over their remarks in a recent video urging members of the U.S. military and intelligence community to refuse unspecified illegal orders.

In a remarkable message on social media...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans won a significant political victory this month when moderate Senate Democrats joined them to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, relenting from a showdown over the rising costs of health care.

But the fight is already back on, with mere weeks to spare before the Trump administration faces a potential...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Eaton fire was marching toward western Altadena even earlier than previously believed, a state-commissioned report confirmed this week, raising further questions about why it took L.A. County officials so long to order evacuations in the neighborhood where 18 people died.

The fire erupted Jan. 7 at 6:18 p.m. fueled by ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson on Thursday sought to head off concerns about public transit safety in the wake of a man accused of lighting a woman on fire on the CTA Blue Line.

Asked at an unrelated West Side news conference whether the alleged attacker should have been out on the street, Johnson did not say directly but maintained the act ...Read more

CHICAGO — A federal appeals court has temporarily halted the release on bond of hundreds of immigrants whose arrests during Operation Midway Blitz are being challenged under a consent decree that limits so-called warrantless arrests that occur without a prior warrant or probable cause.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Cummings had allowed their ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A student who claims they were sexually assaulted at a football camp this summer is suing the McCreary County School District, superintendent and high school football coach.

The suit, filed Nov. 19 in federal court, accuses Superintendent Clint Taylor, football coach Sam Marple and the district of negligence, negligent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Amid protests from employee unions, California State University trustees on Wednesday approved the elimination of salary caps for top executives, allowing for higher pay packages as they recruit for president posts at five universities.

The new pay structure, approved 16-1, scraps a previous policy that limited the salary of a ...Read more

The Trump administration is once again targeting immigrants who apply for key benefits to live in the United States, such as permanent residence or green cards.

The president has decided to reinstate a controversial policy that broadens the criteria used by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to reject applications for adjustments of ...Read more

DENVER — A Durango father and his two children arrested by federal immigration agents who thought they were someone else have agreed to leave the United States because of the trauma they have experienced in detention, advocates said Wednesday night.

Fernando Jaramillo-Solano and his 12- and 15-year-old children were on their way to school the...Read more

ATLANTA — The number of unauthorized immigrants living in Georgia reached 479,000 as of mid-2023, according to a report released last month by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan think tank focused on immigration.

Georgia’s population of unauthorized immigrants increased by more than 45% since 2018, according to MPI. The growth ...Read more

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is scrambling to resist a potentially humiliating peace deal put forward by U.S. officials just as the Ukrainian president faces growing domestic pressure to ditch his most trusted aide in the war against Russia.

Zelenskyy has received signals from the U.S. that he should accept the deal drawn up in consultation with Moscow,...Read more

Colombia said it would favor a path for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to hand over power to a transition government tasked with organizing new elections — preferring the idea over the alternative of a more forceful U.S. intervention in its neighbor’s affairs.

The transition proposal has been making the rounds in diplomatic circles in...Read more

As misinformation about women’s health spreads faster than ever, doctors say new research on the risks of hormonal birth control underscores the challenge of communicating nuance in the social media age.

The massive study, which was conducted in Sweden and tracked more than 2 million teenage girls and women under age 50 for more than a decade...Read more