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

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal judge said at a hearing Thursday she would rule before Thanksgiving on whether to dismiss the high-profile criminal indictments against former FBI Director James B. Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

Judge Cameron McGowan Currie gave no overt signs about how that ruling might come down, as attorneys...Read more

The United States Department of Justice filed a motion Thursday to assist a Republican-led lawsuit filed last week that aims to overturn California’s redistricting plan, which nearly two-thirds of voters approved last Tuesday.

Proposition 50 redrew California’s congressional districts with the hope of electing five more Democrats to the ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized after a fall near his home in Braddock, Pennsylvania.

Fetterman, D-Pa., was on an early-morning walk when he fell to the ground after feeling lightheaded, according to a statement from a spokesperson posted to his X account Thursday.

The statement described the cause as a “ventricular fibrillation ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Edison International Chief Executive Pedro Pizarro said Wednesday that the utility expects the first Eaton fire victims who have agreed not to sue the utility to get their settlement offers later this month.

In an interview, Pizarro said that the utility decided to create the program to pay victims before the fire investigation ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — As Idaho moved to partner with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Gov. Brad Little promised that the state would help remove “highly dangerous illegal alien criminals.” In a news release last month, Little said Idaho State Police would target only undocumented immigrants convicted of violent crimes and already set to be ...Read more

BOSTON — A Springfield judge has modified the detention status of Lamar Cook, setting cash bail for Gov. Maura Healey’s former aide, arrested and charged with cocaine trafficking, at $75,000.

Hampden Superior Court Judge William J. Ritter has also ordered Cook, 45, of Springfield, to forfeit his passport.

This comes after Cook was ...Read more

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

LOS ANGELES — Fernando Gomez Ruiz had been eating at a lunch truck outside Home Depot when agents arrested him and 10 others in early October.

The diabetic father of two, who has lived in the Los Angeles area for 22 years, was detained and then quickly transferred to California’s biggest detention facility, where he’s been unable to get ...Read more

A bill ordering the release of all files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case is expected to come to a vote in the House of Representatives next week and is shaping up to win lopsided, bipartisan approval despite President Donald Trump’s steadfast resistance.

Republican Speaker Mike Johnson, who has resisted the measure at Trump’s behest for...Read more