CHICAGO — Dueling legal interpretations of what constitutes “regular forces” are at the heart of briefings now positioned before the U.S. Supreme Court as the high court prepares to rule on President Donald Trump’s authority to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois.

While considering a motion to stay a lower court’s order blocking ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For months, as victims pleaded for information, the Los Angeles Fire Department kept secret that its firefighters were ordered to stop mop-up operations on a small brushfire that continued to smolder and reignited days later into the massive Palisades fire.

At least one department official learned that a battalion chief had ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Medicaid cuts included in President Donald Trump’s signature ‘Big, Beautiful Bill,’ are already prompting Kentucky hospitals to consider pausing expansions, scaling back services, layoffs and even closing altogether.

That’s the takeaway from Kentucky Hospital Association President and CEO Nancy Galvagni, who notes ...Read more

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strongest rival, Ekrem Imamoglu, is facing the risk of life in prison, after a prosecutor requested a sentence of more than 2,000 years for the Istanbul mayor.

The unprecedented request escalates a legal battle for one of Turkey’s most prominent opposition figures and raises the prospect that he ...Read more

A Turkish prosecutor has requested a prison sentence of more than 2,000 years for Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in a corruption case, raising the prospect that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s strongest challenger will be barred from the next presidential election.

The 3,900-page indictment names 402 suspects and describes Imamoglu, the ...Read more

California is asking the Trump administration for permission to use federal funding to provide meals to students outside of school hours, as families continue to reel amid the federal government’s cuts to food stamps.

On Monday, the California Department of Education urged the Trump administration to allow flexibility to the school meal ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Abhinav Kochar traveled from India to the United States to study computer science in late 2023, a consular official interviewed him at the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi. It’s in a scene repeated countless times around the world each year as foreign students seek access to American higher education.

The high-stakes ...Read more

ATLANTA — Over the summer, just weeks before the arrest that led to his own deportation, Atlanta-area reporter Mario Guevara filmed as masked federal agents put a group of day laborers in chains and loaded them into an unmarked white van.

The June 2 operation resulted in the arrests of at least six men. It took place outside of a Home Depot ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA -- Raised in Northeast Philadelphia, sisters Perla and Aydee Trinidad do everything together, from speaking with a similar cadence to enrolling in the same college program. But these days, only one of them feels like she can move through the city without the worry of being taken away.

Even as a legal resident, “with all this ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A strange scene unfolded at the Adams/Vermont farmers market near USC last week.

The pomegranates, squash and apples were in season, pink guavas were so ripe you could smell their heady scent from a distance, and nutrient-packed yams were ready for the holidays.

But with federal funding in limbo for the 1.5 million people in ...Read more

For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled out diabetes before finally chalking up her ailments to getting older.

But months of intense back pain eventually landed her in the emergency ...Read more

Lawyers for undocumented immigrants detained after attending mandatory hearings on their cases asked a federal judge in Northern California on Monday to certify their lawsuit as a class action and order the federal government to improve conditions at its San Francisco detention facility.

The immigrants sued the Trump administration in September...Read more

Downstate former lawmaker Darren Bailey announced Monday he would continue his campaign for the Republican nomination for governor, 19 days after his son, daughter-in-law and two grandchildren were killed in a helicopter crash in rural Montana.

Appearing with his wife, Cindy, in a nearly three-minute video that touched frequently on Bailey’s ...Read more

Federal immigration agents part of the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” may soon leave Chicago, according to multiple sources who said the controversial mission was rapidly winding down after a contentious two months of enforcement raids that have set the city and suburbs on edge.

Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, the top official on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump defended allowing foreign students to study in the United States as a “good” practice and pushed back on a call to reduce their numbers, saying it would be financially destructive to the nation’s higher education system.

“You don’t want to cut half of the people, half of the students from all over...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two U.S. senators proposed a bipartisan bill to shift cryptocurrency oversight from the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission — a move long favored by the industry.

John Boozman, an Arkansas Republican who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Cory Booker, a New Jersey Democrat, ...Read more

SAN FRANCISCO — A visiting British journalist who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month — allegedly for expressing opinions disfavored by the Trump administration — will be released from custody following his agreement Monday to voluntarily leave the country, advocates said.

Sami Hamdi, a British journalist and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In the annals of L.A. car chase lore, there were but a few ways for drivers to escape a police pursuit, especially one being broadcast live.

A few have escaped into parking lots and abandoned their cars. In one case earlier this year, a carjacking suspect managed to flee with help from an accomplice.

But driving from Ventura ...Read more