WASHINGTON — Indiana state lawmakers will gavel in next month to consider a redistricting measure in response to insistent demands from President Donald Trump, reversing an earlier decision by the state Senate.

The state House will reconvene on Dec. 1 to take up “all legislative business,” including redrawing the state’s congressional ...Read more

A Tampa, Florida, photojournalist was arrested Saturday while covering a protest outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Miami.

Deputies from the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office arrested 30 activists from the Sunrise Movement after the protesters blocked the entrance to the Krome North Service Processing Center, according to a ...Read more

BOSTON — A bill is moving forward at the State House that would establish a special commission to study the feasibility and implementation of reparations payments and to draft a formal apology on behalf of Massachusetts residents for slavery in the United States.

The joint bill (H. 1753), filed by state Rep. Russell Holmes, D-Boston, and ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump’s move to end temporary protected status for Somalis came just days after a conservative website claimed that fraudsters who bilked Minnesota government programs sent stolen money back to Somalia, where it was obtained by the terrorist group al-Shabab.

The report published by City Journal, a conservative...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California voters are sharply divided along partisan lines over the Trump administration’s immigration raids this year in Los Angeles and across the nation, according to a new poll.

Just over half of the state’s registered voters oppose federal efforts to reduce undocumented immigration, and 61% are against deporting ...Read more

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — A Newport News judge has sanctioned a defense lawyer in the Richneck Elementary School shooting case for what the judge found were two unsubstantiated assertions about the case’s prosecutor.

Circuit Court Judge Christopher R. Papile said that the lawyer, Curtis M. Rogers, must complete two additional hours of legal ...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday announced the end of temporary immigration protections for Haitians.

“After consulting with interagency partners, Secretary (Kristi) Noem concluded that Haiti no longer meets the statutory requirements for TPS,” the agency said in a posting.

“This decision was based on a review conducted ...Read more

ATLANTA — A state prosecutor on Wednesday urged the Fulton County judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others to kill the probe, arguing the alleged criminal conduct amounted to more of a federal, not state, case.

In a 23-page order, Pete Skandalakis, the executive director ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Fulton County judge overseeing the 2020 election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others agreed to kill the probe on Wednesday after a state prosecutor said the alleged criminal conduct amounted to more of a federal, not state, case.

In a brief, one-page order, Superior Court Judge Scott ...Read more

NEW YORK — FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker revealed the reasoning behind his resignation Wednesday, saying he quickly realized he had “fundamental differences” with Zohran Mamdani that would make it a challenge to work in the new mayoral administration.

“There are things that I have heard (Mamdani) say that would make it difficult for ...Read more

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, freshly out of jail over an alleged electoral funding conspiracy, has lost his final bid to overturn a separate guilty finding for overspending in his failed 2012 re-election campaign.

The ruling by France’s top court confirms Sarkozy’s conviction, making it final. He was first found guilty four ...Read more

U.S. presidential envoy Steve Witkoff will lead a delegation for talks in Russia next week, a Kremlin official said, as Donald Trump pushes for a deal to end the war in Ukraine.

“As for Witkoff, I can say there is a preliminary agreement that he will visit Moscow next week,” Yuri Ushakov, an aide to Putin, said in a video clip of an ...Read more

Two dozen students abducted from a school in Nigeria were freed after more than a week in captivity, but hundreds of others seized in separate incidents remain missing as the West African nation reels from a spate of mass kidnappings.

The secondary-school pupils who were captured in the northwestern Kebbi state on Nov. 17 were released on ...Read more

JENIN, West Bank — After 15 months in an Israeli jail, Mustafa Sheta drove home with his brothers to Jenin. A lot changed while he was in prison, they said.

The fighters that once had daily run-and-gun battles with Israeli soldiers? Gone. The bustling population of the refugee camp that gave Jenin its reputation as the martyrs' capital? Gone...Read more

SEATTLE — He hasn’t yet, but if President Donald Trump invited Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson to the White House, she would accept.

She won’t say what she would tell him, but as she transitions from campaigning to governing, she’s made a pledge not to shut any doors.

“I'll meet with anyone,” she said from her new office in the ...Read more

Generative artificial intelligence has quickly permeated much of what we do online, proving helpful for many. But for a small minority of the hundreds of millions of people who use it daily, AI may be too supportive, mental health experts say, and can sometimes even exacerbate delusional and dangerous behavior.

Instances of emotional dependence...Read more

In 1968, inventor Robert McCulloch purchased the decommissioned London Bridge for $2.4 million and began to move it to newly founded Lake Havasu City, Arizona.

Each of the bridge’s 10,276 granite blocks were shipped by sea to Long Beach, then trucked to Arizona.

Back then, moving the London Bridge to the desert elicited chuckles and ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — After returning from what felt like the best internship of her life, Danae Daniels was excited to unwind and settle into a new semester at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. But when she opened the door to her off-campus apartment, she was met with an overwhelming smell — and a devastating reality.

“There ...Read more

DENVER — Amid the Trump administration’s crackdowns on both immigrants and nonprofit groups, organizations in Colorado are hiring lawyers, limiting data collection and locking their doors to ward off federal threats to them or the people they serve.

One statewide nonprofit that works with the immigrant community considered giving disposable...Read more