MINNEAPOLIS — Gov. Tim Walz predicted on Feb. 10 that the federal immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota could end in a matter of days, citing recent conversations with top officials in the White House.

The Democratic-Farmer-Labor governor said he spoke to both White House border official Tom Homan and President Donald Trump’s chief of ...Read more

In the first major break in the investigation into the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, FBI officials on Tuesday released surveillance footage showing a masked individual approaching the 84-year-old’s front door the morning she was abducted.

The images, recorded at 1:47 a.m. on Feb. 1, show someone wearing a balaclava, gloves and a backpack ...Read more

The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said the agency will release footage from body cameras that are being deployed to thousands of agents on the ground in Minnesota for Operation Metro Surge.

Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE, told members of the House Homeland Security Committee on Feb. 10 that he welcomed body cameras “all ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — State lawmakers this session are considering changing state laws that could affect what Floridians can say, write and read.

Legislators are weighing giving the governor broad powers to brand groups as “terrorist organizations” and expel college students who support them. They’re proposing forbidding the state from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House defended President Donald Trump’s decision to exclude two Democrats from a traditionally bipartisan dinner held for the nation’s governors later this month.

Wes Moore and Jared Polis, the governors of Maryland and Colorado, said they were disinvited from a White House dinner, part of the winter meeting of the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Public health experts warned Tuesday that $600 million in cuts to federal public health funding announced by the Trump administration would endanger one of California’s main early-warning systems for HIV outbreaks, leaving communities vulnerable to undetected disease spread.

The grant terminations affect funding for a number ...Read more

A panel of judges on the North Carolina Court of Appeals on Tuesday heard arguments in Democratic Gov. Josh Stein’s challenge to a major power shift that stripped him of his appointments to state and local election boards.

Attorneys for Stein argued that the power shift — which transferred appointments to Republican State Auditor Dave ...Read more

A roughly 300 million-gallon sewage spill into the Potomac River — which environmental advocates say rivals the scale of the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster — could take several more months to fully clean up after a major sewer line collapse, according to University of Maryland, College Park researchers, utility officials, and the Potomac ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Just before reading the Washington County Board of County Commissioners' endorsement of the Trump administration’s immigration efforts in the area, Commission President John Barr issued a warning. “Any additional noise, outcries, comments, I will suspend this meeting.”

Protesters gathered outside the Board of County ...Read more

Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, is considering appointing retired Gen. Miguel Rodríguez Torres as the country’s next defense minister, sources familiar with the discussions told the Miami Herald, confirming reports that have sparked indignation among members of the Venezuelan diaspora.

Rodríguez Torres’ name has ...Read more

Colorado restaurateur Kimbal Musk on Monday addressed his inclusion in a recent release of more files related disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, saying he only met with him once in New York and never visited his island, according to a statement posted on social media.

Musk, who lives in Boulder and is the brother of Elon Musk, has come under ...Read more

CHICAGO — Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday said he will not refer alleged cases of misconduct by federal immigration agents to the Cook County state’s attorney’s office, following criticism by the top prosecutor that his “ICE on notice” executive order would politicize investigations.

Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The FBI claims it seized voting records from a Georgia county due to alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election, part of a probe that originated with a lawyer who helped President Donald Trump unsuccessfully challenge results of that race.

Information about the investigation was included in a U.S. Justice Department ...Read more

More than a week after Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her Tucson home, authorities offered few clues.

No video surveillance.

No suspects.

No firm sense of exactly when she was abducted.

No sense of where she was being held or if she was still alive.

But that changed Tuesday morning with the release of surveillance footage of a masked ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Montgomery County elected officials forcefully condemned a Monday ICE arrest in which agents broke down a family’s front door, lambasting officers for what the leaders described as needless cruelty.

“We are here for one reason, to say that this kind of brutality is completely unacceptable,” said state Sen. Art Haywood, a ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — Defense lawyers for the Raleigh teen who killed five people in a mass shooting began presenting their evidence in his sentencing hearing Tuesday, depicting a seemingly normal child subjected to a sudden mental episode brought on by his acne medication.

Austin Thompson, 18, was 15 years old when he killed his older brother and...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles says it is reviewing all commercial driver’s licenses issued to people who are not U.S. citizens to ensure the licenses conform with federal rules.

The review comes a month after the Trump administration threatened to withhold nearly $49 million in transportation money from the ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― The White House said Tuesday that President Donald Trump wants to renegotiate the 2013 permit that set in motion the construction of the Gordie Howe International Bridge on the border between Detroit and Windsor, which Canada paid for, seeking a cut of the span's toll revenue.

The bridge construction deal that former Gov. Rick ...Read more

The FBI claims it seized ballots and voting records from a Georgia county election office in connection with a criminal investigation into alleged “improprieties” with the 2020 election.

Information about the probe was included in a U.S. Justice Department filing in court that was unsealed Tuesday under order from a federal judge. The ...Read more