PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge on Friday ordered Meta — the parent company of Facebook and Instagram — not to comply with a request by the Department of Homeland Security seeking information about the operators of MontCo Community Watch, a grass-roots organization behind a pair anonymous social media accounts that tracks local ICE activity...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Friday that he commuted the prison sentence of former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., in a social media post that mostly attacked Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.

Santos pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after prosecutors charged him with various schemes, including ...Read more

There are two disturbances in the Atlantic basin, one of which could become the next named storm of the season in the Caribbean in the next week or so.

The National Hurricane Center currently gives both disturbances a low chance of developing anytime soon. As of 2 p.m. Eastern time Friday, the disturbance nearest to the Caribbean had no chance ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — For decades, state and federal officials have been warning about the kind of catastrophic damage wrought by the storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend.

But those predictions, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for mitigation efforts, were not enough to prevent dozens of homes from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — White House officials met Friday with the leaders of several colleges about the Trump administration’s proposed preferential funding compact, according to a person familiar with discussions, after rejections of the accord by a number of elite schools showed the idea is struggling to gain traction.

Three of the schools invited ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — “Paper or plastic?” Your days are numbered.

The question that millions of shoppers have heard for years when they roll up to the checkout aisle at grocery stores will soon be a thing of the past.

On Friday, California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a legal settlement with four major plastic bag manufacturing ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In a rare public rebuke, the Los Angeles City Council pressed the city’s top lawyer to abandon her attempt to halt a federal judge’s order prohibiting Los Angeles Police Department officers from targeting journalists with crowd control weapons.

One day before “No Kings” demonstrations against the Trump administration ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to quickly lift a lower court order that blocked the deployment of federalized National Guard troops to assist immigration officials in the Chicago area.

The application argues the decision from Judge April Perry of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...Read more

The right wing‘s war on Netflix wages on.

The Pentagon issued a statement blasting the streamer’s programming and leadership Friday following an inquiry about the new series “Boots” from Entertainment Weekly. While the response from Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson did not directly address the gay coming-of-age military show, it...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has requested that President Donald Trump declare a major disaster for the state in response to storm damage in Western Alaska.

"I determined this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the state and affected local governments," Dunleavy ...Read more

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