MINNEAPOLIS — A recent federal appeals court ruling means immigrants detained in Minnesota and sent to Texas won’t be released on bond — for now.

Thousands of immigrants detained during the monthslong Operation Metro Surge have been sent to Texas detention facilities. While the surge in immigration enforcement is expected to end soon, the...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is participating in a trade mission to Germany, her office announced Friday, marking her second trip to Europe of the first seven weeks of the new year.

In Germany, Whitmer had already visited the global headquarters of the manufacturer RENK Group, which announced plans to expand in Michigan and...Read more

Virginia’s supreme court Friday gave the green light to a planned referendum on a Democratic redistricting map that aims to flip four Republican congressional seats, although the justices are still hearing arguments about whether the plan would be legal.

In a procedural win for Democrats, the court ruled Virginia may go ahead with the ...Read more

A San Francisco teachers' strike that closed public schools for some 50,000 students this week ended Friday as the union reached a tentative agreement with the cash-strapped school district, which will provide pay raises and improved healthcare benefits.

The tentative contract between the San Francisco Unified School District and United ...Read more

The Trump administration says it’s revoking more federal grant dollars in Illinois — this time for electric vehicle charging stations.

On the chopping block in Illinois is a $100 million grant to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for electric vehicle charging stations and a $3.6 million grant to the Secretary of State’s office...Read more

A new federal policy will make it harder for immigrants across the nation with deportation orders to challenge and fight their cases by limiting appeals.

A policy taking effect March 9 will cut the time to appeal from 30 days to 10, giving immigrants and their families less time to hire attorneys and prepare a legal defense.

Under the new rule...Read more

When the U.S. briefly stopped sharing battlefield intelligence with Ukraine in March 2025, the results were immediate. Kyiv’s forces suffered decisive setbacks on the battlefield as its European allies watched in horror.

The outage only lasted a few days, but it sent shockwaves through Europe as a new reality dawned: Washington was no longer ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A new proposal from the Florida House would sharply limit Gov. Ron DeSantis’ ability to spend hundreds of millions from the state’s emergency reserve on immigration enforcement, setting up an unusual political alignment that pits the Republican-led House alongside Senate Democrats in an escalating power struggle with ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYPD detectives have identified a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 41-year-old man at a Bronx subway stop — and are recruiting the public’s help to find him.

Alberto Frias is wanted for questioning in the killing of Adrian Dawodu at the 170th St. station on Tuesday.

Cops released both a photo of Frias, 27, at the scene of ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — An outbreak of infection has left dogs stuck in their kennels for three weeks at a South Los Angeles shelter.

As of Thursday, 20 dogs at Chesterfield Square had tested positive for giardia, according to L.A. Animal Services. The common and highly contagious parasitic infection can cause diarrhea in animals as well as people. The...Read more

South Florida’s Cuban-American members of Congress plan to ask Donald Trump’s administration to prosecute Raúl Castro over the 1996 shoot-down of two planes belonging to the Miami-based Brothers to the Rescue volunteer group, U.S. Rep. Mario Díaz-Balart announced this week, reigniting a decades-old campaign in Miami for justice.

His ...Read more

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he’s in talks with France over potential European nuclear defense as he made a call to reorder the transatlantic relationship amid the turmoil of Donald Trump’s second term.

Kicking off the Munich Security Conference, Merz warned against a new era of great power politics and said that Germany and ...Read more

MIAMI — They would never forget his face after being stripped and beaten at a Venezuelan national guard barracks for protesting Nicolás Maduro’s narrow presidential win in 2013.

Five years later, they discovered that the commanding officer who allegedly gave the brutal orders was living in the Miami area and the FBI was investigating him. ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California is experiencing the calm before the storm. Forecasters say a strong system is headed our way and, starting Sunday, poses the threat of thunderstorms, flooding, gusty winds and dangerous waves.

But before that happens, the region will have a warm, dry weekend. An offshore flow is pushing its way through the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A day after federal prosecutors announced that the catastrophic Palisades fire was caused by the rekindling of a smaller arson fire days earlier, Los Angeles city officials were in damage control mode.

The ultimate authority on how to handle the deluge of media inquiries was Mayor Karen Bass, according to an internal email ...Read more

Olympians – athletes at the top of their sport and in prime health – are idolized and often viewed as superhuman. These athletes spend their lives focusing on building physical strength through rigorous training and diets that are honed to provide the nutrients necessary to excel at their sport.

However, athletes are at ...Read more

On Feb. 7, 2026, Chasity Verret Martinez won a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Louisiana House. That’s an outcome that might not mean very much to people outside of the state or even outside her Baton Rouge-area district.

But Martinez is a Democrat who took 62% of the vote in a district that had given Donald Trump a 13...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Without warning, public debate or coordination with the Senate, the Florida House late Thursday released an austere $113.6 billion spending plan for next year that does not fund key priorities of Gov. Ron DeSantis.

The House’s budget for 2026-27, released while DeSantis was in California participating in the Pebble Beach...Read more